aioe TT Oe TT TY WTA EDITORIAL Tell Ottawa: No to Cruise! A military conspiracy is building against the Canadian people. They are not ing asked; they are being told. They are not being told the truth, that Canada’s only defence against nuclear war is to prevent it! Canadian churches have jointly pressed the prime minister to reverse his sell-out to the USA, his toadying to the U.S. vice- president during his visit here, and _ his sneering response to public opinion in Canada that: We don’t want the U.S. nu- clear Cruise missile tested on Canadian territory! We must ask Trudeau: What is more important, the lives of Canadians and-hu- manity as a whole, the future of the human race and a chance for our children; or is it Washington’s war planners and their holy NATO alliance? We don’t expect Trudeau to understand it as a moral issue. People of his class long ago abandoned morals. That is why they can exploit the working class without re- straint, squeeze out of them surplus value that makes millionaire monopolies. The church doesn’t sway Trudeau or stop his peddling of the Reagan line of U.S. world domination, at the expense of Cana- dians and everyone else. The Canadian electorate he is supposed to be serving doesn’t sway him. Who sways him? Only the U.S. Pentagon, the wavy-minded Rea- gan and the transnational profiteers of war. Trudeau represents monopoly capitalism in Canada. Whether his Lib- erals, or the Tories, do so after the next election remains to be seen. Whichever it is, workers may be sure, will continue to sell out Canada to the USA. Several Tory leadership hopefuls have already exposed themselves as ready to destroy anythin hinting of public Ownership and hand the country to the U.S. monopolies. Ministers of this Puppet government in Ottawa defend the right of the U.S. mili- tary to have its way in Canada. The Cruise missile scandal is rubber-stamp proof of it. They, and those in parliament who sup- port them, who were elected on the false pretence that they would serve the interests of Canada, need to be reminded by every means to heed the good sense of the Cana- dian people: Refuse Cruise nuclear missile. testing; defend Canadian sovereignty; work for world peace, not nuclear ruin. Time to isolate U.S. policy The comic strip president of the USA is not so funny. It’s true that one has come to expect his grandiose proclamations with their hollow ring. The solemn and frightening reality is not only that no one checks his excesses, but that his monopoly _ advisers are part and parcel of the trillion- dollar schemes for human destruction. Un- less, that is, socialism agrees to self-de- struct, and everyone everywhere agrees to world hegemony for the U'S. military- industrial complex. | | Picturing the map of the world and the millions on various continents who have yet to benefit from vast human technological advances, one sees the stark inhumanity of pouring huge amounts of wealth (money and resources) into super weapons to end it all. One of Reagan’s latest reckless plans is to try to make all of space a war zone. The dangerous situation demands €veryone’s energy to help block the war- makers and defend consultation for peace-seeking. It demands, as well, as more Worker unity May Day — the workers’ day — is fast approaching; and every effort needs to be exerted to deliver the impact workers have U.S. hands off! The increasing U.S. intervention in Nicaragua using paid mercenaries of the old Somoza national guard, utilizing Hon- duras as a U.S. base for launching such invasion, and ever escalating U.S. involve- ment is at a point of extreme danger. Equally alarming is Reagan’s thinly veiled threat against Grenada, seizing on its long-heralded commercial airport as a pre- text for a military threat. The demand from every democratic and peace-oriented quarter must be: U.S. hands off Nicaragua; hands off Grenada! _ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 8, 1983—Page 4 and more sectors of society in Canada are recognizing, that those who plot nuclear horrors for humanity, should be denied the avails of their shabby propaganda weapon — the so-called Soviet threat. That “threat” is concocted anew every day because it has worked so well in the past in blinding otherwise clear-sighted people to reality. And that reality is, if we get rid of the anti-Soviet blindfold, the greatly pro- fitable drive for more and more weapons with which to annihilate socialism — a drive of benefit exclusively to the regime in Washington. Many inthe USA are fighting back. What people in other countries, such as Canada, and particularly NATO members, need to do is insist that their governments break free of the U.S. military embrace. The USA _ must be made to see that if it pursues such a course, instead of putting its full effort into disarmament negotiations, it will even- tually stand alone. on May Day to make on the powers that be in Canada. The fightback against mass unemploy- | ment, layoffs, cutbacks and all the evils of capitalist depression is at the top of the May Day agenda. The struggle for peace — to prohibit the testing of the U.S. Cruise nu- clear missile in Canada, and to make Canada a nuclear weapons-free zone — is high on the priority list. Solidarity with the struggles for national liberation is a third part of the overall May Day goal. May Day is always a time for workers’ unity, and the strengthening of working- class authority. This year as never before, in the thick of economic crisis, and amid escalating threats of nuclear war, Commu- nists, New Democrats, trade unionists, farmers, the unemployed need to come to- gether in the streets, on the same platforms to forge the broadest unity possible. _ on with the negotiations!” tt 739 t PT / > ~ < a 2 wa wa. " _ SS a OY oe a Mo SE ee Be BBA “Heads — we deploy Cruise missiles. Tails — we add be Pershings, and if it stands on the edge — then, all right, we’ll9 Vsevolod ArsenyeY — Flashbacks 25 years 50 years NO TESTS MORE TREACHERY AND TESTS BY SOCIALISTS The Soviet Union on BERLIN — Nearly half thé March 31 announced it was Socialist deputies in the halting all tests of atomic and Braunshweig State _parlia hydrogen weapons and called ment and eight of the 17 SO on the other nuclear powers cial Democratic deputies — the U.S. and Britain — to today resigned from theif do likewise. seats saying they had no dé The U.S. countered with its _ sire to stand in the way of Hit announcementit will proceed ler’s “national revolutioD with 20 planned major nu- clear tests in April in the Paci- fic. and recognized the hopeless ness of further Opposition. 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