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Excerpts from a speech by
Alicia de la Pena, representative
of the Communist Party of Ar-
gentina, to the 18th convention
of the Communist Party of Can-
ada, held in Toronto, March 27-
30 this year.

the Argentine working class
must struggle.

During the past and present
year, many millions of workers
have participated in general and
partial strikes, in unemployment
marches; in some cases they
have locked themselves inside
the factories as a form of strug-

gle. These struggles won wide

support from progressive people
and anti-imperialist groups.

To crush these struggles the
puppet governments have
launched reactionary legislation,
firstly against, the Communist
Party and also against the work-
ers and democratic sectors.

Except for brief periods of
legality our Party has been ille-
gal since 1930. During these
years, though illegal and threat-
ened by prison, torture and
death, our Party has never di-
minished its work with the
workers and other democratic
people. This has frustrated all
attempts of reaction to isolate
us from the working masses.

Our struggles are not easy.
We are defeating the influence
of the reactionary nationalism
introduced by Peron, especially
among the working class. It was
necessary for many years to

carry on patient work in order
to create a swing towards the
left, especially among those in-
fluenced by Peron.

As a result of the struggles
of the working people and as a
result of the last Presidential
elections (even though it was a
fraud) the political parties of
the Right were defeated, and
now we have a government of a
liberal bourgeois character, en-
joying some democratic possi-
bilities.

Considering this new situation
our Party is trying to extend
democratic rights by mobilizing
the masses to support the demo-
cratic aspects of this govern-
ment and to force it to put into
life its promised program.

This does not mean that the
Party abandons its independent
policy or reduces the advance of
its own program for anti-imper-
jialism, agrarian reform and for
peace.

Basing itself on the principle
that revolutionary changes can
only be achieved by mass action,
peaceful or non-peaceful, the
12th Congress of our Party re-
solved to accelerate the National
Democratic Front, by helping to
create committees of struggle
for demands — economic, social
and political, and by helping to
strengthen the peace movement,
the Movement of Solidarity with
Cuba, women’s work, youth, etc.

Our Party pays great atten-
tion to the work in the trade
unions. In our country all work:
ers are organized and their
unions are all part of the General
Confederation of Labor. This

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flights. For ability to maneouvre
adds a new dimension to space
exploration, enabling the cos-
monaut to collect more reliable
and varied information.

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in building complex space in-
stallations, whose parts would
have to be delivered by rockets
from the earth. Manoeuvrability
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instruments and people

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dangerous radiation zones. It
will help us to obtain more de-
tails about the surface of the
Moon and other celestial bodies;

it will assure safe landings and
safe returns.

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Soviet space exploration.

The National Assembly Building in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina.

organization is under Right
Wing leadership influenced by
Peron, who do everything in
their power to exclude Commun-
ists from union leadership. The
Party struggles for a democratic
class- conscious orientation of
the trade unions.

With the farmers the Party
works in the agrarian coopera-
tive organizations and it also
struggles to eliminate the influ-
ence of wealthy landowners who
are opposed to the fight for
agrarian reform.

To achieve such enormous
tasks we need a Party of grow-
ing strength, an increased mem-
bership. The Party of Argentina
has 100,000 members. Last year
we recruited 18,000 members
and 6,000 for the Communist
Youth Federation. But our Party
still thinks that our recruiting
is not in accordance with the
influence of our Party among
the masses, and because of this
our central committee devotes
special attention to the constant

growth of our membership.

At the same time we have a
program of Party education and
strive to make the masses aware
of Marxist-Leninist principles.
This year we have finished pub-
lishing (illegally) the 40 vol-
umes of the complete works of
Lenin.

In our coui..zy we have many
difficulties to overcome. But we
now live in the epoch of Social-
ism, headed by the powerful
Soviet Union, and there is a
developing struggle of the work-
ing classes in the capitalist coun-
tries, the strengthening of the

national liberation movement in

the countries of Africa, Asia and
Latin America. We are confident
that we will triumph in our
country and defeat imperialism
and go on towards an agrarian
and democratic revolution.

If there was ever a time for
international cooperation and
solidarity among the democratic
people of our continent, it is

Bonn does about face
on E. German welcome

By MAX REICH
BERLIN

East Germany’s youth has a
rendezvous in East Berlin at
Whitsun. From just fun to sports
competitions, from cultural
events to discussions on count-
less subjects, from books to
politics—no questions barred, it
is stated officially—a program
that lists over 900 items will
satisfy every taste and every
mood.

West Berlin acting mayor Al-
bertz said it would be a good
idea if 120,000 West German
youths came to West Berlin at
Whitsun and went across to East
Berlin to tell the captive East
German youth something about
the free world. West German
deputy premier Mende, leader
of the Free Democratic Party
gave similar advice to the youth
of his party.

In East Germany these pro-
nouncements were greeted by
the organizers of the rendezvous
with: “The more that come the
better. Everybody is heartily
welcome.”

Bonn officials had second
thoughts. They cautioned against
the attendance of young West
Germans. They argued this way:
“Our young people don’t know
enough. They are no match in
political and ideological discus-
sions with East German youths.”

And now all strings are pulled
to prevent young West Germans
from going to East Berlin at
Whitsun.

Helmut Ulrich and Horst Wilde
who had gone to officially invite
the West German youth organ-
izations, were arrested by Bonn
police on April 10. Siegfried Kiel
and Alfred Faust who had gone
for the same purpose on April
15, were also arrested.

May 15, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7