“Youth league built

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tive in supporting the strike at
Allison’s, and the steel strikes at
Inco, Falconbridge and Stelco.

_The YCL sent a delegate and
distributed materials at the con-
ference of the Canadian Union
of Students, and the Toronto
YCL took part in the Palermo
Labor Festival. The YCL clubs
now in existence across Canada
_ have been taking part similarly
_ im peace activities, and other
local actions.

The YCL also had a delegation
at the World Meeting of Youth
and Students at Helsinki. The
Toronto YCL plans a six-week
course in Marxism-Leninism.

There are two YCL clubs in
Vancouver, one in Edmonton,
One in Regina, one in Winnpeg,
One in Hamilton, two in Toronto
and two in Montreal. Others are

in the early stages of organiza-
tion, and there are a number of
members at large.

At the end of the meeting
Tim Buck, national chairman of
the Communist Party of Canada,
urged the young people to re-
fuse to be swayed or diverted
from the path they had chosen:
“Let no one undo what you have
done at this meeting!” William
Kashtan, national leader of the
Communist Party of Canada told
the delegates that the surging
people’s movements in the de-
cade of the 1970’s are both a
challenge and a promise to the
YCL.

Delegates were in attendance
from B.C., Alberta, Saskatche-
wan, Manitoba, Ontario and Que-

“bec. The founding convention of

the YCL will be held on March
27, 28 and 29 in Toronto.

Demand end to killings

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morning hours of Dec. 8, the
Black Panther headquarters were
Surrounded by police and sub-
Jected to massive armed attack.
After a four-hour fusilade, 11
Panthers surrendered and were
arrested, Three had been wound-
ed in the attack.

“Since January 1968 no less
than 28 leaders of this organiza-
pen have been murdered. In the
ast six months alone, 40 leaders
and 125 of its members have
been arrested and many have

een charged, on the word of
Police ‘informers, with major
Crimes including murder.

Bok special target of attack is
or Y Seale, national ‘chairman
of the Black Panthers. He ‘has
Just been sentenced to four years
i Prison for contempt of court.
1S vindictive sentence was im-
foece by a Chicago judge con-
ef eine @ mockery of a trial in
. Ich eight progressives are ac-
used of violence during the
in Ae’ National Convention
pi 68. The sole reason for the
Ontempt sentence is that Seale
re ‘insisted on his right to a
fees of his own choice in the
a He: is also under indict-
ands for murder in another case,
ee efforts are being made to in-
h him on as. many: other
charges as possible.
ee Outrageous wave of
: €rs and arrests follows
Pon a previous series of killings
eh eens of reaction. These in-
th € the assassinations of Mal-
m X, Medger Evers, Martin

Luther King and other outstand-
ing black leaders.

“U.S. imperialism is conduct-
ing a war of annihilation against

the Vietnamese people. It is.

likewise given to genocidal poli-
cies in relation to the black
people in our own country. More
than a century after their libera-
tion from chattel slavery, black
Americans still suffer severe
discrimination and oppression.
They live in rat-infested slums,
in conditions of widespread un-
employment, poverty, hunger
and_ sickness. «Their rebellion
against these inhuman conditions
is being met with repression,
with wholesale arrests and kill-
ings. ;

“In our country, growing
numbers of ‘individuals and or-
ganizations are joining in con-
demnation of the brutal perse-
cution of the Black Panthers. A
mass campaign is developing in
their defense. This must become
a world campaign.

“We ask .all Communist and
Workers Parties to consider the
following actions:

“1, To make these develop-
ments as widely known as pos-
sible in every country and to
organize actions of — protest
against them.

2. To urge the Human Rights
Commission of the United Na-
tions to investigate these crimes
against the Black Panthers.

“3. To demand of the Nixon
Administration that it halt these
murders and persecutions and
that it free those now im-
prisoned.”

