EDITORIAL

_ Summit economics old story

Every effort is being made by the public
relations hacks at the Williamsburg summit
meeting to convince the people of western
Europe, North America and Japan that
iron-clad progress was made on defence
and economic issues among the seven lead-
ing capitalist countries. Even worse, we are
told it is for the good of the people of those
countries.

We are adjured to believe (at least by the
Canadian media) that by dint of knightly
valor Prime Minister Trudeau fought and
altered the U.S. Reagan outlook. In fact, all
that was altered were a few words in the
final statement. The U.S. Reaganites are
proceeding on precisely the same policies
— lunging to the right.

The U.S. Reagan administration believes
it can do as it pleases with its interest rates,
trade domination, and other concerns of its
allies. The cry at the summit was for lower
U.S. interest rates, instead of rates that tax
Europeans and Canadians for the sky-high
U.S. deficit, created by a sky-high budget
for aggressive arms. But U.S. interest rates
are touted to climb again shortly. So much
for summitry’s effect on inflation, poverty
and mass unemployment. :

All that can be said is that the seven de-
cided to hang together. Their assaults on
the living standards of the masses of their
workers would otherwise ensure that they
would hang separately.

Canada’s Finance Minister Marc
Lalonde summed up the “recovery” as-
sured at the summit, saying: “Anybody
who expects a magic, immediate solution
(including jobs — Trib) to come out of the
meetings is mistaken. There are no elabor-
ate schemes to save the world.”

The cynicism translates into — no jobs,
but a betterment of profits in the monopoly
system’s so-called recovery.

It is evident that it is up to the working
class, and to all the multitudes who stand
for democracy and peace as Canada’s poli-
cy, to battle for jobs, against the efforts of
the USA to throw Canadian workers and
their families on the scrap heap in the
interests of greater U.S. enrichment.

Anyone who protests the closing of fac-
tories, the shipping out of jobs, the carry-
ing away of investment capital to other
countries, anyone who protests angrily
about being militarized into ruin, comes up

_ against the same U.S. monopoly forces and

their Canadian co-conspirators, the U.S.
military-industrial complex and its crea-
ture, the U.S. Government.

Itis not only in the individual interests of
Canadian workers but in their patriotic
interests to resist the very economic policies
given the stamp of approval at the
Williamsburg summit.

Fight nuclear dirty tricks

Efforts by the most reactionary circles of
the Williamsburg Summit sought approval
for stepped up cold war against the Soviet
Union, deployment of new nuclear weap-
ons in Europe, a decree of accelerated arms
escalation, and a new barrage of blame and
slander aimed at Moscow.

We may believe Prime Minister
Trudeau’s report that he put up a fight for
a disarmament clause, and won his point.
Unfortunately, he found it appropriate
later to crow over the “warning” directed at
the USSR, the essential Reagan war-
mongering won the day, with Trudeau as
its herald. Later, confusingly, the PM ex-
pressed his belief that, conceivably, agree-
ment with the USSR could be reached be-
fore, and without, deployment of the
Cruise and Pershing II.

That’s some kind of independent ap-
proach because, true to form, vicious
hawks like Reagan and Thatcher at once
attacked. They distorted the Soviet Union’s
cautioning announcement that deploy-
ment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in
western Europe (in addition to millions of
tons of nuclear annihilation already
pointed at the USSR) could result in the
stationing of missiles in the Warsaw Treaty
countries, which currently have none.
(This latter fact stands, despite U.S. de-
fence chief Caspar Weinberger’s lying
assertion that there have been Soviet mis-
siles in the Warsaw Treaty countries for
years!)

Why anyone should be surprised at the
Soviet announcement is a mystery. Any
country watching a hostile and unstable re-
gime mount new waves of nuclear missiles
targeted at it, would bolster its defences.

Former Chancellor Schmidt of the Fed-
eral Republic of Germany, speaking of
Reagan’s dangerousbeligerancy, expressed

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distress recently that the USA rejected a
tentative deal at the Geneva disarmament
talks, last summer. “We would have bought
that compromise,” Schmidt said.

What is Washington’s purpose, summit
hypocrisy aside?

U.S. imperialism, through many presi-
dential regimes, has toyed with the irra-
tional idea of trying to destroy or fatally
cripple socialsim — in the first place the
Soviet Union. And, evidently, it has not
given up this suicidal fantasy.

While Reagan was tightening the screws
on his “allies” in hospitable old Virginia, his
Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger was
in Brussels demanding that NATO
Squeeze its members for higher military
squandering — i.e. an extra $1-billion in
1983-84. (Canada’s annual arms budget is
already $8-billion.) : :

A good response came from Denmark,
one of the “host” countries for U.S. nuclear

deployment, which put a motion through

parliament May 26, compelling the
government to press for an extension of
the December deployment deadline, and
to seek inclusion of British and French
weapons in the Geneva deliberations. But
the Reagan regime lashes its allies to ignite
a new arms escalation in the vain hope that
the USSR will exhaust itself trying to keep
up.

For the great and growing peace move-
ment stretching around the globe, its pre-
stige and strength multiplying, the time is
ripe for a conscious increase in numbers,

“activities, fury, and consolidation of re-

sults. For the anti-Cruise forces in Canada,
the time is ripe for a major:assault on the
legless arguments for Cruise testing here.
The bursurk Cruises in the USA make that
positively clear.

The ‘American Way’ — Reagan style!

Flashbacks

25 years 50 years

LPP PICKETS

U.S. CONSULATE

TORONTO — About 50
persons staged a noon-hour
picket at the U.S. consulate
June 7 protesting U.S.
H-bomb flights over Canada.
Organized by the Metro-
Toronto Labor Progressive
Party, the demonstrators car-
ried signs .reading: “Stop
H-Bomb Flights Over Cana-
da”, “Stop H-bomb Tests”

“and “No U.S. Missile Based

in Canada”.

Ina letter delivered to U.S.
officials, the protesters com-
plained that Canadian
sovereignty was being viol-
ated by the NORAD agree-
ment between Canada and
the U.S. “In the interests of
human survival we appeal to
the United States to take
action to prevent Canada and
the world from becoming a
nuclear battlefield,” the letter
said.

Tribune,
June 9, 1958

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