’ Bailing out Massey- “It serves no useful purpose for the Canadian and Ontario governments to bail out the financially troubled Massey-Ferguson Ltd., farm implement company,” charges the Central Executive of the Communist Party in a statement, Oct. 29. ‘‘Massey Ferguson, as part of a U.S.-Canada farm implement complex, has deliberately down- graded its Canadian operations for the past decade, spending practically nothing on capital renewal or upgrading of the old facilities. It has literally been phased out over this period,’’ the statement says. It notes that, ‘Now the company refuses to in- vest the necessary money to make the operation technically competitive and dumps the problem of the industry and the 6,000 jobs concerned on the - backs of the Canadian people. “Tt pretends to hand the company over to its employees, but in real fact simply washes its hands of any responsibility for the mess it created, while setting the stage for claiming back from the Cana- dian people in tax write-offs against the rest of its price tag set on the company’s net worth. (A figure which they could not hope to realize on the mar- ket. pte the Canadian and Ontario governments step in to guarantee private investments in the outdated firm in a desperate attempt to keep the operation alive and prop up the 6,000 jobs,”’ The Communist statement says. “‘No one is more concerned about the 6,000 jobs of Massey-Ferguson workers than the Communist Party. No one is more concerned about the need for a healthy farm implement industry in Canada _ than the Communist Party,”’ it declares. ‘*As has been already demonstrated, however, the path to this objective will not be realized by placing the matter in the hands of private investors, financially backed by the Canadian Government. Massey-Harris started out as a private Canadian firm and was frittered away to multi-national inter- ests in the search for a fast buck and with no regard to the jobs of Canadian workers, the equipment costs to Canadian farmers or the effect on entire communities. What gives us any assurance,’’ de- mands the Communist statement, “‘that the same thing will not happen again? ‘The farm implement industry,”’ it notes “‘is an essential part of Canadian agriculture, and of Canadian industry. It is essential that it be owned and controlled in Canada as an overall part of Canadian agricultural policy, and Canadian indus- trial development.”’ However, the Communist Party states, ‘This can only be assured today by public ownership under democratic control, where the interests of the workers, the farmers and the communities in- volved will be assured by their input into the deci- sions governing production, price and policy. ‘‘We demand that the two governments con- cerned cancel their multi-million dollar give-away to the private sector and take the steps needed to make the agricultural industry a publicly-owned, democratically controlled industry, with Massey- Ferguson as the first step in this process,’’ the Ferguson not useful eassets outside Massey-Ferguson, the $25-million statement concludes. a Cooperatives in 2,000 Was the theme of this session of the 27th Congress of the Inter- national Cooperative Alliance, held in Moscow in Oct. Delegates from 90 countries met to discuss prospects for the development of the cooperative movement and its participation in the struggle for peace, democracy and progress. Photo shows Canadian delegate . E.R. Adams from Saskatchewan. than in January 1979. © north’s population. The document reveals that Na- tive peoples held 580 DNS jobs as of March 1980, or about 35% of the work force of 1,660. In Jan- uary 1979 Native peoples held 340.7% of DNS jobs. ; peoples make up over 80% of the Native Jobs for Natives drop in Saskatchewan post REGINA — An internal docu- government recently the Associa- ment of the Department of North- em Saskatchewan (DNS) dis- closes that the percentage of jobs were employed only in unskilled in the department held by Indians and Métis was Jess in March 1980 employed in other positions.” tion of Métis and Non-status In- dians stated ‘‘that Native peoples work except a few token Natives As of March of this year Native peoples held 76% of DNS ‘labor’ positions which includés sawmill, farm workers, general maintenance and fire protection. Non-natives held 89% of DNS occupations requiring consider- able post-secondary training such as consultants, instructors, coun- sellors, pilots, social work and In a brief presented to the accountants. WCP — neither Marxist nor Leninist ex Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World A recent issue of The Forge, official Organ of the Workers’ Communist Party arxist-Leninist), carried an article headed ‘What’s behind the CPC’s ‘mili- tant’ front?” The