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NDP leaders visit USSR

MOSCOW — A group of New

Democratic Party leaders are.

ferns the USSR on the invita-
10on of the Institute of USA and

Canadian Studies of the USSR

Academy of Sciences.

David Lewis, Donald Mac- |

qonala, Andrew Brewin, A.
eave and C. Scotton met April

8 with CPSU Political Bureau |

siternate member Boris _Pono-
aryov and exchanged views on
a range of outstanding
mati ms concerning the inter-

Onal situation, Canadian-

SAIGON

Soviet relations and particularly
the need and possibility to pro-
mote world peace and security.

The NDP leaders stressed
that their party’s platform on
foreign policy is aimed at deep-
ening the process of detente and
expressed an understanding of
the Soviet peace program. Ex-
pressing satisfaction with recent
improvements in Canadian-So-
viet relations, both sides agreed
to do everything to promote con-
fidence, friendship and mutually
beneficial trade between oul
. two countries.

Support for May 21 growing

SURRENDER ENDS 35 YEARS OF WAR

VIETNAM LIBERATED!

Ending 35 years of war,

Vietnam stands liberated,

as the discredited government in Saigon surrendered
Unconditionally to Provisional Revolutionary Forces

farly in the morning of April 30.

The end for the, puppet government came as acting —

President Minh, in.a radio broadcast, told his defeated
and demoralized troops to lay down their weapons.
ithin hours, the flag of the Provisional Revolutionary
Overnment flew proudly from the presidential palace,
tanks and military vehicles took up positions In the

City.

Reuters correspondents from Saigon report cheering
Crowds lining the streets to greet the people’s armed
orces. The city remained calm, he reports.
_ These dramatic events followed within hours after

the United States had completed evacuation of its
Personnel, including more than 55,000 collaborators.

Aboard giant green helicop-
ters shuttling between Saigon
and U.S. warships steaming in
me South China Sea, the United

tates carried out its final re-
treat April 29 from Vietnam. At

1 p.m. Washington time, April

» President Ford gave the final
order for withdrawal, ending 21
Years of U.S. genocide.

The full extent of the debacle
Still keeps coming out of Wash-
Ington with speculation of a

Crd-Kissinger fallout over re-
cent events. “How many times
© I have to tell you he is not
he president and that I am the
President!” Ford is overheard at
4 Washington pool party last

Week. And at the State Depart-

Ment, aides tell of Kissinger
Standing for long periods at the
ow gazing at the Lincoln
€morial and the Potomac

thinking about history and how
ae future will look back at
With traitors Lon Nol in Ha-
ies and Thieu in Taiwan with
€ir personal fortunes -intact;
Countless Vietnamese and 50,000

By WILLIAM STEWART
In the opinion of the Com:
Munist Party, current rates.
Charged by Ontario Hydro al-
Teady weigh too heavily upon
paividual households,
Usinesses and municipalities.
Y such increase as proposed
Cannot but have inflationary
Censequences, with the greatest
Costs placed upon those least
able to pay.
. The Ontario Committee of the
Cmmunist Party feels that On-
ay Hydro gets involved far
©0 deeply in private borrowings
at high cost for capital expan-
Continued on page 9

Americans dead and millions
wounded; $150-billion down the
drain and thousands of official
lies exposed, history will most
certainly take a look at U.S. im-
perialism and Kissinger won't be
overlooked in that assessment.

Today, as Saigon and all of
South Vietnam stands liberated
following decades of struggle and
sacrifice against the combined
might of imperialism, including
the most powerful nation, the
full implication of this tremen-
dous victory is being realized

by friend and foe alike.

Defeated troops,

smashed tanks litter
Saigon. The final collapse of the million-man puppet

ao ne
the roads to

army came following complete American withdrawal,

ending the most

disgraceful episode in U.S. history.

91% VOTE IN PORTUGUESE ELECTION

CIVIL SERVANTS
JOIN OFL DEMO

TORONTO—The Civil Service
Alliance of Ontario which repre-
sents 60,000 government work-
ers, will take part in the -May
21 demonstration. at the Ontario
Legislature, Queen’s Park. The
demonstration has been called
by the Ontario Federation of
Labor.

The General Manager of the
CSAO, Jake Norman, told the
Tribune, “the CSAO has been
consulted by the federation and
we have decided to support the
OFL’s call for the demonstra-
tion. We will be there and we

For more on the May 21 de-
monstration see article -“OFL
plans mass demonstration” —

page 8.

will be there with all the num-
bers we can muster. We will
spend whatever money is neces-
sary to make the demonstration
a success, and plans are already
under way to bus CSAO mem-
bers to Queen’s Park from other
centres throughout the prov-
ince.”

David Archer, president of the
Ontaro Federation of Labor told
the Tribune: “I’m delighted with
the endorsation of the demon-
stration by the CSAO. Their en-
dorsation will perhaps make it
easier for the teachers’ federa-
tions and the nurses’ associa-
tions to respond in a positive
way to the call.”

Ambulance Drivers

The announcement by Jake
Norman, of the CSAO’s endor-
sation of the demonstration
came at the end of a press con-
ference in which the CSAO gen-.
eral manager spoke about “the
royal shafting being prepared for

Continued on page 9

small .

By JACKIE GREATBATCH

Sharp at twelve midnight
on April 25 Portuguese citi-
zens began a celebration to
mark the newfound freedom
which the military coup of one
year earlier has brought them,
and which was marked this
year by the first democratic
elections in the country for
almost 50 years.

Over six million people cast
their ballots that day to
choose a Constituent Assem-
bly to draw up a new consti-

tution for the country. The

Assembly will have no power
to pass legislation. Such pow-
er remains in the hands of the
Revolutionary Council, repre-
senting the Armed Forces
Movement, which carried out
the coup, and with the Com-
munist Party, went beyond
the mere overthrow of fas-
cism to launch the country on
the road to a socialist revolu-
tion.

With 91% of those eligible
yoting, and the overwhelming

mandate for

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Young Communists sell newspaper Avante, published by the®

Communist Party of Portugal.

majority opting in favor of
Socialist and Communist can-
didates, the election indicates
mass approval for the coun-
try’s present course toward
socialism. The- votes gave a
mandate for recent actions
such as nationalization of key
industries, and the agrarian

reform program.

A Communist Party state-
ment after ballots had been
counted said: ‘The revolution
continues its own original dy-
namic, All the conquests will
be defended and maintained.”

Of more than 10 parties
running candidates in the elec-

PACIFIC T

~ seats).

tion, the main three were the
Communist, Socialist, and the
Popular Democratic parties.
The Socialists received 38%
of the vote (116 seats), the
Popular Democrats won 26%
(80 seats) and the Commu-
nist Party drew 13% (30

In relation to its own vote,
the Communist Party said that
“it would be an error to think
that the vote is the only
means of strength and influ-
ence of the parties. Votes do
not by far reveal the strength
of the Communist Party, its
influence, its capacity of mo-
bilizing the masses and its in-
dispensable task in the Portu-
guese revolution.”

Strongest Party

After the coup, the Com-
munist Party emerged as the
strongest, best organized force
among the people. It is
strongly supported among in-
dustrial workers and landless
peasants. Its policy of one. na-

Continued on page 9

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