NHL brass to blame

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ae disgraceful decision pulling
ee out of international
C Cc ey. Speaking on the eve of
anada’s withdrawal at Geneva,
Nene Conacher of Canada’s
. tonal Hockey team and
ane Professional said, “It is
ine e removed from the playing
all €l that, well . . . we follow it
“4 Tight, but we are not really
Interested,”:
see tat about sums up the gulf
ae Canada’s hockey
4 ayers—the great ones, and all
a ig thousands of kids and adults
i © love the game—from the
€al controllers of the game.
ee. Orr, outstanding Cana-
. n defenseman playing for Bos-
_{on, writing about the need for
Ockey helmets in today’s game,
Put his finger on the callous,
Profit-hungry and unprincipled
Ockey bosses. “Let’s face it,”

he wrote in a recent article. “If
the governors instructed us to
wear bonnets, we’d wear them.
They own the league and they
run it and their word is law.
There is no sensible reason why
helmets shouldn’t be law.”

But in the barbarous tradition
of Connie Smythe—the former
Toronto Maple Leaf boss who
introduced butchery to Canadian
hockey—bloody gore on the ice
is spectacular. And that’s what
sells TV commercials!

The fight is on now to restore
hockey to the Canadian people,
to take it back from the million-
aire hockey owners. The splendid
international sportsmanship that
hockey can and should represent
will again hear Canadians shout-
ing “Go Canada, go!” as their
Soviet sports brothers chant
“Shaibu! Shaibu!’” — shoot the

puck!

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CPSU on Lenin Centenary

SUTUTTTTeS

By FEDOR BREUS
APN Political Observer

Good wishes that fill the world
on the new year’s eve are tra-
ditional and reflect both the
traces of. events that have be-
come part of the past and the
echo of man’s ever persistent
striving for happiness. The 20th
century can take pride from the
fact that today, unlike in all pre-
vious ages, millions of people on
earth are working purposefully
and with full realization to
achieve the dream of a life with-
out wars, prosperity for the
peoples, and freedom for society
and the individual.

The document published in the
Soviet press on the new year
may well be called a manifesto
addressed to people consciously
working for the sake of man-
kind’s happy future. It is the
theses of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union on the centenary
of Lenin’s birth which falls on
April 22, 1970. They rest on ar-
guments verified by the history
of building a socialist commun-
ity and by the experience of the
world Communist movement,
arguments that make out a pow-
erful case for the topicality of
Leninism and for the vitality of
the Marxist-Leninist formula for
the happiness of mankind.

The theses are an extensive
document taking up three and a

half pages in Pravda. They will

be drawn upon not only for brief
comments all over the world, but
also will be thoroughly studied,
because this document, in each
section, even where a restrospec-
tive look is taken at the sources
of Lenin’s thinking and the
early steps of Lenin’s revolution-
ary work, is contemporary every-
where. :
While generalizing the exper-
ience of the revolutionary move-
ment, Lenin developed a coher-
ent teaching on the proletarian
party of a new type. Lenin and
the Bolsheviks checked the at-
tempts to make the Party into a
discussion club, a kind -ef con-
glomeration of factions and
groupings. A decisive condition
for Party strength was seen by
Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the
monolithic unity of its ranks and
in saying no to actions aimed at
undermining its cohesion and
weakening the iron discipline.
The Bolsheviks never desisted
from the struggle for reforms,
but this struggle, as well as their
entire activity, was geared to the
aims of preparing a revolution.
The Bolshevik Party. came into
being, grew and developed as a

party of genuine proletarian in-

ternationalists.

This is an excerpt from a sec-
tion dealing with Lenin’s activi-
ties as the founder of the prole-
tarian party of a new type, as
theoretician and leader of the
socialist revolution.

The main instrument for build-
ing socialism is the dictatorship
of the proletariat, says the sec-
tion “Socialism is the embodi-
ment of the ideas of Leninism.”

The dictatorship of the prole-
tariat—a lot of effort was made
by ideologists of anti-Commun-
ism to distort the meaning of this
definition by Lenin and to use
instead the word “freedom” as
understood in bourgeois society.
Lenin, say the theses, links the
achievement of real freedom
with the liberation of working
people from the yoke of capital,
from exploitation and_ spiritual
oppression. Political freedoms—
freedom of expression, press, as-

Complete contidence in victory

The Central Lenin Museum in Moscow has been enlarged to

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include 10 new exhibition halls. The vice-director of the museum is
seen here at the globe model showing where Lenin’s works are being
printed throughout the entire world.

sembly, etc.—were always regar-
ded by Lenin from class posi-
tions, as conditions for the so-
cialist unity of working people
and for the spread of a socialist
ideology with no “freedom” for
anti-socialist propaganda and no
“freedom” to organize counter-
revolutionary forces.

