British urge unity meeting

In a statement which says that
a new and dangerous stage has
been reached in the controversy
in the international Communist
Movement, the Executive Com-
Mittee of the British Communist
Party has urged the resumption
of talks between the Communist
Party .of the Soviet Union and
the Communist Party of China,
which were suspended last July
On the initiative of the Chinese
Party.

The British party also asks
all Communist parties to con-
Sider the necessity to start prep-

_-arations for a world conference

some time next year.

The statement declares that
British Communists ‘‘refuse to
accept that a split in the inter-
national Communist movement
is inevitable, as there is no
justification fora split. in the
objective conditions.

**A split will only help our
enemies,’’ continues the state-
ment.

** Already it is only too clear
how the imperialists are build-
ing on and exploiting every div-
ision in our movement and
praying that the USSR and
People’s China will increasingly
find themselves at loggerheads”’.

Chinese gains celebrated

By BERT WHYTE
(PT Staff Correspondent)
More than half a million resi-
dents of Peking and suburbs cele-
brated China’s 14th birthday Oct..
1 in Tienanmen Square. Two
thousand guests from 80 coun-
tries watched the two-hour
Parade from reviewing stands.
The. militia section of the
March-past was bigger than in
Previous years but the main
theme of the celebration was
advances on industrial and agri-
Cultural fronts. Colorful charts,
floats and banners proclaimed
Successes achieved.
Mayor Peng Chen in a keynote
Speech said the harvest this year
‘may still surpass that of last
Year, even though not afew areas’

have suffered from extra-
Ordinarily serious floods and
drought.’’

He said the Chinese believed
the world’s socialists, joined by
Asians, Africans and Latin
‘Americans and the western coun-

tries, including the U.S., could
jointly prevent a new world war.

On the rostrum were Mao Tse-
tung and other party and govern-
ment leaders.

“At a banquet in the Great Hall
of the people the preceding
evening Premier Chou En-lai
said that ‘‘the Chinese people
have consistently followed a
policy of mainly relying on their
own efforts while seeking ex-
ternal assistance as an auxiliary
both in their revolutionary strug-
gles and in socialist construc-
tion.’? He stressed that present
achievements ‘‘are small indeed
compared with our long-range
aspirations and our responsi-
bility to progressive mankind.
Moreover there is no lack of
shortcomings and mistakes in
our work.”’

A feature at the banquet was the

unheralded appearance of Mao
Tse-tung just before the affair

concluded.

Spain to get more U.S. ‘aid’

Spanish dictator Francisco
Franco, facing a grave domestic
Crisis because of a prolonged
Miners’ strike in the Asturias
Tegion, has just concluded a new
Pact with the U.S. which will
allow American imperialism to
Maintain a $500 million network
Of bases in Spain.
A previous agreement has now
been extended for five years.
Under the new terms the U.S.
‘Will provide further aid in build-
ing up Spain’s armed forces and
Military industries.
In negotiations, U.S. Secretary
Of State Dean Rusk also pledged
that the facilities of the American

Export-Import Bank, which hadin

the past 10 years financed $200

million worth of loans to Spain,
would continue to be available.

Inhuman tortures inflicted on
the wives of two Spanish miners
involved in the present strike
in the Asturias have aroused
nationwide indignation. A letter
of protest, signed by 102 Spanish

intellectuals. has been forwarded.

to the Franco government.

The two women, Anita Brana
and Tina Bayon, after being tor-
tured by the fascist police, had
their heads cropped and were
subjected to other indignities.

_ NATO H-fleet condemned

Poland and the German Demo-
Cratic Republic last week pub-
lished a joint declaration sharply
Condemning American efforts to
Create a NATO nuclear force and
SO help the West Germans to get
their hands on nuclear weapons.

NEW PEACE GROUPS

One of Britain's distinguished
Peace leaders, 91-year-old Bert-
rand Russell, has announced the
establishment of two new peace
foundations — the Bertrand Rus-
Sell Peace Foundation and the
Atlantic Peace Foundation.

Making the news _ public,
Russell stated: ‘We intend to
develop our own media of com-
Munications—radio, press, films,
Journals — a community of dis-
CUssion which will not depend
Upon an establishment-controlled
Cr government - intimidated
press, ‘4

A radio station in Europe will

be one of the projects undertaken.
Tt win proadcast appeals for
disarmament.

