Powers of

the nether world

Modern bourgeois society is like the sorcerer
Who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether
World whom he has called up by his spells——The Com-
Munist Manifesto, 1848.

_ American officialdom is in the grip of an hysteria; in
Ct, the fit began when the first Sputnik soared into the

€ns. The American war neurosis has been still further
BTavated by the latest achievement of Soviet science,
Stok III and Vostok IV.

Reactions in the United States range
from chagrin to outright panic.

Congressmen and Senators vie with
each other to “explain”? the amazing feat
of the “heavenly twins’, Andrian Niko-
layev and Pavel Popovich.

* a Bo

Sputnik opened the way; Yuri Gag.-.
arin proved the practicability of the space

ship; Herman Titov proved that the human
Sanism could withstand a prolonged cosmic flight; Nike-
Yyev and Popovich proved the possibility of a rendezvous
 Sbace.

The Soviet Union is in command of outer space,

And, as one distressed Congressman pointed out, a piece
fooviet property has long been on the Moon in the form
@n emblem of the Soviet Union, dropped there by the
mous lunar shot.

* * *

One can only imagine the fate of the world if the Ameri-
i. instead of the Soviet Union were now in command of
eg,

When the Americans made the first atomic bomb in
2, they immediately used it, although nazi Germany had
Pitulated and Japan was asking for peace.

Had their monpooly of the bomb not been broken in 1949
‘the Soviet Union, there is no doubt the American military
®uld have used it before now against the Soviet Union.
he reason they did not use it between 1945 and 1949
gh there were many Americans in high positions who
“vocated just that) was because the Western peoples were
: enthusiastically in favor of the alliance with the Soviet
10n which alone defeated Hitler; it took some years of
“cold war to reverse that.

* a a
stro The world can be thankful that it is the leading and the
pee socialist state which is now in command of space.
Isa mighty omen of victory for world peace, a stimulus
€ fight for peace by people everywhere.

ere the shoe to be on the other foot, had the Pentagon
hysterical and panicky American high officials now
and of outer space, the warning given long ago by

Marx that, if the working class did not act to end the
‘uption and distortion of society by class conflicts then
“nkind could revert to barbarism, could come to pass.

For there is nothing automatic about human progress; it
® long and protracted struggle against the sorcerers and
oy apprentices.

* * *
0 What better remarks could one use to illustrate the
pet People’s attitude to their inspiring space victories than
" Words of those close to the events?
bo his is what Anna Nikolayeva said when she voice
Undless pride’ in her son’s flight:
On this day I send greetings to all the mothers of the
se and firmly believe that our children will not have to
Hs their blood in new wars.” ;
_ there speak the Soviet people. ;
_~t Major Nikolayev as he crossed over the United States
ne last hours of his flight:
Ovie lying over your great country,
. 8t space ship Vostok III greetings to the gifted American

Re
a I wish peace and happiness to the people of your
Ty.’

d her

I convey from the

ak * *
ther world” are safe in socialist

powers of the ne :
ir material and

When men free themselves from the ‘
fetters they become masters of the forces they

Yuri Gagarin, Herman Titov, Andrian Nikolayev ang

= Popovich, Communists, men of the new generation of

Odin}: : ‘ P
“alism, are voyageurs of peace. Behind their exploits

Stan ined
yy oS a Sociali illions of gifted people trainee
Cialist system and millions 1 that is best in

Y th
d; their examples will

tun tt System. Together they constitute al
Bon”: Their influence will sprea
PO Wed by peoples everywhere.

vt 1962, marked the 35th anniversary the execu-
% Sacco and Vanzetti on trumped-up charges. The aeoae
hows a demonstration following the execution in

are, New York. Ser.

PEACE CONGRESS DELEGATES —
REPORT TO PEOPLE OF B.C.

Cont'd from pg. 8)

Professor Dale Pontius of
the United States expressed
in general the feeling of all
the delegates when he said
in his address to the Con-
gress, “The hospitality dis-
played by the Soviet Govern-
ment, the courtesy displayed
by Russian citizens of all
walks of life towards us, the
warmth of greetings by the
people of Moscow have all
impressed us. Our hearts are
warmed by this welcome.”

It was in this atmosphere
of unanimity of purpose for
Peace and Disarmament that
the Congress opened in the
beautiful new Palace of
Congress building inside the
Kremlin on July 9, 1962.
WORLD WITHOUT WAR

“Man has always dreamed
of a world without war, and
for generations many have
struggled and sacrificed for
this ideal.’ Speaking from
the rostrum, Professor J. D.
Bernal, chairman of the
Presidential Committee of
the World Council of Peace,
opened the Congress.

' “Always the forces relying
on war, growing rich from
the profits of war, using war
as a weapon for aggrandize-
ment have proved stronger.”

“Sceptics will point out to
these past failures and say
Peace can’t be won. The
answer is, that in this cen-
tury, Peace must be won.”

