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Soviet pamphlet an exposé —
Zionism is a class doctrine

trine is tantamount to anti-Semitism is a major

The proposition that opposition to the world Zionist doc

Propaganda plank of Zionism.

But, as Soviet writer Leo Korn esta
Novosti Press Agency, Zionism is a class doctrine,

Struggle extends to Jews.
_ Zionists recently raised a storm

‘ In Canada over the pamphlet,

Claiming it to be anti-Semitic, and
USing its references to biases of
ancient religions as an excuse to
Slander the Soviet Union. No
Wonder they attacked it; it ex-
Poses Zionism and the aggressor

Overnment of Israel for which .

Zionism is an inflexible guide.

Korn makes perfectly clear his
differentiation between Zionism
and the Jews the world over who
do not support, and widely op-
Pose, Zionism. What the author,
himself a Jew, protests is the de-
humanizing of Jews and the sow-
Ing among them of hatred for
other peoples.

He quotes Bernard Morris, Di-
rector of the Canadian Associa-
tion for Labor Israel (the Histad-
Tut) as saying in a letter to The
Jerusalem Post (May 5, 1975):
“The reports of immorality, cor-
Tuption, bribery, embezzlement
and other related crimes emanat-
Ing daily from Israel . . . are creat-
Ing havoc in the héarts and minds
of North American Jews . . . Con-
Siderable numbers of regular
donors in Canada are withholding
their commitments ...””

Political Platform

In his pamphlet, Korn takes
note of excesses voiced in religi-
ous guidelines laid down long ago.
While Christianity considered it
acceptable to burn heretics at the
stake, it forbade usury. Judaism’s
Talmud, Torah and Shulman
Arukh, he says, recommended
taking the property of the non-
Jew who is ‘‘lower than any ani-
mal.”’

The author makes clear his
purpose, in referring to these an-
cient ideas. Although the ancient
folklore of every people contains
all sorts of things, things that must
not be taken as a modern guide
to action, precisely the ‘Zionist
leaders ... have turned these
formulas about world domination
... into an ideological and politi-
cal platform.”

No wonder the Zionists hate
this pamphlet and are willing to lie
about it. It reveals both their past
deals with imperialism, and their
present ties with the military-
industrial complex at the ex-
pense, not only of Israel’s Arab
neighbors, but of Jews in Israel
and elsewhere. Real racism is ex-
posed by the author, the kind of

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Torontonians were again

repression underway in. South
Africa as members of the
African National Congress
(South Africa) and Canadians
Concerned about Southern
Africa (CCSA) picketted outside
the South African consulate
here Sept. 22.

in an information kage

ributed to passers-by, the

anc. and CCSA described the
terror and brutality unleashed

latest attacks by police against
the shantytowns in Cape Town.
It called on the Canadian
government to lodge a protest
with the South African
government ang ane
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lishes in his hlet, ‘“The Sword of David,”’ published in 1977 by :
2 ast serves the bourgeoisie while denying that the class

racism recognized by the United
Nations General Assembly in
November 1975 when it declared
that ‘‘Zionism is a form of racism
... Korn denounces the teach-
ing of this racism in the schools of
Israel.

He quotes Raymond Leibovici,
“ta Jewish scholar (who) writes in
Le Monde, six million Jews did

not die in Nazi Germany so that .

young Israelis could today be-
have like young Nazis ...’’ The
figures on gang thuggery, drug
addiction, etc., among Israeli
youth, not to mention the at-
rocities by those in uniform, are
offered for the reader’s judge-
ment. That is not, by any de-
finition, anti-Semitism.
Arms Monopolies

The tie-up of Zionism with the
U.S. Pentagon and the arms
monopolies makes revealing
reading: from the Lazarus
Brothers Bank which ‘controls
the Lockheed Aircraft Corpora-
tion, the largest recipient of Pen-
tagon orders;’’ to General
Dynamics, the Pentagon’s second
largest supplier (and its director,
David Packard, also a director of
U.S. Steel who, while Assistant
Secretary of Defence urged, in a
Zionist journal, all-out U.S. milit-
ary aid to Israel); to General
Motors, ‘‘one of the Pentagon’s
10 major suppliers,’ which ‘“‘con-

tributes millions of dollars to.

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Bedouin children forced off their land by the Israeli government and
confined to a fenced-in area in northern Sinai.

Zionist causes;”’ to J.P. Stevens,
“‘one of the world’s leading man-
ufacturers of military uniforms,”’
whose president, Robert Stevens
openly gave a quarter of a million
dollars in support of the Zionists
in June 1967. The details and the
connections including posts held
in Zionist organizations, go on at
some length. The implications go
far: the USA went so far as to
launch a spy satellite program-

med to cross Egypt and Syria, for
the benefit of Israeli intelligence.

