—

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.

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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.

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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-

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entire period of studies,
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years at refresher f el
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teachers. 50

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teachers to keep up ™
latest achievements of
and technology.

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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
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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
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Hoare, British Amba ,
Madrid, to the Spans qyg
Minister in February ) "
lished later in Londot i
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