the Communist Party of the United States, summarized the outcome of the recent elections and present situation in the U.S. on three major points, in his report to a national committee meeting of the CPUSA. The three points were: “1. The people of the United States face a sharpened confron- tation and new dangers because of the enlarged scope of the ultra-Right reactionary drive in- : | spired and led by the President and the» Cutthroat gang around him. Re ey “2. The) dangers have become more serious because new sec- tions of ‘fi@nopely capital have moved t@ Suppérting more reac- tionary an@ ultra-Right posi- tions. Someshave obviously con- cluded that UtS* capitalism in trouble cannotafford the lux- ury of democratic. rights. “3. The problems have be- come more serious. Also, many of the bourgeois liberals have retreated and are wavering This is one side of the situation. On the other side is the political surge of masses who stood up and blocked the ultra-Right, ra- cist electoral grab for power. What is even more significant is that this upsurge at the polls is based in the working class, black, Puerto Rican and Chicano communities. “What this country needs more than anything else,” said Hall, “is the crystallization of the trends and currents that were expressed in the voting booth in the recent elections.” He said that the elections held back the forces of reaction, and that with organization and struggle the reactionaries can be defeated. Hall went on to say: In broad, sweeping terms what this country needs and what is now possible is a massive peo- ple’s movement, a coalition of people’s movements, a coalition geared to the problems and cur- rents. expressed by the working class, black and Chicano move- ments working in close relation- ship with the. students and groups representing other sec- tions of the population. It can be a coalition that does not re- place or take over the role of - specific movements. This coalition will not emerge immediately challenging the two- party electoral form. This is an obstacle on which many new formations have floundered be- fore they were able to build political strength. . More important than challeng- ing the forms is to challenge the. political essence of the two- party system. — It is also obvious that while there must be national coordi- nation, and national forms, these people’s political formations must take root in the commu- nities in Congressional districts. While this movement will not ignore the two-party forms it is more important to build move- ments of concerned people than of concerned Democrats, to in- clude Democrats who are con- cerned. This concept is not new but the need and the possibilities are new. There is an urgent need for bold initiatives by our party in this direction. This concept should result in peo- ple’s conferences, people’s con- gresses, committees and clubs. This was the scope of the elec- toral upsurge. It is the politics Of .the-..anti-monopoly-concept. The «moment. calls’ fora broad Gus Hall, general secretary of . “ences on the Left. Petty bour- 2 4 Spiro Agnew and admirers during the recent campaign. front against reaction—against repression, racism and wars of aggression. It-is a coalition through which the working class, the black li- beration movement, the Puerto Rican and Chicano movements, the peace movements, the wo- men’s liberation movement would elect their representa- tives to political office and con- duct their political campaigns, The next lesson to which the election results point, clearly and urgently, is the need for Left-progressive political forms. ~ It is true that the Left was not totally absent in these elec- tions. But it is also true. that, in general, it was disoriented and was not a vital enough force. There is still the influence of petty-bourgeois radicalism. It. is an attempt to apply the Coun- ter-Community concept to elec- toral politics. To apply the con- cept of doing one’s own thing —on the Left or not doing it at all — is unbelievably infantile and the results are damaging. Because we, on the Left, have not stated what went wrong in the efforts that resulted in the formations of the “Peace and Freedom” party, and a dozen other Left electoral organiza- tions, two years ago, the Left is saddled with the ghosts of those past efforts. Therefore, even at this late date, in order to clear the air, we must state that it was not wrong to organize these Left electoral formations. In ‘fact, these efforts were very neces- sary and were important historic acts. What went wrong is that in - many cases these new and weak efforts were influenced or taken over by elements who had: the Counter-Community concept of the Left. They remained small because . of the Right, conservative influ- geois radicalism more than any other factor destroyed these movements. What were some of these wrong concepts? That these formations had ,nothing to do with the rest of the progressive or liberal com- munity or movements. That it was not possible or necessary to win the working class or the black and Chicano communities to support these Left efforts. That their main task was to at- tack the: liberals. It is our weakness that we have not fully explained and ex- posed these weaknesses. We must project a Left that, from the very beginning, takes a principled Left position on basic questions — presents ra- dical solutions, but rejects such petty bourgeois radical concepts. Many Left forces are not now joining such attempts because they don’t think it is possible to build a Left without such concepts or hangups. Nobody has publicly stated differently. Our experience indicates, how- ever, that wherever: a correct concept of the Left is presented there is a good response. Therefore, take initiatives boldly to set