The construction of a new so-
ciety is a complicated and many-
sided process. Every mistake and
every setback is exploited by
ideologists of anti-Communism
to blacken socialism. It will be
recalled that the CPSU severely
condemned the personality cult
and attempts to substitute volun-
taristic decisions for scientific
guidance. The CPSU sees a guar-
antee against such phenomena in
the strict. observance of Leninist
standards of Party and State life
and in the consistent implemen-
tation of the collective leader-
ship principle. The Party, say
the theses, rejects all attempts to
direct the criticism of the per-
sonality cult and subjectivism
against the interests of the peo-
ple and _ socialism, towards
blackening the history of social-
ist construction, discrediting the
revolutionary gains and revising
the principles of . Marxism-
Leninism.

Socialism is historically on the
offensive. The present stage of
the competition between the two
systems only emphasizes the
words of Lenin that the main le-
ver by which ‘socialism can act
on a world revolution is its eco-
nomic policy and the establish-
ment of the economic founda-
tion of a new society exceeding
the productive forces of capital-
ism. “If we tackle this problem,”
pointed out Lenin, “then we have
won on an internatidnal scale
for sure and finally.”

Why imperialism is impotent to
regain the lost historical initia-
tive and why the future belongs
to socialism and communism is
the theme dealt with in the chap-
ters ‘Lenin is the banner of the
popular struggle against imper-
ialism, for the revolutionary re-
newal of the world” and “To
Communism along the Leninist
path.” =

The central issue of interna-
tionalist policy, Lenin believed,

is a correct balance between na- -

tional and international ele-
ments in the activities of prole-
tarian parties and of all sections
of the revolutionary movement.

Today’s countries which, to
use Lenin’s phrase, had for cen-

turies been kept “out of history,”

became transformed from an ob-
ject of policy into its active par-
ticipants. These countries are
rapidly coming to recognize the
authority of the ideas and prac-
tice of socialism. “It is wrong to
think,” said Lenin, “that the
capitalist stage of development
is inevitable for backward na-
tionalities.”

History has confirmed Lenin’s
conclusion.

Springing from Lenin’s ideas,
the present-day world Commun-
ist movement has become a
powerful and most influential
political force of the epoch. Ma-
jor milestones in the develop-
ment of the Communist move-
ment are international confer-
ences. The theoretical experience
of these conferences, and _par-
ticularly of the conference of 75
Communist and Workers’ Parties
held in Moscow last year, is
treated in a section concerned
with most topical aspects, of
Lenin’s ideological heritage.

Mankind is growing increas-
ingly aware of time. It is realiz-
ing that the second half of the
20th century is a period of colos-
sal acceleration. Large numbers
of quasi-prophets and fashion-
able bourgeois futurologists are
predicting the death of the hu-
man civilization, but this “new
world flood” story is masking
nothing but the historically
doomed and departing class of

‘the bourgeoisie, the inevitable

collapse of imperialism.

Communism attracts millions
of people by combining the ac-
curacy and logic of Leninist
scientific reasoning with the opti-
mism of builders of a new
society.

Bourgeois theories of destruc-
tion, whose more recent variety
is “grief over the breakdown of
eternal ideals,” are historically
doomed, as is the bourgeois so-
ciety which produced them. Per-
haps the outgoing year 1969 will
be remembered as a year of the
major defeat of “prophesying”
bourgeois propaganda.

The 20th century chooses con-
struction, rather than destruc-
tion, it chooses Leninist optim-
ism. In the words of the theses:
“To live and work as Lenin did
means devoting all your efforts,
knowledge and energies to the
most humane and_ righteous
cause on earth—the struggle for
the complete emancipation of
working people from oppression
and exploitation, for the triumph
of Communist ideals, for a better
future for mankind.”

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