— A NEWSPAPER report from London tells us that the Bureau of the Socialist International held a special meeting earlier this month to discuss questions of possible joint action with the international Communist movement. As yet we have no report of what transpired at the meeting, but can anyone doubt the great benefit that would accrue to the work- ing class if the Communists and Socialists of all countries and on a world scale pulled together for peace and universal disarmament, for working people’s rights and economic interests, for political advance and the transformation of society? The split is of long standing, but changes are taking place. Unit- ed action is being urgently placed on the agenda by the very pres- sure of history. * * * THE DIVISION of the international socialist and labor move- ment took place during World War One. It became necessary and inevitable because the leaders of the Second (Socialist and Labor) International had reneged on the principles and decisions of the International: e In defiance of the resolution adopted in 1912 to oppose im- perialist war by united international working class action, the right- | wing leaders of nearly all social-democratic and labor parties jumped onto the bandwagon of their respective imperialist govern- ment. The Second International collapsed. e When the workers of Russia, led by the Russian Social-Demo- cratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) with Lenin at the head established the first workers’ state, the right-wing social-democrats in Russia (Mensheviks) and internationally took the side of the counter- revolutionary forces. * * * ONLY LENIN and his party in Russia (later calling itself by the original name that Marx and Engels had advanced—the Communist Party) and the left wing in a number of other countries stayed true to the teachings of Marxism and the decisions of the International itself on opposing the imperialist war by working class war against their own rulers. Lenin applied Marxism to the new stage of history—imperialism. He and his comrades worked out the strategy and tactic of the working class in that period of wars and revolutions, and built the type of party that was capable of carrying out those tasks instead of only carrying out parliamentary and trade union activities for limited reforms during times of calm. On this foundation of loyalty to Marxist principles and their application to the new era—Marxism-Leninism—Communist parties were formed in the various countries and the Third (Communist) International was launched in 1919. te = 3 THE FOUNDING and fifty years’ history of the Communist Party of Canada is written in the party’s documents, literature, press, memoirs and records. Joe Wallace described in 1922 the condition that existed among Canadian socialists and the impact of Lenin and the Russian Revolution: Weary of too much wandering, Wary of leaders that mislead, We know not how to stay or start, Nor to go back, nor to proceed. Suddenly on the leaden sky, Bright like a bayonet afar, Cleaving the dark, the doubt, the death, Rises the pilot Five-Point Star. & = % ONE-THIRD of the human race today lives in countries where Communists head the governments and where socialism is being built. The revived Socialist International, on the other hand, is unable to claim any lasting results. Social-democrats and Laborites have indeed one time and another headed governments in Germa- ny, France, Britain, Scandinavian and other countries, but did not change the social system and again and again they gave way to reactionary capitalist regimes. In countries where left Social-Democrats merged with Com- munists to found a united Marxist-Leninist party (in the People’s Democracies following World War Two) or joined in Popular Front governments with Communists (Chile) the united working class party has been re-established or is in the process of becom- ing re-established to the benefit of the working people and the process of transition from capitalism to socialism. % * % U.S. FARM NEWS of Des Moines, Iowa is always an interesting and stimulating little monthly paper to read. In the October issue we find this summing up, in an article by JBC Woods, of American policy: “Never did so many politicians, careerists, immortalized in Ells- berg’s Pentagon Papers and Fleming’s Origin of the Cold War, act- ing together (presidents, senators and representatives, brass of the armed forces, CIA spies and assassins, bureaucrats of State and Defense, bankers, industrialists, editors, religious leaders, educa- tors, scientists) plan and execute cold and hot war on such a scale, with such legal and moral criminality, with genocidal fury, the pro- jects sold to the people with hypocrisy, double-talk and evangelical snake oil, as has been done by the U.S. Establishment playing the role of the U.S. government from the end of World War Two to date.” 3 That’s an indictment that fits the crime. = PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 26, 1971 — PAGE'8 Canadians study By IGOR ZAKHAROV “We came here to see, to know and, well, to learn from each other. Canada and the Soviet Union have much in common. Our contacts are growing stronger and develop- ing, and this means that there is also a growing acquaintance with each other, a growing of our mutual understanding,” said Mr. Saul A. Miller, Minis- ter of Education of Manitoba, head of a delegation of Cana- dian educationists to the USSR. Other members were Mr. L. H. Bergstrom, deputy minister of education of Saskatchewan, and Mr. Fred Jorgenson, president of the Technological Institute of Alberta. Besides Moscow, the delegation visited Tallinn and Tartu in Estonia, Tbilisi and Batumi in Georgia, and Lenin- grad. The visit followed close on the heels of the Soviet-Canadian agreement on exchanges whose purpose is to organize exchang- es and other forms of coopera- tion between the two countries in various areas, including edu- cation. The delegates began their visit with talks at the USSR Ministry of Public Edu- cation, Moscow State Univer- sity, the V. I. Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. The problems of secondary education were in the focus of the talks with Konstantin Nozh- ko, USSR Minister of Public Education. He said, among other things, that the total number of students in the USSR was about 50 million, and the number of teachers — 2.5 million. The guests were quite impressed also by the system of pre-school education at Soviet kindergar- tens and public nurseries. The talk at the Moscow State University, the oldest (founded in 1755) and the largest (35,000 students and _ postgraduates) university in the country was devoted to the Soviet system of college education. Felix Volkov, vice-rector of the University, received the delegation. “A basic principle of the Soviet educational system,” he said, “is that a graduate of any secondary school is sufficiently prepared to join any institution of higher learning in the coun- try. At the same time, in view of the actual requirements which the national economy has for specialists with college edu- cation, we have to select for our institution of higher learning only a definite number of aspi- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, d delegation Saul A. Miller, Manitoba Minister of Education, an Bergstrom, Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Education. rants. Entry exams are aimed at singling out the best of these. On an average 20% of all those wishing to join, meaning one . million a year, are enrolled. “As to the material status of the Soviet students, it should be said that tuition at all the insti- tutions of higher learning in the country is free of charge, and students making good headway in studies are provided stipends by the state. According to the latest information, stipends are paid to 80% of all the students. Beginning with Sept. 1, 1972, stipends to college students will be increased by an average of 25%. All the students coming from out of town live in hostels, and pay a nominal rent of two roubles a month. Mr. Bergstrom was particu- larly interested in the training of teachers, tutors and instruc- tors. The meeting at the Mos- BOOK REVIEW The anti-Hitler coalition } The Anti-Hitler Coalition by Victor Issraeljan. Progress Pub- lishers, Moscow. 422. pp., Avail- able in Canada from Progress Books, Toronto. This latest addition to the series of works by Soviet his- torians on the foreign policy of their country deals with inter- allied diplomacy during the sec- ond world war, 1941-45. It is particularly well documented, and both those who were politi- cally aware at that time and those of a younger generation will find it of absorbing interest. In particular, the record of de- liberate lies told to the Soviet government about alleged deci- sions to open a second front in the west, first in 1942 and then in 1943—when millions of Sov- iet soldiers and civilians were dying in the battle against the Hitler armies—shows up _ ines- capably that in practice the Bri- tish and American Governments (right-wing Labour representa- tives included) were following the policy put forward openly in 1941 both by Senator (later President) Truman and by Col. Moore-Brabazon, British Minis- ter for Aircraft Production: to let the Russians and the Ger- mans bleed each other to the maximum before opening the second front. It is surprising, just because of this, that the author — one of the outstanding younger Sov- iet historians — omits any men- tion of the signs of an anti- Soviet current among the high- est British authorities immed- Nee tees Soviet school .ment’s calculation, CO? cow pedagogical institu country’s biggest centre {0"_ training of teachers (11) dents), was devoted actua this problem. : 7 The future professors 00 dagogical study for foul (in some colleges five yee well as training in theif © te field. The program also © plates practical _ tral schools—25 weeks @ entire period of studies, der to keep step with cn the teachers are obliged © dy for six months evel), years at refresher f el classes. And at the end ef August, before the begift? another school year, ! al special seminars arranb™ teachers. 50 Such a system helps 4 i teachers to keep up ™ latest achievements of and technology. iately following Hitlers on the USSR, which " general indignation am? people. These include chill’s instruction t0 a eign Office to describe t nt iet Union as “co-belliget’ as ally; his instructi® A BBC not to ‘play the tionale’—then the officl® anthem—as the allied had been played up 1 (June 22) before th€ (y news; the attempt of Pownall, GOC, Londo? to prevent photographe! pictures of him shakin | with the Deputy Chi@’ i Soviet General Staff, art head of the Soviet Mill sion in July 1941; and 5 Soviet circular to office Middle East issued bY there (August 1941): y Moreover, while right ing the conclusion itis behavior that the BM, American governmen!s, pecting the Soviet un greatly enfeebled at i the war, while the deo tor would be “Anglo gf strength” (pp. 15-16 of elsewhere), the aut nce looks the direct evide this was the Britis ij a statement by ie 0 Hoare, British Amba , Madrid, to the Spans qyg Minister in February ) " lished later in Londot i However, these ona no means detract fro™ of the book. : ,