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‘ By a at
John

Boychuk, one of the founders who established the Com-

munist Party at the Guelph gathering in 1921 is delivered a scroll
of honor by banquet chairman George Harris (see p. 1).

Greetings from Angela,
drive to save her life

Speaking on the last day of
the convention, Carl Bloice,
member of the National Com-
mittee of the CP USA and editor
of People’s World (San Francis-
co) made a powerful, moving
speech on the need to win bail
now for her in order to save the
life of Angela Davis.

Bringing Angela’s revolution-
ary greetings to the delegates,
he pledged he would convey to
her the solidarity expressed by
Canadian Communists in con-
vention and tell her of the sup-
port of the democratic people of
Canada to her defence.

Spending her second Thanks-
giving in solitary confinement,
Angela is now being transferred
to await her trial in another
lonely cell in a locality that is
predominantly white and where
the most recent lynching in the
U.S. took place not long ago.
Angela is denied trial by her
peers. -.

The immediate task is to se-

British workers act

cure her release on bail both to
enable her to prepare her de-
fence (she is her own co-defend-
ing attorney) and because she
has lost weight alarmingly on
prison diet and her eyesight is
failing. She cannot get proper
medical treatment in prison and

- is denied the right to get it out-

side.

Persons or organizations of-
fering assistance or wanting
literature, speakers, etc., were
urged to apply to the National
United Committee to Free An-
gela Davis, 2085 Sutter St., Suite
201, San Francisco, California,
or the New York office of that
Committee at 150- 5th Avenue,
New York City, 10010, N.Y.

The delegates and guests took
up a collection among them-
selves to help the campaign. The
convention adopted a resolution
demanding her unconditional re-
lease and stepped-up activities
to save Angela were planned
across Canada.

Mount massive fightback

By JOHN WILLIAMSON

LONDON—The first round of
demonstrations against the
growing unemployment—official-
ly just short of one million but
admitted to be above the mil-
lion mark — organized by the
Trades Union Congress ended in
London with a militant march of
20,000 to Parliament in the early
evening of Nov. 24; the active
lobbying of MPs; and a Central
Hall rally of 7,000. This has
been preceded by a _ London
Trades Council-organized march
and meeting in the afternoon of
over 6,000 from among several
scores of thousands who had
struck in protest against the

“I trust that this will prove I am
making a definite break with my
lurid past!”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1971—PAGE 10

Tory government’s “do nothing”
policy.

Nationally, between two and
three hundred thousand workers
left their jobs, either for half or
a full day, to join in local demon-
strations. One hundred thousand
of these were in Scotland. In
Merseyside 10,000 dockers
struck. Throughout the country:
at least 50,000 construction
workers while in London, be-
tween 15,000 and 20,000—most-
ly engineers, dockers, printers—
downed tools. :

The just concluded congress of
the Communist Party called for
a policy to combat unemploy-
ment that included a 35-hour
week, equal pay, big increase in
social expenditure, increased
taxes on the wealthy and profits,
a 50% cut in the arms bill and
trade union help in organizing
the unemployed.

In moving the emergency re-
solution on this subject at con-
gress, Upper Clyde Shipyards
shop stewards’ leader Jimmy
Reid said, ‘For far too long, the
trade union movement has ne-
gotiated on redundancies, nego-
tiating blood money, selling
jobs.” x
If the Tories and Right-wing
Labor cannot meet the demands
for the right to work, we must
win the workers to conclude
“then away with them” and also
with capitalism, he said.

sLalewe. sees Wie ht emt nae Pe eee ee ee ee eT ee

Gh

(Greeting delivered
by Marius Bertouj

The French Communist Party
follows with interest the actions
of the working class and of the
people of Canada....

It is true that for remote rea-
sons of history, events in Can-
ada still evoke an echo in
French public opinion. This is
why, in exchange—in the name
of fraternal reciprocity — we
would like to acquaint you with
our difficulties, our struggles,
our aims.

The France of 1971 is no long-
er that gentle France of which
Joachim Du Bellay sang. Capi-
talist France is in crisis. This,
in the stage of state-monopoly
capitalism, is a crisis in all
spheres: economic and _ social,
political and intellectual, and
finally, moral.

Unemployment is increasing
and hits first of all our youth;
the long hours of work and
speedup are prematurely burn-
ing up our working class; the
rural exodus is mounting; the
monopolists are tightening their
grip on the main media of infor-

mation, creative workers are
encountering innumerable dif-
ficulties.

At the same time, strikes and
mass demonstrations show that
around the ,working class other
classes of society in the cities
and countryside, students and
teachers; intellectuals are refus-
ing to endure the frightful con-
sequences of a policy directed
solely to the profit of a handful
of exploiters.