Korn warns, in closing, that
‘‘Zionism, the armaments indus-
try and imperialist military circles
in the capitalist countries are
fused into one force which not
only supports Israeli expan-
sionism, but also intensifies the
arms race throughout the world

— James Leech

anti-Western anarchy.

utilized than denied.”’

ISRAEL-SOUTH AFRICAN ‘COMMON LOT’

“Israel and South Africa have acommon lot. Both are engaged
in a struggle for existence, and both are in constant clash with the
decisive majorities in the United Nations. Both are a reliable foci
on strength within the region which would, without them, fall into

“It is in South Africa’s interests that Israel is successful in
containing her enemies, who are amongst our own most vicious
enemies ... The anti-Western powers have driven Israel and
South Africa into a community of interests which had better be

National Party in Cape Province,

- — Die Burger, Organ of the

May 29, 1968

A voice for workers needed
in Hamilton city hall — Rowley

HAMILTON — “Too many
members of city council hold the
view that democracy means
excluding the voice of labor from
city hall,’’ Elizabeth Rowley
stated when she announced her
candidacy for Hamilton Board of
Control last week.

‘‘What kind of democracy is
that?”’ she asked. ‘‘It’s the kind of
democracy that will ensure that
property taxes continue to rise,
that pensioners and the poor will
continue to lose their homes, and
that young couples will never be
able to afford to buy. It’s the kind
of democracy that will ensure that

Stelco and Dofasco, Westing-

house, Firestone, and the rest of
the giants will continue to get off
almost scot-free tax-wise. It’s the
kind of democracy that means
when services are cut it’s working
people and their children who will
suffer, not big business. It means
hospitals and community centres
that won’t be built, pollution that
won't be cleaned up, roads that
won't be repaired, and transit that
will become increasingly scarce,
and cosily.”

The first item in Rowley’s prog-
ram is tax reform. She calls for the

removal of education from the

property tax and having the On-
tario Government pay the full
cost. That would automatically
reduce taxes by 40%. ‘“When the
average taxpayer is paying more
than $800 a year just for taxes, the
situation is quite out of control,”’
she said.

_ She warns of the dangers in-

volved in doing away with the
Board of Control. ‘‘It will do
away with the access and accoun-
tability of the executive body to
the electorate,’ she cautioned.

Rowley advocates the acquisi-
tion of land for public housing and
treating housing like a public utili-
ty. In addition, city council
should pressure the provincial
government to roll back rents and
freeze them at the 1973 level.

On transportation, she states
that Hamilton has one of the
worst problems in the province.
““Roads are a mess, transit is ex-
pensive and inadequate, and al-
most every- major street and many
residential streets have trucks
thundering by day and night.

“‘Working people pay a good
buck in their taxes for road re-
pairs, so that industrial traffic can
tear them up. Hamilton needs in-
dustry and working people need
jobs there. But working people
don’t need to pay their own share
and industry’s share as well.

“Access routes for industrial
traffic need to be sorted out, and
revamped on a cost basis that
would make industry primarily
responsible. Hamilton Street
Railway fares ought to be cut,
with a free fare being the eventual
aim. The Formula Atlantic, and
other such rip-offs, should be cut
out all together,’ the candidate
said.

‘Industrial pollution has made
the Bay the biggest cesspool in
the country’’, Rowley stated.
“Raw sewage has made the

Marsh into a lake where dead fish
line the shores, and people hold
their noses. Industry must be
made to use the sophisticated pol-
lution control devices that are
now available, and to pay for the
clean-up of the existing mess.”’

The candidate is also calling for
the end of landfill sights for dis-
posing of garbage and equipping
sewage treatment plant with
modern equipment to deal with
the waste disposal.

“The provincial government
has made an offer to pay 50% of
the initial cost of waste recycling
programs and loan the balance
over a 40-year period. Hamilton
should make use of this offer’,
she stated.

Rowley deplores the lack of ac-
cess working people have to the
major cultural centres in Hamil-
ton. “‘Working people subsidize
these operations with their taxes,
and corporate executives enjoy
them at their leisure’, she said.

*‘When was the last time the
Philharmonic played at Stelco or
Dofasco or at the Labor Day
Parade?’’ she asked. ‘‘Why
wasn’t there a special exhibit ar-
ranged in the Union Halls during
the Steel Car and Westinghouse
strikes? It’s time that cultural
facilities were opened up to all
citizens, and not just on paper, but
in reality.”’

The 28-year-old candidate,
lives on the Mountain in the city,
and works as secretary for the
Hamilton committee of the
Communist Party of Canada.

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