WORLD SCENE

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barreme Court for two Indian attorneys, now under_

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1 Pplication, says the law firm representing them. :
Becton follows on an amendment to the Suppression
etm Act earlier this year. The Act now empowers
it to strike off the roll any person listed as a Com-
aa any person convicted of certain offences.

ee Baker, an attorney convicted in 1965 when he
ey with Abram Fischer and 12 others on charges
the Act, was struck off the roll.

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TmtICAN FRIARS AND STUDENTS at the Blackfriars
Eotty in Oxford, England, condemned the “horror
Njustice of what is going on in Vietnam,” and donated
lood for medical aid. The religious community has
rt eatement in which they say: “We welcome the
Unity of both donating blood and giving all possible
ward the Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam, for
ho Gre suffering most from the atrocities of the
this second donating session held outside London,
an, friars, university dons, students, clergymen and
€rs gave their blood.

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tng 000 JAPANESE students and trade unionists de-
to to ed at Tokyo Airport against the visit of Premier
‘tl ene U.S. and against American bombing of North
With om Thousands of police attacked the demonstrators
: Ndent : 9as'and well over 300 persons were injured. One
[Mts Bee killed in last month’s demonstrations against
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international tasks by the na-
tionalistic, chauvinist line of
Mao Tse Tung’s group in China,
Ponamaryov added: “But there
are no grounds to dramatize the
situation. It is clear to all now
that the group of Mao landed in
a political isolation from the
main revolutionary forces of our
times.”

Dolores Ibarruri, Chairman of
the Communist Party of Spain,
in the course of her speech ex-
pressed concern over the divi-
sion of the communist and work-
ing class movement which was
initiated by Mao Tse-Tung’s
group: “It is disconcerting to
see that even the aggression of
American imperialism against
the heroic Vietnamese people
could not make Mao’s group
abandon its fatal policy.”

As this is written the confer-
ence is still in session. Full re-
ports will undoubtedly be given
to Tribune readers by the Cana-
dian participants, (William Kash-
tan, Tim Buck, Sam Walsh and
Bruce Magnuson).

I would like to briefly re-
view the role of the work-
ing class in the USSR, be-
cause of the false theory often
advanced in the West that with
technological changes the role of
the working class declines.

To begin with, the October
Revolution, was a_ proletarian
revolution—the working class
allied with the peasantry was its
motive force. After winning
power it was the working class
which became the guiding force
in the Soviet Union.

The workers, said Lenin, shat-
tered “the old, absurd, savage,
despicable and disgusting preju-
dice that only the so-called upper
classes, only the rich or those
who have gone through the
school of the rich are capable
of administrating and directing
the organizational development
of society.” :

The authoritative Soviet maga-
zine “Communist” comments:
“the working class initiated the
drive for universal schooling ..-

URGE ISRAEL QUIT
SEIZED TERRITORY

Following is the statement on
the Middle East unanimously
adopted by the World Peace
Council at its Leningrad meet-
ing, October 29:

HE presiding committee of
rE the World Council of Peace,
reiterating its condemnation

of the Israeli aggression, de-
clares that it is a prime neces-
sity for ensuring peace and
security in the Middle East and
the rest of the world and for the
cause of the people’s national in-
dependence that the Israeli
troops immediately withdraw
from the territories in the UAR,
Jordan and Syria they occupied
in June, 1967. This is the first
indispensable step in order to
achieve a political settlement
which will guarantee peace with
justice in this region of the
world. If it is not rapidly ful-
filled, there is a serious danger
of the renewal of armed conflict.
The more the Arab peoples in
the Middle East have moved in
the direction of independence
and social progress, the more
they have been beset by impe-
rialist intrigues. Twice in recent
years, the Israeli armies have in-

new peoples’ intelligentsia emer-
ged, this being a paramount ob-
jective of the cultural revolu-
tion.” ‘

The magazine makes these
further points: “Unemployment

was wiped out by the end of -

1930. The division of the work-
ing class into workers employed
in production and a reserve la-
bor army typical of capitalism
vanished for good. 4

The state of the dictatorship
of the proletariat after the vic-
tory of socialism has become a
political organization of the en-
tire people with the working
class in the leading role.

During the transition from so-
cialism to communism the deve-
lopment of the working class in
the USSR is characterized by the
following typical features: the
further increase in the number
of its ranks, crucial changes 1n
its occupational and territorial
structure, continued growth of
the cultural and technical level,
the emergence of new forms of
communist work, enhanced role
of the working class in the social
and political life of the country.
The number of industrial and
office workers in the national
economy has grown from fifty-
six million in 1958 to 76.9 mil-
lion in 1965.

