-BUCK’S NEW BOOK LINKS PAST AND PRESENT:

Record shows battle for unity to win peace
was always policy of Canadian Communists

Ww" do we read? Just for relaxation? Yes, sometimes.

To learn something of the world? Of course, that
too. A good maxim to follow, though, is to “read as you
ight” and in this connection the recent publication of
selected writing of Tim Buck, Our Fight for Canada, is a
eal boon to the current struggles.

This is not a_ book to be
ought and read through as a
istorical journey, but a book
at can be truly described as
weapon of struggle.” The
ssons of the past, the ctonsist-
‘ent policies of the Canadian
‘Marxists for peace, democracy,
Canadian independence, iabor
unity and socialism, give food
r thought: and impetus to the
esent stage of development.
Today, more than ever in
world history, there is a real
ssibility that wars can be
iminated, provided that the
people of the world take this
question into their own hands
and decisively and for all
times defeat those forces who
gain from war. The proposals
for total disarmament placed
before the United Nations by
the Soviet Union offers the

people this hope, and, of equal.

importance, the task of turn-
ing them into reality.
Now we come to Our Fight
for Canada. What ,as express-
by Tim Buck, for 30 years
the general secretary of Cana-
da’s Communist Party, has
been the position of the Marx-
ists to this very decisive ques-
on of peace and war?

In 1944 Tim Buck wrote:
What sort of policy does Can-
ada need? First of all let us
recognize that the deepest
yearning of all people of the
world will be the yearning for
peace, for a secure peace, a
people’s peace.”

And in 1945, with the ending
of the second world war, he

wrote of the very beginning
of “atomic diplomacy,” and
the disruption of the wartime
Big Three unity:

“If such a re-grouping is at-
tempted it will be a dangerous
step in the direction of divid-
ing the world into iwo hostile
blocs even before the peace
treaties to conclude the last
war are written. Every demo-
cratic person and organization

-must be opposed to it. The

fight against even the idea of

such a divisian of the Big»

Three is the beginning of the
fight for a lasting world
peace.”

But Tim Buck, the Marxist,
was not pessimistic and the
next year stated at his party’s
convention:

“RB third world war is not

inevitable. The struggle to pre-
vent it is, above all a_siruggle
to imbue our people with an
understanding of the tremen-
dous possibilities of peace. The
struggle to make peace secure
is the link which today unites
the democratic peOple in all
parts of the world.
peace-loving people in Canada

and all other capitalist. coun- | #7)

tries can be solidly united to
secure peaCe policies such ss
were indicated in the Atlantic
Charter and the Yalta and
Potsdam Declarations, ihe
war-mongering elements in the
imperialist countries can be
defeated. Their defeat will
carry humanity a long stage
forward.”

shorel group prepares.

for annual concert

‘The Lysenko Male Chorus of
the Association of United Uk-
rainian Canadians announces
- that rehearsals are now under

ay in preparation for its
third Annual Concert. to be
held Sunday, December 27, 8

p.m. at the Russian People’s
peas 600 Campbell Avenue.

“In its comparatively short
history, the group has become

uite well-known to lovers of
Ukrainian music and dance in
the Greater Vancouver .area.
Their forthcoming concert pro-
mises to maintain this tradi-
tion. In addition to the usual
presentation -of Ukrainian folk
and classical selections, the

oncert program will be en-
iched by the addition of a spe-

1 section, entitled Songs of

Strife, drawn from the. cultur-
es of many lands.

Another innovation will be
a particular form of staging
sections of the concert pro-
gram, although too much can
not be said about this at this
time, in order not to detract
from the impact at the concert
itself.

All in all, this evening prom-
ises to be one of the outstand-
ing events of the ati sea-
son. ;

The group is conaueted by
Karl Kobylansky, who, it will
be remembered, did such a
fine job in conducting the mass.
choirs and orchestra for the
Ukrainian Centennial Festi-
val, held at the Exhibition
Forum in July of 1958.

If the |,

Thirteen years. later he

wrote:

"From 1914 to 1918 maen-

kind was tormented through

four years of world war. The
peace that followed was mar-
red and the world was plung-
ed into war again in only 21
years because the reactionary
interests which dominated the
great capitalist states preferr-
ed fascism to democratic pro-
gressive change. In 1966 ii
will be 21 years since the end
of the second world war and
already, again, fascism is be-
ing revived as an instrument
with which to oppose the grow-
ing pressure for peace and de-
mocratic progress. This is the
situation in which Premier
Khrushchev called upon the
Soviet people to take full ad-
vantage of the time element.
“Canadians also need to
take time by the forelock. fhe
decisive lesson that the 21st
Congress emphasized concerns
Canada also. Our interest re-
quires that mankind avoid a
world nuclear war. Our coun-
try’s interests require policies
which correspond with ithe
great turn which is changing
the pattern of world relation-
ships and the pattern of world
trade and will raise the stand-
ard of living of all mankind.
The key to all these is the
maintenance of world peace—

the interests of Canada require
above all, policies which will
keep our country out of war.

“It is quite probable thai
national policies based firmly
on the aim of peaceful coex-
istence of states with differing

political and economic sysi-

ems will become operative in

the full sense in Canada only
as the working class Comes
forward united in democraiic
Political action, and ousts the
representatives of monopoly-
capital from the political lead-
ership of the nation. But, the
new light now thrown on Can-
ada’s interests shows that ac-
tion is necessary to curb the
imperialist snahigaiors of war
now.”

One is reminded here of
what Tim Buck said in 1936
when commenting on the doc-
ument of the Young Men’s
Bible Class of, the Riverdale
United Church entitled, “‘Can-
ada Youth and World Peace”:

“We Communists welcome
this statement sincerely. One
of our tasks is to seek that pos-
sible common ground upon
which we, as _ revolutionary
materialisis, can join with
members of the church, who
see the evils of the present
system and want a better life,
in the struggle for peace, and
a new’ social order.”

The struggle for unity on
the - question of peace, the
struggle for the unity of the
working class has been a con-
sistent part of the policy of
the Communists for their. en-
tire history and as Tim Buck
wrote in 1946: :

"Today it behooves ail
Marxisis to press harder the
struggle for unity of all class
conscious workers around
Marxist Policies. As Moloiov
pointed out in his speech on
Nov. 6, ‘Peace has been won
for the peoples of the world
... it is in the interest of all
democratic states to strength-
en the victory and make it
lasting through peace is above
all,, a struggle to strengthen
the unity and the action of pro-
gressive forces all over the
world.”

We are today in a new stage
of this struggle, after 13 years
in which it was possible to pre-
vent the war-mongers from
succeeding in plunging the
world into a new holocaust, a
stage. to end the possibility of
war by removing the means
to wage war — the aim of to-
tal disarmament. Our Fight for
Canada is a rich source of ma-
terial for study and for in-
spiration in the struggle to
unite the working class of

LCanada in this epic battle.

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