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= ary policy is breeding.

gets because they

The LPP makes no bones

about its opposition to the for-
eign policy of the King govern-
ment and of the Tories. It active-
ly opposes it because it is, rub-
ber-stamped in London and Wash-
ington, not made in Ottawa,

‘Communists always
carry out the foreign
policy of the Soviet
Union."

This country has a Bevin-Chur-
chill .- Marshail - Truman foreign
policy of “Anglo-Saxon” (read
“Wall Street”) supremacy. That
policy, as announced by Churchill
in his Fulton, Mo., speech in 1946,
is to prop up every decaying reac-
tionary group wherever it still has
the strength to crawl around and
is not yet buried, as in Greece,
China, Turkey. It is to work for
the exclusion of Communists from
any positions of influence any-
where in the world, and to pre-
Pare by force of arms if necessary
to dislodge them.

That is why the King govern-
ment condemned the democrati
decision of the Czechoslovak peo-
ple to change their government to
exclude the “company stooges” of
U.S. big business. That is why Ot-
tawa backs up the British and
U.S. government in their machin-
ations in Italy and France; ships
war aircraft to China; supports
MacArthur's policy of rebuilding
the power of the Japanese indust-
rialists.

The LPP opposes this, propos-
ing instead that every nation shall
be free to determine its own form
ef government; that reaction and
fascism everywhere
sternly combatted; that the Can-
adian government give up once
and for all its policy of anti-So-
vietism and instead recognize not

only the possibility but the urgent _

answered by LESLIE MORRIS

N this third and concluding article of a series started

in the April 3 issue of the Pacific Tribune, Leslie 2
Morris, editor of the Canadian Tribune, deals with a few
of the false accusations made against the Communists.
There are many others, most of them variations of these.
= These slanders are designed for the purpose of de-
= Stroying the civil liberties of Canadians; to soften
= them up for war; to weaken the workers’ movement
= So that wage cuts and unemployment will be harder
= to resist; to prepare the soil for the economic crisis
and the fascist dictatorship which Canadian reaction-

The Communists are singled out for the main tar-

: are the most active opponents of
reactionary capitalist policy.

Neither the Communists nor the labor movement
= can be destroyed; but they can be hurt by reaction
and fascism. and the road ahead for the people as a
whole can be made more difficult.

shall be.

G
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interests

necessity—for Canada’s
-—of living peaceably in the same
world as the Socialist states.

That the securing of a lasting
peace is the aim and policy of
the USSR is not surprising. For it
is a socialist country; not only
does it need conditions of peace to
rebuild its vast areas of Nazi-in-
flicted devastation—bui the very
nature of the socialist system of
society itself dictates a peace pol-
icy. In place of profit-mad corpor-*
ations seeking markets and fields
of investment abroad while throt-
tling purchasing-power at home,
the socialist economy works as a
planned, cooperative effort, produ-
cing for need and not for profit,
and freed from all exploitation of
man by man.

.The LPP starts from Canada,
not from Moscow. It would much
rather be able to say that it ag-,
rees: with the general policies of
Britain and the U.S., as was pos-
sible during the war, for that
would mean that Big Three unity
was still here.

There are two camps in the
world today: one is the camp of
imperialism, of reaction, headed
by the strongest imperialist state,
the U.S., with Canada and Britain
as satellites. The other camp is
that of peace, anti-imperiatism,
social progress—in which are to
be found not only the socialist
Soviet Union but many new states
which have won their freedom, as
well as the millions of Peoples in
all countries who above all want
peace.

The LPP supports the policy of
the anti-imperialist, peace camp.
If Canada is to regain her inde-
pendence in foreign affairs she
must strike out for peace for her
people; she must be in the second
camp, not the first.

This is not a “made in Moscow”
foreign policy. It is a policy of

genuine Canadianism, for wart
will bring only disaster to the
Canadian people.

e@

The term “fifth column” came

from Spain, denoting a fascist
force within the democratic terri-
tory.

President Truman says the U.S.
government will not allow Com-
munists to be included in the gov-
ernment of China. He is in favor
of a coalition government—exclu-
ding the Communists, who lead
more than 100,000,000 people.

‘The Communists are
a@ fifth column.’

The United States or Britain
have troops in the following coun-
tries: Greece, Turkey, Iran, Aust-
ralia, Greenland, China, Korea,
Japan, Canada, Latin America,
the Philippines, the South Sea Is-
lands, Hawaii, Palestine, Cyprus,
North Africa, in fact practically
in all spheres of influence and
power throughout the world—ex-
cept the Soviet Union and the new
Eastern and Central Enropean
democracies.

The Soviet Union has_ with-
drawn its troops from all coun-
tries other than former enemy
territories in which they are pres-
‘ent by allied agreement.

Who is.interfering in the affairs
of other people?

