By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN — Adolf Hitler is still
an honorary citizen in somé cities
of the Federal Republic of Ger-
Many. No Bonn government has
ver noticed that violation of the
Constitution. Political leaders in

€ Cities involved see no reason
why they should not retain the
Nazi leader as an honorary citi-
-2en. And in the FRG’s province

Minister, of all people, has been a
man who ‘‘proved’’ the correct-
hess of Hitler’s racial theories and

of Lower Saxony, the Justice .

Hitler on honorary citizen’s role

Neo-Nazi revival in FRG

the need to exterminate “‘in-
ferior’’ peoples. . |

These are some of the hard
facts of political life in the FRG.
They testify to the resurgence of
the open, aggressively nationa-
listic, chauvinistic attitudes: that
have traditionally been charac-
teristic of German imperialism
and became fascist state policy, in
the most brutal form, under Hi-
tler.

Though Hitlerism has been
suppasedly outlawed for 33 years
now, though a: Social Dem-

By NORAH JARBEAU

‘REGINA — A lobby organized
by the Saskatchewan Status of

Omen Action Committee to
draw attention to legislation per-
taining to women was termed a

Tesounding success’? by or-
8anizer Sandi Mitchell who spoke
at the end of the day, March 21,
after women from every consti-
tuency in the province had lob-
bied their MLAs.

Following the lobby, the 325
“Women marched to the First Pre-
i: Sbyterian Church carrying
Placards and banners from their
Morning demonstration. In the
_ Teport the women said the MLAs
__ Were divided in their acceptance
Of the demands contained” in a
brief submitted to them.

© brief covered 10 areas of
Concern: child care centres, the
Temoval of stereotyping from
School textbooks, _non-
discriminatory school counselling
for both girls and boys, more
Women in administrative posi-
Hons in education) equal pay for
Work of equal value, paternity
‘and adoption leave, financial sec-
urity for women, the establish-
Ment of family planning centres

\

 Sask.women’s lobby
‘resounding success’

across the province, changes in
laws affecting marriage so prop-
erty is equally shared, funding for
rape crisis centres, women’s
centres and transition homes for
battered wives and children.
Most MLAs agreed to meet

with SAC in three months in the-

constituencies to discuss any pro-
gress in implementing the brief’s.
recommendations.

The brief asked that subsidies
for child care be increased and
that the government actively en-
‘courage and assist employers to
locate child care centres at places
‘of employment. Child care
facilities which are publicly-
owned, parent controlled, free,
with trained personnel would help
families even more. ~~ é

There was little emphasis on
the demand for equal pay for
work of equal value and no call
jobs or organizing the unor-
ganized. John McLeod, president
of the Saskatchewan Federation
of Labor declared March 21 as
Women’s Day in Saskatchewan.
He said the SFL gives unqualified
support to the Action Com-
mittee’s brief and invited the
women to call on the Federation
whenever necessary.

ocratic-Liberal coalition is in.
power at Bonn, neo-Nazis and

organizations of the former SS- ;

killer organization are still in-
creasing their public activity and
propaganda. Their meetings are

_protected by large contingents of

police against protest demonstra-
tions of anti-fascists, with the
anti-fascist demonstrators invari-

ably being raughed up, clubbed or §

arrested by the police. In every
issue of the openly-Nazi National
Zeitung there is a full page of ad-
vertisements for books containing
Hitler’s and Goebbels’ rantings,
anti-Jewish propaganda, and wild
attacks on peace, coexistence and
friendship among the peoples.
Like the National Zeitung, other
publications and neo-Nazi speak-
ers daily, weekly trumpet across
the land that the Nazi massacre of
Jews and other peoples never
took place, and that the exter-
mination camps are a Jewish and
Bolshevik invention.

At Oberammergau, West Ger-
man site of the well-known annual
production of Christ’s passion
play, a decision to replace the old
anti-Semitic version by one with-
out anti-Jewish diatribes has been
reversed. The local officials have
ruled that the old version, with all
its notorious anti-Jewish rantings,
will be used, despite world-wide
protests.

The Jewish community in the
FRG has on.a number of occa-
sions strongly protested against

_ the widespread anti-Semitic ac-

tions and propaganda that are
now a part of daily life in West
Germany. Its protests have either
gone unheeded, or have drawn
the reply that desecration of
Jewish cemeteries is only a youth-
ful prank; or that the neo-Nazi ac-
tivity cannot be prohibited in a
democratic society, or should not
be taken seriously.

But ‘objective observers are
finding it difficult to accept the
idea that no one should be
alarmed by revelations that in
such West German cities as Hil-
deshwim and Wilhelmshaven_,

One of the functions of the NPD’s training camp In Westphalia is to
train teenagers as “storm troopers” for public demonstrations.

Hitler is still commemorated as an
honorary citizen.

After the way the Nazis were

declared to be war criminals, but
in these two cities Hitler still re-
mained on the honor rolls. This
incredible state of affairs was un-
covered by a Hildesheim labor
leader, Hans Teich, during his re-
search for a book about anti-
fascist resistance in the Hitler
period. :
’ Teich has now died but his
book will appear later this year.
Queried by the Duesseldorf
Communist daily Unser Zeit, the
civic officials in both cities said
they saw no reason to remove Hi-
tler — and other high Nazis, be it
said — from their roll of honor.

At the same time it was re-
vealed that the Justice Minister of
the West German province of
Lower Saxony, Hans Puvogel,
was an old Nazi. Worse than that,
he had in 1936 written a doctoral
thesis in which he “‘proved’’ the
correctness of Hitler’s anti-
Jewish theories, condemned the
pollution of the ‘‘master race’’ by
intermingling with ‘‘inferior’’ ra-
cial groups, and strongly sup-
ported the extermination of ‘‘in-
ferior’’ human beings.

