HARRY POLLITT

Buck chairs
Session at
conference

LONDON
Tim Buck, general secretary of
‘¢ Labor-Progressive party, presid-

at the opening session of the

tne 1
Onference - of Communist and

eae parties in the sphere of
= ish imperialism, when it open-
here last week:
tite coming delegates, Harry Pol-
’ Seneral secretary of the British
peeunist. party, spoke of “the
aia privilege” of that party in
‘apage the conference and said
fee the meeting would show that
Bri € was another Britain from the
tain of Churchill, Lyttelton and
© big monopolies. :
ee fortunes of these big con-
bibsa were “cemented with the
sae and bones of those slaughter-
a ay the blood baths of colonial
ars,” he declared.
ain condemned the difficulties
ced in the way of the conference
Y various governments refusing

_ Permits to some delegates.

ot Buck expressed the gratitude
he Communist parties of the
Mmonwealth countries and the

of

Colonie, i
ence. S for holding the confer-|

is Communist Party of Brit-
4 Tuly and well fulfils its role
: owe of the other Britain in
ght for national independence
Boats Peoples and for a better
Md,” he. said.
Ate wild thrashings of im-
ee ism in its death throes, like
ay of a prehistoric monster,
injure but not delay those,
Se hee, atrugsling against im-
Poe he declared.
een €rence delegates and ob-
Monwe, came from all the Com-
: Yaseen countries, from Africa,
iddle East, and many colonies.

Rearming of

Germany hit

Ree: LONDON
to Bie Majority of more than two
erene the Cooperative party con-
cided © in Blackpool last week de-

ae to oppose rearmament of

€rn Germany.

‘ hag € Party’s national committee

tion falled for continued occupa-
: A rearmament of West Ger-
» Dut the proposal was defeat-

941,02 card vote of 5,092,000 to

410,000

up a chairman W. Coldrick,
ative ater said that the 18 Cooper-
mong S in the House of Com-
feren, Would be guided by the con-
ere decision but were subject
the Sa of the Labor group in
ed te resolution adopted reaffirm-
tion = Cooperative party’s: opposi-
‘Many any proposal to rearm Ger-
» both East and West.”
€ Northern Ireland Labor
as also opposed rearming

i> of 'G
100 i any by a card vote of 17,-

2,400

—

End colonial wars call of

London Communist parley

Calling for an immediate end to all colonial wars, R. Palme Dutt warned hore lesen i

government planned to turn them into a world war. Pe
Making the political report to the London conference of Communist and Workers’ parties in countries in

the sphere of British imperialism, Dutt, vice-chairman of th British Communist party said: ‘“The ware now in pro-
gress are colonial wars. ‘To end these wars is an imperative necessity,’ before Dulles can make them an eee yo

apply his doctrine of “massive re-
taliation.” nS
“The first concern of this con-
ference is to’ express opposition to
the war plans in Southeast Asia
and Eastern Asia,” he added. |
“We hail the historic advance of
the Communist Part of India and
its allies,’ he said amid loud ap-
plause. The conference also warm-
ly greeted his declaration that:
“The future of Africa belongs to

the African people.” “h

Dutt put forward a five-point pro-
gram for alliance in action between
the British and colonial peoples.

Déclaring that the imperialist
system of domination was neither
in the interests of the colonial peo-

close of the war, the revolt of the
colonial peoples is higher and
more universal than ever before.

“Today the colonial front is the
principal active fighting front
against imperialism.”

Dutt then dealt with the posi-
tion in the various colonial and
semi-colonial territories in South-
east Asia, the Middle East and in
the West Indies.

,. “Most significant of all in the

_ present period,” he said, “is the
upsurge in Africa.

“All over Africa the African
peoples are demonstrating that

they are no longer prepared to be

ples nor in the interests of the}

British people, Dutt said it was in
their common interest to end it.

The conference, he said, set it-
self the following aims: —

1 To proclaim to the world the
needs and demands and aspira-
tions of all the peoples of
countries at present under the

domination of British imperial- | ;

ism.

