SOVIET IMMIGRANTS STRIKE IN ISRAEL

ASHDOD — Immigrants from Soviet Georgia July 12 called a
strike and occupied municipal offices, the employment board and
other public buildings in the Israeli city of Ashdod, 28 miles south
of Tel-Aviv. The immigrants went on strike because of what they
termed the arbitrary dismissal of 70 of their fellow-workers by the
port administration of Ashdod. A spokesman for the immigrants
said port authorities had offered the excuse that there is a “busi-
ness depression” in Ashdod; the spokesman said, however, that
everybody should have the right to work no matter what. Ten of
the immigrants also said they would go on a hunger strike.

The Israeli government has ordered reinforced police squads into
Ashdod -with orders to break the strike and restore law and order.

NEW ZEALAND WARNS FRANCE

WELLINGTON — New Zealand will hold France responsible for
any interference with her ships on the high seas near the Pacific
testing site at Muroroa atoll, Prime Minister Norman Kirk said.
Mr. Kirk, speaking in parliament, said France had been informed of
this stand and also told it would be held responsible for any injury
to New Zealand citizens resulting from French action.

Earlier, defense minister Arthur Faulkner said the New Zealand
frigate Otago—now inside the danger zone around the atoll in de-
fiance of a French ban—had been authorized to enter the atoll’s
territorial waters if it has to do so to'save life.

This decision clears the way for the navy frigate to enter the
12-mile limit if necessary to rescue any of the private protesters
who are converging on Muroroa in small vessels. But Mr. Falkner
stressed that the Otago would act only if no other means of rescue
was available.

WORLD PROTESTS MOZAMBIQUE ATROCITY

LONDON — Protests exploded around the world this week
against the Portuguese colonialist massacre of 400 African men,
women and children in the Mozambique village of Wiriyamu. News
of the massacre, in the July 10 London Times, was based on a re-
port made by three Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries in the
Portuguese colony in southeast Africa.

At the United Nations in New York, Kurt Waldheim, UN Sec-
retary General said he was “extremely alarmed” by the reports of
the Wiriyamu massacre. Salim A. Salim (Tanzania), chairman of
the UN Decolonization Committee, strongly protested the massacre
in a July 13.statement, and said the UN has an enormous amount of
factual data proving that Portuguese colonialism is carrying out a
policy of systematic terror, not only in Mozambique, but also in
Guinea-Bissau and Angola.

Nzo Ekangaki, General Secretary of the 41-nation Organization
of African Unity (OAU), said in Lusaka, Zambia, that the Wiriyamu
massacre is a horrible, disgraceful action which will not be able

to intimidate the liberation fighters in Mozambique. The Times of

Zambia (Lusaka), called for the rest of Africa to step up its aid
to the Mozambique liberation struggle as a reply to colonialist ter-
rorism.

The Nairobi Daily Nation (Kenya) said that Portugal’s actions
in Mosambique afe “terrorism and barbarity unmatched even by
atrocities of the Nazis.” It condemned NATO for supporting Por-

tugal.

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Marchers in Boston in front of the Spanish consulate protest the
prosecution of the Carabanchel Ten, a group of trade. unionists
charged: with. organizing Spanish workers.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 20; 1973—-PAGE 4

20th anniversary of Moncada attack

History has borne out Fidel |

‘By MARK SYDNEY

Twenty years ago — on July
26, 1953—a small force of young
Cubans, including two women,
Melba Hernandez and Haydee
Santamaria, attacked the Mon-
cada Cuartel (barracks) in
Santiago de Cuba, Oriente pro-
vince. Their leader was an
equally young lawyer and demo-
crat, Fidel Castro.

From a military viewpoint,
this heroic action was a failure.
Most of the brave insurgents
were killed, either in combat, or
at the hands of their jailers in
the days that followed.

Six short years later, another
army of thousands led by the
same Fidel Castro, who had

come out of exile in Mexico

with 82 men to begin the battle
anew, marched triumphantly
into Havana. What had osten-
sibly ended in failure at Mon-
cada culminated in a victory for
the Cuban people over oppres-
sion and tyranny.

Today, July 26 is celebrated
as a national holiday in Cuba,
and by millions around the
world. What began in Moncada
has had profound consequences
not only for Cuba, but for Latin
America and the world.

ET

A delegation of the Commun-
ist Party of Canada, comprising
Nigel Morgan, B.C. leader, and
William Tuomi, Alberta leader,
will be in Havana to take part
in the 20th anniversary celebra-
tions on the invitation of the
Communist Party of Cuba.

For the Cuban people, the
triumph of the revolution has
brought food where there was
famine, education where there
was ignorance, dignity where
there was degradation, and the
power of the people where there
was dictatorship.

