By B. TAFESSE»

“In my opinion, the choice of
Havana, the capital of a country

_ that is a symbol of revolutionary
action for the whole world, as the

Venue of the conference is a happy
One. Cuba is a source of inspiration
&nd militant spirit for the oppres-

_ Sed nations waging a hard battle

for their liberation.’’
Reuben C. Kamanga, head of

_ Political and Foreign Affairs,

Zambia’s ruling United Na-
tional Independence Party. “

The week-long Sixth Summit

Conference of the heads of states

Of the non-aligned countries came
to a successful close in Havana,
Sept. 9.

_-_In spite of negative publicity
-&lven the summit by Peking and

Washington, who spent much ef-

fort to split the movement, the

i Meeting — the first of its kind to

held in this hemisphere —

| Came out strengthened, full of de-

termination to advance the basic
Principles of the movement's
anti-imperialist stance and the

_ Five Principles of Peaceful Co-

existence.

Under the leadership of Cuban
President Fidel Castro, the con-
ference smashed efforts to tear up
t Organization in the name of

| lMperialist-instigated issues like

the efforts at ‘‘seating of the crim-
al Pol Pot-Ieng Sary pseudo-

_ 80Vvernment instead of the legiti-

Mately constituted new govern-

= Ment (of Kampuchea) of Presi-
ent Heng Samrin.”’

Although the legal government

_ Of Kampuchea did not take’ the

Seat reserved for Kampuchea, the

: ‘solation and repudication of the

Pol Pot-Ieng Sary group by the

| _ Majority of leaders was in itself a
_ Success. There is no doubt that

™mpuchea’s seat, which re-
Mained unoccupied in Havana
Will certainly bé occupied by new
‘ampuchea at the 1981 Bagdad

m eeting,

On issues pertaining to inter-

| Movement emerges united

national affairs, the Summit con-
demned the treasonable ‘“‘Camp
David Agreement’’ and commis-
sioned the Co-ordinating Bureau
to examine the expulsion of Egypt
from membership in the move-
ment. The cause of Palestinian
self-determination was upheld.
The illegal government of
Muzorewa and Smith in
Zimbabwe-(Rhodesia) was con-
demned. -

All the liberation struggles
in southern Africa got full en»
dorsation. The patriotic struggle
of the Puerto Rican and Saharoui
peoples for the liberation of their
countries from U.S. and Moroc-
can occupation won support. The
conference rejected the Peking-
style anti-Vietnam harangue by
Singapore and other misguided
delegates.

Daniel Ortega, head of liber-
ated Nicaragua’s delegation an-
nounced his government’s recog-
nition of and complete solidarity
with the new government of liber-
ated Kampuchea. He expressed
solidarity with Vietnam and re-
buffed the campaign of slander by
Maoism and imperialism against
Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos.

In the words of Ortega: ‘‘Im-
perialism never understood and
cannot understand that peoples
striving for liberation solidarize
with each other in their sacred
and just struggle.”’

The majority confirmed the
central truth in the statement of
Vietnam’s Secretary of State
Nguyen Co Thach, who pointed

out on Sept. 2 that, ‘‘as far as the
Sino-U.S. commitment: to anti-
hegemony is concerned, it is com-
mon knowledge that the United
States is an international gen-

darme imposing its hegemony on

policy against Asia and the whole
world.

“Tt is clear that the Sino-
American marriage is aimed not at
opposing hegemony, but at pro-

| Racism is rooted in the

tecting U.S. hegemony in the world
- and achieving Chinese
hegemony.’’

Experience has taught vast
numbers of newly emergent
forces that the alliance between
Peking and Washington is
founded on forcing the wheels of
history backward and splitting
solidarity movements and popular
fronts of struggles for liberation.

The Havana Summit con-
cluded with the reaffirmation of
the principles of respect for the
sovereignty of states, respect for
the territorial integrity of states,
non-interference in the internal
affairs of states, the peaceful
resolution of conflicts, and
mutual respect and peaceful co-
existence.

Cuba was praised by particip-
ants for its positive contribution
to the strengthening of the
movement. It was in full trust
that Fidel Castro assumed
leadership of the movement until
the next meeting in Bagdad in
1981. The movement has once
again solidly triumphed and ad-
vanced people’s liberation and
non-alignment with imperialism.

Dr. Augostino Neto, President of Angola and the MPLA Party of Labor

died of cancer on Sept. 12 in.Moscow. He was 55. Dr. Neto was the
founding leader of the MPLA, the libertation movement which defeated
Portuguese colonialism and the Peking-South Africa-U.S. backed
UNITA and FNLA and established the People’s Republic of Angola.
A physician by training, Dr. Neto was also one of Africa’s leading poets.
Among his numerous accomplishments was the transformation of the
MPLA into the MPLA Party of Labor.

Chile’s junta forced to release bodies

SANTIAGO — Hunger strik-
ers ended their fast Sept. 11 after
the fascist junta agreed to release
the 15 bodies found in an aban-
doned mine in Lonquen to the

families for burial.

The government was forced to
concede to this first of three de-

mands by the strikers: Also called ©

for was a trial for the murderers
(the local police were indicted but
the government released them on
grounds of a general amnesty for
police) and a definite statement on
the whereabouts of the 2,500
missing persons. The strikes were
suspended pending negotiations
of the two remaining demands.
The hunger strikes began Sept.
5in 14 different locations in Chile.