The monetary crisis that
drives USA leaders to export
their difficulties to other capi-
talist countries, onto the backs
of the peoples, including those
of the American people, will ag-
gravate this situation and will
inevitably lead to the widening
of — struggles... ~., On? Deco 1
France will experience a mighty
and new day of strikes and de-
monstrations for the right to re-
tirement at 60 years and for
pension increases.

Such a. situation, character-
ized by a high level of class
struggle, is leading the workers,
the non-monopolist classes to
formulate—even in ways some-
times still unprecise—a funda-
mental demand: There must be
a change of policy; we must
chart a new course.

Following the events of May-
June 1968, our Party adopted a
Program which—in ‘line with
historically established interna-
tional principles — shows the
path to follow in order, through
a majority of democratic parties,
to arrive at a socialist France.

This program makes clear
that to avoid adventurism or
reformism it is necesary in the
historical conditions of France
to go through a stage of politi-
cal and economic advanced de-
mocracy. This will make it pos-
sible for our people, in practise
and through mass action, to un-
derstand the necessity of impos-
ing by majority will the estab-
lishment of a real socialism, re-
volutionary and breaking with
the old society.

But today it has become pos-
sible and necessary. to take a
new step ahead. A decisive step.

This is why our Central Com-
mittee has just adopted a pro-
gram of democratic government
and people’s unity which we are
submitting through public dis-
cussions to the whole of the
French people. That which was
only a _ perspective becomes
from now on a concrete and re-
alistic slogan: a democratic gov-
ernment of people’s unity!

Our program advances straight
answers to all the questions that

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rt new course for France’

MARIUS BERTOU

the vast majority of French
people, anxious and disturbed,
are rightly asking about their
future and that of France. In
this respect it is true that every
Frenchman today even more
than in the past can verify the
truth of the verse of the Com-
munist poet Aragon: “My Party,
you have shown me the face of
of France.”

The working class is taking
over the destinies of the nation
and.in so doing enlarges the
scope of its alliances.

Qur program is not a list of
demands. It has selected objec-
tives and determined the ways
to reach them by immediate or
progressive steps. These are
based on the nationalization of
the decisive sectors of banking
and industry, with democratic
and people’s participation in
plants and in parliament. It
thus establishes a threshold, a
point of no return, from which
important steps ahead on the
road to socialism can from now
on be undertaken.

Published in the form of a
pocketbook, our program in
three weeks has sold 500,000
copies.

Clear and realistic, from here
on it will become a French po-
litical guide provided that we
intensify still further our indis-
pensable work of propaganda,
of convincing, of the ideological
struggle—in the first place in
the plants.

Our Party presents itself to-
day as a party which aspires to
government of the country. —

It goes without saying that at
the same time we continue our
efforts for unity with the forces
of the left and firstly with the
Socialist Party. The action of
the masses combined with our
own efforts will, from this point
of view, be important for the
Socialist Party’s acceptance of
our proposal and for renuncia-
tion of a policy of class col-
laboration which can only re-
sult in perpetuating the present
system and regime.

At the same time our Party }
increasing its efforts for assum
ing its international responsibl
lities. We are struggling 5° a
the active solidarity of our Pe?
ple with the heroic struggle °
the peoples of Indochina may
find still greater expression
We shall contribute to the SUC
cess of the International Com
ference in February 1972 ?
Paris that is arousing univers
interest. It will mark @
stage.

We affirm our solidarity
all peoplcs confronting U-5: i
perialism. And, quite nad
with the American people, ae
Communist Party of W 4
Angela Davis has become,
the eyes of our youth au A
our people, a shining and 4
less symbol. With passion@
interest our. solidarity gore
to the people of Chile a5.
combine their national s
pendence action and progr
sive social measures. stan

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that we have followed ¢l0s

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the significance of rece

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the USSR and Poland, th
power agreement on Berit,
visit of Comrade Brezhnev.
France, show that a new ae,
ation is emerging in this ie
of the world where two
wars started that broug di
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eople.
i We believe that in 1972 t
conference of states OM
ean security, with which
governments of Canada ie ‘4
USA are associated, shoul oul
place. This conference # 4
mark a victory for peacefu co
existence, thanks to te Fi
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mocratic, political am at
union forces that uphol me
increasing activity of the 55.
ist countries and in thé
place of the USSR. su
In all of these spheres
cesses will be greater a0
rapid given the achieve™,,
a broad _anti-imperialist f
based on the unity of a
the Communist and
arties. :
: This is the situation in Fret
these the hopes of YON is
rades, the French Com™ .g
Long live the 50th ang
of the Communist P@
Canada! n
Long live the commu"
Party of Canada! :
Long live the unity e
Communist and Workers P ip
in their common strugglé 4
imperialism!- + @
Vive le Communisme gui
la Jeunesse du Monde!

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_ Fred Wright in the Union Curtoon Service

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