China’s warlike objectives work against peace, detente ‘tember, the - highest ranking The following facts about Chi- _ has warlike: stance are taken om an article in the Cuban Newspaper Granma, Jan. 29 in which the writer, Rene Rivero Suarez, describes the steps being taken by China following its 11th mmunist Party Congress last Summer. The Congress called for the rapid strengthening and mod- ernization of China’s military capacity in line with its political position against detente. * * * Over the last four months of 1977 a number of events clearly illustrated the intentions of the Chinese to work against detente and prepare for war. In the second half of Sep- Chinese military delegation ever to travel abroad went to France. It was: headed by General Yang Cheng-wu, deputy armed forces chief of staff. In France, the delegation toured the main military bases. Observers report that the Chinese expressed keen interest in Alouette III helicopters and Mir- » age jet fighters, together with the § Rampersaud greetings On Dec. 14, 1977, after three trials and having spent three and one-half years in prison, Arnold Rampersaud, Guyanese patriot was acquitted of murder. The frame-up of Rampersaud ’ aroused world-wide attention and a campaign for his freedom. The Tribune was among those newspapers which brought out the facts about this case and received the following letter on Feb. 14th: * * * Itis my profound obligation to honor the many efforts which you ae ae on my behalf and which resulted, finally, in my being free. Your support gave me strength personally to endure the hardships and pressures of my period of incarceration and the three gruelling trials. ‘ Such assistance that you gave to the struggle for my rights proves the importance of international solidarity in the strug- gle for human decency and socialism. Your recognition of my innocence and that I was the object of a frame-up for my political views and my close association with the People’s Progressive Party gave me strength-and also added greatly to - the work of the Defence Committee and the legal defence team that represented me. fae Now that I have been acquitted and my insistence on my innocence has been vindicated, I have had the happiness to return to my normal family life, to my loving wife and five children. I shall endeavour to do whatever I can in the struggle for the rights of our people and to struggle for my brothers and sisters who are today held prisoners in many lands, in Chile, Uruguay, Haiti and many other countries. I shall continue to - work in the noble and glorious tradition of my Party and to campaign with all those who cherish peace, justice and equal- ity everywhere. Once again, allow me to express my wholehearted apprecia- tion of the assistance you gave to the Defence Committee and to me personally and to the cause of human rights in Guyana. We must all continue the struggle so that the world can be a better place in which to live, where people of all countries can truly unite and see in each other the relationship of a friend, a comrade, a brother. With undying perseverance, we must . together work to make this world a better place to live in. I convey to you all the love and respect from myself and my family. Let’s live for a better world of tomorrow. : With fraternal greetings, Arnold Rampersaud. latest French military technology and ground-to-ground and ground-to-air missiles of the |} Crotalo type. They watched § military maneuvers which had been prepared especially for them and had access to military en- claves visited by few foreign dele- gations. During the second half of November, two important Chinese delegations specializing in the fields of astronautics and telecommunications traveled again to France. Both of them vis- ited the National Space Studies Centre and French industries which manufacture and assemble certain kinds of missiles. According to an Agence France Presse dispatch, ‘‘West Ger- many, France, Great Britain and Italy are engaged in ruthless com- petition for the Chinese military market, which needs 9,000 tanks with sophisticated technology worth $1.5-million each, among other things. The list of require- ments of the Chinese armed forces includes 300,000 troop- transport vehicles, 8,000 heavy- caliber self-propelled cannons, 500,000 individual antitank mis- siles, nearly 2,000 planes and tens of thousands of sea-to-sea mis- siles.”” In December, a Chinese dele- gation headed by Foreign Trade Minister Li Chang visited Eng- land and France, where he ex- pressed interest in war material and its manufacture and, accord- ing to the British press, indicated his country’s wish to purchase British Harrier vertical takeoff fighter planes. In France, the Chinese delega- ; o . £h a “China’s warlike objectives are backed by certain western circles, especially those operating within NATO. A Reuter correspondent report- ing from NATO headquarters in Brussels said that NATO would wel- come any intensification of China’s defensive capabllity. tion showed interest in the Trans- all military transport plane. China’s warlike objectives are backed by certain western circles, especially those operating within NATO. A Reuter correspondent reporting from NATO headquar- ters in Brussels said that NATO would welcome any _ intensi- fication of China’s defensive capability. This report about NATO’s support for China’s militarist pol- icy corresponds to Chinese statements along the same lines. The two are linked by a policy ‘which runs counter to the policy of peace and detente of the socialist camp and especially of the Soviet Union. China also has very good rela- tions with the Federal German Republic in the military field; an editorial published on October 6 in the Frankfurter Rundschau de- scribed them as ‘‘an alliance against detente.”’ As of September, China has been visited, among others, by Manfred Woerner, chairman of the Defense Commission of the West German Parliament; Gen- eral Hohanner Steihoff, former chairman of the NATO Military Committee who was commander of a fighter regiment at the end of World War Two; General Von Kielmansegg, former commander of the unified NATO forces in central Europe; Admiral Posser, former chief of the NATO intelli- gence service; and Herich Tretner, a specialist in airborne landings who personally partici- pated in the bombing of Guernica, Spain, in 1937. All these old Nazi generals who visit China today refuse to resign themselves to the defeat they suf- fered in World War Two; and, just as they collaborate with NATO, they are willing to help Peking, because in the last few years that country has been “‘gripped by a militarist fever.’’ While world public opinion in- . creasingly calls for a halt to the arms race and for agreements which will ensure: world peace, the Chinese leadership is taking the opposite path. SKY-HIGH WASTE A stack of 1,000 thousand dol- Jar bills (a million dollars) is 742 inches high. The military expen- — diture of the world in 1975 was 371.26 billion dollars. If you had 371 billion dollars in thousand dol- _ lar bills how high a stack of bills would you have? The answer is 43.95 miles! — taken from Quaker Concern. The RCMP, the mail and the gov't The government tabled a Bill in the - House of Commons on February 7 to legalize mail opening by the. police, Something the RCMP admits doing il- legally for the past 40 years. This is an €xtremely dangerous business, under- Mining, as it does, the privacy of the individual. A privacy that the Prime Ster apparently considers of little Moment. For, rather than punish an il- legal act, he prefers to make the illegal act “‘legal’’, as he in effect stated in one of his Many interviews. The Bill would make it legal for the Police to open mail on suspicion that it Contained “‘illegal drugs” or poses @ threat to national security.’” The in- _ Clusion of “‘illegal drugs’’ appears to be ut a cushion for the real purpose of the » Namely, to legalize mail snooping. sainst those organizations and indi- Ros that the Security Branch of the ™1P designates as being a ‘‘threat to National security’’. * ok * To get a warrant to open mail sus- ced of being a ‘‘threat to national Unite WY (RCMP definition) the Sec- ty Branch, acting under the Official Solis Act, needs only to apply to the . Citor-General. Such warrant is sec- and is renewable every three years. Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World The seriousness of such ‘“‘legaliza- tion’’ becomes more obvious when one realizes that the only known definition of what constitutes a “‘threat to national security” or “‘subversive activity”’ is that of the RCMP. There is no legal: or official definition. And the RCMP de- finition, judging from past experience, of a ‘‘security risk’’ embraces ail per- sons and organizations who are for changing the status quo. That is: all those who are opposed to the crisis - policies of monopoly and all those de- siring a democratic solution to the crisis of confederation. * * * Those dissatisfied with the status quo include: trade unions working for a bet- ter shake for their members, and for improved social and economic condi- tions for all working people; Native people’s movements, the movement for national equality in French Canada; the peace movement working for an end to the arms race, associations for — cooperation and friendship between the Canadian people and those of the socialist lands. The list is long and var- ied. And, as the crisis of the economy deepens the list will grow. To quote the Toronto Globe and Mail of February 9: ‘‘The definition, (of subversive activity) and the scope of the definition, will change from day to day, will change according to the politi- cal and social mood of the times, will vary according to the political instabil- ity of the government in power.’’ The editorial concludes on the note that’ “*This law is capable of causing harm as severe as any of the dangers it might conceivably seek to prevent.” : * * * The timing of the launching of Cana- _da’s latest, but most bumbling, “‘spy ‘thriller’ is not unconnected with the government’s anxiety to secure an early passage of the iniquitous Bill to ““‘legalize’”> RCMP mail snooping. There can be no doubt, the government desperately wants to refurbish the tar- nished image of the RCMP as a state _ police system, whose only aim is to’ “serve and protect”’ the interests of our country and her people. A system that knows neither ‘“‘class nor special privileged,” a force that always ‘‘gets its man’’. But, this time the Force really outdid themselves. This time, one lone horseman got thirteen alleged Soviet intelligence agents with one throw of his lariat. Just imagine if the Force had forty such men, as skillful and resource- . ful as the unknown officer who got the thirteen in one fell swoop, it could catch all 500 of Igor Gouzenko’s ‘Soviet agents’ running loose in Canada. This farce, is not what Canadians © need at this time. Neither do we need the Bill that this cloak and dagger caper is supposed to help ease through parliament. * * * Canadians do not need a law that sets Canada on a course that could lead our country into a police state. We do not need a law that, in the name of main- taining the status quo, tums unlawful acts of the Security Branch against the person into ‘‘lawful’’ acts, and turns lawful acts of persons into ‘‘unlawful’’ acts. Rather, Canadians could do with a law along the following lines: ‘*The pri- vacy of citizens, and of their corres- pondence, telephone conversations, and telgraphic communications is pro- tected by law.”’ (Article 56 of the Con- stitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 24, 1978—Page 9