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NINETEEN COMMUNIST PARTIES ISSUE JOINT APPEAL

Unity urged in struggle for peace

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19—PARTY pledge to do
everything possible to “rally
the world Communist movement
and consolidate its unity” was
issued last Tuesday.

It was given in the commu-
nique of the consultative meeting

of representatives of Communist’

and Workers’ Parties which met
in Moscow from March1to March
5.

The communique, after declar-:
ing that the participants had con-
sulted on questions of mutual
interest and exhanged opinions on
the ways and means of surmount-
ing differences and consolidating
the unity of the world Commu-
nist movement, went on:

The. consultative meeting pro-
ceeded in an atmosphere of
fraternity and friendship and was
imbued with the spirit of active
struggle for the unity of the Com-
munist movement to fulfil its
great historic tasks,

The participants expressed the
firm determination of their
Parties to do everything in their
power to rally the world Com-
munist movement and consolidate
its unity on the basis of Marxism-
Leninism, proletarian 'interna-
tionalism and the course laid
down in the 1957 Declaration and
the 1960 Statement.

The representatives of the
Parties agreed that under pre-
sent conditions the strengthening
of the positions of Socialism, up-
surge of the national liberation
and the international work-
ingclass movements, and growth
of the forces standing for the
maintenance and strengthening
of peace, is the basic trend in
world development,

At the same time, it was noted
that world reation, and in the
first place, U.S. imperialism, is
becoming more active in various
parts of the world try ing to ag-
gravate the situation and under-

taking acts of aggression against

the Socialist countries, the States
liberated from colohialism, and
the revolutionary movement of
the peoples,

In this situation it is more than
ever necessary for all Com-
munist Parties to show their
sense of internationalist respon-
sibility and to unite for the com-
mon struggle against imperial-
ism, colonialism and _ neo-
colonialism, and against the rule
of monopoly capital, for active
support to the liberation move-
ment and defence of the peoples
subject to imperialist aggresion,
and for the struggle for world
peace based on respect for the
sovereignty and integrity of all
States.

In a statement the participants
expressed their solidarity with
the heroic people of Vietnam and
the Party of Labor of Vietnam,
and issued acall for international
solidarity in the struggle against
the aggressive acts of the U.S,
militarists. :

Cohesion of all the revolution-
ary forces of our time——the
Socialist community, the national
liberation movement and the in-
ternational working class——is of
decisive importance for the
success of the fight against
imperialism.

This cohesion calls insistently
for the strengthening of world
Communist unity.

Divergences in the Communist
movement impair its unity and
therefore do damage to the world
liberation movement, to the Com-
munist cause.

United action

The participants voiced their
conviction that what unites the
Communist Parties greatly out-

weighs that which at the present _

time disunites them,

Even though there are differ-
ences over the political line and
many important problems of
theory and tactics, it is quite
possible and necessary to work
for united action against imper-
ialism and to render all-round
support for the liberation move-
ment of the peoples, in the
struggle for world peace and the
peaceful co-existence ofall coun-
tries, big and small, with differ-
ent social systems, and in the
fight for the vital interests and
historical goals of the working
class,

Concerted action in the fight
for these common goals is the
most effective way of overcoming
the existing differences,

- The participants stressed that
the Communist Parties must

exert collective efforts to im-
prove relations between the
Parties and to consolidate the
unity of the world Communist
movement on the basis of the
observance of the democrati¢
principles of the independenc®
and equality of all the fraternal
parties.

