French Commmunists call for anti-DeGaulle unity Can General Charles deGaulle be defeated in the 1965 presi- dential elections? The French Communist Party has issued a draft resolution to be submitted to its congress in May which could pave the way to ridding France of one - man rule and re-establishing the sovereignty of the people. Key to success at the polls is Socialist-Communist unity. This unity of action would mobilize millions of people in the fight for democracy; it would not re- solve the important differences which exist between the two parties. The Socialist Mayor of Mar- seilles, M. Gaston Defferre, who last month announced he would run against de Gaulle for the Presidency, also said he was op- posed to a joint program or even joint talks with the Communists. Defferre banks on Communist support without any conditions or consultation. He is well aware that with 20 to 25 percent of the electorate voting Communist, no candidate has a chance of defeat- ing de Gaulle without the endorsa- tion of the Communist Party, the major political party in France. To secure this electoral sup- port, Defferre resorts to a form of political blackmail. Anyone who does not back him uncon- ditionally and without any prior agreement, he says, will be ‘¢playing into de Gaulle’s hands.”’ The Communist Party draft resolution declares bluntly that the party could not consider ac- cepting a non-Communist candi- date for President at the first ballot without a previous agree- ment om a common democratic program. ‘¢The true democracy which the Communists propose.’’ says the draft, ‘‘cannot be the work of one man or of one party... It is not only a question of replac- ing one man by another, but of opposing the candidate of per- sonal power by a jointly-agreed candidate who would effectively represent the mass movement and the union of all democratic parties and organizations with- out exception, in order to estab- lish a new democracy.?’ During the past year unity of Communists defeated de Gaulle’s attempts to smash the miners, won a fourth week’s holidays with pay for 10 million workers and helped develop a_ united strike movement in most indust- ries to defend wages and condi- tions. At its Congress last June the French Socialist Party agreed to united action with the Commu- nists in certain circumstances, but it did not agree to talks for a joint program. Throughout the country the de- sire for genuine unity is growing. The Communist Party draft reso- lution makes it clear that Com- munists will allow nothing to stand in the way of achieving unity. — If agreement on a common program can be reached, the chances of defeating de Gaulle are good. Communists oppose splits among Italian Some of the Left-wing leaders of the Italian Socialist Party have broken away and formed a new party, the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, (PSIUP). With this development Italy now has four political parties claiming allegiance to Socialism. 1. The Social Democratic Party of Foreign Minister Saragat, whose policy is rather to the right of the Labor Party. 2.The Socialist Party, still under Pietro Nenni’s leadership. 3. The new PSIUP, whose sec- retary is Tullio Vecchietti, until recently leader of the Left wing with the Nenni party. 4.The Communist Party, hav- ing nearly twice as many mem- bers and one and a half times as many voters as all the other three parties taken together. Since breaking its pact for unity with the Communists the PSI under Nenni’s leadership has been going further and further to the right. Conditions accepted by Brazil moves to recognize China President Joao Govlart of Brazil is taking steps to an- nounce his country's recogni- tion of the People’s Republic of China within three months, ac- cording to the newspaper Jor- nel do Brasil. Following Chinese Premier En-lai’s 10-country, two-month visit to Africa—Kenya, Tanga- nyika, Uganda, Tunisia and Etheopia have taken steps to- | ward recognition of China. socalists Nenni for entry into the Centre- Left government headed by the Christian Democratic Moro dis- mayed many of Nenni’s followers. In his first speech adter taking office as Vice-Premier, Nenni claimed the PSI had not aban- doned its opposition to capital- ism but declared the Socialists would support NATO even if they had a majority in parliament. One month ago 800 delegates elected from the Left wing of the PSI attended a conference in Rome and decided to form a new party, the PSIUP. Communists regard the break the PSI as a negative factor, harmful to the working- within class movement. Communists in unions, in local administrations and in mass or- ganizations are working to pre= vent a further split among So- cialist forces in the country. Last December the general sec- retary of the Italian Communist Party, Palmiro Togliatti, warned the right-wing leaders of the PSI that they were ‘‘rushing with in- credible enthusiasm on the road BiG; to rupture.’’ He called for action to ‘*create a united, democratic and wide movement with the aim of imposing that left-wing shift and those general and partial so- lutions that are essential for the prog- renewal of democratic ress.’’ An article in the Communist l’Unita, stresses that the Communists neither de- sired nor promoted the splitting of the socialist Party, the respon- sibility for which lies with the Party paper, Nemni wright wingers. MORRIS SPEAKS ON CONFEDERATION CRISIS ‘No solution without full — rights for French Canada” Leslie Morris, National Lea- der of the Communist Party, told more than one hundred students at the University of B.C. last Tuesday that the so- called *¢*French-Canadian’’ ques- tion reflécts not only deep and profound social and economic issues in Canada but is part of MARK LANE, prominent New York attorney, was denied per- mission to sit in on hearings of the Warren Commission inves- tigating President Kennedy’s assassination. Lane has been hired by Mrs. Marguerite Os- wald to clear her son’s name in connection with the shooting. While denying Lane the right to be present at her testimony, the commission asked the Washington Bar to name an attorney for her. STEEL Cont'd from pg. 3 of bonds for the PGE, shows that if a Crown Corporation were set _up to build a steel industry, and an ‘Industrial Development’’ bond issue launched, hundreds of millions of dollars would be subscribed. In addition to that, the B.C. government is now establishing a bank in the province to gather large amounts of capital. The aim of the Socred government is to make this capital available to pri- vate monopolies to exploit our raw material resources. But why should the facilities of that bank not be used, once it is set up, to collect capital for a steel industry and other industrialization pro- jects for processing raw mat- erials in B.C.? j While the argument that there were no markets may have had some validity years back, it is no longer the case today with expanded trade between socialist and capitalist states opening up, and with the huge markets now available in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In recent years Australia has built a large steel industry on the strength of expanded trade in South East: Asia and especially with People’s China. In addition to that, there are the growing needs of B.C. in- dustry and the Canadian market. The Canadian market for steel products is growing rapidly and could expand on the basis of new economic policies to industrial- ize our country. cannot procrastinate much longer on action to build a steel industry. The monopoly groups who block a steel industry must be pushed aside, and the Socred policies of selling our raw materials or handing them over to U.S. mon- opolies for exploitation, must be ended. Now the government has been forced to admit that a steel ind- ustry is possible, public demand should press the government to seek the earliest possible action for a steel industry in B.C. a world movement for the lib- eration of all dominated nations. Speaking oni the subject, ‘The Crisis of Confederation,’’ Morris was introduced by chairman C. Boylan. Morris said the fundamental program being raised in Quebec was that of self-determination. “J want to say,’’ he continued, “unless the right to national self-determination up to and in- cluding the right to secede from existing states, unless these principles are established, there can be no workable collabora- tion of nations for purposes which affect them all in equal measure.’’ Morris compared the move- ment in Quebec to that of the Negro people in the United States and the movement of all col- onial and dominated peoples for freedom. French-Candians don’t ‘*want?? anything from English Canada. “It is not a question of what French-Canada wants from us, it is a question rather in French-Canada of an almost universal demand for their own state,’ he said. ~ * * * There can be no questioning of national identity in French Canada, he said. Unfortunately English Canada suffers from re- gionalism and disunity, and he remarked, ‘‘is justinthe process of formation out of a multi- national origin.’’ French Canada, he said, ‘‘is far more articulate, far more clearly defined, and far more deeply in the conscious- ness of the people thanis English Canada.’? One of the reasons for the new upheaval in Quebec, Morris said, was because of the radical eco- nomic change in that province. “