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“Garden City’—a common sight in Argentina. 25,000

Working class families live in these houses built of mud,
tin and cardboard. A few water outlets supply the entire

“city”,

Acute shortages

plague Argentina

ORE than three million
aie Argentinians live in
Communities in which
fre is no sanitary organiz-
ion _Whatsoever, where
Sar é no medical assistance
te able. This means that, so
34 as hygiene and medicine
Concerned, one-fifth of
iy peuntty’s entire popula-
a lving in a prehistoric
pe cording to statistics gath-
. y the World Health Or-
ay ation (UN) there are
tong 10 hospital beds per
ae inhabitants; this repre-
ira”. 36% of the re-
ficla number, and in the
sa of maternity homes,
¥- 25%.

ee is this the only short-
ma a by its people. 1,-
Ricdia\. homes are needed im-
noe ely. Barely 4% of the
Population have ade-

uate housing.
Tecent inquiry into hous-
eee wons in two of the
eae urban centres, con-
af by Dr. Thelma Cora,
wed that only one-third of
Pre-school age children
2 . alone; 35% share, their
oy one other person
With remaining 32% sleep
ble me or even more peo-
- These are 1945 figures,

at

ing

Slee

and since then the situation
has worsened.

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As a result of these tragic
conditions, it is almost im-
possible for the country’s
children to develop in a nor-
mal manner. In rural dis-
tricts, 23.2% of the popula-
tion over 14 years of age
cannot read or write their
own names; only 13% com-
plete their primary education
and in the poorest and least
populous provinces this figure
drops to 7%. Naturally, this
process of “flight from the
schools” increases in the sec-
ondary and higher levels.
Since the amount of educa-
tion received by a child is in
direct proportion to the social
position of that child’s family,
very few youngsters get the
benefit of any higher educa-
tion whatever.

The basis of ownership of
property — the latifundia—
is the main reason for this
terrifying situation in Argen-
tina’s countryside, and the
cities are only slightly better
off.

It remains to be seen just
how much outside aid will be
given to the people of Argen-
tina to help them break the
shackles-in which they find

themselves.

PROMINENT ARTISTS SAY -

RENOUNCE NUCLEAR TESTS,

Some of the

Wo theatre

r >
ets Most prominent stars
JOIned their fans in

S >
: Peaking for peace.

WORTH
__READING

wane Days that Shook the
ras by John Reed (Paper-
side $1.75). This book is con-

Ted the best eyewitness

ac

Polar of the Bolshevik Re-
0 f : a

cludes n. The material in

interviews, speeches,
Ons and press accounts
Beant full of quotations from
tments,
: mas Miies from Home,
50c arren Miller (Paperback
se his portrait of Cuba
Written on the spot by
cee novelist and is
a ie account of what is
PPening in Cuba today.

resoluti

Recently, a group of artists
sent a message to Premier
Khrushchev, President Ken-
nedy, Prime Ministter Mac-
millan and President De
Gaulle asking them to ‘work
unceasingly toward renuncia-
tion of nuclear tests.”

The signers included Rudy

Vallee, Orson Bean, Mimi
Benzell, Douglas Campbell
(Canada), Sydney Chaplin,

Gladys Cooper, Ossie Davis,
Uta Hagen, Julie Harris,
Wendy Hiller, Lotte Lenya,
Viveca Lindfors, Elaine May
and Maureen Stapleton.

SEEGER ON a;
When he was in Vancouver

a short time ago. Pete Seeger
taped a television show for
future use. The PT has learn-
ed that it will be shown on
the Seven O'Clock Show,
CBUT (Channel 2), on Thurs-
day, April 12th.

“The Conspirators”’
glorifies reaction

The Conspirators, by D. J.
Goodspeed. Available upon
request at People’s Co-op
Book Store. Price $5.00.

Major Goodspeed, working
in the obscurity of the Cana-
dian Army historical section

. in Ottawa, in this work seeks

to glorify the necessity and
desirability of counter-revo-
lution.

