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CAMBODIANIZE VIETNAM. IS THAT CLEAR?’

QUIPS and QUIRKS

by JOHN WEIR

ary G. Johnson, who is described as “professor of economics
Bo” 4 London School of Economics and at the University of Chica-
sty qt vhich makes him an international conglomerate?), wrote a
the Ms of some of our economic problems under the sponsorship of
rep British-North American Committee, excerpts from which are
Posi on the editorial page of the current issue of the Financial

Ey realing with the consequences if Britain is accepted into the
Topean Economic Community (‘Canada’s reaction would prob-

ably be to terminate Commonwealth preferences”), he has this

Vealing sentence:
eas © world divided along geographical lines into regional trad-
tre: oes, Canada would be under strong economic pressure to seek
ti trade with the U.S. as a means of continuing to attract Ame-
ay Capital for investment in the development of Canadian natural
Urces and the utilization of relatively low-wage Canadian labor.”
ate you have the acknowledgement that Canadian workers are
ie, UVely low-paid—and that the Trudeau policies of continental-
are directed to perpetuating and worsening the condition.
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wat so, in addition to the Deep South, which for generations
also 4 source of both slave and low-paid labor, the U.S. billionaires
labo Want a Deep North to supply them with resources and cheap
r. O Canada!
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zoe SOmeone who usually dishes out the most godawful trash,
wit Toronto Globe’s Richard J. Needham occasionally comes up
a lulu, such as the following: “The function of NATO is to
ent Western Europe from being dominated by any country

than the United States.”
And to prevent the workers. of those countries from trying to

lake Over the reins, he could have added.
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There is no need
For stress or fuss,
It all boils down
To this and thus:
We must bow down
To the U.S.
Or we stand up
For US.
(Joe Wallace)

i, Pacific Tribune

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ber 1560.

Terrorism is wrong

Marxists have always opposed indi-
vidual terrorism, coups or conspiracies.
At the very dawn of Marxism; Karl
Marx subjected to devastating criti-
cism the theories and actions of Blan-
quism—conspiracy to seize power by a
small group of plotters. Revolution,
social change is brought about by the
masses of the people, he pointed out,
not a conspiratorial group. Marx and
Engels waged a determined struggle
against the anarchists and expelled
them from the First International. In
the 1890’s Lenin exposed the fallacy of
the Narodniks, who conceived the as-
sassination of the tsar and his govern-
ors to be the road to social revolution.

Terrorism is wrong because it cannot
change things. It’s not individuals but
classes that must be removed from the
seats of government. It’s not indivi-
duals but the people that must take
over political power and build a new
classless society.

The small groups espousing terror-
ism as a weapon in Canada today are
mistaken. Their tactics are harmful to
the movement for social change. Their
“impatience” can only retard the strug-
gle. And it is in such circles that the
Establishment likes to plant its provo-
eateurs. Therefore, this tragic infan-
tilism must be avoided and all who
wish to build our country on a new
foundation should rally to where that
war is being waged—the class struggle
of the workers, farmers, youth and all
opponents of the monopolies.

Terrorism is impotence at best, pro-—

vocation at worst.

Credits and trade

Canada has flown aid to quake-

_stricken Peru and the Federal Govern-

ment has extended credit to ‘the
amount of three million dollars with
which the Peruvians will purchase sup-
plies in Canada.

Assistance offered to suffering fellow-
humans is always to be highly com-
mended on humanitarian grounds, But
there is a special aspect of this action
that calls for attention.

The credit, it transpires, is not to aid
the needy or to build the economy, but
to erect a luxury hotel!

We suggest that this is going to be
poor consolation for the Peruvian
quake victims — and not much help to
Canadians either. The first thing we
should do is to increase our aid to our
suffering hemispheric neighbors and at
the same time extend large credit faci-
lities to rebuild their homes and to
build up their economy.

The people of Peru would get desper-

ately needed goods, and at the same
time Canadian workers and farmers
will have a market for the products of
their labor. With good will established
between our peoples there is no reason
why that market should not be main-
tained and expanded in years to come.
A rebuilt Peru can not only repay the
loan, but will ship goods to Canada in

turn. Trade can grow on a mutually
beneficial foundation. —

Why cannot it be done as part of
the way of life in a world of friendly
and peaceful nations?

We need the rest of the world just
as much as it needs us. We cannot solve
the problem of markets if we don’t ex-
tend credits to developing countries not
only. so they could buy from us the

once, but so they could build up their

economies and become permanent
trade partners. We also cannot solve
the problem of markets if we don’t buy
ache the people to whom we want to
sell.

Poor people —whether at home or
abroad — don’t buy because they don’t
have the money. That’s elementary,
isn’t it? Then it stands to reason that

to help raise living standards both in -

Canada and in the countries where we
want to sell our goods means to create
customers for Canadian commodities
and contribute to the well-being of our
own people.

What’s standing in the way?

The small group of monopolists that
operates both the economy and the
government of our country. They dic-
tate that trade with developing coun-
tries should be on a basis that in actual-

- ity continues the colonial relationship

and does not help them to get on their
feet.. They apply cold-war politics to
prevent trade with the socialist coun-
tries that make up one-third of the
globe’s population and whose econo-
mies are rapidly expanding. They ord-

er us to sacrifice our country’s inter-_

ests to those of the U.S. imperialists,
lacing practically all our import eggs
in the one Yankee basket — warping,
curtailing and “phasing out” our own
economy.
That’s who has put Canada on the
skids.

Our true history

Spokesmen of Canada’s Native Peo-
ples are angrily denouncing the fact
that their children at school must: learn
a lying history of Canada which de-
grades them and their past.. —

. They are right. Their children should

‘be able to learn in their own languages,

and to know the truth about their fore-
fathers, not the version dished up in
the textbooks to whitewash the whole-
sale robbery and genocide practiced
against their people by the profit-
greedy conquerors from Europe.

More than that, all Canadian chil-

~ dren should know the truth about that

page in our country’s’ history.
They should also know the true rec-
ord of the toil and struggles of the
ioneer French and British settlers and
ater immigrants against the rulers

overseas and here who bled them, ex-’

ploited them and oppressed them.
What is needed is not a dozen differ-
ent history textbooks — although each
section will naturally want to go into
greater detail in regard to its own—
but a school history of Canada that
does justice to all our peoples and
thereby binds us the closer togethe~ in
the endeavor to build the fully ur ‘2d
Canada that is to be.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1970- _>7e 3