The Truman doctrine of March,

: 1946, changed the world situation

from one offering chances of Big
Three Unity to one of war danger.
What does the Truman doctrine
say? That the U.S. will take ac-
tion to “prevent the spread of
communism” anywhere in the
world, whether the peopie of a
country support it or not. In other
words, actions to build up a “fifth
column” within that. country,
against the will of its people.

American big business finances
a fascist dictatorship in Greece
and sends U.S. army forces there;
arms Turkey and Chiang’s China,
two reactionary states; sends war-
ships into the Mediterranean to
intimidate the people of France
and Italy; bribes and orders right-
wingers in Italy and France to
oust democratically elected Com-
munists from the government on
pain of refusal-of American food;
prevents the unity of Germany,
splits Korea and backs up terror-
ist elements in South Korea and
denies democracy to the workers
and peasants; reconstitutes the
Japanese regime of industrialists
end the Son of Heaven.

Is not this a program of “fifth
column” attack upon the demo-
cratic right’ of the people of a
country to choose their way of
life without interference. from
some outside power?

,All this is described in the
commercial press as a “struggle
for power” between the U.S. and
Anglo-American imperialism and
its “fifth columns” on the one
hand, and on the other, the demo-
cratic camp, the forces of popular
progress in all countries. E

What we are witnessing is an
attempt of the U.S. monopolists
to take over the position once held
in the world by Britain; to push
out every other interest save its
own; to redivide the world for
U.S. profits.

e

10 It is capitalism which is
breaking up the home by
denying decent modern housing
to the vast majority of Canadians.

‘The Communists want
to break up the home
and destroy religion.’

The biggest single cause of fam-
ily disharmony and divorce is
economic; worry about paying the
family’s: way; bad housing and
consequent overcrowding and
lack of privacy; working mothers
who are compelled to neglect
their children against their loving
instinets because the government

will not provide enough nurseries;
anxiety and worry about the fu-
ture employment of the breadwin-
ners; deep concern about the fu-
ture of the children. ;

The Soviet Union, despite the
awful devastation of the war, has
astounded the world with the so-
cial advances in living and work-
ing conditions; it is the most ad-
vanced nation in the world in the
case of the family.

It is a lie that socialism denies
religious freedom and stops peo-
ple from worshipping in their

own way. Look at capitalist Can-
ada to find examples of religious
persecution—the fate of the Je-
hovah’s Witnesses in Quebec, for
example, or the fierce bigotry be-
tween Protestants and Catholics,
or the violent and unpunished in-
citements against the Jewish peo-
ple.

Socialism protects religious
rights, separating the church
from the state and giving equal
rights to those who accept science
as the explanation for man’s his-
tory.

Terror in India

—BOMBAY.

ITH the number; of arrests

of unionists and leftists now

2,000, the government of India

under Premier Jawaharlal Nehru

takes its place as one of the

world’s most violent anti-labor

regimes, During April the ter-

ror in India was the world’s
worst.

The suppression of labor is ac-
companied by a news blocade.
Foreign correspondents visit
only big cities. Local labor pa-
papers which give a true picture
have been shut down. by the au-
thorities. ;

Lathi-charges, a method of
breaking up meetings and dem-
onstrations by beating  partici-
pants with thick bamboo poles,
are taking place all over the
country. Developed by British
police against the Indian inde-
pendence movement, they are now
being ordered against labor and
peasant unions by Nehru, who
was once beaten by lathis him-
self. Government violence against
workers is supplemented by
free-lance thuggery by . fascist
gunmen, with whom the police
never interfere.

A challenge to

the general

government to bring over 1,000
arrested unionists to court or re-
lease them at once has been is-
sued by N. M. Joshi, general sec-
retary of the All-India Trade
Union Congress (AITUC).
Joshi, veteran non-Communist
labor leader and 20-year member
of the governing body of the
International Labor Organiza-
tion, made his statement at the
climax of a “total anti-labor of-
fensive’ unprecedented in India
even under Brjtish rule. .Union-
ists held without trial include
20 members of the AITUC Gen-
eral Council, headed by Presi-
dent S. A. Dange who is also
on the World. Federation of
Trade Unions executive commit-
tee. All are charged with “plan-
ning to overthrow the govern-
ment by force.” Many union at-
torneys have also been rounded

up, paralyzing workers’ defense
in criminal and _ arbitration
cases.

Joshi charged that the ruling
Congress party (led by Nehru)
“has come under the influence
of capitalists and landlords...
adopting an economic policy that
is creating intense, discontent
among workers and peasants.”

Deliver them to any of
the following addresses:

115 East 2nd Avenue

6 East 2nd Avenue
501 Industrial Avenue
1445 Powell Street
1040 Hamilton Street
755 Homer Street
Cor. 11 Ave. & Vine St.

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