Stockholm Appeal serves mankind's vital interests Given priority i in USSR, GDR “Along with the Soviet Union and the other fraternal socialist countries, the GDR is one of the pioneers fighting for the ending of 4 the arms race, for arms limitation and disarmament,’ begins a statement unanimously agreed upon in the People’s Chamber of the German Democratic Repub- lic, the country’s highest repre- sentative body. The statement, in which all deputies from the five political parties gave their support to the Stockholm Appeal of the World Peace Council, places the GDR government solidly behind the world-wide signature and en- dorsement campaign. The statement goes on to ‘‘ad- vocate a World Disarmament’ Conference, a ban on all nuclear weapons tests, a ban on the de- velopment and production of new weapons of mass destruction, as well as a world treaty on the re- nunciation of force in_inter- national relations.”’ Besides this parliamentary ac- tion, “‘hundreds of thousands of citizens of our republic, all sec- tions of the population and many important personalities have al- ready given their consent to this campaign ...’’ reports Wemer Rumpel, general secretary of the Peace Council of the GDR. Interests of Mankind On July 22, the president of the People’s Chamber of the GDR, Gerald Goetting, received a dele- gation of the GDR Peace Council, led by its president, Prof. Dr. Guenther Drefahl, who described the numerous actions in the GDR in support of the Stockholm Appeal. The Appeal, said the statement of the parliamentarians, ‘“‘com- plies with the vital interests of mankind in a world of peace, progress and national indepen- dence of the peoples. ‘*In the name of all parliamen- tary groups of the People’s WORLD NEWS 4 | ATTICA PROTEST INCLUDES 95% OF INMATES = | ATTICA, New York — Ninety-five percent of inmates. at Att state prison took part in a peaceful protest against conditions in O overcrowded jail and to press for negotiations with the state on a list? nine demands. The protest, in which inmates refused to leave their cells, comes the heels of a government sponsored report which found conditions! the prison to be the same, or worse than those at the time of the Att a uprising. a Top government officials, includi kholm Appeal. More than 160,000,000 Soviet citizens have signed the world-wide appeal to end the arms race. Chamber of the GDR (including | political parties, trade unions, women’s and youth organizations — editor), in the name of all citi- zens of the GDR, we are in full agreement with the Appeal of the World Peace Council to the people of all countries for joint actions in bringing an end to the arms race and bringing about arms limitations and disarma- ment,’’ the statement concludes. Brezhnev Signs In the Soviet Union the Soviet Peace Committee held an en- larged plenary meeting in Mos- cow in August 17, to examine progress in the Stockholm Appeal ‘petition campaign. The noted writer, N.S. Tikho- nov, chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; said that the cam- paign had acquired country-wide proportions, and that the signing of the petition by Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet lead- ers “‘was an event of great politi- cal importance.”’ : He said it was “‘convincing evi- dence of the striving of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union and the entire Soviet people to stop the arms race, to ensure the stability and irreversibility of the process of the relaxation of inter- ing Leonid Brezhnev, sign the Stoc- Peace Committee vice-president, most 160 million Soviet citizens had signed the Appeal. Participants in the meeting welcomed the contemplated con- vocation in Helsinki of a world conference for stopping the atms race. : Urge weapons ban GENEVA — Viktor Likhachev, Soviet representative at the United Nations Disarma- ment Committee, strongly urged on Aug. 10, the beginning of work on an international treaty to ban new mass extermination weapons and weapons systems. Among the kinds of weapons banned by such a treaty would be those: based on matter/anti- matter reactions; causing mass sterilization; targeted at specific ethnic groups; producing mass psychological aberrations: (al- ready tested in USA). All these are technically feasi- ble, and extreme circles of im- perialism, in stepping up the arms race, justify the use of these hor- ror weapons along with mass- murder nuclear weapons to freeze GUILTY PLEA ENTERED IN CYPRUS TRIAL NICOSIA — Nicos Sampson pleaded guilty last week to ““carryill on warlike undertakings’’ when he became president of Cyprus fo eight days during the July 1974 coup against Archbishop Makarios) LEBANESE COMMUNISTS CALL FOR AID AGAINST syRIA| BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Communist Party has called for the for™) tion of a national democratic front and a popular army to defeat ! rns alliance between Syria and the Lebanese right-wing. 7 Academician ¥.K. Fedorov,’ al- In the wake of the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp al-Zaatar, the party has also renewed its appeal for world-wide mol and material support for the progressive movement in Lebanon. j SOVIET COSMONAUTS RETURN TO EARTH a MOSCOW — Soviet cosmonauts Boris Volynov and Vi Zholobov returned to earth Aug. 24 after 48 days aboard the orbi space station Salyut 5. The two, who spent 49 days from blastoll : touchdown, did not break the space endurance record of 84 days sa 5 U. ae astronauts A mass grave of victims of the Smith nats s brutal massacre” + Rhodesian refugees encamped in Mozambique. Over 600 people w® national tensions.”’ As of August 15, world social development in im- reported perialism’s favor. murdered, many more injured. The United Nations has declared that™) camp was a bona fide settlement of refugees, not a base for Zimbab! liberation fighters, as Smith claimed. By ALFRED DEWHURST The need is unity, not division The August issue of 199 News, of- ficial organ of Local 199, United Auto Workers, carries a most mischievous editorial “‘Democracy vs Dictator- ship’’. This editorial, virulently anti- communist, purporting to champion the cause of the New Democratic Party by counterposing, NDP ideology to that of ‘‘communism"’, can only be cited as a complete fabrication of a deranged mind. What can be the purpose of this editorial other than to sow disunity and division in the ranks of the union's members, when the overriding need of the moment is unity and more unity. The writer of the editorial resorts to the favorite weapon of the boss class — anti-communism — as a device to di- vert the attention of workers away from the proven main enemy of democracy and of the people, namely, monopoly capitalism. And he chooses to do so at a time when the UAW is in negotiations, and the Canadian Labor Congress and its affiliates are engaged in mobilizing a massive national day of protest (general strike) against the labor-shackling Bill C-73 and the wage-cutting AIB. * * * The editorial does a disservice to the paper’s readers, the union whose property the paper is, the labor move- ment as a whole, and, in particular, the New Democratic Party. The editorial PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 3, 1976—Page 6 Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World ~ names that party as the most consistent champion of anti-communism. It does so in these words: ‘It (the NDP) always has fought and always will fight com- munism in Canada.’’ (our emphasis) This statement places the NDP, as a party, in the same camp as the writer of the editorial. More than that, it- gives the NDP pride of place. Every politi- © cally conscious worker, regardless of party, (particularly the readers of the Tribune) knows that the Communist Party and the NDP have important dif- ferences of a_political-ideological character. For instance, the Com- munist Party immediately endorsed the national day of protest when it was cal- led. The NDP. on the other hand, with the exception of the B.C. section has yet to do so. However, these differences on prin- ciple questions of the workers’ class struggle do not constitute insur- mountable obstacles blocking the pos- sibility of united action in the daily struggle to advance the interests of the working people. Every honest worker, conscious of the paramount need of united struggle for a democratic alternative to the crisis policies of monopoly, would hope that both Local 199 and the. NDP will re- pudiate this labor-splitting editorial. * OK A favorite argument of the ene- mies of unity is the unproved asser- tion that socialists and communists have nothing in common. The falseness of this argument was exposed by none other than Professor G.D.H. Cole, a prominent theoretician of the British Labor Party, who cited four principal points where the views of communists and socialists coincided: (1) the con- viction that the most important means of production should be collectively - owned and used in the interests of the whole society; (2) both communists and socialists strive to build a society witha high level of well-being and widest op- portunities for education, public health, social security, etc., (3) both agree that nobody has the right to live by the labor of others, i.e., that there should be no exploitation; (4) both are convinced that building a new soceity is the task of the working class. * Ok OK None of the arguments against com- munist and socialist unity of action can stand up to critical examination. ‘tivities of such advocates the urge © There are no insurmountable bari to the cooperation of communists at socialists. Evidence of this is the gr ing unity between socialists and ¢O” munists in some West Europ) countries. The lack of unity is not due to the fa that socialists and communists ha! nothing in common. They could & ily come to agreement if the reacti? ary forces of capitalism did not const : ly interfere. . Who stands in the way of workitl class unity can be answered in only 0% way. It is the ruling circles of monop?)) capital that stand in the way. It is in ™ interests of capitalist reaction that ‘ advocates of anti-communism in 1 labor movement act. a However, despite the splitting ® unity grows in the ranks of the worké This urge grows stronger and stroné as the consequences of the ci) policies of monopoly affect more 2") more workers. All workers, regard G of party or political belief, are becom 44 increasingly anxious about their secU) ty. This sense of insecurity, which bf become a permanent feature ° capitalist society, operates in favor * unity. | It is this factor that made possible ™ CLC’s call for a National Day of PS test against the federal governmet!) so-called anti-inflation program.