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MAKE THE RED
WORKER READ

Red is becoming a factor in the -

world today. Even the staid old
Mother of. Parliaments had a
passing acquantance with it last
week, when that turbulent Labor
Member, blessed be his memory,
gave the distinguished aristoc-
ratic nose of Hon. Walter Guiness
an introduction to a proletarian
fist, causing the honorable shirt
front to become tinted with
equally honorable martyred
blood.

On the shoulders of the mem-
bers of the Workers’ Party and
the present readers and support-

. ers of the Worker rests the task
of making Canada RED all over.
We think the weather during May
will be warm enough to permit
us to take off our coats, which,
being removed, should show our
sleeves rolled up in true proleta-
rian style, ready to face the task
of making May a red month. So—

Let our slogan be: “The Work-
er”. “We'll keep it Red, You make
it Read!” :

The Worker, April 25, 1973

25 years ago...

FEAR U.S. OCCUPY
PANAMA FOR ELECTIONS

MEXICO CITY—Panama labor ~

fully expects the U.S. to occupy
Panamanian ‘bases during the
May elections there, Baldomero
Gonzales of the United Federa-
tion of Panamanian Workers

‘(FTCP) told Allied Labor News.

The U.S. is expected to. justify
its move, he said, by the U.S-
Panamanian treaty of 1936, which
permits the American govern-
ment to take over strategic sec-
tors whenever it considers the
internal situation dangerous ‘to
the safety of the Panama Canal.
“The fact that a new progressive
political party is growing in Pana-
ma and campaigning in the elec-
tions will provide sufficient pre-
text for the U.S.” Gonzales said.

Tribune, April 24, 1948

Worth quoting:

The day has passéd for patching up the capitalist system; it must .
go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant,
the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the
Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mohammedan will
co-operate together, knowing no rivalry but the rivalry of endeavor
towards an end beneficial to all. For, as we have said elsewhere,
Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian or Freethinker,
Buddhist, Mohammedan, nor Jew, it is only human. We. of the socialist
working class realize that as we suffer. together we must work to-
gether that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capi-
talist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice

to and for all.

James Connolly, 1910, :
Labour, Nationality and Religio

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1973—PAGE 4

ORF EA Ow

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Communists in workers’ struggle |

Out of the abundant discussion and
debate of the May 12-13 meeting of the
Central Committee of the Communist
Party of Canada there came an in-
creased awareness that the CPC is
moving with, and influencing, the main
stream of Canadian life, the striving
of the working people for a better life.

Its spokesmen are increasingly recog-
nized and accepted for their honest par-
ticipation in the mass movements of
the people, in the trade unions, in the
struggles for unity against monopoly
domination of Canadian life, in the
fight against the U.S. take-over of our
country.

Reports of sales of The Road to
Socialism in Canada, the CPC program,
show that the Communist Party is, in
a public way, putting forward its solu-
tions to the problems faced by Cana-
dians — and more particularly by the
Canadian working class, the front-line
fighters against monopoly power.

Communists have a rightful place in
the struggle of the Canadian working
class and people because for more than
50 years they have sought support —
and often won considerable — for a
Marxist-Leninist answer to the ills of
our society, both as to reforms and as
to the eventual transition to socialism.

The bourgeois media have always
done their utmost to prove that there
is no such thing as a class struggle,
that the worker’s interests are the same

’ command, who can lead the sue

as those of the boss.
But the class struggle
asserting itself. . a
Likewise the ruling-class media PY
tures the capitalist system as pe at
nent, never to be replaced. Yet more ine
more of the world’s people are prog 5
that capitalism is transient an ial
way to a higher form of society, 50
ism. © : at!
How and why does this come ab0 ee
That is something that is answer.
in the everyday struggles of the a a
ing people. But it was also exit ,
125 years ago in The Communist i
festo, where Karl Marx and Friet the
Engels proved scientifically that his
collapse of capitalist society vee
torically inevitable due to the inhet
contradictions within it. i
It is not accidental that the Comin,
nist Central Committee meeting,
which taking the Party’s message ort
the shops, into the streets, was rep! |
ed on the increase, was the meeting
which the words of The Comin ig
Manifesto were recalled, that the
toric mission of the working clea wild
grave digger of capitalism — is t0
a new socialist society. 5 Colt
It is not accidental, for it is the ‘rks
munists, with the great-scientific We A

of Marx, Engels and Lenin ee tt

keeps ™|

struggles for both the immediate @
ee needs of the working class

Peace needs defenders

The spirit of peace and detente which
is seizing the vast majority of mankind
in the face of heightened threats from
imperialism, promises to bring our
world to a new stage in the long strug-
gle to end wars.

The Soviet Union, allied with the

other socialist countries and a growing

body of anti-imperialist governments,
has consistently led the struggle for
peace and disarmament.

The visit of Leonid Brezhnev, general
secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, to the USA this June,
will be one more death blow to the cold
war and its champions.

Mr. Brezhnev, a recent Lenin Peace
Prize recipient, has untiringly worked
for mutual understanding between
countries, in his visits in recent months,
to Sweden, Finland, Poland and the

Federal Republic of Germany. A Polish

writer remarked at the time of Mr.
Brezhnev’s visit, on the waging of “a
peaceful offensive” through the joint
efforts of the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries. “Its final and lofty
aim,” he said, “is the future humanity
without wars, and of good neighborly
relations between East and West .. .”

That is the policy which serves the
people of the world — however much it
frightens the munitions makers who
rake in billions out of the horrors of
war — and pose as your friendly toaster
or typewriter manufacturer.

The will for peace has become relent-

less, as relentless as the monopoly ae
for mountainous profits.

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Already under way, are plans fr

massive people’s parliament of Pai,

— the World Congress for Peach, eld:

urity and Independence — to Govie!

fittingly, in the capital of the
Union in October.

-The reported aim of the Canad
Initiating Committee to send 4 Ti,
sentative delegation to that Com iat
desérves and requires the immer iy
support of men and women of g0°

across Canada. the
The culmination of the efforts of od

people of the world, determined t0 © orld
_ peace through their actions from

capitals to.the smallest hamlets, cat ad
a world in which eave, securly fot
independence are finally achiev ~—
humankind.

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But as of today, that is still or a
drawing board. All of us have to 7”
it to realization.

Tax hits workers ‘

ia”

The Ontario government of ante

Davis, on the night of May 14, ra t

ed to grace with legality the, “ i
has been raking in illegally sin

1, through its 7% sales tax. | '

This added to the vicious cuts ith
education and health needs, along - its
the taint of corruption attendIMe. 4
various land-holding minister) jit,
further declaration of war of © 1)
ing standards of the working peor eS
Ontario. Such a government O° 90 |
to feel the wrath of the people W
future it attacks.