MAKE CANADA A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE ZONE! Continued from front page Never in history has the USSR initiated a new round in the arms spiral. On the contrary, it has always moved heaven and earth to prevent the development and deployment of new generations of nuclear weapons. Only in order to maintain pari- ty, and with reluctance, has the USSR responded a year or two later with a similar system. On the question of peace and war, on foreign policy, the people of the USSR are of one mind with their government. How marked is the contrast with the U.S., Canada and the NATO countries where the governments are in the main part com- mitted to the deployment of Euromissiles, while the masses of their peoples are implacably op- posed. These governments acquiesce in President Reagan’s incendiary doctrine of limited and win- nable nuclear war, and turn a deaf ear to the mil- lions-strong voice of their people demanding an end to this madness. It is important to remember well these facts for there are those who would divide the peace move- ment on the basis of anti-Sovietism and anti- communism. They do the dark work of President Reagan and his coterie in the military-industrial complex and the multi-nationals that get super rich on death and destruction. It is becoming increasingly clear to all who sup- port peace around the world that it is the aggressive drive of the U.S. for world supremacy that is the source of the war danger. The focus of the marches, demonstrations, conferences, pickets, prayer-meetings, petitions, sit-ins and vigils reflect this. * * * For Canadians, the threat of war has been given a chilling immediacy by the efforts of the Reagan administration to draw Canada into its first-strike strategy. : The Trudeau government has retreated from its stated policy of suffocating the nuclear arms race and now supports U.S. military strategy and ap- pears to be acquiescing, salami style (a slice at a time), to Cruise testing in Canada. All of the leadership candidates at the recent Conservative convention were enthusiastic sup- porters of Cruise testing. But the great majority of Canadians are opposed —the churches, the trade unions, the NDP and the Communist Party, organizations of scientists, doc- tors, teachers and artists committed to peace, women’s, farmers’ and youth organizations. This is a splendid development. If the full truth about the Cold Lake Cruise and the consequences of its testing were more widely known, a great many more Canadians would express their opposi- tion. Some facts: e The Cold Lake Cruise missile is air-launched. It is not the same as the ground-launched Cruise due for deployment in Europe later this year. e The Cold Lake Cruise is intended for striking the USSR from the North, launched from U.S. Strategic Air Command B52 bombers operating out of Canadian airspace. Thus the terrain-similarity argument makes sense. e With its northern airspace a launching site, Canada will become as much a part of the U.S. first-strike capability as West Germany, bristling with ground-launched Cruises. More than ever, peace must be won Communists in the April 23 demonstration against the Cruise in Toronto. e This strategy will call for a beefed-up NORAD for early warning detection systems for the Soviet anti-Cruise missile, missiles that will follow, as surely as night follows day. Remember that NORAD was renewed last year without any debate in parlia- ment. e The USSR has warned that the deployment of the Euromissiles including Cruise will leave them no option but to respond in kind. In the context of President Reagan’s commitment to first-strike nu- clear war (if we let him), Canada becomes as much a potential theatre of nuclear war as Europe. Like West Germany, Canada will become a hostage to U.S. nuclear strategy. A doomsday scenario! Cruise testing is the thin edge of a wedge. The thick end is possible nuclear war and annihilation. IT CAN BE STOPPED IT MUST BE STOPPED . For our survival, we must assert our indepen- dence in foreign policy and defence matters. The U.S. is driving for global supremacy at any cost — including nuclear war. Ottawa must be forced to break with this policy. ‘+ xs 2 The growth of the peace movement can no longer be ignored by Prime Minister Trudeau or anybody else. As in Europe, it involves all reli- gious denominations, cuts across class lines and reaches into all political parties. It is growing by leaps and bounds. The Communist Party greets this great de- velopment as a new factor in the political life of Canada. We’ ve done muchas builders of the peace movement (often alone — as during the cold war) and will continue to do so. Our aims are public and quite simple — they are: e to spare no effort to help broaden out, unite more firmly and make ever larger, the Canadian peace movement; e to argue strongly for clarity of focus on the source of the war danger — U.S. imperialism; e to expose those who advance the theory of “equality of responsibility for the war danger’’ as intent on fragmenting the peace movement; e to persuade greater numbers of peace fighters to view the peoples and governments of the USSR and the socialist world as an essential part of the peace movement. After all, these states have the dual responsibility to fight for peace and to defend them- selves against President Reagan’s anti-communist ‘‘crusade’”’ which is directed to their nuclear anni- hilation. The reality of the world today is such that peace cannot be won without the Soviet Union and the socialist states. This is a real fact of life. Together we must make sure there are no more Hiroshimas, no more Nagasakis, in fact no nuclear weapons or bombs anywhere on-earth. STOP THE CRUISE TESTS! MAKE CANADA A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE ZONE! FOR A WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREEZE! FOR A FREEZE ON MILITARY SPENDING WHILE LOWERING THE LEVEL OF ARMS! OPPOSE DEPLOYMENT OF PERSHING-2 AND CRUISE MISSILES IN EUROPE! MAKE PARLIAMENT ACT FOR PEACE AND AN INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY! PEACE, THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND YOU The views of the Communist Party on the crucial issues of peace or war and Canada’s role and responsibilities are contained in this issue. Read and consider them. 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Lenin andthe Soviet Peace Policy.Gromyko. Progress Pubs. $6.95. An analysis of the principles underlying Soviet foreign policy. Canada and the nuclear arms race. Edited by Ernie Regehr and Simon Rosenblum. James Lorimer and Co. Pubs. $12.95. Leading Canadians write on the struggle for peace. No More War!! Linus Pauling. Dodd Mead and Co. Pubs. $10.95. A classic of the peace movement. As valid today as when it was written 25 years ago. Euromissiles and the general balance of Nato and Warsaw Pact forces. Nino Pasti. Canadian Peace Congress Pubs. $2.00. Detail- ed discussion of the military balance of forces in Europe. Deals specifically with the new threat posed by the Pershing-2 and Cruise Missiles. Last Aid. The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War. Edited by Eric Chivian M.D. et al. W.H. Freeman and Co. Pubs. $13.50. Provides 4 graphic, overwhelming picture of the medical consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War. Robert Scheer. Random House Pubs $19.50. Takes us through the cloud-cuckoo-land of American foreign policy in which Reagan and his chief advisors reside. Books available at: Vancouver Peoples Co-op Bookstore 353 West Pender Street Edmonton Progress Books (Edmonton) 10565 97 Street Regina Unity Books 204 Northern Crown Bldg. 1821 Scarth Street Winnipeg Co-op Bookshop 302 Notre Dame Avenue Toronto BookWorld 118 Avenue Rd. Montreal Nouvelles Frontieres 185 Ontario If there is no store in your area, write to PROGRESS BOOKS, 71 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ont. M5V 2P6