cP parley opens March 26%

the 21st British Columbia
Piennial convention of the Com-
Munist Party of Canada will be
held in the Plaza 500 hotel, 12th and
Cambie, Vancouver, March 26-28.
| The opening session on Friday,
March 26, will take the form of a
Concert and rally open to the
Public, commencing at 8 p.m. in
the main ballroom of the hotel. Bill
ashtan, leader of the Communist
Party of Canada, who recently
attended the 25th Congress of the
pommunist Party of the Soviet
Ree as leader of the fraternal
oon delegation, will address
€ gathering.

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The Friday night session will
also feature a salute to the pioneers
the party, honoring those who
“Ve been party members con-
Muously for 35 years or more.
The Main” report to the con-
€ntion will be delivered on
aturday morning, by Nigel
organ, provincial leader.
The draft resolution, outlining
rr Party policies, has been sent to
ee club for study, debate and
posals for amendments.
The draft opens with a short
Stimation of international
‘tationships and notes that ‘“‘the
national working class and
raocratic movements have
wn in strength and_ in-
Uence. . .”’ and that “Gmperialism
eer easingly being compelled to
et But while detente is the
Mant feature of the world

“defeat, the right-wing forces
which seek to undermine detente,
inflame apfti-Sovietism and
rekindle the cold war.”

The Maoist leadership in China is
sharply criticized for helping
imperialism in its struggle against
socialism, national liberation and
peace. ‘‘Far from fighting against
U.S. imperialism, they openly seek
collusion with it and other reac-
tionary forces in the capitalist
world against the USSR, other
socialist countries and detente.”

The current economic crisis in
the capitalist world is described as
“the longest, deepest and most
crippling of the post-war period.”
In dealing with the Trudeau wage
controls, the draft calls for ‘“‘mass
action to defeat the government’s
wage-cutting and unemployment-
creating policies.” It also calls for
common action in advancing “a
political alternative to the crisis
policies of monopoly and the
government, embodied in the 3-
point program of the Communist
Party, andthe 10-point program of
the Canadian Labor Congress.”’

A major section of the document
deals with the political situation in
B.C. “The opportunist position of
the Barrett leadership opened the
door to December’s electoral
disaster,’ it states. ‘‘The NDP’s
classless concept of a party of all
the people, which was directed to
win support among the middle
strata while attacking the working

rey, it is not irreversible.” class and its right to strike,
t calls for united action to inevitably led to defeat.”

The draft strongly rejects the
claim of right-wing social
democrats that the NDP govern-

- ment ‘‘went too far too fast.’’ In-
stead, it argues that the NDP
government did not go far enough.

The return of the Socreds in B.C.

SPRING is characterized as a setback for
the working people and the new
HOEDOWN government is described as a
reactionary coalition of Socreds,
Liberals and Conservatives.
Warning that in the period ahead
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the working people cannot depend
on the NDP right wing to fight for
their vital interests, the draft calls
for ‘“‘unity of all anti-monopoly
forces to break the power of the big
corporations.’’ This, it says, will
“open the way to finally eliminate
capitalism and replace it by a
socialist society.”

The final section deals with
building the Communist Party, the
Young Communist League and the
press.

The major effort in the period
ahead, as defined in the draft, is to
be directed ‘‘towards building the
party’s strength and influence
among the basic sections of B.C.’s
working class.”

The document closes with a note
of optimism:

“We enter .this convention
confident that with correct
policies, and changing objective
conditions more favorable to world
peace, detente and socialism, our
party will expand and grow in
influence.”

Communist Party leader William Kashtan, shown here addressing the
25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union last
week, wil speak to the opening session of the CP convention in

Vancouver March 26.

—Tass photo

City rally will highlight
York disarmament parley

A public rally at the Queen
Elizabeth Playhouse which will
include the showing of the award-
winning film The War Game will
kick off the campaign by the Ad
Hoc Committee for a World
Disarmament Conference to send
four B.C. delegates to the In-
ternational Disarmament Con-
ference to be heldin York, England
at the end of this month.

The Very Reverend Herbert
O’Driscoll, dean of Christ Church
Cathedral and Clive Lytle,
assistant secretary of the B.C.
Federation of Labor are scheduled
to speak at the Playhouse rally,
slated for Monday, March 22 at 8
p.m.

The film, which is to be shown at
the same time, was originally
commissioned by the British
Broadcasting Corporation but was
subsequently banned from
television.

Directed by Peter Watkins, it is a
fictionalized documentary
simulating the effects of a nuclear
attack.

Four delegates from. this
province are to attend the York
conference: Rev. Bob Burrows,
United Church; C. P. (Paddy)
Neale, secretary of the Vancouver

and District Labor Council; Ben ,

Metcalfe, freelance journalist and
UBC professor Dr. James Foulks.

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February in response to new
escalations of the arms race, the
York Conference was organized by

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the International Continuing
Liaison Committee of the World
Congress of Peace Forces together
with representatives of the United
Nations, the League of Arab States
and non-governmental
organizations.

Preparations for the conference
have been under way in Britain for
some months under the chair-

.manship of Frank Field, director

of the United Nations Association
for Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.

The principal aims of the forum
are to increase public awareness of
the dangers of the arms race and
the social and economic con-
sequences of ever-increasing arms
expenditure and to urge the early
convening of a United Nations
Disarmament Conference en-

compassing all UN member states

and non-governmental
organizations concerned with
disarmament.

Four commissions have been
established by the preparatory
committee to highlight the main
themes of the conference: Halting
the arms race, arms control,
disarmament and detente:
Disarmament and developing
countries; Disarmament and
social institutions in a changing
world; Social and economic con-
sequences of detente.

Hundreds of organizations and
individuals have already lent their
names as sponsors for the five-day
conference including several
British members of Parliament,
trade union leaders, and many
peace organizations as well as
scores of international
organizations.

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