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Running against NDP?

(The current issue of the
Young Worker carries an in-
terview with Wm. Kashtan,
from which we reprint Mr.
Kashtan’s remarks on “running
candidates against the NDP and
‘the Waffle.”

We don’t run against NDPers.
They are running in every con-
stituency as far as we know.
Does that mean we shouldn’t
run anywhere?

‘Our Party is a political party
with its own program—the only
party whose program is direct-
ed towards uniting the working
class and democratic forces for
the election of a new majority
in parliament and the formation
of an anti-monopoly govern-
ment. We are a necessary part
of the electoral battle to bring
about such a majority.

Our participation in elections
is aimed at achieving just that.
Unity does not involve our step-
ping aside for some other poli-
tical force. Unity implies agree-
ment on a common program, on
common immediate aims. With-
in that context we can then dis-
cuss whether we shall run in
this constituency or in that con-
stituency and come to some
agreement. ae 3

Until such unity is agreed to,
or achieved, our not running will
not advance the real interests
of the working class and demo-
cratic movement.

Our aims are fundamentally
different from those of the NDP.
The aims of the NDP are limit-
ed to administering capitalism.
Our aims are directed to ending
capitalism and achieving social-
ism. We are in the field to iso-
late and defeat right-wing policy
which has done so much harm
to the labor and democratic

movement, and to help to ad-
vance the fight for genuine new
alternatives.

... We are a party for new
policies and with the due regard
to the Wafflers and their posi-
sion, which marks a point of
difference from the right-wing
NDP, the Waffle position would
be basically that of the NDP.
They are not a separate party—
they are members of the NDP
and committed to the NDP pro-
gram. Pretending that this is
not the case would be a distor-
tion of reality.

The Wafflers have not so far
come forward and declared that
the conditions for a real for-
ward advance for the working
class and democratic forces is
unity of action of socialists and
Communists.

Some of them are: quite ad-
dicted to anti-communism and
anti-Sovietism
that sense the positions they
have ideologically are not dif-
ferent than the right wing in the
NDP. They need to rid them-
selves of this attitude. Let there
be no mistake, there will be no
meaningful change of direction
for Canada unless there is a unit-
ed, genuine independence for
Canada and unless the working
class leads that fight.

So we are running in this
campaign in order to advance
these thoughts and ideas.

Of course, where it is possible
to work out an amicable agree-
ment with Wafflers, it ought to
be considered. My proposal
would be that Wafflers and Com-
munists should sit down and
discuss this question and see
whether an agreement could be
arrived at that would advance
the overall struggle. —

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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themselves. In.

True fraternal unity

The ‘joint statement of the leading
bodies of the Communist Parties of
Canada and the United States, which
we print in this issue, is a model of
genuine working class international-
ism. The Communists of the U.S., the
country whose rulers are robbing and
seeking to completely subjugate our
country and people, take their stand
forthrightly alongside the Canadian
workers against U.S. imperialism and
in defense of Canadian independence.
And the Canadian Communists proud-
ly stand shoulder to shoulder with our

merican brothers in the common

struggle for the freedom of Angela |

Davis, for peace, equality and brother-
hood in our countries.

What a contrast this comradeship of
the U.S. workers’ party is to the atti-
tude personified by President Nixon,
who gave Canada “the knee” with the
surtax and now is coming to Ottawa
evidently to put “the boots” to us on
water resources, auto pact, etc.

The true fraternal relationship dem-
onstrated by the Communist parties of
our two countries can well serve as a
model for the closest cooperation be-
tween an independent trade union
movement in Canada and that of the
U.S., and between our peoples at all
levels.

The fight for jobs

When the minister of labor declares
that the 1970’s will be a decade of high
unemployment, this means that the

government is confessing that given .

the present social system and state
policies, mass unemployment is a per-
manent feature of our “way of life.”

Does it have to be that way?

Is there any reason why our country
should not provide jobs and rising liy-
ing standards for every Canadian? Do
we lack the coal, iron ore, minerals,
forests, sources of raw materials? Do
we lack oil, natural gas, hydro power?
Don’t we have the railroads and high-
ways, the shipping lanes and skyways?
Don’t we have plants and factories and
the means to build as many more as
may be required? Don’t we grow the
food we need? Don’t we have an indus-
trious, educated, skilled work force?

What is lacking? Capital?

But just look at the billions of dol-
lars flowing out of the country every
year in interest and
Canadian workers for foreign corpora-
tions. Or the investments made abroad
by Canadian rich. And that’s just the
capital that flows out of our country

instead of building it up.

Just look at the billion dollars that
our government has thrown away in
financing piddling projects, the kind
that may be all right in themselve¢ to
keep some persons occupied for a month
or two, but in terms of building the
economy make as much sense as the

“task work” (moving a mountain from .

one place to another by spoonfuls of
earth, as the jobless used to say) in
the 1930’s. + —

And look at what is spent to keep

_ the people out of work.

profit made by - tarians have gotten closer

Then think of the wealth ¥
could be producing if we were
chance! 4

The fight for jobs is a matter,
pelling a turn on the econom
for the government to take 4
manding heights — the natura
ces and energy resources —}
the new plants that are needee
plan and direct the whole of #
try’s economy along the line of?
expansion,

The immediate fight for JO™
to prevent closures and runalg
dustries, such as the U.S.-ownly ”
berley Clark in St. Catharine)
Carbide in Welland and oli)
exerting pressure on governl
way the Clydeside workers did)
Britain. 4

The jobs of the Canadian W
and the fate of Canada are 10.
tant to leave to the rapacious
lists whose only interest 18 4
profit “and to hell with the yes

Old wrongs and nt

The robbery, cheating and
genocide practised against th J
Peoples has been going on 10° |
les. It is still going on. “a

The media report outrag®
day. Thousands of Indians
moved out of the James B
area to provide power to —
tries. B.C. jury frees RCI
charged with killing an India dn
ing him. Indians organize 4 at
Department offices in Edm
protest lack of school facili
prisons are filled with Nativ®
And so on.

That’s just the reported ¢@
of those not reported be
“nothing out of the ordina
about the pall of unemploy?
abysmal poverty, children d

The ancient wrongs canna
up. But decent Canadians ©
while these terrible crimes
today.

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with the Canadian scene and §
the possibilities of greatet |
between our countries,
across the Arctic. ;

Wherever they went, the
warmly greeted by Canadial,
remarks Vice-Premier 4
pointed up the need and ably
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of trade, he stressed that C
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from the USSR as well as §
to it. The vast highly-develoP”
trial and agricultural cou® :
yet unopened vistas in this

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