Puvogel, a member of Prime
Minister Albrecht’s provincial
CDU government, was strongly
defended by the Prime Minister
and other supposedly ‘‘dem-
ocratic’’ political groups. But the
evidence against him was too
embarrassing. A provincial elec-
tion is pending this summer, and
he has resigned his office. The

FRG’s neo-Nazis, it must be em-
phasized, are not merely old
Nazis. The strongly chauvinistic,
pro-Hitler movement also has
young people and even children in

sits ranks. 5

Thus the openly fascist NPD
has a training camp in Westphalia
which organizes Nazi activities in
the area, One of its important
functions is to train teenagers as
“storm troops’’ for public de-

. monstrations. The Frankfurt-AM

Main anti-fascist newspaper, Die
Tat reports that the authorities
know about the camp and its ac-
tivities but have done nothing
about it. Z

Also indicative of the ‘‘kind-

- ness’’ being shown Nazi types in -

the FRG is the fact that the trial
against the Nazi mass murderers
of Jews and others at the
Maidanek concentration camp
has been crawling along now for
two years, with no end in sight.

In the meantime, the mass
murders named in the indictment
are free on bail and living com-
fortably at home. Unser Zeit says
of this situation: ‘‘Official agen-
cies not only react lamely to hate
campaigns and punishable of-
fences of Nazis, but even give the
fascists the protection of the
police and other state means.
Lower Saxony’s FDP (sup-
posedly Liberal) Minister of the
Interior, Gross has come out for
the right of assembly for the neo-
fascist NPD, without reserva-
tions, although the Constitution
prohibits fascist activities.”

‘Terrorism vs revolution TT

_ Areader writes: “I have been follow-
ing the press coverage of a terrorist
Soup in Italy calling itself the ‘‘Red
Shenae This is the group that has
idnapped former Italian premier Aldo
Oro. In one press release they refer to
themselves as ‘‘soldiers of the revolu-
= tion . My question is: does political
- terrorism have ‘anything in common

_ With revolution?”
,, short answer to the question is: No.
But such an answer is not sufficient. It
'S Necessary to examine more deeply
the Political and social content of ter-
Torism. It is necessary also to examine
the Political and social content of rev-
Olution and, specifically, a socialist
Fevolution, for presumably that is the
type of revolution the questioner is

©oncerned with. -

* * *

Political terrorism, that is, the sys-
Matic use of terror as a means to force
Political concessions is a very old
Method of political struggle. It takes a
amber of forms such as assassina-
‘Se kidnappings, pogroms, lynch-
8S, mass killings such as the nazi gas
©Vens, saturation bombings of civilians
hice, 2. U-S. bombings in Vietnam,
Jackings, and so on. In short, political
Trorism can be used in the name of
Social and national liberation, and in the

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

name of reaction and counter
revolution. d

In the first instance, political ter-
rorism claims to be rooted in the suffer-
ing and misery of the exploited masses;
in the denial of basic human rights, na-

tional rights and political freedom; and _

in state and government corruption. In
the second instance, political terrorism
is rooted in the determination of a de-
spotic state machine determined to

maintain at all costs the domination of

an oppressive, exploitative ruling class,
or, section of that class.
: x oe Ow

Political terrorism in the name of so-
cial revolution is fruitless in terms of
moving the revolution forward. It is a
dead end street. For, revolutions are

_. made by the masses not by small elite

groups of petty-bourgeois romanticists
and anarchists, no matter how just the
cause they may appear to espouse.
High-sounding phrases such as ‘‘sol-
diers of the revolution” will not move
the social revolution one step ahead.
History has yet to record any instance
where elite terrorist organizations have
overturned a social system, corrected

- any grievous wrongs suffered by op-
pressed minorities or nations, or put an _

end to the exploitation of man by man.
a ‘

* *

Even acursory study of the history of
social revolutions will show that the
driving forces of social revolutions are
the classes that carry it out. It is the
contending classes that determine the
objective content of particular revolu-
tions, i.e., the social contradictions it
resolves and the alternate system it ul-
timately establishes.

For instance, the bourgeois revolu-
tions of the 18th and 19th centuries
were led by the bourgeoisie and the
forces that carried them through were
the peasantry, the pc r townspeople
and the petty bourgeoisie. These rev-
olutions resolved the contradictions
arising out of an obsolete feudal society
and the needs of capitalist manufacture
and commerce.

* * *

The revolution maturing in Canada is
called upon to resolve the contradic-
tions arising out of the social character
of production and the private owner-
ship of the main means of production.
This basic task decrees that this will be
a socialist revolution.

Revolutions don’t spring forth upon
the historical stage fully formed. The
social and economic conditions de-

manding fundamental change in society
mature within the womb of the old soci-
eety. Like all living things revolution de-
velops in stages. These stages may be
relatively short or long, depending on
how long it takes for the contradictions
within the old society to mature. In ad-
dition, it depends also on how long it
takes the masses to become conscious
of the basic contradiction, and what is
required of them to resolve in their
favor the most pressing problems aris-
ing therefrom at any given stage.
ak ae .

For instance, the most pressing prob-
lem facing the working class and all
Canadians at this time is how to resolve
the contradiction that exists between

the great mass of the population and a

handful of giant monopolies that have
seized the commanding heights of our.
economy, and who subject the state
and government to their will.
Terrorism or ultra-left adventurism
will not resolve this most pressing prob-
lem. It can only be resolved through the
united action of all who labor by hand
and brain. It is a mighty task that de-
mands assembling the united strength

of the working class and democratic .

forces in a powerful anti-monopoly al-
liance to curb, and eventually end, the
power of monopoly.

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