The declaration was signed by
Walter Ulbricht, secretary ofthe
German Socialist Unity Party
and Wladislaw Gomulka, secre-
tary of the Polish United Workers
Party.

Bonn’s determination to. re-
draw the. map of Europe and to
prevent any relaxation of tension

must be stopped by recognizing |

the actual situation following the
Second World War, they said.

This meant recognizing that
two German states exist, that
the borders of the GDR with
Poland and West Germany, as
well as the special situation of
West Berlin, must be seen as
facts which could not be changed.

The two powers favored ground
control stations against sudden
attack, disengagement in middle
Europe, and the reduction of for-
eign troops in both German
states.

China, they said, should be ad-
mitted to the UN. They urged
the Chinese leaders to‘‘return to
the path of Communist unity.”

roe tie

CIRCULATION ROUNDUP:

Sub Drive far téo slew.
needs immediate action

By JERRY SHACK
(Circulation Mgr.)

Our annual Fall Sub Drive, af-
ter getting off to a good start,
has bogged down somewhat.
Most of our press builders are
probably still recuperating from
the provincial election. Either
that, or they don't feel that we
are really ‘‘in’’ the drive as
yet....that there is still plenty
of time left.

Whatever
the reasons,
we think it
necessary to
point out that
by far the ©
greater ma-
jority of
press clubs,
have done
little or
nothing in the drive so far. Un-
less steps are quickly taken, we
are in danger of failing to meet
our drive commitment and thus
of losing all the circulation gains
we have registered since the be-
ginning of the year.

As of this date, the city has
submitted 180 subs on its target
of 937: the province 134 on 916.
Of this total of 314 subs, more
than half (163) have been in paper
sales, showing that there is a
wide field for a paper such as
the PT in our province.

However, the number of ac-
tual subscriptions, as represent-
ed by renewals and new readers,
definitely shows that we are not
getting out into this untapped
stream. The figures show that we
have received 151 6-month and 1-7

year subs on an objective of 1475.
Since the beginning ofSeptember,
only 15 new readers have been
won, including two in the city
during October and not even one
in the province.

This is a far cry indeed from
what isneeded. At atime whenthe
international political climate
has never been as favorable as
it is now, at a time when more
and more people in B.C. are
searching for answers to their
pressing problems, we can reach
new heights in extending the popu-
larity and influence of our paper.
Unfortunately, the results todate

“What you need, Sir, is a nice
quiet weekend down at Cliveden
to forget all about it!”

indicate that we are not yet seiz-
ing these new opportunities which
are presenting themselves to us.

In the city, for example, only
the Broadway and Olgin clubs
are near the 25 percent mark of
their quoatas. In the province,
the New Westminster club leads
with eight subs on its quota. of
40.. ....or about 20 percent. And
yet in just one week’s time the
drive will be half over.

In spite of all the weaknesses,
however, there are some encour-
aging signs. Both the city and
Province are doing well with
paper sales, with some outstand-
ing clubs already being well over
their quotas in this respect,i.e
Vancouver East and Nanaimo.
All told, our paper sales target
is already 42 percent fulfilled.

Another interesting feature is
that most of the renewals that
have come in so far, have been.
mailed in by subscribers all over
the province andthe Lower Main-
land, without waiting for someone
to call around and collect.

In other words, this shows once
again that where we are able to
get the paper into a worker’s
hands, it is being read and sub-
scriptions renewed.

The prime need now is to mo-
bilize all our forces inthe strug-
gle towinnewreaders toourexist-
ing mailing list. And the time
to do so is now. ... .becauseifwe
let another week or two slip by
we may well find ourselves with
a virtually insurmountable task
as the campaign proceeds.

Buck writes on errors of CPC

Cont'd from pg. 6
Marxist-Leninist debate. Even if
it were being resorted to in a
serious attempt to achieve unity,
it would be harmful because of
the suspicion, mistrust and con-
fusion that it disseminates.

But it is not an effort to
achieve unity; it is a considered
attempt to create a rift in the
world Communist movement. As
though to make this evident be-
yond any doubt, the Chinese com-_
rades, in their document of June
14, insinuate that the overwhelm-
ing majority of the Communist
and Workers parties, by their po-
licies, ‘‘are departing from
Marxism-Leninism and prole-
tarian internationalism.”’

