LONG LIVE THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION!

Cuban poster honoring the 50th anniversary of the USSR.

Mark 75th birthday
of Argentine CP leader

By V. GONCHAROV
(excerpts)

The Communist Party of Ar-
gentina, founded under the di-
rect influence of, and only two
months after, the Great October
Socialist Revolution, has _ pro-
duced from among its ranks a
whole cohort of outstanding
Marxist-Leninists, true interna-
tionalists utterly devoted to the
great cause of communism.

Much of the credit for the
development and putting into
practice the political line of the
Communist Party of Argentina
in the extremely complicated
situation in the country belongs
to Jeronimo Arnedo Alvarez, the
Party’s General Secretary since
1938. His life and work are a
striking example of selfless ser-
vice in the interests of the
working people of Argentina.
This is why the 150,000-strong
army of Argentinian Commu-
nists and YCL members and to-
gether with them the working
people of the country are wide-
ly marking his 75th birthday.

Born in San Nicolas, Argen-
tina, Oct. 14, 1897, son of a
farmhand, Arnedo Alvarez had
to begin to work at the age of
eight. :

Led General Strike

Having experienced landown-
er and capitalist exploitation,
with the early’ awareness of so-
cial injustice, Arnedo engaged in
vigorous political activity, and
in 1925 joined the Communist

’ Party.

In 1927 in Zarate, Arnedo led
a generai strike in solidarity with
the workers, Sacco and Vanzetti
who were sentenced to death in
the United States though com-

_ pletely innocent.

In 1933 hé was elected gen-
eral secretary of the Party.

with V. Codovilla and R. \Ghiol-
di who had returned to Argen-
tina initiated a broad popular
movement for solidarity with the
Soviet Union and organized the
struggle of the people against
a fascist threat in Argentina it-
self. This activity of the Argen-
tine democrats was conducted
in conditions of repression and
persecution by the authorities.

At the Central Committee’s
enlarged plenary meeting on
April 29-30, 1972 Arnedo made
a thorough report on “The Com-
munists and the Institutionaliza-
tion of: the Country” exposing
the- manoeuvres undertaken by
reaction to debar the Commu-
nists from deciding the future
of the country. The report gave
a Marxist analysis of the situa-
tion in the country and mapped
out a concrete action program.

The bourgeois press has been
compelled to admit that the
Communist Party of Argentina
is the country’s third major
party in strength and influence
and that, if it gets the possibil-
ity to work in legal conditions,
it will achieve a yet greater in-
fluence. :

Steps to the Future

The Communist Party of Ar-
gentina is with a renewed force
urging the need for the earliest
possible establishment of the
unity of all progressive forces
to carry out an agrarian, demo-
cratic and anti-imperialist revo-
lution with the perspective of
accomplishing a socialist revo-
lution in the future.

Working for unity, the Com-
munist Party at this stage sets
the task of doubling its member-
ship, changing the relationship
of forces in the trade union
movement where the bourgeois
ideology of Peronism still has a
considerable influence, and

Expose Peronist deception

The return to Argentina last
month of 77-year-old Juan Do-
mingo Peron, the country’s pro-
Nazi dictator from 1946 to 1955,
has raised many more question;
than it answered.

What does it mean to the
working class—to the military
government — to peace in the
area?

For an insight into the politi-
cal situation in which the 17-
year exile, Peron finds himself
—and more important in which
the Argentine people find them-
selves, we offer a recent article
by Jose Perez in the Daily
World.

.By JOSE PEREZ

Since 1962 the Republic of
Argentina has been under open
military rule. This decade has
been characterized by the bru-
tal political and physical re-
pression of all Argentinians who
dare to criticize or oppose the
status quo. The principal victim
of this situation has been the

Argentinian working class and

its organizations.

Using the pretext of outlaw-
ing the leadership of the move-
ment of former dictator Juan
Peron, the military establish-
ment has turned its repressive
machinery primarily against the
Communists and other progres-
sive elements in the country.

Peron returned to Argentina
in November after 17 years of
political asylum in fascist Spain.
His arrival has not impeded the
continuous repression against
non-Peronist, anti-government
forces.