into motion new Left-progressive for- mations. There is no reason why, at least in the big cities, we should not take initiatives to set up such electoral formations. ‘These formations or parties cannot be Communist — but they also should not be anti- Communist. They should not try to be the alternative to broader coalitions. They should have in- dependent candidates — espe- cially workers, blacks, Chicanos and youth. Such formations could be more meaningful to the radicalized youth. There is a growth in the num- ber of Black Americans elected to public -office. This’ progress should convince all that it is possible to make a major break- through on this front. In most cases they are elected as Demo- crats, Finally, it is also a lesson from these past -elections that, ' without ‘such intermediary or- ganizations, we Communists are not a very strong force in deter- mining the course of events — even during a critical election campaign. We must take the ne- cessary steps now so we can be a force in the 1972 presidential elections. LBJ and Nixon broke all Geneva war rules THUNDER BAY—Referring to the CBC’s News Magazine of November 29, the pro-tem sec- retary of the local peace council, Mr. C. E. Lenton, stated, “There are very few people who do not sympathize with the wives and relatives of American war pris- oners held in North Vietnam.” “However,” Mr. Lenton. said, “our sympathy cannot rest there if we have a genuine concern for Americans to the exclusion of many hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who are the victims of violence — killing, wounding, _ poisoning, burning and wanton destruction of the ecology of * both North and South Vietnam.” Dealing with the contention ~0f-U:S>Defense Secretary ~“Mel- Pa bt “Vin ‘Laitd' before the Senate For- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1970—PAGE 8. ing the North Vietnamese with violation of the Geneva Conven- tion on the treatment of prison- ers, Mr. Lenton stressed: “The - present and two previous U.S. administrations have violated not only the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners but also those Geneva Conven- tions dealing with the Conduct of War, Treatment of Civilians, Poison Gas and Chemical War- fare. “Mr. Laird in all conscience must realize that continuing the war in Vietnam, which by all in- ternational legal standards, is il- legal, places the responsible U.S. administrations, in terms of the Nuremburg trials, in the role of war criminals,” we must again ATS Pa TT IL The Lunokhod-1 moon surface self-propelled vehicle. ee | American union leaders hit North Vietnam raids By WILLIAM ALLAN _. DETROIT — The United Auto Workers Union has placed huge posters in prominent spots throughout this city, “Fight In-- flation — End the War Now!” Steve Schlossberg, chief UAW Counsel, when asked about the Nixon Administration extending the bombing into North Vietnam said: “What a move, this man Nix- on doesn’t live in this century. He ignores the wishes of the - American people, who have call- ed again and again for ending the war, not extending it. It’s the ‘Guns of Navaronne’ all over again and like some in Con- gress said, a reel from an old John Wayne movie of comman- does, dropped into North Viet- nam, except this isn’t the dream world of Hollywood, this is for real,” John Conyers, black Congress- man from Michigan said, “I de- plore the resumption of the bombing, it-again pushes this racist, dirty war-in Indochina to a new crisis point. This act of extending the war calls for the American people to enlist mil- lions of their neighbors to repud- iate Nixon and the Pentagon’s _ action.” Robert Holmes, international vice president, Teamsters Union . said: “I support the position tak- en by U.S. Senator Fulbright, that this is provocative and that just being upset about it is not enough. This man Nixon doesn’t listen or care about the people’s wishes. Just two weeks ago, De- troiters voted 199,000 to 120,000 in a referendum to take our troops out of Vietnam and bring them home. That message has been delivered many times through peace demonstrations, petitions, resolutions by the Teamsters, United Auto Workers and many other unions. Let us make Congress stop the Penta- gon. Only the people can stop’ this by making Congress ! Nixon’s wheels,” j Gus Scholle, state AFL-CIO president said, . “The whit House’s extension of the bomb ing into North Vietnam, oy sending commandoes into th same area can only aggravall the situation. It’s so totally sl consistent with what peo?” want — to get our troops out — that only a Nixon could § ‘success’ in such mad ventures The people who were sucke by his fake promises of pea * now maybe will listen to peopl like myself who warned he (N¥ on) talked out of both sides of bi | mouth. Anyhow, he doesn’t this show — the Pentagon Pp the triggers and the armame! aircraft, chemical industt make the balls to fire.” the Tom Turner, president of ol ‘Wayne County AFL-CIO Coun r commented on the Nixon A ministration’s extending the bombing into North Vietnam. “Back when this guy Nix was. running for President A warned that his ‘plan to end t war’ was a fake. Now we § escalation of the war and th# there never was any peace plam but nothing else than extendif® the war. No wonder our negoll tions fall apart in Paris, extet® ing this dirty, bloody war. | trade union movement has to mand from Congressmen, mat. of whom we just helped elect {0 another term to get a change this nation’s priorities fr? spending for destruction, pomb: ing, John Wayne-like comman@? raids, to construction for peac® We have almost half a millio? people in this state getting so™ form of public assistance, a me is pittance. They need jobs and th $76 billion for a war budget h®” to be changed to a peace bu! get.”