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deg inated by white, ,

Blacks ...

Black defendants plead guilty
even when they are innocent ,
she stated, outlining numerous
examples, including her co-pri-
soner Ruchell Magee, sentenced
to life imprisonment in 1965 at
his second trial on a $10 rob-
bery and kidnapping charge
after a court-appointed lawyer
refused to enter a plea. A white
middle-class youth, :
would probably have received &
suspended sentence OF proba-
tion.

Miss Davis argued that the
Constitution guaranteed the
right to counsel, but “it did not
vitiate theright to self repre-
sentation”. “She listed 25 cases
where that right was upheld.

Judicial decisions denying de-
fendants the right to act as CO
counsel seem to be overly con-
cerned with decorum In _ the
courtroom, she said, borne
merely for expediency wie
raised grave questions about the
American judicial system -

The motion to act as her own
co-counsel and release on bail
are considered the key political
moves in her defense. It 1s only
through her own words, acting
as her own attorney, that An-
gela Davis can tell of her te
pression as a Communist, as :
Black woman, and as an activis
for the freedom of political pri-
soners.

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The second round

When the Trudeau government last
week extended the life of the Prices
and Incomes Commission for another
six months specifically to prepare com-
pulsory wage-and-price freeze legisla-
tion, it was serving notice that a new
and more savage onslaught on workers’
rights and living standards is in the
offing. .

During 1970 the labor movement beat
back the attempt by the government to
freeze wages via the 6% ceiling guide-
line. While supposedly an attempt at
voluntary “restraint”, actually the
whole power of the state and the media
was concerted to compel the workers
to accept what was in fact sub-standard
wage levels while at the same time
posing to also “restrain” inflated
prices. The long postmen’s strike, the
struggles of the auto and other sec-
tions of workers defeated this attack.

While bringing in the War Measures

‘Act and the army of occupation to cow

working people of Quebec, the gov-
pais ee commelled to think twice
before employing these measures,
which are tantamount to icivil war
against the: people, to force the work-
ing class of Canada to accept its phoney
“onti-inflation” program.

Now they think they can get away
with it. They have the peace-time equl-
valent of the War Measures Act on the
books to do the job with a fig leaf of
legality, and they are preparing a com-
7 wage-freeze order as another
legal fig leaf to cover the naked force
and violence to be employed against the
workers. ai

Young, the chairman 0 e
ee and Asie Commission that
is to produce that legal hatchet, told
the press that the commission members

felt that their policy would carry
cae it was “ensured either through

‘ccipline of their members by the
ae involved or through resort to
government sanctions ..

in English that means either
Sere unions force their members
to accept the dictum of the monopolies

or the government will make them do

it.
If anybody has any illusion that the

dministration is incapable of
Se forces of the state to that

a i z hended in-
et him recall the “appret
en, et Bi excuse for military and

police action last October.

Unity is the key

the U.S. negotiators at the
sh ece talks tried to avoid discus-
sion of the seven-point proposal for

eace by speculating on the coming -

‘on-Mao meeting in Peking, they
eerie firmly and properly ticked
off by the representatives of the Pro-
visional Revolutionaary Government
of South Vietnam and of North Viet-

Ls did not concern the
king visit did not con
nevntiations, they were told, and could

not serve as an excuse for not replying
* to the peace propos

als. The Americans
were bluntly ‘warne

d that the Vietna-""

mese would continue fighting U.S. ag-
gression as long as it continued, and
would win with-the support of the
Soviet Union, People’s China and other
socialist and peaceloving countries.

Nixon has not become a dove just be-
cause he has made an about-face in re-
lations with China. He has not agreed
to set a date for withdrawal of troops
from Indochina, but on the contrary,
has escalated the war once more with
stepped-up bombings in Vietnam, new
incursions into Cambodia, etc. —

He is gambling on exploiting the
anti-Sovietism, which has been fanned
by the ruling circle in China during
the past decade, to reverse the defeat
U.S. imperialism has suffered in South-
east Asia and be enabled to continue
the role of aggressor and “world police-
man”,

While the spokesmen of People’s
China have properly repeated their
aim to liberate Taiwan, and while they
continue condemning the U.S. war of
aggression in Indochina, they have not
seen fit to spike the rumors of anti-
Soviet undertones to the Sino-U.S. rap-
prochement, nor made any move in the
direction of restoring unity in action
(ideological differences can be argued

out meanwhile) of the world Commun- |

ist and anti-imperialist forces.

The protest lodged by the Commun-
ist Party of France, for example,
against its two representatives being
blackballed by the Peking authorities
and thus kept out of the all-party
French parliamentary delegation to
China, shows that the opposite is still
the case.

Unity is the key to the maintenance
of world peace and the liberation of
subjected peoples. - That sort of rap-
prochement would quickly end the
wars and plots of war, the oppressions
and massacres, the blood and tears
that we suffer in many parts of the
earth today.

Shadow over Sudan

Counter-revolutionary terror is rag-
ing in the Sudan. Having disposed of
army. officers who had attempted to
establish a government alon
anti-imperialist and anti-feudal lines,
dictator General Nimeiry is proceed-
ing to annihilate Communists, social-
ists, trade unionists and all whe want
to lead the country and the Arab com-
aay along democratic and socialist
ines.

This bloodbath follows fast on the
heels of the rulthless campaign waged
by King Hussein of Jordan to wipe out
the Palestinian guerrillas. :

These developments are of course in
the interests of the.imperialist circles
that have never given up the idea of
getting back the oilfields of the Middle
East with the help of Israel, and who
recently suffered an important strate-
gic setback when Malta elected a pro-
gressive government and refused to let
the island be used as a base for British
troops and the U.S. navy in the Medi-
terranean.

The shadow over Sudan is a shadow
over the ‘whole Middle East.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1971—PAGE 3

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