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ED GASSMAN, Tappen, B.C.,
writes: In reading Dave Yorke’s
article in Open Forum, Sept. 20,

disagree with his
Pronouncement of profound
disgust with the actions of the
Soviet Union and the Warsaw
Pact countries in the affairs of
Czechoslovakia — that this
action cannot be justified and
that we now therefore cannot
Call for the fight against U.S.
monopoly control of Canada, etc.
with justification.

In short he sees the Soviet
Stand in the recent events of
Czechoslovakia as being
Undemocratic and a poor
example of freedom. Obviously

1S vantage point is aloft from
the class concept of society and
therefore gets lost in the garble
of legalities etc., blanketing all
things for all people.

Certainly, the coming of aid to
the Czech. working class in their
hour of need is looked upon by
the capitalist class as being
undemocratic, how else could
they see it? And vice versa the
actions of the imperialists in
their attempt to return the
Capitalist class in Czechoslo-
vakia is not democratic in the
eyes of the international work-
Ing class.

* * *

A. RANKIN, Vancouver,
Writes: I’m amazed at the views
expressed in Dave Yorke’s
letter. We could expect this sort
of thing from Liberals or half
baked intellectuals. Surely these
are not the views of a
Communist? The class position
has been entirely overlooked.

The statement in the letter

from the countries of the
Warsaw Pact, to the
Czechoslovakian Communist
Party, as early as 18th July 1968
Said:,
_ “It was not and is not our
Intention to interfere in such
Matters which are an internal
Matter of your party and your
State. It was not and is not our
Intention to encroach upon the
Principles of respect for the
Independence and equality
governing the relations between
the Communist parties and
Socialist countries. . .

“We cannot reconcile
Ourselves, however, to the fact
of hostile forces pushing your
Country off the road of Socialism
and creating a threat of tearing
away Czechoslovakia from the

Socialist community.

TED H

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‘‘This is a common concern of
all Communist and workers’
parties and of all states united by
alliance,
friendship. This is a common
concern of our countries, which
have united in the Warsaw
Treaty in order to ensure their
independence, peace and
security in Europe, to erect an
insurmountable barrier against
the schemings of the imperialist
forces of aggression and
revenge.

“The peoples of our countries
paid the price of tremendous
sacrifices for the victory over
Hitlerite Fascism, for their
freedom and independence, for
the possibility of marching
forward along the road of
progress and Socialism. The
boundaries of the Socialist world
shifted to the centre of Europe,
to the Elbe and Sumova
Mountains. We shall never
consent to see threatened these
historical conquests of

Socialism, the independence and -

security of all our nations. We
shall never allow imperialism to
make a breach in the Socialist
system, by peaceful or non-
peaceful means, from the inside
or the outside, and change the
alignment of forces in Europe in

~ favour of imperialism.”

To a worker or a soldier who
played a part in putting down the
forces of Fascism these things
may be easier to understand. But

~ to people who are sated with anti-
Sovietism, they may not be so

clear. Yours for Socialism.
* * *

GEORGE COLLINS,
Vancouver, B.C. writes: It was
rather an unpopular moment
when I last donated monetary
assistance to the Pacific
Tribune. My donation went in
before the PT’s first explanation
of the Czech crisis — which had
to be of an official sort.

Meanwhile our local dailies,
radio and TV were barking up
the tree for all things ‘‘socialist
democracy’’, equating
Czechoslovakia as such. The
latter reason decided for me that
the silent voice of a five-dollar
bill to the PT would help fight
these local medias of Big
Business propaganda.

The ‘invasion’ by the five
Warsaw Pact countries

somehow gave one the
impression that counter-
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revolutionary forces did exist in
Czechoslovakia. I felt that
information on that score must
have been strong to warrant the
move by the Warsaw Treaty
powers in the case of
Czechoslovakia — a socialist
country.

The fact that there was no
people’s uprising following the
Warsaw Pact ‘“‘intervention’”’
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many to do so.
* * *

T. BARDAL, Vancouver,
writes: In the light of the
information that has become
available to those who can read
about the events and
developments in Czechoslovakia,
it has become quite plain that the
counter-revolutionary forces

were gaining a dangerously’

strong hold. The socialist gains
were being threatened by
external forces as well as
internal.

Dave Yorke in his letter
states, ‘‘the intervention was
illegal and a serious traversity of
working class __ international-
ism.” This is a seriously erron-
eous interpretation in view of
the situation, when your very
comrades and the system they
were building was being
threatened. It would, in this
case, be a breach of the true
spirit of internationalism if you
had not come to their aid.

He brings in a quotation from
Lenin to bolster his _ false
premise: . ‘“‘It would be. a_be-
trayal of socialism to refuse to
effect self-determination un-
der socialism.’”’ In this case
the destruction of self-deter-
mination and socialism faced
Czechoslovakia, a member
of the Warsaw Pact and the
socialist community of nations.
That the leaders of the Party
were not in control is proven by
subsequent events. :

It is a sad commentary on the
mental stability of many people
who profess to be friends of
socialism, yes even champions,
that the Western propaganda
machine and their prophets who,
preceding the events of Aug. 21st
saw ‘‘a golden age of freedom
opening up in Czechoslovakia’’,
have themselves become victims
of the Radio of Free Europe, and
the Voice of Free America.

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