In the struggle for the solution
of tasks common to the whole of

_the Communist movement, it is

desirable to exploit all possi-
bilities and ways, bilateral and
multilateral meetings between
representatives of fraternal

- Parties, and other forms of Party

contracts and exchanges of

opinion,

Common aims

The participants are unan-
imous in the opinion that under
present conditions, asis declared

-in the 1960 Statement, interna-

tional meetings of Communist and
Workers’ Parties arean effective
means of exchanging views and
experience, enriching Marxist-
Leninst theory by collective
effort and working out united
positions in the struggle for com-
mon aims, ”

Such meetings, held with the
observance of the principles of
the complete equality and inde-
pendence of each party, can
render good service to the cause
of surmounting differences and

cementing the unity of the Com-

munist movement on the basis:

of Marxism-Leninism, proletar-
ian internationalism,

Therefore, in the opinion of the
participants, active and allsided
preparations. for a new interna-
tional meeting to be held at a
suitable date, fully conform to the
interests of the world Communist
movement,

To convene the new meeting
and to secure its success, itis
necessary to prepare it both as
to its content and from an
organizational ‘standpoint, ac-
tively to create by joint efforts
favorable conditions for all
fraternal parties to participate
in its preparation, and to work
tirelessly for an improvement of
the atmosphere in ‘the world
Communist movement,

The meeting should serve the
common cause of all Com-
munists,

Emphasis and concentration of
efforts on the urgent tasks con-
fronting the Communist move-
ment will, more than anything
else, bring our positions on the
fundamental issues of the time
closer together.

The participants expressed the
opinion that it is desirable to

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hold a preliminary consultative
conference of representatives of
the 81 parties that gathered at
the 1960 meeting in order to
discuss the question of a new
international meeting.

It is necessary to hold consul-
tations with all these parties to —
decide the question of convening —
this preliminary conference,

End polemics |

The parties representedatthis
meeting have declared them- |
selves in favor of discontinuing —
the open polemics, which are in
character unfriendly and degrad-
ing to the fraternal parties,

At the same time, they con- —
sider it useful to continue, in@ —
comradely form and without —
mutual attacks , an exchange 0: :
opinion on the important con- —
temporary issues of mutual —
interest, ‘

The participants declare them-
selves in favor of the rigorous —
observance of the standards
governing relations between
Parties as defined by the 1957
and 1960 meetings, and against
the interference by any Party in
the internal affairs of other

Parties.

In expressing their opinion of
the ways of surmounting the
difficulties in the world Com- —
munist movement and on its ©
further development, the repre- |
sentatives of the Parties were —
guided by the wish to strengthen |
the Marxist-Leninst unity of the —
Communist ranks in the fight —
against imperialism and colon-

ialism, for national liberation,
peace, democracy, Socialism and
Communism,

The representatives of the —
Parties trust that all fraternal
Parties will respond favorably
to this consultative meeting.

VLC EXPRESSES SHOCK

he Vancouver Labor Council

on Tuesday night unanimous-
ly adopted the following letter
which was. forwarded to the U.S.
Attorney-General and a copy to
the Washington Post, The letter
is signed by William Giesbrecht,
exec-sec, of the Vancouver Labor
Committee for Human Rights,

“In 1963 and 1964 headlines in
newspapers brought us news con-
cerning children murdered by
segregationists while attending
Sunday School, the assassination
of President John Kennedy during
his term of office when he was
diligently exercising every
means at his disposal to eliminate
the horrible violence perpetrated
by segregationists against.Color-
ed People, and the murder of four

_young people engaged in pro-

moting racial equality through
integration, left us in a state of
shock bordering on disbelief that
this was really happening.

“Today’s headlines, March 12,
1965, ‘Minister dies of beating by
Selma _ segregationists’, in con-

“AT U.S. RACE VIOLENCE

trast to the concept of ‘Inter- —
national Co-operation Year’,
brings another wave of shock.

*Racial discrimination is ex-
ercised by more subtle means —
here in Canada, which results in
voicing pious platitudes and 4
‘holier than thou’ attitude by many —
people.

“We are not criticizing Pres-
ident Lyndon Johnson, for We —
realize the heavy burden these —
incidents have created for him

“However, we believe that whe? —
acts of violence suchas the above ~
take place in a ‘Christian Nation’
administration action to over-
come the moral depreciation —
mus t be takenvery soon or offi
documents which include “In God
We Trust” might as well be
relegated to the waste basket

“It is our conviction that th
most important issue facing US ©
today is to make tangible pro- —
gress inpromoting‘The Brother —
hood of Man Under the Fatherhood —
of God’,

March 19, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2