It would not be amiss to
once again warn Canadians
in these days of a rising
movement from the right in
North America, that this lat-
est book gives inspiration to
putschists of the John Birch
breed as well as to the more
experienced veterans of the
White Terror who make up
the various “ethnic” councils
on Canadian soil, and who

specialize in calling for war.

The Goodspeed book deals
with six attempted seizures
of power. Of the six, three of
them are attempted fascist
putsches; the fourth an ac-
count of the 1944 generals’
revolt against Hitler.

Actually, the latter was an
attempt to keep the German
people from moving to the
political left as Hitler’s de-
feat became obvious. ~ Allen
Dulles and British intelli-
gence undoubtedly had a
hand in this venture.

The Russian Revolution is
superficially treated in the
book, and where there is an
element of objectivity, the
suspicion arises that the
author cribbed from John
Reed’s ‘Ten Days that Shook
the World”.

See da Vinci
Thousands of people are

streaming through the doors,

of the National Gallery in
London to see the drawing of
the Virgin and Child with St.
John the Baptist. and St.
Anne, by Leonardo da Vinci.

&

This ‘picture, ~ entitled

——. Cambodia. —

Had he borrowed more, he
might have come to the con-
clusion that the Russian Re-
volution was not simply a
coup or takeover by a band
of professional putschites, as
the author energetically. seeks
to establish, but rather a pop-
ular revolution of the most
profound kind — unique in
history.

But authors like him are
completely incapable of un-
derstanding the nature of a
really popular revolution.

Thus, throughout the book,
we have the typically bour-
geois slander about revolu-
tionary leaders who spring
from the masses. They are
considered mentally unbalan-

ple of Germany and made it

Page Five of the PT is usual-
ly devoted to cultural events,
book reviews, reports of an
educational nature, and so
on. Since this is YOUR paper,
readers are urged to mail in
contributions and criticisms
of its contents.

ced. The leaders of the Easter
Rising in Dublin of 1915 are
designated as ‘“‘not completely
sane’, so too the Bolsheviks
and particularly Lenin.
Go

The only sane people, ac-
cording to Major Goodspeed,
are people like himself, the
von Stauffenbergs, General
Becks and the like, who led
the bomb plot against Hitler.

Goodspeed’s admiration for
these German generals blinds
his historical vision. He re-
veals his subjective desire in
his hostility to the Soviet
Union. He would have liked
the plot against Hitler to have
succeeded, not because it
would have brought victory
to the Allies more speedily,
and an end to Fascism, but
because it would have streng-
thened the capitalist hand
against the workers and peo-

st

by Mark Frank.

a better weapon against soc-
ialism.

The “he was mad” theory
of history is a favorite device
of bourgeois apologists. They
have written down as insane
William Lyon Mackenzie,
Louis Riel and many others
who fought oppression and
wrongdoing. Karl Marx suf-
fered particularly from boils.
Hence the vitriolic character
of his writings in Das Kapital.
Goodspeed belongs to this
species of historian. He writes
history to please his masters.

Reactionaries have always
acted thus. When they cannot
explain a revolutionary sob-
erly and objectively, they
ascribe his revolutionary
zeal to fanaticism. To write
otherwise might prove dan-
gerous to the class in power.

This anxiety to declare a
revolutionary insane is par-
ticularly manifest when the
prevailing capitalist regime
is being questioned. For in-
volved here are huge vested
interests, actual power ques-
tions of the day, the system
of exploitation and war, pro-
fits out of the arms race and
nuclear weapons contracts.

Unable to answer the ver-
dict of history. that revolu-
tions take place as a result
of definite historical material
conditions, authors like Good-
speed resort to subjective ex-
planations of these events,
while advancing their “white
terror” philosophy.

By this means they want to
create the idea that the pre-
vailing system of capitalism
is eternal and that if any
changes take (place they will
be only along the lines of an
enlightened “people’s capital-
ism’’. Of course, this is cari-
caturing the historical pro-
cess, and Major Goodspeed is
an expert in this occupation.

e Abridged from a review

tle “She is happy”, won a Gold Medal at the 1961 Moscow
International Exhibition of Photographic Art. Photographer was Jun Du Lam of

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