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MAURICE RUSH HONORED (clockwise, from
top)...B.C.‘s Communist Party leader receives
accolades from comrades and particular attention
from grand niece for 50 years service to the Com-
Munist movement; Tribune editor Sean Griffin dis-
plays “special edition’ of paper, a tongue-in-cheek
bute for the former editor; Labor author and his-
torian Ben Swankey recalls his days with Rush,
9°Ing back to the Depression and leadership in the

°ung Communist League. Also paying tribute
were Donald Viaud, office manager of the CP
headquarters, the B.C. Peace Council's Bert
gden, provincial organizational secretary Fred
Son, and national leader William Kashtan.

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for our people and a future of our young

people.
_ “To do this requires ending the domina-
| tion of resource industries by the multi-
: national Corporations, and their nation-
alization,” said Rush.

Turning to Solidarity, he acknowledged
that the movement has suffered some loss of
unity since the contentious Kelowna accord

_ ending last November's escalating round of
strikes,
“The Communist Party shares with
_ many the view that given the objective con-
/ ditions, more could have been won had
some of the top reformist union leaders not
panicked, and had the top leadership of the
P P come out in support of the Solidarity
: fightback and pressed the government to
4 Be OF resign, as our party proposed,” he

Those problems persist, with NDP lead-
ers, Including those in the leadership race,
- putting forward policies of “pure parlia-
| mentarism” while some trade union leaders
_ are Opting for “pure trade unionism” and

_ avoidance of broadly based mass struggles,
_ he noted,

“However, while all these things must be
said, and criticism placed where it belongs,
we must recognize that there exists a very
strong basis for reuniting the forces which
make up Solidarity,” said Rush. “The
Solidarity fightback in 1983 and the struggle
against the Socred government's policies
have Opened up new possibilities for a polit-
| ical realignment which could lead to (their)
' defeat.

__ The Socreds hope to achieve their aims
_ through the “restraint” program — andit’s
4 falsely named program, Rush asserted.

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“It’s obvious that the government’s

_ argument that there is no money for these
S€Tvices is a lie,” Rush charged. “It’s a mat-
ter of what priorities the government has
and where it prefers to spend the money,

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\CP targets resource sellout

and in the eyes of the right-wing Socred
government, people’s needs are at the bot-
tom of the totem pole.”

In contrast; Rush said, the Communist
Party proposes measures that would raise
revenues without taxing people, including:

© Removal of the new eight-per cent sur-
tax, with no increases in provincial income
tax for people earning up to $30,000 annu-
ally, and a graduated increase above that
level to a limit of 12 per cent.

© Repeal of the $50,000 basic exemption
on industrial machinery and its replacement
by some relief for small business, to procure
about $35 million in tax revenues from large
corporations;

e Aninheritance tax on estates exceeding
$200,000;

e An increase in corporate taxes on the
five major banks in B.C. “which in 1983
made exorbitant profits, in some cases 35
and 40 per cent.

© Full payment in royalties and fees from’
the forest companies to make up for the
estimated $750 million owing from under-
payments during the last five years, an
increase in stumpage fees and establishment
of a forestation tax.

The party also calls for the scrapping of
the restraint program, said Rush, and advo-
cates a program that includes:

@ A massive jobs program with refores-
tation, fish enhancement, housing and an
east-west hydro grid;

© Legislation ending plant shutdowns,
and requiring companies to reinvest their
profits in B.C.;

@ Anend to cuts in social services, a hike

in welfare rates and abolition of user fees for
health care;

© Restoration of tenants’ protection and
human rights; ’
e An end to anti-labor legislation and

new acts giving workers a say in technologi-
cal change and working conditions;

@ Nationalization of resources and the
creation of manufacturing and processing
industries.

Turning to the federal scene, Rush called
for the defeat of the Progressive Conserva-
tives, which he said represent “the most
right-wing, pro-U.S. imperialist, pro-big
business interests in Canada” in the coming
federal election.

“We must work to prevent either the
election of a Tory or Liberal majority
government and for election of a progres-
sive group, including Communists,” he
said.

On the peace question, Rush said the
party’s “‘full support” goes to the Canada-
wide Peace Petition Caravan, and called for
greater trade union involvement in the
peace fight.

And on the fall civic elections, Rush
warned that progressives can expect an all-
out right-wing effort to capture school

board and municipal government seats.

“In Vancouver there are already signs
that all right-wing forces are uniting in a
major effort to establish their domination at
city hall and defeat the COPE-labor-
democratic alliance. . .progressive people in
Vancouver should unite to block that and’
work to make city hall a bastion for pro-
gressive, democratic policies.”

Concluding, he stressed that the Com-
munist Party must also increase its “ideo-
logical activities.

“We have a responsibility to place rea-
soned criticism of right-wing reformist and
class collabortionist policies and point out
where these policies lead —.to a dead end
for the working class,” Rush asserted.

“We face these challenges with confi-
dence in the correctness of our policies and
in the ability of the party and its member-
ship to rise to these new challenges,” said
the CP leader.

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