EDITORIAL

Capitalist party deceit

There's a difference between running

_ Canada and ruining Canada. The parties
_ of monopoly capitalism are doing the lat-
ter. Yes, the Liberals are in power (that is,
except for provincial governments) and to
try to get worker votes they shuffle a deck

_ of “enlightened” programs, with the old,

‘stagnant please-the-rich formulas.

The Tories are in the wings waiting fora

_ chance to sink their fangs into the delectable

loot. Mulroney has already promised to

nthedoors tothe U.S. multi-nationals to

_ feast off Canadian workers, steal what is

Canada’s birthright and enrich themselves,

irrespective of where they choose to take

their ill-gotten super-profits. What a crew,
_ the capitalist parties! ‘

Finance Minister Marc Lalonde admits
that his capitalist government policies
contributed deliberately to the hardships
of working people.

In an economic review of 1982, Lalonde
confessed to the government’s deliberate
creation of unemployment, its gradual
loading onto Canadians world energy

ices. (The Tories promise the same,
faster.) That means more huge profits for
the corporate elite.

And, believe it or not, Lalond blames you
and me for hoarding too much in savings!

It is possible to create jobs. The Com-

munist Party — the only political party
whose policies consistently serve the in-
terests of workers, has offered such a pro-
gram. Capitalism — Liberal or Tory — will
not do it. They'll promise, right up to elec-
tion day, but they'll be lying, as they’ve al-
ways lied.

To create jobs, massive public invest-
ment is needed — in housing and public
works, in building a genuine production
base publicly owned and democratically
controlled. The purchasing power of the
people has to be increased by providing
jobs, and social services (not cutting them,
or taxing them), by a reduction in hours of
work with no reduction in pay. These and
other demands of the Communist Party of
Canada point the way to alleviation of the
crisis.

Capitalist crisis will not be abolished
entirely until the system is gone, replaced
by socialism.

Meanwhile, the working people need
that $8-billion a year that is squandered on
military escalation dictated by the USA, to
put it to work making life more livable.

Reliance on the old parties is worthless.
Itis up to the working people to back those
policies which are in their own interests
and to make those policies a part of the
rising fightback of today.

Hysteria’s target: peace

Since September | and the south Korean
airplane incident the capitalist media in
_ Canada have committed the foulest of
_ deeds of “disinformation”, making a bad-
_ ly-directed circus of both news reporting

and analysis.

From the beginning the trick was to pick
up every Reaganesque exaggeration and
slander, poisoned bait from the CIA, and
_ to pass it off as the “news” of the day, or
learned commentary.

The media operation was a search and
destroy mission from the beginning: de-
stroy Soviet credibility (Why wait for
_ facts?); destroy the peace movement, split
_ it and bleed it; destroy détente and inter-
_ national exchange; and most dangerously,
_ destroy nuclear disarmament dialogue and

fuel the USA’s plan for nuclear war.

_ In the intervals between flaming utter-
ances by Reagan or his man in Canada,
MacEachen, the capitalist media carried
the ball itself, keeping the hysteria whip-
_ ped up, screaming for sanctions. Com-

It’s a what?

~ Canada’s proposed new internal spy
agency being touted by Solicitor-General
Robert Kaplan, will legalize a number of
actions against citizens’ privacy and right of
dissent for which the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police were accused of wrongdo-
ing under the old legislation. However,
since the Mounties are the most practiced
at the former illegalities the new spy agency
will depend 99 per cent on former Moun-
ties for its civilian agents, Kaplan has re-
vealled. It’s “a big step forward,” he told
the Canadian Bar Association early in the
month. How’s that, again?
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 14, 1983—Page 4

pletely unprincipled and_ irresponsible,
they sought a lynching instead of facts.

But the incomprehensibles and contra-
dictions are fluttering down to roost de-
spite the verbal shellfire. On September 8,
the Globe and Mail, one of the most stri-
dent sanction-sayers, had to cover its fangs
ever so slightly.

In an editorial one more time denounc-
ing the Soviet Union the Globe comes
down to the last few paragraphs and feels
the need to comment on the words of Er-
nest Volkman, national security editor of
Defence Science Magazine, who called air-
liners “the most perfect intelligence plat-
form you can think of .. .” The Globe de-
cided it had better cover itself in case of
irrefutable proof turning up. It hopes

- Volkman is mistaken about KAL 007. Such

use of an airliner “would be the modern
equivalent of driving women and children
out ahead of the soldiers ...” says the
Globe.

Then it reverts to the unfounded in-
sinuation, worked to exhaustion by all the
capitalist media, that Soviet defence per-
sonnel, convinced 007 was on a spying mis-
sion, could somehow divine that it was
carrying, hundreds of innocent civilian
passengers.

The capitalist media have behaved in a
calculated, class-war manner, shrugging
off all obligation to their readers, viewers
or listeners, caring only for the sensational-
ist hypocrisy of the Reagan regime whose
war phobia is only exceeded by its anti-
Soviet phobia.

If the USA’s use of innocent lives is a
“modern equivalent” of an earlier horror,
what is to be said of the hucksters for sucha
regime? The Canadian public is the target.
The target has a right to protest.

GN Sry
MISS(ON S.

NEVER SEND
CIVILIAN eisuer

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PINOCCHIO

Flashbacks

25 years
HANDS OFF
CHINA!

World opinion is fast

hardening against the pre-
sence of a U.S. armada off
the coast of China at Tribune
press time.

On Friday, Sept. 5 Presi-
dent Eisenhower issued or-
ders to commanders to use
tactical nuclear weapons
against the Chinese mainland
ports of Amoy and Foochow.
The world was only a hair-
breadth away from another
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, de-
spite efforts to minimize the
possible use of atomic arms
through reference to “small”
nuclear weapons. me

Inside the U.S. powerful
voices are being raised in
alarm at the recklessness of
the “war party” in the U.S.
cabinet headed by Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles.

Tribune,
September 15, 1958

One thing about socialism, no shareholders to pay off, so “pro ; |

50 years

REICHSTAG
COUNTER-TRIAL |

LONDON The
counter-trial of the incenl

diaries of the German Reich ~

stag fire will begin here Sept
14 under the direction of the
international
lawyers and intellectuals who
have for the past months
been collecting evidence 9
the guilt of Hitler, Goering

and the Nazi Guard Corps i

this monstrous provocation. —
Evidence will show that the
crime for which Ernst Torg~

ler, leader of the Communist :

Reichstag group, Georgi Di
mitrov and other Bulgariat
workers’ leaders in exile 1)
Germany will be tried for 1?
Leipsig on Sept. 21 was pale
ned by Nazi leaders.

Foreign attorneys have

been banned from the Nadi

show trial.

Profiteer of the week

fits” go to public needs. Not so for the Canadian Imperial bane
Commerce: 9-month profit to July 31/83 — $213,330,000 or, $7,8
each day, seven days a week, In the year earlier period profit was

$196,287,000.

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