The stormy technical progress
brought about major changes 1n
the working class structure: the
number of versatile workers
greatly increased while the num-
ber of workers engaged in ma-
nual work decreased. :

The time is approaching when
a big social problem, notably the
abolition of important differen-
ces between mental and physical
work, will be solved.

The working class of the
USSR is the leading social force
in the movement toward a Com-
munist society. Under the lead-
ership of the communist party
and allied with the collective
farm peasantry and the intelli-
gentsia it is successfully build-
ing the magnfiicent edifice of
communism.

vaded Arab countries and made
themselves instruments of those
who sought to restore their own
control and hegemony in this
region

The Israeli aggression of June
5, inspired and encouraged by
the U.S., Britain and the German
Federal Republic, is likely to
serve the NATO plans as a
mode! for Europe and falls with-
in the global strategy of the
U.S., whose aggression against
the Vietnamese people is, at the
present time, the gravest de-
monstration of U.S. policy.

The Israeli government has
proclaimed its intention to an-
nex all the conquered territories,
in particular Jerusalem, Gaza
and Transjordan. Such an atti-
tude is intolerable, especially as
under the pretext of defending
its territory, Israel had already
annexed, before June 5, by arm-
ed forces areas which greatly
increased the initial size of its
territory. The measures taken by
the Israeli authorities in the oc-
cupied territories, that is to say,
their attempt to threaten and
coerce the population of these
territories into submitting to
Israeli laws and institutions, the
setting up of new colonies in
these territories, the call for
foreign settlers to take posses-
sion of these Arab lands, and the
exploitation of the natural re-
sources of these regions with
the assistance of the internatio-
nal monopolies, are proof of a
deliberate policy of conquest
and exploitation to which per-
petual discrimination against
the Arabs and chauvinistic re-
pression of the democratic
forces are added within Israel
itself.

All measures imposed upon
the occupied territories by the
Government of Israel are pro-
voking a legitimate and growing
popular resistance. The count-
less expulsions of inhabitants by
the occupying forces and the
crimes committed by these
forces have aroused world con-
demnation.

The presiding committee of
the World Council of Peace has
been extensively informed about
this by the delegation of the
Council that has just visited the
UAR, Syria and Jordan, and
vigorously denounces such acts.

We call on all organizations
and groups standing for peace to
send their representatives to
Arab countries in order to ac-
quaint themselves with the prob-
lems facing these countries in
connection with the Israeli ag-
gression.

Faithful to the principle of the
WCP, we oppose and will al-
ways resist all discrimination on
the grounds of race and religion,

‘**' Workers in Moscow's

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including anti-Jewish — senti-
ments. The Israeli aggression
and the occupation of territories
conquered by armed force are a
violation of international law
and of the UN charter. By pub-
licly repecting’ the resolutions
adopted by the UN and refusing
to accept its majority votes, the
Israeli leaders are defying world
public opinion.

The WCP stands for the just
struggles of the Arab peoples
for independence, progress and
peace and against all forms of
neocolonialism, and it stands at
their side in their efforts to put
-an end to the Israeli aggression
and its oscequences.

The presiding committee ex-
presses its solidarity with all the
victims of Israeli aggression. It
draws the attention of world
public opinion to the. intolerable
conditions created by the Israeli
aggression for those who were
obliged to abandon their homes.
The longer this situation is con-
tinued, the more hardships, suf-
ferings and misery are caused to
the hundreds of thousands of
people deprived of their land and
homes, It demands that com-
pensation for the damage be
granted and that the homes and
lands of all these refugees be
returned to them forthwith.
More broadly, it calls for the ap-
plication of the decisions adopt-
ed by the UN regarding the
Palestinian people and their re-
turn to their homeland. These
are essential conditions for the
establishment of lasting peace in
the Middle East, and they cor-
respond to the interests of all
the peoples and states of this
region.

The presiding committee
greets those people in Israel who
have courageously spoken out
against the aggressions and an-
nexionist policy of the Israeli
government. °
; Every attempt to find a poli-
tical solution that would elimin-
ate the consequences of an ag-
gression which jeopardizes
peace has met with categorical
rejection on the part of the
Israeli | eaders. Conditions of
peace can never result from a
war of aggression or a situation
when an aggressor is allowed to
keep captured territory and en-
couraged any other way.

The presiding committee calls
on all peace forces to launch a
world campaign for the immedi-
ate withdrawal of Israeli troops
from the occupied territories and
the implementation of the UN
resolutions. This is essential in
order to promote a just and last-
ing peace based on observance
of the legitimate rights of the
peoples of this region.

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Nov. 7 parade