THAT’S NOT “NEWS”?

Hundreds of U.S. news-
Papers carried a UPI story
from Paris this month about an
alleged former member of the
Black Panther party who said

€ and exiled Panther leader
Eldridge Cleaver left Cuba re-
cently because of racism.

The ex-Panther, Earl Farrell,
Said he was Cleaver's compan-
'on in Cuba and later in Al-
geria. He said socialist Cuba
discriminated against blacks in

© government and in general.

Reached in Algiers last week,

leaver denounced Farell as
an imposter and embezzler who
Stole money from the party, vio-
lated security and fabricated
the story about Cuban “rac-
Ism,””

Very few, if any, newspapers
Carried Cleaver's version.

Guardian, New York.

OVERPLUTOCRATIZATION?

In his report to Nixon, Nel-
Son Rockefeller wrote that

Population” was one of the
Major problems in Latin Ameri-
Ca. But that isn’t true. The big
Problem is people like Rocke-
feller, who exploit the peoples
of Latin America and drain off
@ billion dollars in profit from
them every year. As a result,
there is no money for produc-
tive investment. Actually, 10
Percent less farm land is under
Cultivation in Latin America to-
day than 20 years ago for this
feason. The problem is not too

faa de ack -

The charge of the PLIGHT BRIGADE into the Valley of Debt.

many people, but too many im-
perialists like Nelson Rockefel-

ler.
Letter in N.Y. Daily World.

TO BE INTERNATIONAL

Communist countries should
be represented on the board
of Canada’s proposed interna-
tional development research
centre, a Commons subcom-
mittee was told. Seg.

Dr. Irving Brecher, director
of the centre for developing-
area studies at McGill Univer-
sity, told MPs not to have Com-
munist. countries would “go
against the international philo-
sophy of the centre.”

Such countries had amassed
considerable experience inthis
field, he added.

Canadian Press item.

“BAND-AID”. SOLUTION

The Senate poverty commit-
tee was told yesterday that the
children of the poor are being
destroyed by the economic sys-
tem. Mrs. Ruth Keatly, a mem-
ber of a committe representing
a non-profit newspaper opera-
ted by Icitizens in downtown
Montreal to express the views
of the poor, said that while
people in Canada are studying
hunger, children are going
hungry. “Do you expect us to
sit idly by and accept your de-
finitions of poverty and your
‘band-aid’ solutions?” she ask-
ed the committee. :

Globe & Mail.

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The decade of progress

The 1960’s end. The 1970’s begin.

The world moves closer to peaceful
co-existence. The Communist and work-
ers’ parties have strengthened the
unity of the anti-imperialist front. The
Vietnamese, led by their Communist
Party, have forced U.S. imperialism to
the conference table.

During the decade of the Sixties, it
became still more apparent that the
working class — over seven million
strong—is the main force for progress
in Canada.

In the struggles of the Sixties, Can-
ada’s young people, under the impact
of accelerating technological progress.
and the decay in the social organiza-
tion of society (the objective compon-
ents of life young Canadians face)
militantly introduced new forms of
struggle into the great trade union and
farm union battles, and in the struggle
for peace. Canadian farmers formed
Canada’s first national farm union, and
moved closer to labor-farmer unity.

In all of this, the Communists and
their party—the Communist Party of
Canada — were vanguard fighters for
social progress. The Communist Party
of Canada is the most stable and coher-
ent political organization in Canada. In
a period of time when social and eco-
nomic unrest is growing, and the decay
of capitalist society is more wide-
spread, dreadful, and obvious, the
Communist Party is the voice of sanity,
hope and optimism.

Active love-for the people is a dis-
tinguishing. feature of Communists.

Hatred of social injustice is the ruling ~

motivation of every convinced Marxist.
Compassion for the suffering of all
peonle, and beine at one with them, is
the source of the great energy of the

Communists, That is why the Commun- .

ist movement has attracted the greatest
minds and noblest people of our epoch
to it.

So powerful have the ideas of com-
munism become that the capitalists
have had to devise new arguments and
ways to attempt to destroy commun-
ism. The best answer to their fabrica-
tions is, of course, their own record in
contrast to the great and_ inspiring
achievements of socialism. The record
of Canada’s capitalist class is a dread-
ful one. The people are burdened with
despair and poverty — poor housing,
malnutrition and spiritual starvation.
There is increasing crime and a deep-
going moral decay.

In sharp contrast there really is a
New Man emerging in the socialist

countries. The triumph of the ideas of -

Marxism-] eninism, the new, human
relationships between all peoples, and
the full flowering of the human person-

~ ality, is no longer a dream.

In the decade of the Seventies Cana-
dians, too, will make that choice.

Trudeau ain't Santa

Prime Minister Trudeau’s Christmas
present is a promise to depress our al-
réady too low living standards.

Living in luxury, wealthy Mr. Tru-
deau decrees in that “voice of. reason”
(so carefully cultivated) that a couple
of million of us will live on unemploy-
ment insurance to protect profits. -

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All this, mind you, while elected re-
presentatives from coast-to-coast have
voted themselves handsome pay in-
creases.

Profits are at an all time high. Al-
though the wage increases won by the
steel workers amount to less than a
hundred million dollars, the increased
price of steel will net the companies
several hundred million in extra profits.

_Inflation, which cuts wages and pen-
Slons, and wipes out savings, is caused
by unbridled monopoly profiteering, in-
ordinate government spending on arm-
aments—and the war against Vietnam.

There is an answer, The interests of
the working class and farmers de-
mand unity in struggle for control of
the monopolies, for the reduction of the
arms budget, for control over prices,
and for the opening of trade with the
socialist countries.

Unity in anti-monopol struggle
could win a program of full employ-
ment based on the all-Canadian deve-
lopment of our country. That’s the kind _
of Christmas present it is within the
power of the workers and farmers to
give themselves,

The decade of peace

As the year ended, U Thant talked
ever more realistically and optimisti-
cally of the bright promise of the like-
lihood of peace in the 1970’s,

Indeed, there is cause to celebrate.
The peace-loving peoples of the world
have chalked up great advances. The
International Meeting of Communist
and Workers’ Parties has enormously
strengthened the anti-imperialist front.
Full-scale negotiations on disarmament
between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.
will be held in Vienna next April. The
German Democratic Republie’s search
for new friendly relations with the
Federal Republic of Germany are meet-
ing with a more positive response. The
meeting of the Big Four over the Mid-
dle East could be a step in the resolu-
tion of that conflict.

China’s leaders are not pleased, and
claim that negotiations mean collusion
with the imperialists. For sheer non-
sense, that’s hard to beat. If you think
it’s a good idea to have a world war,
that’s the line to follow.

It goes without saying that you can’t
trust the imperialists. Peace is being
imposed on the imperialists by the
peace actions of the peoples of the
world. Constant alertness and constant
struggle is the only way peace can be
won. The increase of the tempo, and the
widening of the struggle for peace is
an urgent necessity. Involvement of the
trade unions and farm organizations
is the key to the successful outcome of
the peace struggle. The growth of con-
sciousness of this necessity among the
working class is one of the factors that
make the 1970’s bright with the pro-
mise of peace.

THE MARXISTS SAY:

“One of the most profound causes that periodi-
cally give rise to differences over tactics is the
very growth of the labor movement. If this move-
ment ...is regarded as the practical movement
of ordinary people ...the attraction of new sec-
tions of the working people must inevitably be
accompanied by waverings in the sphere of
tactics, by repetition of old mistakes.” :
—V. I. LENIN, Collected Works, vol. 16, pp. 347-48

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