Pare:
Tin of

Ih the. night from ‘October 31
November 1, 1954, the Alge-
‘Patriots began their libera-
he Struggle for their country’s
“pendence. More than seven

ha of ‘war took a toll of hund-
Of thousands of lives. But

athe Communist Party of Leba-
"celebrating its 50th anni-
de has among its announc-
gees: the development of an
nq oondent national economy,
a the realization of a foreign
yY based on: close coopera-
iy With the newly-free Arab
ne and friendship with the
lalist countries.
lane king to strengthen the al-
democratic forces

en Lebanon and _ throughout
bay nrad east, the Communists
Ik are their aim of spreading
bry 8S of scientific socialism

Ughout the area and famili-

the Arab peoples with

Bulgaria, a socialist country
tha an area slightly smaller
ith Newfoundland, ranks first
4y..° Balkans in per capita. pro-
n of electric power, coke,
.’ “inc and copper ores, cop-
ty” Soda ash, nitrogen fertiliz-
» 8nd other industrial goods.
ends while thousands of tour-
Yor from other parts of the

d may rate Bulgaria’s resorts

&
be country’s greatest asset,

Togress made in industrial-
Nene 1S, no doubt, her greatest

fess in economic develop-
at during the past 30 years.

‘ Was industrialization which
tines pre-war, backward, agri-
Ural Bulgaria into an advanc-
ty Mdustrial-agricultural ‘coun-
. Ndustry, which during this
% Od increased its production
Mes, now accounts for 65%
aR Gross National Product,
tomeo™ 52% of the national in-
y.. It employes 1,240,000 out
hg), ota! of -3,213,000 workers,
Uding office workers.
iy b © country’s industrialization
ig sed on economic planning
ij; State and cooperative owner-
4 Of the means of production.
y “Verage annual growth ‘rate
. ‘Ndustrial production has
sat least 12% in the last 20
fh, --This is particularly true
Savy industry whose output
t.© Postwar years’ has in-
a €d 123 times.
a Ulgaria’s membership in the
Aggie for Mutual Economic
Mytance (CMEA) has made it
ible for her to specialize in

re . Hy
hich Oduction of those items

col

tq. re best suited to natural -

» conomic conditions.

j this enabled Bulgaria to build
or Comparatively short time
Bint power production, ma-
the €-building, metallurgical and
ttical industries; in 1973
branches accounted for

Union and other Euro-
, _ Ocialist countries, and by
ly purchase of complete plant,
Cen lations, machinery and
i cS froma number of West
ig bean countries. In structure
a . ‘echnological standards, Bul-
th, S industry is very close to
a,.0f the advanced industrial
tes.
mt the -post-war period the
tity; "S aggregate energy ‘capa-
creased 40 times with the

Bulgarian indus

the Algerians won complete
victory, and the colonialists
were driven out.

After winning independence,
with the country badly devastat-
ed, many enterprises idle and
the lands of the former big
estate owners untilled, the Alge-

Lebanon CP calls for unity

the successes and achievements
of socialism. :
The Lebanese Communists
urge the country’s progressives
to unite in the struggle against
imperialism and against Israel’s
aggressive actions on Lebanon's
borders, to play a greater role in
eliminating the consequences of
the Israeli aggression, and

achieving a peaceful Middle East .
settlement. This, they point out,

requires .the complete with-
drawal of Israeli troops from all
Arab territories occupied in
1967, and the satisfaction of the
legitimate national rights of the
Palestinian Arabs.

Algeria— 20 years of growth

rians flatly rejected the capitalist
road of development.

Following nationalization of
foreign enterprises a public sec-
tor was created which, steadily
expanding, embraced the ferrous
and non-ferrous metal industries,
ore-mining, oil and gas produ-

tion, the building industry and

heavy engineering. Much atten-
tion was paid to solving the
agrarian problem. The essence
of the agrarian reforms in the
country was to ensure the poor-
est peasants land and to create
an expensive network of agricul-
tural cooperative societies.