‘Nuclear weapons have
changed the whole situation.
War today could not achieve
even the objectives for which
it has been used in the past.”

“There would be no Vic-
tors or Vanquished, only
Atomic Desolation!”

The Peoples’ Congress for

General Disarmament and
Peace was in session. The
opportunity, political and

economic had been made
available.

Here, people from differ-
ent countries presented many
points of view. Some gave
support to one side, some to
the other of the cold war.
Others believed both sides
were to blame.

Many came with old well-
nurtured suspicions that they
were in danger of being
forced by an enthusiastic as-

sembly to take a side in the

cold war that they did not
believe in.
END COLD WAR

The Congress was not con-
cerned with the victory of
one side or the other of the
cold war. It was concerned
with ending the cold war!

Speaking before the Con.
gress, Canon John Collins,
chairman of the Nuclear Dis-
armament Committee in
Great Britain, expressed the
opinion that fear must be re-
placed by trust.

wiln= fears pe said, ‘both
sides have recourse to that
other old and equally false
concept of negotiations from
strength.”

“In this Nuclear age we
cannot wait upon the resolu-
tion of ideological differ-
ences. Practical. steps to-
wards disarmament and
peace must be taken within

. the situation as it is now.”

There were 130 delegates
from India and they were all
united and spoke with one
voice no matter to what
party or _ organization

or

group they belonged.

Their speaker pointed out
that the theme of the Con-
gress, was so vital, so urgent
for the future of the entire
human race, that all differ-
ences of opinion paled into
insignificance.

There is a strong and act-
ive peace movement in In-
dia as in many of the neutral
countries.

All of

these countries

called for the ending of mili-
tary pacts and the liquida-
tion of foreign military bases.
They asked for the establish-
ment of nuclear free-zones.
Speaker after speaker from
the countries that have U.S.

H. STUART HUGHES.
shown above, is running a
peace campaign as an inde-
pendent for election to the
U.S. Senate from Massachu-
setts. He is opposing Ted
Kennedy, youngest of the
President's brothers. Hughes
is the grandson of former
U.S. Supreme Court head
Charles Evans Hughes. His
central slogan is, “We must
all campaign to end the arms
race.”

military bases on their soil,
spoke with great feeling for
the rapid removal of these
bases.

Japan had a strong dele-
gation there and pointed out
that the U.S. has many mili-
tary bases in their country.
They said that these must go
if there is to be any stabil-
ity in the Far East or in the
world.

The seating of the Peoples
Republic of China in the
United Nations was support-
ed wholeheartedly by every
delegate who spoke at the
Congress.

CHISHOLM SPEAKS

Speakers urged that pa-
tient negotiation be used to
bring about a peaceful solu-
tion of the German question.

Strong protests were made
about the continuation of
nuclear tests. Especially
when on the opening day of
the Congress the United
States carried out their high
altitude nuclear explosion.
The delegates roared their
approval when the statement
made by Lord Russel was
read, in which he said, “All
tests — by any government
— should be condemned, but
this test was the worst of
all.”

All delegates urged that
the proposals made by the
eight neutral nations for na-
tional inspection be used as
a basis for an agreement to
end tests.

Speaking for Canada, Dr.
Brock Chisholm said _ that
‘ec |-, . it is necessary to un-
derstand that we are all rep-
resentatives of the same hu-
man race, and if we are to
survive, we must all survive,
and not just one group.”

It was very important that
this Congress of the Peoples
of quite different viewpoints
reached common conclusions.

CIRCULATION ROUNDUP

Fall sub drive opens
plan of work laid out

By HAROLD PRITCHETT

September 15 is the open-
ing date of our Fall Subscrip-
tion Drive. Our objective of
1900 new subscriptions and
renewals can be completed
by November 15. Our big
task (while there is_ still
time) is to get our paper
into more and more hands
and drive home the message
for world peace,
independence, jobs and _ se-
curity in’ Canada,

To insure
the _ success
of the drive
and gkaran-
tee an over-
fulfil ment
bf our ob-
jective, the
Provincial
Press Committee recom-
mends the following plan of
work:

1. Press Drive Confer-
ences will be held on a reg-
ional basis. (Okanagan has
already held its conference,
as has Delta. Vancouver city
press directors will meet on

_ Thursday, September 6, and

Vancouver Island shortly
after.) :

2. Press Sub Drive to run
from September 15 to Nov-
mber 15:

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canvassing — remember, 25
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your credit.

The growing capitalist
crisis and the Diefenbaker
austerity program place:
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all of us to meet the people
and win subscribers.

Lenin, who placed great
emphasis on the importance
of the working class press in
the struggle for men’s minds,
wrote:

“Knowledge, science, phil-
osophy and art exist not for
themselves, but to satisfy
definite social requirements,
In modern society their
supreme purpose is to serve
the working class in its

. Struggle for a better future

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