ANGOLA IS NOT ALONE

25 years ago...

KEEP WAR HYSTERIA
OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS

By a vote of 9 to 7 Toronto
Board of Education officials have
been asked to prepare a report on
a program for civilian detense in
the classroom against atomic
bombs.

The mover of this motion was
Harold Menzies, the ‘patriot’ par

excellence who added that “it.

would take an atom bomb to
wake up some people around
here”, presumably referring to the
lack of visible .war hysteria in
Toronto classrooms and among
the public generally.

How much patriotism it must
take to tell the Board of Educa-
tion and. the city that everybody
is asleep to the defense of our
children but him — and then call
for an atom bomb-to wake up
the sleeping millions to support
him! A mighty protest is in order
that will silence and isolate such
shameful politicians.

‘Tribune,
Feb. 19, 1951

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FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

CAPITALIST ‘JUSTICE’
IS BREAKING LOOSE —

The brutally severe sentences
of imprisonment meted out to the
Alberta miners, Kid’ Burns and
his comrades, is a fresh reminder
to the workers of this country of
the need of a strong Labor De-
fence organization.

These miners are being charged
with assault on the police, on
armed police, and with “watching
and besetting”, that is, picketing.

*The workers will know .trom .ex- .

perience what “assault” on the
police means. A lawyer, backed
by a sympathetic judge, without
a jury, could prove that William
Davis, the Nova Scotia miner who
was shot and killed by Besco pri-
vate police thugs in the last strike

was committing “assault” on the

police.

It must occur to every worker
that these sentences in Alberta
are not an isolated phenomenon.
The cause of the imprisoned min-
ers is, the cause of every worker
in the country.

The Worker,
Feb. 13, 1926

“CHE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED
~ ENOUGH, THEY'VE JUST GONE THROUGH
~ TEN LONG YEARS OF ANGUISH OVER
VIETNAM. WE MUST NOT LET THAT
HAPPEN AGAIN, THIS TIME WEVE
FQ, GOT To win

Diy
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 20, 1976—Page 4

Editorncal Comment...

Stop sinister drive to the right! —

The sinister goals of the drive to the
right in Canadian politics are becoming
more brazen —the curtailment of trade
union rights, along with civil, democra-
tic, economic and political rights, which

are henceforth to be the private pre-.

serve of the ruling monopolists. The
turning of the screw on the working
class is to be made more excrutiating
ee eee workers remain outside the
attle.

With dictated wage levels, the mas- :

sive withdrawal of social services, pro-

. fits and prices running wild, courts

Back labor's programs
to stem unemployment

Canada’s capitalist system has shown
that it cannot solve the unemployment

crisis while it is stubbornly serving the |

class interests of the monopolies who

dictate Canadian policies. Full employ-

— is not essential to maximum pro-
ts. :

The system will not, until compelled, 7

solve unemployment through a change
of policies to those designed to meet
the demands and needs of Canada’s
millions of working people.

Not only is the ruling class constant-
ly maneuvring to split the workers,
using a vast media propaganda mach-
ine, governments, courts, etc., but it
finds it necessary to utilize statistics
for its misrepresentations.

Latest Statistics Canada figures
show, for example, 800,000 “officially”
unemployed i nJanuary, 1976 — up 170,-

000 from December 1975, and up 41,000 |

from January 1975. Up, that is.
Yet, in the hands of Ottawa’s jug-

glers the unemployment rate dropped, -

from 7.3% in August, from 7.1% in
Oct.-Nov., and from 7% in December,
to 6.6% in January!

They explain it by the new system of
questioning — “minor changes in the
definition of unemployment.” So the
system which won’t provide jobs, also
refuses to concede that the unemployed
are unemployed. =

Demands for expansion of the econo-
my and creation of a jobs program, the
steps needed to shift the burden of the
economic crisis off the working people
must be accompanied by preparedness
to take whatever mass action is neces-
sary to change government policy.

The Canadian Labor Congress 10-

‘point program —and the Communist

Party’s three-point program, which
challenges monopoly rule — along with

programs put forward ky labor bodies ,

across the country, express. workers’
demands which, it must be impressed
upon Finance Minister MacDonald,
should find expression in his May bud-
ete. 5

: Workers know, despite Trudeau’s
claims of victories over inflation, that
they are caught between wage--cutting
and still-soaring living costs.

Rigged statistics don’t lessen that
squeeze, and they don’t create jobs.
Schemes to legitimize the idea that 4%
or 5% unemployed should be considered
“full emplovment” is another assault on
workers. The 800,000 or one million or
whatever is the real total of unemploy-
ed, are real people whose plight is the
problem of the entire labor movement.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Joseph)

ready to abrogate trade union consti-
tutions, monopoly government and
multi-national and Canadian monopo-
lies locked together in dedication to
the war program of the U.S. Pentagon,
the CIA and the bribe-giving war in: |
dustries, workers’ counter demands are
to be crushed underfoot.

It must send a shiver up the spines”
of all who survived fascism. 4

The united power of the working
class is the hope for all democratic peo-
ple that the sinister drive to the right
can be stopped. |

Recognize Angola!

As Angola completes its 15-year in-
dependence struggle, it has gained re-
cognition by the 46-member Organiza-
tion of African Unity. The Popular
Movement for the Liberation of An-|
gola (MPLA) has also been acknowl
edged as the legitimate government by|
Egypt, France and India, among other}
countries. 2

The imperialist world is in hysterics:
that yet another resource-rich country
(from which thousands of slaves were
once kidnapped) has slipped out of im
perialism’s grasp. :

What grand alliance can imperialism] -
mount against the people of Angola?
Troops of the filthy racist regime of
apartheid South Africa, plus the mer-
cenary scum of both sides of the At’).
lantie — recruited by people Britain’s
Harold Wilson has called “crooks,”
equipped with “vast sums of money;
beyond the wildest sums they could
ever earn in other ways, honest or dis
honest.” 2.

That the vast sums are from the CIA
is not hard to believe. On Nov. 6. 1975,

Sisco and CIA director William Colby}
told. an Africa sub-committee of thé
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Commit}
tee that the administration was covert}
ly supplying arms to pro-Washingtol
groups in Angola, to crush the anti
imperialist forces. They urged substam”
tial arms aid for the imperialist punpeb|
Mobutu of Zaire, to bolster his aid from) ~
Maoist China.
Canada’s capitalist media, unscrupw’
lous in their use of “disformation,
prattle of Soviet intervention in An
gola, and quote NATO war monger J0
seph Luns that the USSR is “wav be|
vond its sphere of influence.” As if thé
Soviet Union, or Cuba, or the socialist
world as a whole had ever made a com .
mittment to withhold aid from strug)
gling people and to allow imperialis”
to subjugate them! =
The Government of Canada permil
ted Luns a platform in Ottawa on Fe?
4, from which to spout his anti-Soviel)
venom. : 4
The Canadian Government. shoul!
now summon the courage and try #
retrieve the self-respect to join th*
growing number of countries who me
cognize the legitimate government %| ©

en

Angola. The Canadian people have hat) _
enough of the disgusting Ottawa rel®

tions with South Africa, upholding tha"
brutal regime in obedience to NATO
the U.S. Pentagon and the Canadia
monopolists who fatten on sweatel
labor. 2