The results of this policy in
just 20 years are clearly visible.
Industrial enterprises are being
set up, universities and technical
colleges are’ being established,
hospitals, schools, apartment
houses and sports facilities are
being built. Particular attention
is paid to education. In its bud-
get allocations for these pur-
poses Algeria is one of the lead-
ers among the developing coun-

tries. :

trialization

Bulgarian Communist Party First Secretary Zhivkov at opening of

the Kozloui nuclear power plant.

pbuilding of more than 120 hydro-
and thermo-power stations, 60%
of it used in industry. :
The first nuclear power station
in south-east Europe was recent-
ly put in operation at Kozlodui
on the Danube, with a capacity
of 880 mega-watts. Bulgaria
ranks 13th in the world in the
output of coal (27,250,000 tons
in 1972), and sixth in the per
ita output.
a nie Dulin accounts for
23% of total industrial produc-
tion and for 39% of the coun-
try’s exports. In the 1960-1973
period machine-building produc-
tion increased 7.5 times, while
the total industrial output in-
creased four times. This
intensive development _stems
from its important role in the
technical reconstruction of the
national economy from the co-
operation, ‘specialization and i,
tegration within the framewor
of CMEA, and from employing
manpower released from agricul-
ture as a result of mechanization.
Particularly developed, mainly
for export purposes, 1S the. pro-
duction of mechanical handling
equipment, agricultural and me-
tal-cutting machines, computer
and communications equipment,
and electric and electronic ap-
eka specializes in the
production of 400 kinds of ma-
chine-building products, | and. is
one of the world’s leading pro-
ducers and exporters of electric
trucks and hoists. Bulgarian ma-

chines are sold in some 70

‘countries.

In metallurgy, Bulgaria ranks
second in the world in the lead
production per capita, third in
zinc, and eighth in cooper. The
Kremikovtsi Works near Sofia,
the capital, meets 70% of the
country’s ferrous metal needs. ~

Considerable facilities for oil
refining and the production of
various chemicals were built in
the past 15 to 20 years. This year
a plant for soda ash with a capa-
city of 2.2 million tons was com-
missioned at the Devnya indus-
trial complex. It is one of the
largest of its kind in the world.

There are several large chemi-
cal combined works in _ the
country, turning out mineral
fertilizers, tires, synthetic fibres,
medicines etc. The relative share
of the chemical and rubber in-
dustry in industry as a whole is
7.9%. In the past 13 years its

output increased almost eight

times, a production growth rate

‘twice as high as in industry as

a whole.

The dynamic growth of Bul-
garia’s heavy industry continues
in the Sixth Five Year Plan
(1971-1975) which envisages the
production of twice as many
machine-building items in 1975
as in 1970, 10 times as much
cemputer equipment, 30,000-
31,000 million kwh of electric
power, 1.15 million tons of mine-
ral fertilizers, 70,000-75,000 tons
of synthetic fibres and the refin-
ing of 12-13 million tons of oil.

WORLD NEWS

UNESCO TO EXCLUDE ISRAEL FROM AID

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted .

on Nov. 21 to exclude Israel from its annual aid. The $24,000 sum
was cut-off for the Israeli disfiguration of Christian and Moslem
monuments in the occupied Arab section of Jerusalem. The vote

was 64 to 27 with 24 abstentions.

BLACK LUNG RULING HOLDS UP SETTLEMENT

. WASHINGTON—The United Mine Workers of America Bargain-
ing council have sent the proposed new agreement back to the
bargaining table for ‘“‘re-adjustment”, thus extending the week old
strike indefinately. Certain to complicate the strike picture isa
ruling by three U.S. federal court judges that struck out as un-
constitutional a section of the Mine Safety Act of 1969. Under this

‘section of the Act, a miner who had black lung disease was

presumed to have contracted it in the mines and was paid benefits.
Mine operations may now challenge each case to prove that the
disease was not contracted in the mines.

