Angela is not alone

What it’s

By MARK SYDNEY

Despite frantic efforts by the
presiding judge to secure a
guilty verdict, the jury couldn’t
make it. The trial of Bobby
Seale and Ericka Huggins, Black
Panther leaders, ended in a
mistrial.

_ But the battle isn’t over.
The state will demand a new
_ trial, and another round in what
appears to be the _ establish-
ment’s battle to eliminate the
Black Panther Party and its
leaders will begin. More valu-
able years of people’s lives and
millions of taxpayers’ dollars
will be used up in the process.

Thinking in that way just
doesn’t get to the real issue.
Its more than “just” Bobby
Seale, Ericka Huggins, the
Black Panther Party or any in-
dividual. It’s part of a process.
_ The “not guilty on all counts”

verdict of 13 Black Panthers on
charges of conspiracy to bomb
public buildings handed down
recently in New York was also
part of that same development.
As with Bobby and Ericka, it
_ was a real victory with far-

reaching significance. It was
_ part of that victory of the peo-
ple for which Angela Davis
stands.

The persecution of Angela
Davis goes beyond one person.
The persecution of Angela
Davis is an attack on black peo-
ple. It is an attack on labor,
black and white, on the Chica-

no, Puerto Rican, and red peo-

_ ple. It is an attack on all peo-
ple. It is an attack on democra-
cy as a whole.

The crusade for the immedi-

ate freedom of Angela Davis is

all. about

so important today. It is. still
the key to the fight for Bobby
Seale, Ericka Huggins, Ruchell
Magee, the Berrigan brothers
and all victims of political re-
pression. In short, it is a strug-
gle for democracy for all.
Bettina Aptheker of the Com-
munist Party of the United
States put it in a nutshell in a
recent speech in Oakland, Cali-
fornia. “The only way to free
Angela Davis and to free all po-
litical prisoners is to build a
mass political movement such as
this country has never seen...
The fact of this movement and
its success will knock the teeth’
out of this ruling class.
“Angela’s defense can mark
a watershed for the American
revolutionary movement. Ange-
la, who sought to expose the
prison system; who worked for
the freedom of the Soledad Bro-
thers; who sparked and gave
direction to the campus move-
ments; who heiped conceive

and organize black studies pro-

grams; who worked in the com-
munity with the people, Angela
stands in a unique way to unite
black and brown and white,
Communist, radical and demo-
crat, young and old, worker and
intellectual.”

That’s what Angela Davis
means. And we have a respon-
sibility to bear. Angela allied
herself in spirit and in action
with millions of men and wo-
men around the world fighting
for liberation and justice. In her
way, in her conditions, with her
devotion to the people and to
their revolution, she took up
our battle. And we must take
up hers.

Editor MAURICE RUSH
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Second cl t

tration number 1560

Pact of friendship,
for mutual benefit

The signing last week in. Moscow of
the Soviet Canadian Protocol on Con-
sultations was an event of historic sig-
nificance for the peoples of Canada and
the USSR, for the advancement of
peace on an international scale.

Overwhelmingly the Canadian people
approve the desire that inspired the
great pact—“to develop and strengthen
the relations of friendship, good neigh-
borliness and mutual trust between the
two countries.”

The capitalist press acknowledges the

Protocol’s significance, covering as it.
does a wide range of economic, trade,

scientific and technological areas of
mutual interest and mutual benefit.

The sweep of the pact- signed by
Premier Kosygin and Prime Minister
Trudeau extends to international ques-
tions, with the declared desire of their
two countries “to facilitate an improve-
ment of relations between all coun-
tries.”

An era of friendship and of mutually
advantageous relations between Can-
ada and its mighty socialist northern
neighbor has been made possible. It will
become reality to the degree that the
same flexibility that marked the con-
clusion of the Protocol continues into
the future. That flexibility saw Can-
ada, a member of NATO, and -the
USSR, a member of the Warsaw Pact,
maintain their commitments respect-
ively to both bodies while at the same
time they realistically engaged in
agreements that are in their mutual
interests.

The Canadian people want peace in
the world,. as they’ve shown in their
condemnation of the U.S. war in Indo-
china. Now that Prime Ministér Tru-
deau has seen the vastness of the Soviet
Union and the brotherhood of its many
peoples, he cannot but draw the con-
clusion that the whole Soviet people
want to live in peace to pursue their
tremendous efforts in building their
socialist state.

The Protocol on Consultations is a
great beginning that calls now for im-
plementation, for breathing life into
it, and putting fiesh and blood’ on the
framework. E

How to do that was demonstrated
almost immediately after the signing
of the Protocol and the reception ac-
corded Mr. Trudeau in the Kremlin by
Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secre-
tary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union. The Canadian Prime Min-
ister stated his conviction that the
Soviet Union is serious in its wish to
See simultaneous troop reductions in
Europe by both the NATO and the

Warsaw Past powers. He agté
convince the members of NATO
they should reduce their fore
Europe.

One should. have no illusions ¢
the certainty that reactionary
in the U.S. and Canada will try 0)
heaven and earth to block reallf
of the splendid possibilities the
col has opened up.

It now depends on the Call
people to see that our part in the
aim of “mutual respect and”
benefit” is carried out in its SP”
co-operation.

An important section of the ~
dian bourgeoisie sees the Pro
Consultations as a counterba!
the influence of U.S. pressure a!
ination. It will be up to the 8
people as a whole to assure #!

counterbalance is fully implemé

Canadians undoubtedly welco
acceptance by Soviet Premier ®
of the invitation extended him by
Minister Trudeau to visit our @

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pipeline. .

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skipper to put into a U.S. Alas®®

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friendly co-operation that ;
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