In another part of their docu-
ment, but with reference to an
identical straw man, the Chinese
leaders declare ‘‘then such a
party is absolutely incapable of
leading the proletariat and the
masses in revolutionary strug-
gle, absolutely incapable of win-
ning the revolution and absolute-
ly incapable of fulfilling the great
historical mission of the pro-
letariat.’* In brief, although not
briefly, the central committee of
the Chinese party indicates by in-
nuendo that we are no longer
worthy of the historic name of
Marxist-Leninist parties.

After conjuring up astraw man
of alleged opportunistic policies,
the Chinese leaders suggest
that the evil that they have con-
jured up will be corrected in the
various parties only when
‘¢Marxist-Leninists inside and

- outside the party will replace’

the present leadership. Con-
cerning its own attitude to the
factional schisms that this anti-
cipates, the CC of the Chinese
party announces that, ‘‘together
with Marxist - Leninist parties
and revolutionary people the
world over,’’ it will continue
‘the struggle against imperial-
ism and for world peace.’’

Along with its systematic use
of defamatory innuendo in a man-
ner which makes it applicable
to every party which gives un-
equivocal support tothe 81-Party
Statement, the central committee
of the Chinese party resorts
periodically to carefully phrased
insinuations and general accusa-
tions directed against one per-
son, whom they identify, without
actually naming him, by refer-
ences to the introduction into the
body of Marxist-Leninist doc-
trine of the thesis that ‘‘war
is no longer fatalistically inevi-
table’’, the thesis that ‘‘in some
countries, provided that certain
conditions are fulfilled, it will
be possible to achieve the trans-
ition from capitalism to social-
ism without civil war,’’ and the
thesis that the struggle for
“*peaceful coexistence between
countries with differing politi-
cal and economic systems is
the most reasonable basis for
the foreign policies of the so-
cialist countries.”’

The fact that the CPSU is the
main target against which the
central committee of the Chin-
ese party is aiming its barbed
innuendos is made evident in
numerous pretendedly specula-
tive statements of which the fol-
lowing is a typical example:

“Tf anybody, following in the
footsteps of others defends the
erroneous opportunist line. and
policies pursued by a certain
socialist country instead of up-
holding the correct Marxist-Len-
inist line and policies which the
socialist countries ought to pur-
sue, defends the policy of split
instead of upholding the policy
of unity, then he is departing
from Marxism-Leninism and
proletarian internationalism.’’

Everybody who readsthe docu-
ment from which this quotation
is taken knows that the ‘‘cer-
tain socialist country’’ referred

to is the Soviet Union. This
is made evident all-through the
document.

As though to make sure that
no reader makes the mistake of
assuming that this defamatory in-
nuendo refers to Yugoslavia, the
document denounces the state-
ment that Yugoslavie is a soc-
ialist country and denounces
‘certain persons’’ for trying to
win that country back “‘into the
socialist community and the in-
ternational Communist ranks.’’

In the recent joint statement of
the Communist Party of China
and the Communist Party of New
Zealand the same technique is
used to smear individuals. Along
with terms that the Chinese lead-
ers use frequently to indicate
the first secretary of the CPSU
the Chinese and New Zealand
leaders charge that individuals
(whom they do not name direct-
ly) have emasculated the revolu-
tionary essence of Marx-
ism-Leninism, that they refuse
to support revolution themselves
and prevent others from sup- _
porting it, that they act as a
special detachment of United
States imperialism, have helped
to restore capitalism in Yugo-
slavia, that they weaken the
struggles of the colonial peoples
and sabotage the revolutionary

~ struggles of the peoples of the

whole capitalist world.

If there were any evidence at
all to justify such grave charges
against a member of the world
Communist movement, it should
be indicated and the person or
persons should be_ identified
clearly. Instead of that, the Chin-
ese and New Zealand leaders
throw out the charges ina sweep-
ing statement taking care only
to make it evident that the target
of their slanderous innuendo is
comrade N, S. Khrushchev, while
leaving themselves a small es-
cape hatch by not actually nam-
ing him.

October 11, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7