CHILE JUNTA TO ‘RE-EDUCATE’ CHILDREN
- WASHINGTON — A sub-committee of the Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee of the U.S. House of Representatives has been informed of a
plan by the fascist military junta in Chile to send children of
Popular Unity government supporters to “work camps”. Mr. Niall
McDermot, the International Commission of Jurists secretary-
general said that the junta was planning to set up camps for as
many as 600,000 children for. “re-education” purposes. :

UN SUPPORTS CREATION OF PALESTINE STATE

UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly on Nov. 22
endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state, voting 89 to 8, with 37
abstentions. The motion also called on all countries to help the
Palestinian Liberation Organization with its struggle for that goal.
The General Assembly also voted to grant the PLO the right to a
permanent observer position at the General Assembly in New York
as well as at all conferences held under the auspices of the UN.

~ GDR-Yugoslav meet —

deepens fraternal ties

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN—The German Demo-
cratic Republic. and Socialist
Yugoslavia have deepened their
fraternal relations and have
jointly called upon all the social-
ist and progressive forces in the
world to unite their efforts in
the struggle against imperialist
diversion, for lasting peace and
national progress.

The call was issued in a joint
ccmmunique during the state

visit of Yugoslav President Josip.

Broz Tito to the GDR, where he
was the guest of Erich Hone-
cker, first secretary of Socialist
Unity Party. :

The communique, which re-
presented a complete exposure
of the anti-communist press pro-
paganda in the West of relations
between Yugoslavia and other
socialist countries, described co-
operation in all fields as a prin-
ciple of relations between Yugo-
slavia and the GDR.

It supported effective action
to carry through the final stage
of the European Conference on
Collective Security, paid tribute
to the Soviet Union and ‘the
other socialist states for their
contribution to that end, expres-
sed satisfaction on the trend to
co-existence in the world, but
warned that “thé ‘current inter-
national situation still demands
increased activity on the part of
all socialist and progressive
forces in the world against im-
-perialism and reaction.”

On the Tito-Honecker talks
the communique said: “They
both .stressed the necessity of
strengthening cooperation, on
the basis of equality, of Com-
munist and Workers’ parties (in
the world) in the spirit of the
teaching of Marx, Engels and
Lenin.. They also stressed the
Significance of the expansion of
cooperation with all progress
and socialism.” The GDR-Yugo-
slav summit took place in an
atmosphere of obvious cordial-

ity and brought agreement on
long term practical measures
for even closer, mutually advan-
tageous economic relations. It
was seen as a significant devel-
opment:in the further drawing
together of socialist countries in
Europe, and, on a wider scale,
as a most positive contribution
to greater unity in the world
Marxist and working - class
movement as a whole.

It also forced a number of
Western capitalist press agen-
cies, newspaper monopolies and
unbridled anti-Soviet commen-
tators to eat their own dirt in
considerable quantities. This as-
sorted anti-communist clique
had for some time been blowing
up a propaganda storm about all
kinds of menacing and explosive
situations between Yugoslavia
and other socialist countries.

_ In actual fact, however, the
Tito - Honecker meeting here
showed that. for years now
Yugoslavia and the GDR have
been steadily deepening their
cooperation and, as stated in the
communique, have the same or
similar views on vital issues of
the day. As for the different
methods or forms of organiza-
tion they may use in construct-
ing socialist’ society, in the
words of the authoritative Bel-
grade organ, Kommunist, “these

‘are in no way an obstacle to the

many-sided cooperation.”

Foreign observers with knowl}-
edge of the world working-class
movement assessed this new ad-
vance in GDR-Yugoslav rela-
tions as a positive gain for the
international movement. Yugo-
slavia’s League of Communists,
they point out, took part recent-
ly in the Warsaw preparatory
meeting for a continental con-
ference of Communist — and
Workers Parties.

The ' Tito-Honecker summit.
the observers feel. will vield
positive results in international
efforts to strenethen the unitv of
the world socialist movement.

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