Chilean Communist leader asserts:

By JOHN GULLIVER
fea RLIN — Fascism was de-
: €d on the battlefield 30 years
#80, ‘but neo-fascism survives

| Ae will have to be fought as
} “ng as imperialism remains in

hae That was the warning
F Tei €d here recently by Volodia
_ ‘titelboim, member of Political
P Mmission of the Communist
arty of Chile.
Bing an analysis of the fascist
a chet junta in Chile present-
| to a meeting of the World

| ae Council, Teitelboim de-
“ered that imperialism is the

Soil in which fascism constantly

ab TF &

4 eps taking root. He added,

evhile an ever more active pro-
, “8S of liberation is developing

j Neo-fascism is working to estab-
oth its terrorist domination in
as Parts of the continent. We
“te fascist tendencies in Brazil

Uruguay. We see attempts

Urn to reaction, But the most
Pes development, which re-
So a warning to. all peo-
€s of the world, is undoubted-

“Y the development in Chile.
eo There neo-fascism has shown
mak it is capable of being just
brutal as Hitler fascism. But
~- the same time our epoch is
hig erent one. In Hitler’s day
terrorist dictatorship could
oe maintain a mantle of
ee over its concentration
Pj Ps and gas chambers. Today,
Nochet and his regime stand

; ‘N Argentina to bring about a re-
3

--Tevealed before the whole world

a : :
S enemies of mankind.”
“eeeemcns

Recognize PRG now,

_ Say 80 Labour MPs

ma Me Minister Wilson and
li ny Cabinet ministers are be-
ved to have been staggered at

Mp. Scale of support from Labour

ae for a motion demanding
Mediate recognition of the

Svisional Revolutionary Gov-
™ment of South Vietnam.

. Over 80 Labour MPs have now
€Ned the backbench motion
d more are expected to sign.

i. : motion calls for dissocia-

sery, Tom all attempts to pre-

me the “odious” Saigon
~~ *8ime.

Fascism’s days are

a large part of Latin America, -

Teitelboim emphasized that
world public opinion is of deci-
sive importance with regard to
Chile, adding, ‘“‘the international
isclation of the junta, which
was also expressed in a condem-
nation by the last General As-
sembly of the United Nations, is
a factor which threatens the
further existence of the military
junta.”

The Chilean Communist lead-
er declared it is “clear that fas-
cism in Chile will not exist over
a longer period of years and in
its present form its days are
numbered.. For in addition to its
international isolation must be
added its internal isolation. After
one and a half years, the junta

numbered

is more than ever alone. Not
cnly the working class is against
it —- but also the peasants and
students. Circles which at the
beginning supported the junta,

especially the middle strata, are

now against it.

“The fascist junta in Chile
has appeared too late, at a mo-
ment when its counterparts in
Portugal and Greece have been
overthrown. We are no longer
living in 1933. We are living in
a period of the advance of social-
ism and the struggles of peoples.
We are convinced that our epoch

is not an epoch of fascism. This _

is an epoch of peace and pro-
gress, of freedom and democ-
racy, of socialism.”

“We are living in a period of the advance of socialism and peo-

ple’s struggles. We are convinced that our epoch is not an epoch
of fascism,” said Volodia Teitelboim, member of the Political Com-

mission of the Communist Party of Chile to a meeting of the World
Peace Council in Berlin. He urged ever greater international soli-

darity with the Chilean people saying that world public opinion

ts

of decisive importance” for the overthrow of the fascist junta in

Santiago.

wii iy

A quarter century has passed
since the world peace move-
ment, through the Stockholm
Appeal, called upon everybody
of good will to demand the con-

demnation and banning of nu-.

clear weapons, through world-
wide mass action. .

It was a sign of the strength
of the international peace move-
ment, then developing for the
first time, that over five million
pecple gave their support to the
Stockholm Appeal through their
signatures.

In Canada, some 535,000 sig-
natures were collected on the
Appeal in 1950. ‘i

Professor Herbert Kroeger, a
member of the German Demo-
cratic Republic’s Peace Commit-
tee and vice-president of the
GDR’s International Law Soci-
ety, said recently that the Stock-
holm Appeal was the first great
trial and confirmation of the
werld peace movement. It show-
ed what the nations’ determined
struggle for peace can achieve.

“But reminiscence of this
event also reminds us to continue
devoting all our strength to mo-
bilizing the peoples to struggle
for further disarmament meas-
ures in order to finally halt the
arms race and forge ahead tow-

ard the great aim of general and.

total disarmament.”
Information, the publication of
the GDR Peace Council, noting
that the peace policy of the
Soviet Union and other socialist
countries had played a major
part, observes that since 1950
there have been a number of
achievements:

Treaty of Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons of July 1,
1968, the treaties on banning the
stationing of nuclear weapons or
other weapons of mass extermi-
nation in space or on any celes-
tial bodies (January 27, 1967) and
on the ocean bed or underground
(February 11, 1971), and the
Convention on Banning the De-
velcpment, Production and
Stock-piling of Bacteriological
and Toxic Weapons, and the De-

struction of Such Weapons:

Poverty and the population explosion XISESS

Lil

nts: the Test Stop
Treaty of August 5, 1963, the:

(April 10, 1972).

The bilateral agreements be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
USA on limitation of the arms
race are of far-reaching import-
ance, in particular the Treaties
on Prevention of Nuclear War
(June 22, 1973), on Restriction
of Underground Nuclear Arms
Tests (July 3, 1974) and on Fur-
ther Limitation of Strategic Ar-
mament (May 26, 1972, June 21,
1973 and November 25, 1974).