For the people of Latin Ame-
rica, the Cuban experience has
become a source of inspiration
and hope. The names of the

By FRANCIS SAUVAGE

Elections for the Tokyo Met-
ropolitan Assembly’ took place
last week. The Liberal Democra-
tic Party, which has been in
power nationally since the end

of World War II, is still a minor-

ity on the Tokyo city council.

In the vote, they retained their

51 seats out of 125, the same

number as before the elections.

The Communist Party was the

only party to make decisive
gains — from 18 to 24 seats. The

Socialist Party stayed pat at 18

seats, the Democratic Socialist

Party (a reformist and violently

anti-Communist group) dropped

from four to two seats, while

the Komeito, a centrist party in-

spired by Buddhism, maintained
its position as the second larg-
est party in the Assembly, with
26 seats as compared to 25 after
the 1969 elections.

These elections were scanned
with great interest by political
observers. With 11 million peo-
ple, Tokyo has a greater popula-
tion than Belgium, and almost
that of Holland. Also, results in
the captial usually point to a
pattern that repeats itself in
Japan’s other. major centres.
Thus the election of a progres-

Fidel Castro, at left, brought with other survivors of the Monet
attack into a hastily made-up courtroom in Havana's City HosPl |

The judge demanded 26 years in prison for Castro.

leaders of the revolution, Fidel beast.” Cuba has became. sl
Castro, Camillo Cienfuegos,Che integral part of the world soc! f
Guevara, are on everyone’s-lips. i§t community, a bul
The policies first instituted by strength against imperialis™ un
the revolutionary government in In a sense then, it all stat
1959, and continued today under with Moncada. That heroic if
the leadership of the Communist tion .by 125 young men i! :
Party of Cuba — freedom from women ignited the flames ¢
U.S. imperialist domination, carried the Cuban peor el
agrarian reform, eradication of working people, in the facto”
illiteracy, health care, child care, and on the land, to powél
sports. and cultural programs, all In a five hour speech | to tt :
of, for and by the people—have court that tried him for his Fie
struck a sympathetic cord in the attack on Moncada, vet
among the people of the con- Castro delivered an elod¥’ is
tinent. ringing indictment of the bi
Chile is the second country in regime. After outlining the man)
Latin American to embark on justices, and there werd nt
the road taken by Cuba, the of that regime, and why h oe
path of socialism. Countries, chosen armed action as.4 gio!
like Peru, Panama, ~ Ecuador eradicating tyranny, OP jaded
which have begun to free them- and exploitation, he cone’
selves from the yoke of U.S. by saying: “Condemn ™° vail
economic and cultural oppres- does not matter. Histo:
sion, are more and more looking absolve me.’
to Cuba as.a source of aid and Now, as the world cel
inspiration. the: 20th anniversary of
The Cuban people have estab- tack on the Moncada ba
lished a socialist state just 90 Fidel’s own verdict has
miles from the “belly of the borne out.

et
ee
pee ef!

e on the

sive governor in Tokyo, Ryokichi vances have been mad 10
Minobe, was repeated in the way to a union of all PP vil
cities of Okinawa, Osaka, Sai- sive and democratic forts ty
tama and Okayama — the city actions with the Socialis: has
of Kyoto has had a left governor have increased. The Kome ral of
for 20 years — and certain other also participated in sever
large cities, such as Kawasaki, these events. te 5
and more recently, Nagoya. It is true that a Ae at
Popular discontent is growing, back for the Liberal Dee sig
as Japan’s ‘economic miracle’ Party was expected. ao
has become synonomous with the the increasing crisis of uss!
transport crisisy high prices, and _ nomy, the high level of $ it 5 sti!
pollution. The poisoning of coast- pointed to an upset. Bu he jar
al waters by industrial waste is retained its position a6
such that the Ministry of Health est party in the city jm
has recently recommended that Many factors contribute “ys \
fish consumption be limited. And enormous amount of mON*” ‘aay
fish is the base of all meals. for advertising during 3 ¢t tC»
Actions against the govern-  paign, subjective feat tt
ment have increased since the But the main point NOW gol
beginning of 1973, bringing to- agenda is whether Japan si
gether millions of workers, cratic forces, as the C77 wal
along with peasants, fishermen, Party proposes, can go ey
artisans and small -merchants. on a common basis of
The Communist Party has ini- national independence,
tiated and led many of these racy and social progress:
popular struggles; making its The Tanaka governme ‘oft
position known to millions of obtained a stay of execull ele”
people, and strengthening its ties is to be hoped that in
with them. r
tions for the Uppe
The Tokyo municipal elections 1974, the popular verdict ‘analy
have amply confirmed this, 15 translated into a condem ;
L
days after the resounding vic- without appeal for
tory of the Communist candidate Democrats
in a by-election for the, Upper : _pxut
House ‘in’ Osaka: Important ad- :