article, unsigned, is Notable not for its attack against the Communist Party of Canada but for its Woeful ignorance of the theory and prac- tice of Marxism-Leninism on the part of Its author. However, we must assume it articulates the positions of the WCP, tg * * * The WCP’s infantile approach to the : and tactics of class struggle is Blaringly revealed in its estimations of the recent strikes in Poland. It appears to be Completely ignorant of the relation- Ship of class forces: in Poland and the © hature of the Polish system and state. Consequently, it ends up in bed with the Monopoly-controlled media and the Most reactionary circles of Polish politi- Cal emigres, both of whom stridently championed the Polish strikes. . In fact, the WCP goes one better than Its Corporate and reactionary bedfellows, when it senselessly prattles about the. ntal fascist nature of the Polish State’; and when it asserts that ‘‘capital- 18M was restored in Poland over 20 years 4go”. (Our emphasis) * at * 3 For the information of the self-styled Marxist-leninist’’ leaders of the WCP, the Polish economy has never been com- pletely socialized. The land in the coun- tryside and consequently agriculture re- mains largely in private hands. On the other hand, industrial production, which as of now ranks 10th in the world in terms of output, is state-owned in the name of the Polish working people. Thus, the main feature of the economy upon which rests the dominant political and social structure of the state is socialist. It is these features which determine the fundamental nature of the state and the basic direction of the economy as a whole. This is understood very well by the corporate and monopoly-controlled media bedfellows of the WCP. That is why they applaud the Polish strikes. - Capitalists everywhere have a funda- mental interest in, the slightest dis- turbance to the economic and political situations in any socialist country. By the very same token but from the opposite side, all class-conscious workers have a same fundamental interest. es See The Maoist leaders of the WCP are apparently blind to the real situation existing in Poland. What they assert as truth is bereft of any semblance of scientific analysis which is the very heart of the method of Marxism-Leninism. Absent is any analysis of the economic and social structure of present-day Po- land. The reader of The Forge article will search in vain for any description of the economic and social foundation upon which rests the Polish state and system. Instead, what the reader gets are petty- bourgeois idealistic notions of an alleged state of affairs in Poland which ap- parently commenced with the “‘restora- tion of capitalism’’ some 20 years ago. The same unscientific notions pertain to the alleged change in the nature of the Polish state to its ‘fundamental fascist nature’’. How can anyone judge the class nature of any given state unless it is based on a concrete examination of its economic and social structure? These are key in determining the fundamental nature of any state. Yet these funda- mental criteria are totally ignored by the WCP leaders. * * * The 7th World Congress of the Com- munist International (August 1935) de- scribed fascism as: the open terrorist dic- tatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist ele- ments of finance capital. Georgi Dimit- — rov, in his report to that Congress, spel- led this out as: a most ferocious attack by capital on the mass of the working people; unbridled chauvinism and annexationist war; rabid reaction and counter-revolution; the most vicious enemy of the working class and all work- ing people. The self-styled ‘‘marxist-leninist’’ leaders of the WCP appear to be ignorant of the nature of fascism. If this is not the case, then they are unscrupulous falsi- fiers of fact and of history, for surely they © have some knowledge of Naziism in Germany, fascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and now the military-fascist dictatorship in Chile and how it came to power. ee ees The WCP Johnnies-come-lately to the political specturm in Canada cannot show one whit of evidence that finance capital exists in Poland. Neither can they uncover one whit of evidence of un-~ bridled chauvinism and an annexationist war spirit existing in Poland. Nor can - they, by any stretch of the imagination, show that the present Polish regime is the most vicious enemy of the Polish work- ing people. The bogus ‘‘marxist-leninists’’ who run the WCP slander the Polish working class with their classless appraisal of the fundamental nature of the Polish state. Such slander raises the question of what sort of a party is the WCP. Clearly, it is neither Marxist nor Leninist. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOV. 14, 1980—Page 9