BOGOT ants, 200 | Maga: : acres aor have Teform, COLOMBIA PEASANTS ARE SEIZING LAND A — In the latest month-long activities by angry peas- andless farmers and farm workers at Santanta in the state seized five haciendas occupying almost 250 he peasants are outraged by the slow pace of agrarian BARGE U.S., BRITAIN, ISRAEL ARMING RACISTS aan *D NATIONS—Armaments continue to be sold to Portugal € Union of South Africa for suppression of African liberation Struggles tee. TN ene to a statement in the Decolonization Commit- ms | €Klessa, the delegate of the Soviet Union, declared U.S. ave sold $400 million of armaments to Portugal in the past and that these had included planes used by Portuguese S for transporting troops and for direct military operation € African freedom fighters. 4 Said Britain and Israel are selling arms to the South ere. Israel’s sale of weapons is in exchange for the Collect g Can government’s permission for Zionist organizations to 1 years, olonialist against th leKless Tican r Onations. SCANDINAVIAN PARTIES OPPOSE ECM ihe TOCKHOLM Scandinavian CM Would vio © Conditions. INDEPE : SAN Jue ND. He Rican i in taliation Taca and an ROTE Police. Sixt berto Pp in a £ poli Obert Jos e : IC0, who a Caten j — Nine Communist and Socialist parties from all ork to countries met in Goteborg, Sweden, and agreed trie out gether on a united campaign to keep the Nordic coun- Of the European Common Market. The parties felt joining late their countries’ sovereignty and worsen econo- ENCE ACTIVISTS SEIZED IN PUERTO RICO N — Police launched a crackdown against advocates of ndependence and seized a student on murder charges for the Opposition to ROTC that developed March 11 tthe University of Puerto Rico. Two police officials C cadet were killed in the clash between students and Y Persons have been arrested and one, 20-year-old Hum- an Hernandez, was charged with first degree murder. fe compelled students to “run the gauntlet” between PS armed with nightsticks and galvanized pipes. Attorney Maldonado, president of the Legal Institute of Puerto into ght to protect the rights of the arrested students, was Te broken Insensibility by several police. His nose and coccyx Were taped and his skull fractured. Several of the women students MORE EVERYTHING SOVIET ‘71 PLAN Mosc efjBERT WHYTE that;, . — More everything . of the Sth & nutshell is the nes eleg Ive-Year Plan which to the ip 24th CSPU € discussin a 8. at ae and sickle unity Ntee an t People is the guar- oth 3 t ) Industry and Out tp, pawl be able cai s vditious but realistic or 1971-1975, a Bole Supply the state uy tractor, ‘2t™S with 1,700,- 1000 grav? 100,000 trucks, and in factories is to go up. This means introduction of new methods, new equipment; in short, radical changes every- where. Let us not forget the purpose of it all. In the words of the poet Petrus Brovka: ‘‘The main thing in these plans is that our entire progress is aimed to benefit Sov- iet man and the coming genera- tions.” For the first time in the his- tory of Soviet economics the annual rate of growth of con- sumer goods will outstrip the Invaders routed in Laos, GI's and puppets mutiny, peace pressure growing Montreal labor calls for emergency action on jobs MONTREAL—The Montreal Labor Council has called on the Canadian Labor Congress and the Quebec Federation of Labor to convene emergency conferences to press the federal and Quebec governments for action on unemployment. It has further called on the central labor bodies to organize with unionists, unemployed, and the poor, mass public demon- strations in Ottawa and Quebec. ~ In the preamble to its resolution, the Council declares that unemployment running at a rate of 8% for the country as a whole has reached disastrous proportions, and that in certain regions of Quebec and the Maritimes 20° to 30%) of the work force is without jobs. : 2 They charge that unemployment has been deliberately created by the Trudeau government, that provincial and muni- cipal governments are following blindly the dictates of the federal government, and Premier Bourassa has failed in his promise .to create 100,000 new jobs. On Tuesday, March 30, the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet.Union opens in Moscow’s Palace of Congresses (above) with six thousand delegates from 14 million CPSU members and fraternal delegations from Communist, workers’ and other parties from all parts of the earth. William Kashtan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, Samuel Walsh, president of the Parti Communiste du Quebec, and Nigel Morgan, leader of the CPC in British Columbia, are representing Canadian Communists at this historic congress. : ae C tie pee REGINA — With the time for land and save the rural commu- u New « eet mineral fertil- rate of growth of the means of Dut «tigation ~.Considerably. production, a ih th o ona pean will be The Soviet Union is in no dan- atea Volga Ss 10n—particularly ger of reaching a saturation dro, i 8 fee a key grain point in consumption within the Tent €n suffers from plan period. In this country, expan case Of yie] where there is no unemploy- for ding Yields, rather than ment, the demand still exceeds Greg the drome?’ called the supply. But by 1975 the de- £ to attention watt directives. mand for many things (TV sets, Ush the develonn! also be giv- radios, refrigerators, tape re- Neege dry, to Pment of animal corders, watches, cameras, etc.) cn Of the » Sly the meat will be fully met, and such “de- ear endo, Pe: ficit items” as dishes, cutlery, the “TKed fo, "eSOurces are kitchen utensils and electrical State Economie enculture,” says appliances will no longer be dif- Out jam Work Gazette, “and ficult to obtain. to rai ‘ap all sae are going all Man does not live by bread wae OUtput vailable reserves alone. Not the least important thej, ‘Dee and and profits.” aspect of the new Five-Year haryenett. ‘Th technology play Plan is the growth in culture en- Uact, “ter combi Nepropetrovsk visaged. More libraries, schools, ‘0 bine a ete Plant is man- hospitals, rest homes, theatres aon The Pra beet-picking and what have you. imprae Works nee automobile On the eve of the CPSU con- farm ed ti 1S turning out gress, which opens here March ‘P-up t eq , Mach; Tucks. A Riga wt opty Plant has sure Of cae Th ge eanie fertilizer 30, the whole people of the Sov- iet Union are discussing the plan and how it affects their lives. For this is a country where there is only one power — peo- ple’s power. amples spring seeding fast approaching nities: on the prairies, the Saskatche- wan Committee of the Commu- nist Party in a hard-hitting leaf- let has called for militant action by farmers to meet the serious problems they face in the com- ing crop year. The Committee calls on the farmers to refuse to pay school taxes this year. “The cost of education should be lifted entire- ly from property. That action will galvanize the authorities into quick action as nothing else would.” aay It declares that it is again time for a mass delegation of farmers to Ottawa, and further suggests that in a provincial election year farmers should militantly ad- vance their demands “to the candidates at every political ral- ly and meeting.” ; The party calls for united ac- tion around the following pro- gram to keep the farmers on the * ae Sea 1, A moratorium on all farm- debts. 2. Interest-free, long-term gov- ernment loans until the econo- mic crisis is over — combined with the active encouragement of co-operative farming. 3. A freeze on the price of all farm machinery and supplies. 4. A huge cash infusion through e securing new markets for Canadian farm products; e planning and financing of agricultural diversification to expand production and to win back the Canadian home mark- et from U.S. agriculture; e@ a vast program of rural re- newal to build homes, schools, medical and recreational facili- ties and secondary industries. 5. The all-Canadian, publicly- owned development of the pow- er, water, oil and coal resources of the prairies. The invaders have been thoroughly routed in Laos by the patriotic Pathet Lao forces arm- ed with tanks. Remnants of flee- ing Saigon puppet forces are sur- rendering, fighting among them- selves to be airlifted first, in complete panic. Additional hun- dreds of American helicopters are being brought down or dam- aged. The main U.S. helicopter and supply base at Khe Sanh is under assault. War-weary Amer- ican troops of the “prestigious” First Air Cavalry refused offi- cers’ orders to advance to the Laotian border along Highway 9, where they had already been ambushed twice with .heavy casualties. That’s the calendar of the U.S. aggressors’ biggest single defeat of the war in Indo- china. Fearful of further revolt “ among U.S. forces, the brigade commander announced that the GI’s who mutinied would not be court-martialled. Their captain was relieved of his command. In Washington, President Nixon sought to discount the ex- tent of the disastrous defeat, while Defence Secretary Laird talked of a possible “major bombing” of North Vietnam. The lesSon learned by the late Presi- dent Eisenhower at the time of the French defeat in Indochina - about the ineffectiveness: of “air strikes on deployed troops where good cover is plentiful” is still evidently rejected by Nixon. The defeat suffered by the U.S. and its puppets, the collapse of the ‘“Vietnamization” myth, and growing apprehension that refusal even at this date to with- draw from Southeast Asia may bring still more disastrous con- sequences, are increasing pres- sures on Nixon and his adminis- tration to seek peace now. With a similar failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East, where the adamant Israeli hawks are facing not only general world disapproval but rising resistance at home, the infamous role undertaken by the U.S. as “world policeman” is suffering sharp blows. Terror in Ulster In the meantime the British Tory government is preparing more bloodshed in Northern Ire- land, where a change of pre- miers, has not resolved the crisis. In reply to Prime Minister Heath’s declaration that his goy- ernment would maintain “law and order” with an iron hand “against terrorists,” Bernadette Devlin stated, ‘Many of the so- called terrorists will not be found in the streets but on the back benches of the Unionist Party.” The struggle is sharpening. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1971—PAGE 5