The results of all this, and
also an encouragement to con-
tinue the struggle for a limita-
tion of arms and for disarma-
ment, can be seen in the fact
that the UN Disarmament Com-
mission Conference is stepping
up its efforts to get an interna-
tional convention on ‘banning
chemical means of warfare, that
the 29th UN General Assembly
approved a binding definition of
aggression in December 1974,
that’ it supported the Soviet pro-
posal to cut the military bud-
gets of the standing members of
the Security Council by 10%.

All this shows convincingly
how greatly the international
situation has developed since
the Stockholm Appeal 25 years
ago.

The draft Charter on Peaceful
Co-existence, International Se-

curity and Cooperation. worked ~

out in October 1974 by the In-
ternational Liaison Committee
which is continuing the work
of the World Congress of Peace
Forces, provides peace forces
throughout the world with the
orientation they need.

In Canada, the People’s Char-
ter for a Just and Stable World
Peace, launched a year ago, is
gathering endorsation by labor
and other organizations, and is
being signed widely by indivi-
duals. It demands an indepen-
dent fgreign policy based on
peace and peaceful co-existence,
and withdrawal from NORAD
and NATO. ;

On this 25th anniversary of
the Stockholm Appeal its spirit,
the spirit of mass participation
of the world’s people to compel
peace, pervades every continent.

a In Case you have been wondering why there is such
Ppalling poverty in the non-socialist world the answer
a Simple; according to bourgeois experts, its the
Be atation explosion. Therefore the solution is to
en uce the number of people and prevent further
Beet This line of argumentation carries with it
3 any sinister plans of action. It ranges from encour-
a local wars to holding back advances in medical
 ““lence which prolong the span of life.

This line of reasoning was the very basis upon

€ last century. It was the Reverend Thomas Robert
fees: an English economist, who formulated the
at there is an unchangeable law that popu-
on increases in geometrical progression while the
aaa of subsistence necessary for its maintenance

‘Ncreases only in arithmetical progression.
, hat this means in plain language is that there
a fixed law of nature (applicable to all social sys-

ee) that population increases and will continue to
ee faster than the means of subsistence—which
State that there will always be more people than
~an be maintained.
Pee words his contention was that poverty
at its basis in nature and therefore humanity is
aah mercy of mother nature. So the problem lies
s Ween the boundless striving of men and women
ie Propagation and the restricted increase of the
€ans of subsistence.
* eo
oe is no wonder that Marx and Engels characterized
is theory as a sin against science and humanity.
€ tragedy is that this sin is still being propagated

utes the essence of this theory.

_ Which a so-called scientific theory was formulated in —

3 N our time despite accumulated evidence which re-”

Marxism-Leninism and today's world

It is worth noting that the Malthusian theory was
advanced following the French revolution, when the
British ruling class became concerned by the growing
influence of and support for the radical reforms
raised by the revolution. In fact the British ruling
class adopted very extreme repressive measures
against those who sought to do something about the
great poverty in Great Britain at that time.

But repression alone was not enough. It was neces-
sary to enter into the battle of ideas, hence the Mal-
thusian theory. It was therefore a political rather
than a scientific solution. This is how Marx and Engels
viewed the Malthusian theory on population. When
one looks at this theory closely one realizes that Mal-

thus was really coming to the rescue of the British ©

ruling class.

Those who are still defending the essence of this
theory, although dressed up in modern uniform, are
also coming to the rescue of capitalism today. The
fact is that capitalist ideologists refuse to to ack-
nowledge that poverty can be abolished in highly
populated countries, even though facts and experience
have proven that it can be done.

: Lo % % :

Marxists have no difficulty jn proving that highly
populated countries have abolished poverty. The proof
of the pudding is in the eating. An outstanding ex-
ample is the Soviet Union.

Despite the fact that the modern Malthusians pre-
dicted that the Soviet Union would not be able to

«

solve the problem of poverty because they had too
many people, they did solve that problem. Poverty
has been abolished. They transformed a backward,
underdeveloped, poverty-stricken country, which they
inherited, into a highly developed, modern industrial
country with the highest education, guarantee to every
citizen the right to work, to leisure and freedom from
fear of insecurity. It has become one of the leading
countries in the world.

All this was accomplished because of the abolition
of capitalism and the introduction of planned socialist
development. As we know, the United States is a
highly developed country. As a matter of fact it oc-,
cupies first place in the world, yet poverty is a grow-
ing factor. The reason for this is obvious. The Soviet
Union was able to abolish poverty because of the
fundamental difference in the social systems of the
two: countries.

Js there any further need of evidence to disprove
the Malthusian theory? We completely reject the
Malthusian theory and its modern variance not be-
cause we suggest that the problem of abolishing
poverty in the developing countries and highly deve-
loped capitalist countries is a simple matter. No, it is
not simple at all. But we insist that it is soluable. We
insist that it is not the law of nature that humanity
is up against, it is the social system of exploitation.
Poverty is a product of society based on the exploi-
tation of man by man.

While much can be done to ameliorate poverty the
fundamental solution is to change the system of ex-
ploitation. It is the socialist system which is showing
in practice that poverty can be abolished. Socialism
proves beyond a doubt that all countries, with small |
or large populations, can abolish poverty.

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