One hundred and fifty priests or-
ganized by the Cardinal of San-
tiago joined the strikers. Similar
action took place in over 19
countries.

In Canada seven cities had par-
ticipants in the strike. The To-

ronto hunger strike committee

collected 2,300 signatures on a —

petition to External Affairs minis-
ter Flora MacDonald calling for
the return of the Canadian ambas-
sador to Chile until the demands
are met.

_ Mexican CP wins 18 seats”

MEXICO CITY — In the
parliamentary elections held
throughout Mexico in June, the
Communist Party of Mexico re-
ceived 10.9% of the popular vote
and won 18 seats in the new
parliament.

The Communist Party is now
the third largest party in the coun-
try both in terms of membership

(over 100,000) and in terms of
representation in parliament.
This was its first time to run in an
election since it was banned some
50 years ago.

The percentage of the popular
vote was: PRI (government party)
— 56.6%, National Action Party
— 18.9%, Communist Party —
10.9%.

system oe By ALFRED DEWHURST

Seon onl ent Rage orcameaae eRe TT

& or
like rapact that such gimmickry is

A the recent killing of Albert Johnson,
fo S-year-old Jamaican and father of
To. Marked the eighth killing by Metro

“onto police in.a span of one year.

ee killings confirm the existence
Wo impermissible tendencies within

i Metro Toronto Police Force. First-
pe Metro Police are trained to shoot to
=: Secondly, racism is structurally en-

- trenche

That d in the Metro police system.
2s these two evils are intertwined in

kil Orce is seen in the fact that these

8 are weighted against those of a
70n-Anglo Canadian origin.

een ee |

Than effort to defuse the public out-

i indignation over racist harass-
Visi "and violence against the so-called

| qrible minorities by Metro police, the -
gg on of the Metro Toronto Council
inted Cardinal Emmett Carter to -

si diate between the Black community
Missin Metro Toronto Police Com-
S10n,

) tiontile appreciating the good inten-

. Of the Cardinal to serve as a
the aa between the Commission and
community, it must be

For ng salt into an open wound.

are issue is not one of media-

two, 'S one that demands rectification
~° €vil practices. Both of which are

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World — -

epitomized in the killing of Albert

Johnson.
* ok * ee

During May 18-21, 1978, a world con- .

ference for the eradication of racism
and racial discrimination was held in
Basle, Switzerland. The political com-
mission of that conference concluded
that:

The struggle against racism cannot
be separated from the struggle against
colonialism and imperialism, nor can it
be separated from the struggle waged
by workers, particularly from the most
advanced and organized sections of the
working class. The ethnic minorities
wage their struggle together with work-
ers against racism, racial discrimination
and social injustices.

The political commission of this pre-
stigious world conference charged that
the evolutionist theories of those social
scientists who deny the role of col-
onialism, capitalism and imperialism in
the development of racism, as errone-
ous, false, and dangerous” for the

oples struggling against racism and
for national and social liberation.

*

Such social scientists advance the

"notion that the biological, innate qual-

ities of race determine the progress or

retrogression of human social groups.
From this false notion springs the
equally false conception of ““higher’’ or
“lower” races. The ‘‘higher’’ races
being ‘‘active’’ play a leading role in the
development of society, while the
‘‘lower’’ races being “‘inactive’’, play a
subordinate role.

And, quite naturally, such scientists
in the predominantly ‘‘white’’ nations
as Great Britain, Canada, the USA and
South Africa (to mention only a few),
consider the ‘“‘black’’ and ‘‘yellow’’
races to be the ‘‘lower’’. And, equally
naturally, for them, they consider the
‘twhite’’ race to be the higher. To take
this false concept a step further, Nazi
Germany proclaimed the ‘‘Arayan’’
race.as being the only ‘‘pure’’ and,
therefore, the ‘‘highest’’ race. And, in

Canada, the Western Guard’s slogan is

‘*keep Canada white’.

* * *

Why do the racists persist in prop-

. agating their false views? The answer is

to be found in the oppression and
exploitation of the owning class over
the class of those who must labor, so
that they may eat.

Racism is a weapon in the arsenal of
capitalism. It is used as an instrument to
mask a policy of low wages and low

social standards directed against Na-
tive peoples and immigrant workers,
particularly the so-called visible
minorities. At the same time it uses the
fact of available cheap labor to drive
down the wages and standards of the
workers who share the *‘white’’ skin of
their capitalist exploiters. Nay, they do
more than that. Through their racist
theories and practice they were able to
pit workers against workers in accord-
ance with their color and ethnic back-
grounds. Racism is rooted in the system
of capitalism.

On the international scene, the
multinationals and imperialism in gen-
eral use the false notion of ‘‘higher’’
and ‘‘lower”’ races in order to establish
the ‘‘right’’ of one race to dominate
another, as justification of war between
nations. Racism is an ideological mask
conceling imperialist politics.

* * *

Working people as a class and as in-
dividuals, must in their self-interest, re-_
gardless of color or ethnic background,
unite and fight the cancer of racism.
The fight against racism is a social,
economic and political struggle that
must be fought out. Every gain won is a
step toward the complete abolition of
racist ideology and practice. It is part
and parcel of the struggle for socialism,
the only system capable of rooting out
all vestiges of racism.

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