- To draw closer. unity and co-|f
operation in the struggle for|}

peace against the war policies
of U.S. and British imperial-
ism.

3 To draw closer unity and co-| (me

operation in the struggle for

national independence of all},

the peoples at present held in

colonial and semi-colonial sub- | *

jections or whose national in-
dependence is threatened or
subverted by U.S. penetration.
4 To build the alliance of our
peoples for common victory in
the struggle against imperial-
® ism, and for fraternal. coopera-
tion and mutual help after vic-
tory in the reconstruction of
our countries on the basis of
national independence and
equal rights. ;
5 To strengthen the cooperation
of the Communist and Work-
ers’ parties in Commonwealth
and colonial countries as the
vanguard of the struggle of our
peoples for freedom, peace
and the aims of socialism. —

Dutt called for the ending of the
colenial wars in Malaya and Kenya
and for withdrawal of British
troops from British Guiana, Egypt,
Cyprus, Iraq, Jordan and other
Middle Eastern countries.

“He said that the fight for peace
was a joint fight in which all the
peoples of the countries represent-
ed at the conference could play
their part in order to defeat the
war plans of the British and U.S.
imperialists. :

He pointed out that it was seven
years since the, first such confer-
ences was held in London in 1947
on the initiative of the Commun-
ist Party of India. ee

“Our conference,” he said, “will
speak, not for the imperialists, not
for the Lytteltons, Menzies, Malans
and their associates.

“Tt will speak for the hundreds
and hundreds of millions of _work-
ing people who are oppressed and
exploited by the British monopol-
ists, who are subject to the extend-
ing offensive of U.S. imperialism
and the drive to war.

“During these seven years the
liberation movement of the colonial
and dependent peoples has swept
forward through every corner of
the world.

“1+ is no longer a question of
the postwar upsurge which fol-
lowed the Second World War.
Today, nearly a decade after the

the subject of imperialist enslave-
ment and exploitation.

“They are growing conscious
of their strength. Once they
march forward and fight in unity,
the future of Africa belongs to
the African peoples.”

Dutt said that in the present
conditions of the deepening crisis
of British imperialism, the alliance
of the British working class with
the national liberation movements
of the countries subject to British
rule was the essential condition for
the liberation of these countries
and for the victory of socialism in

Britain.

He said it was the undying shame
of the present dominant leaders
of the British Labor movement
that they had spurned this elemen-
tary teaching of socialist intérna-
tionalism and had united with the
Tories against the colonial peoples.

Exposing Tory and right-wi
labor leaders’ claims that a Fae
‘guiding the colonial peoples for-
ward along the path to self-govern-
ment and freedom,” Dutt said that
experience showed that no conces-
sion had ever been made to any
subject people in the empire save
in the face of the revolt of the

_| people.

S

North Korea rebuilds from ruins

Out of the devastation left by three years of war, the Korean Democrati ic, ai
Soviet Union and People’s China, is rebuilding North Korea. The great Sony apg tg el ya!
(left) is now nearing completion. Pyongyang, the capital city, is-being rebuilt and new buildings a
rising out of the ruins. One of the first to be opened was a theatre. When the surveyors (right) nd
builders are finished, Pyongyang will be one of the world’s most beautiful cities, with a nine-acre eit

square.

Finding. it cold?
Well, it could be
those bomb tests

TOKYO

U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the
Pacific may cause “a big climatic
change, bringing on an unseason-
able cold spell ruinous to crops,”
in the opinion of Hidetoshi Araki,
Japanese weather expert.

Araki said that hydrogen bomb
explosions were «somewhat similar
to voleanic explosions, and minute
particles of dust in the strato-
sphere as a result of the hydrogen
explosions may bring about a
drastic drop in temperature which
would eause frost damage.”

Uganda congress
calls for boycott

KAMPALA, Uganda

_ The Uganda National Conference
has called for a three-month buy-
ing boycott of all except “bare
necessities” from May 1 as a pro-
test against the deportation ordin-
ance under which Governor Sir An-
drew Cohen can exile any Uganda
citizen he deems dangerous to

“public security.”

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