To understand the present
situation in Argentina, it is
necessary to understand the po-
sition of the Communist Party
of Argentina (ACP) on the phe-
nomenon of Peronism. This po-
sition is not generally known
abroad.

Communist Position

The position of the Commu-

nist Party of Argentina on Per-

onism was defined by Rodolfo -

Ghioldi, member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the ACP dur-
ing a recent conference on ‘‘the
struggle of the ACP against Per-
onism” at the Latin American
Institute of the USSR’s Acad-
emy of Science.

During this conference, Ghiol-
di analyzed the causes that gave
rise to Peronism. He pointed out
that this nationalist movement
was marked by various specific
traits: the foremost role of the
Army in the country’s political
life; the pro-Nazi orientation of
its chiefs—reaffirmed during the

course of World War II—and
the multiple support, financial
included, given by Hitler’s dic-
tatorship to Peron’s military-
fascist coup d’etat on July 4,
1943, the date which marked
the birth of Peronism.

Ghioldi asserted’ that the
apologists of Peronism, all of
whom are exponents of bour-
geois nationalism and _ poly-
classism, strive to disassociate
the Peronist movement from
the context of World War I
and from the global struggle
against fascism, thus seeking to
beautify the image of Peronism.

Peron and Peronism

Since its XI Congress, which
took place shortly after Peron
was sworn in as president after
the 1946 election, the Commu-
nist Party of Argentina dif-
ferentiated between Peron and
his bureaucrats and the Peron-
ist masses who honestly be-
lieved in Peron’s revolutionary
assertions. The ACP then point-

ed out, Ghioldi said, the n@
tionalist bourgeois essence of
Peronism and the compromises
that it made with the landowl
ing oligarchy and with im
perialism. Ghioldi added that
the ACP strives to help the
workers influenced by Peron
ism regain proletarian com
sciousness by contrasting the
words of Peronist demagogy
and the deeds of the Peronist
hierarchy.

The national socialism pr
jected by Peronism, according
to Ghioldi, is another trick 10
set the masses apart from Com
munist influence, from the class
struggle, from the struggle for
agrarian and anti-imperialist
democratic revolution.

The battle against the boul
geois nationalism of the Peron
ist hierarchy, and against its
most disgusting form, ant

Sovietism and anti-Communism,
is a major responsibility of the
Communist Party of Argentina.

The “Villas Miseria” shantytowns are growing and they prove the

failure of the regime.

~ Expand

trade union resorts

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MOSCOW — In the Soviet
Union trade union health resorts
are widely popular and a year-
round stream of working people
receive the advantages of their
vacation-land services, at little
or no cost.

During the- five-year plan
(1971-75) an additional 600 mil-
lion roubles will be injected into

the network of resorts and tour- ©

ist centres. What pleases the
people who will be using these
facilities is that the choice of
location is growing every year.

Added to the traditional re-
gions of health and holiday re-
sorts — the Crimea, the Cau-
casus and Baltic area, they are
developing at a fast rate in the
Russian Federation —

in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

in the -
’ Urals, Siberia and the Far East;

In recent years the Commun-
ist Party Central Committee, the
USSR Council of Ministers and
the All-Union Council of Trade
Unions have agreed on the prior-
ity construction of major health-
building complexes.

Health-resort construction is
now concentrated largely in the
hands of the trade unions which
regulate such construction on a
country-wide scale and pursue a
unified state policy in the deve-
lopment of the health and holi-
day resort network.

The recently founded self-suf-
ficient Capital Construction
Board under the All-Union Cent-

ral Council of Trade Unions and ~

capital construction administra-
tions and departments under

republican, territorial and regio-

nal trade-union councils ‘havé

been commissioned with the
functions. of supervising am
controlling the respective pro”
jects.
~The building program of
health-resort, boarding hotel,
holiday resort, tourist centre,
overnight sanatoria and pioneer
camp projects is a contributio®
to the further rapid rise of Soviet
people’s living and cultur
standards. 3

A resolution of the 15th Cone —
gress of Soviet Trade Unions —
stressed the importance of cal —
rying out the health-resort cane.
struction plans so as to provide —
from 1971 through 1975 no les*- |
than 240 million working peopl®

and members of their families

with accommodations at: health
“and Holiday résorts7"*""-°

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