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‘Aids pro-war forces’

By JACK PHILLIPS

Maybe you know about the
Canada-China Friendship Society,
with its office in Vancouver? I
suggest a more appropriate name
would be the Anti-Soviet, Pro-War
Society.

I came to that conclusion after
reading the first number of their
official jounral, Canada-China
(Spring/Summer 1977, Vol. 1, No.
1).

The primary thesis is this: ‘In
the Chinese view the main danger
of war has passed from USS.
keeping into the hands of the
Soviets. The Soviet Union is the
most likely oneto precipitate world
war.”’

Then, in elaboration: ‘‘The U.S.
desperately needs time to allow for
recovery from the trauma oc-
casioned by defeat, to heal internal
wounds, to develop a new and
effective policy to govern its in-
ternational relations to allot for
recovery of its former position of
leadership and authority. The
Soviet Union, on the other hand,
has not yet suffered . military
defeats. Nor hasit experienced any
real devastating setbacks in the
field of diplomatic relations.”

Translated into plain English,
this means hit the Soviet Union
today and tomorrow will look after
itself.

In June 1969, William Kashtan,
leader of the Communist Party of
Canada, addressed the _ In-
ternational Meeting of Communist
and Workers Parties. What he said
about Maoism has stood the test of
time: “Their adventuristic

position on the main questions of’

war, peace and revolution is anti-
Leninist. Maoism is an anti-Lenin-
ist disorder, an expression of petty
bourgeois “nationalism»Thisop-
portunism masked with left
phrases is a negation of proletarian
internationalism, a form of
virulent anti-Sovietism, and in the
final analysis strikes at the very
foundation of socialism.”

By refusing to support the
position of the overwhelming
majority of Communist and
Workers Parties that it is possible

to prevent another world war, “

while at thesametime creating the
most favorable conditions for the
consolidation of socialism. China’s
leaders now find themselves in the
enemy camp.

Some readers may feel we are
stretching a point in order to
support a built-in bias against
China. So, let us refer again to
Canada-China: ‘‘There are con-
tradictions between the two super-
powers of which advantage must
be taken.... The present world
relationship, and the state of
existing contradictions calls for
emphasis to be placed on the ad-
venturist role of the Soviet Union
as the main danger of war in the
world today.” :

First they equtate the Soviet
Union with the U.S. as an im-
perialist superpower (a totally
false comparison with nothing in
common with Marxism-Leninism)
and brand the Soviet Union as the
most aggressive of the two. Then
they argue it is logical in that
context to make alliances with the
U.S. and other reactionary powers
against the Soviet Union. Thus,
white becomes black and black
becomes white.

Many who read this have worked
hard for lasting peace and dis-
armament. According to Canada-
China, you are wasting your time.
This journal, echoing Peking, says
it is possible to postpone war for up
to 30 years, but not beyond that
point. China, it tells. us, is prepared
to work for this postponement, ‘“‘to.
give the people time to mobilize
their forces against the super-
powers.” With the Soviet Union
designated as the main enemy, this

means time to mobilize against the
Soviet Union. The writer goes on to
say: “In the final analysis war will
be prevented or ended only through
successful proletarian revolution.”

Let us match this projection with
a key formulation from the
political report to the 11th congress
of the Communist Party of China,
held in August: ‘‘The Soviet
leading clique has betrayed
Marxism-Leninism. Restoring
capitalism and enforcing fascist
dictatorship at home and ex-
pansion abroad, it has brought
degeneration of the Soviet Union,
which has become a _ social-
imperialist country.” Thus, if war
can be prevented only by
proletarian revolution, and if the
Soviet Union has become a.
capitalist country and the main
danger to world peace, there is no
guarantee of preventing a world
war short of a revolution in the
Soviet Union.

So the big lie about capitalism
being restored in the Soviet Union
is coupleted with a call for counter-
revolution against socialism in that
country.

The immediate objective is more
limited. Peking leaders hope to
split the world peace movement by
discrediting genuine and
significant initiatives of the Soviet
Union for peace, detente and
disarmament.

Now, compare this line (Peking)
with that of the world Communist
movement. The policy statement
adopted at the international
meeting of 1969 closed with these
words:

“Peoples of the socialist coun-
tries, democratic forces in the
capitalist countries, newly
‘liberated’ peoples and’ thosé’ who
are oppressed, unite in a common
struggle against imperialism, for
peace, national liberation, social
progress, democracy’ and
socialism.”

That policy statement expressed
full confidence in the ability of the
people to prevent a world war: “A
new world war can be averted by
the combined effort of the socialist
countries, the national liberation
movement, all peace-loving
countries, public organizations and
mass movements.”

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Because of its anti-Soviet foreign
policy, China ended up supporting
counter-revolutionary forces in
Bangladesh, Sudan, Angola and
many other countries. It has
repeatedly called upon West
European capitalist governments
to ignore the peace initiatives of
the Soviet Union, and specifically
Soviet proposals for the reduction
of troops and armaments deployed
in that part of the world. Canada-
China explains it this way: ‘‘Why is
China so anxious for Western
Europe to unite?” “. . .the actual
situation demands that each
country take whatever steps are

deemed necessary to oppose
superpower hegemonism
(meaning the Soviet Union)
regardless of the government
currently in power. ...” Is it any
wonder that conservative and
reactionary politicians from West
Germany and Britain receive a
cordial welcome in Peking?

In a crude attempt to justify
China’s close relations with the
fascist junta in Chile, Canada-
China’s foreign affairs ‘‘expert”’
gives out with the following ‘“‘ex-
planation”:

“Tt is not the Russians that are
refusing to maintain relations with
Chile. The direct opposite is the
case. Under the Allende ad-
ministration, in which the Com-
munist Party of Chile was a very
influential factor, the Soviets
deployed several hundred
‘diplomatic’ personnel in Chile, all
of whom ran about the country
diligently interfering in Chile’s
internal affairs, using the country
as a base’for the organization of
interferences into the internal
affairs of other Latin American
countries... there can be no
disputing the fact that the junta
had good and sufficient reasons for
this particular act at least.”

These words can only be con-
strued as justifying the crime of
the junta in overthrowing the
Allende government, and as
condoning the actions of Chilean
reactionaries, the multinational
corporations and the CIA for their
role in the coup. No other in-
trepretation is possible.

The officers of the Canada-China
Association are listed as Earl
Willmott, Ralph Stanton, Lillian
Martin, Graham Johnson, Brian
Pendleton and Pat Horrobin. They
are.doing.a great.disservice to.the
cause of world peace and social
progress, and to the Chinese
people, by lending their names to
such vicious, anti-Soviet, pro-war
propaganda.

Peace worker
is mourned

Peace workers are mourning the
passing of Richard Fordham, who
died August 30 in Vancouver. Long
an active supporter and worker in

the cause of peace, he was a

regular contributor to Canadian
Aid for Vietnam Civilians and the
B.C. Peace Council.

The Tribune joins his many
friends in expressing its con-
dolences to his wife Kitty.

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