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Canadians attend Moscow conference

eninism—a force for changing the world

By BRUCE MAGNUSON

ae international theoretical
Reerence, commemorating the
en, centennial, was held re-
of Y in Moscow at the Institute
Bes of the Central Com-
of re of the Communist Party
of ee Soviet Union. The topic
Bay © conference was: ‘‘Lenin-
aR? and the World Revolution-
TY Process.”
ere icipating in the conference
Prominent leaders of the
cna Communist move-
» representatives of frater-
artic munist and Workers’
oie and prominent Soviet
a ists and Marxist-Leninist
ones The writer, to-
3 3 with Norman Freed, had
On Onor of representing the
ee anst Party of Canada.
ire demician P. N. ‘Fedoseyev,
Soa of the Institute of
ening eninism of the CPSU
Pohten. Committee, opened the
cog ah and acted as its
chan After brief intro-
ing a remarks and the greet-
parti xtended to foreign guests
the Ptaines in the conference,
cian ae was given to Academi-
tary, : N. Ponomaryov, Secre-
Mitte the CPSU Central Com-
a age subject of Pono-
He Opening address was:
8 Re — A Great Force of
‘ Volutionary Transforma-
N of the World.”
main Speaker stressed that the
row; feason for the steadily-
ing o a impact of Lenin’s teach-
See the course of world social
Piotidee oe is that Leninism
basic €s the answers to all the
tiona questions of our revolu-
of ca age, of the whole epoch
Pits of humankind from
ae to socialism: the eli-
talist On of the exploiting capi-
of year the emancipation
ation oe people; the liber-
the ¢ the oppressed peoples of
count Olonies and dependent
ie the problems of war
‘apa ace, of the struggle
ae reaction and fascism, in
and ne of the ideals of freedom
ore ey and the spiritual
aie of the human_ race.
one fundamental matter
Speak ern times we tackle, the
€r declared, Leninism —
i pon lies its greatest his-
Bives Ignificance for mankind—
the key to its solution in

the ;
Class wecrests of the working

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terests of socialism.

tee not only comprehen-
Y elaborated the teaching of |

arxism-Leninism under the.

» Of the working people, in

transition to the new, communist .

structure, but also substantiated
theoretically and proved in prac-
tice with the help of what or-
ganizations the aims of the pro-
letariat of world-wide signifi-
cance can be achieved: the Com-
munist Party, a worker’s and
peasants state, the dictatorship
of the proletariat in one or an-
other form.

POLITICAL QUESTION

B. N. Ponomaryov spoke
about the indissoluble unity of
method and theory in Lenin’s
teaching and activities, He em-
phasized that this is not an ab-
stract theoretical but a highly
important political question, a
question of struggle for. an in-
ternationalist, Marxist - Leninist
policy against revisionism and
nationalism.

The solution of a single inter-
national task of the interna-
tional working class, of the
world Communist movement de-
mands, above all, knowledge of
the common laws of the revolu-
tionary process discovered by
Lenin’s theory of the socialist
revolution, tested and confirmed
by socialist practice. Only this
knowledge makes it possible to
take fully into account the spe-
cific conditions of individual
countries.

The speaker stressed how pro-
foundly international are the
teachings of Lenin on revolution
and socialism. It was, is and will
remain an essential instrument
of all Marxist-Leninist parties.
It serves as a reliable compass,
helping to find the only true way,
not to get lost, as Lenin used to
say, in the ups and downs and
turns of history, to retain the
overall perspective, and to see
the thread that binds the entire
development of capitalism and
the whole road to socialism.

CURRENT TASKS ©
The characteristics of the
world revolutionary movement
of today, the speaker empha-
sized, were mainly and primarily
the realization of the Leninist
theory of revolution in social

practice. At the core of the en--

tire epoch following the October
Revolution is the struggle be-
tween socialism and capitalism.
The achievements of socialist
countries, the gains of the
working-class movement in the
capitalist countries and major
victories of the national-libera-
tion movement have led to a
new alignment of forces on the

world arena.

All of this confirms the cor-
rectness of Leninism. At the
same time it points up the fail-
ure of the ideological and politi-
cal trends opposing it — social-
democratic reformism, on the
one hand, and petty-bourgeois
revolutionism, on the other.

DISCUSS ISSUES

Participants from advanced
capitalist countries of Western
Europe, U.S. and Canada de-
voted time in their discussion
papers to the role of a revolu-
tionary party in preparing the
masses for the socialist revolu-
tion, the correlation between
parliamentary and non-parilia-
mentary struggle, the battle to
broaden democracy and for a
popular alliance against mon-
opoly.

Matters linked up with the
scientific and technological re-
volution, and its social conse-
quences, were dealt with as they
pertain to advanced capitalist
countries. All speakers noted
that in the search for new ways
and means of struggle which
best conform to specific features
of the epoch and various na-
tional. conditions, Communist
and Workers parties are invari-
able guided by Lenin’s teachings.

Hero of Socialist Labor F. N.

Ask free

The following is thé submis-
sion presented by the Manitoba
Provincial Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada to
the Committee of Inquiry into
tuition fees at the University of
Manitoba on March 5 by W. C.
Ross, CPC provincial leader:

In spite of increased enroll-
ments, equal opportunities for
university education are still de-
nied to large numbers of young
men and women. The majority
of the university population
comes from the middle and up-
per income classes and from
those families in these catego-
ries who reside in the Metropo-
litan Winnipeg area. According
to the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics, 1961, 78 percent of
Canadian families had an income
of less than $5,000, but their
sons and daughters comprised
only 27 percent of the student
body in Law, 35 percent in Medi-
cine and 34 percent in Dentistry.
On the other hand, only 3 per-
cent of Canadian families had
an income of more than $10,000,

‘but their sons and daughters

comprised 34 percent of the stu-
dents in Law, 27 percent in Me-
dicine and 21 percent in Dent-
istry. Recent studies would in-
dicate that the above percent-
ages are still valid today.

Nearly 72 percent of the stu-
dents at the University of Mani-
toba come from Greater Winni-
peg and only 28 percent from
the rest of the province.

Students from the towns and
farm communities of rural Mani-
toba, from the Indian and Metis
peoples are most inadequately
represented.

The income of the parent or
parents is the most decisive fac-
tor determining attendance at
the university. The fact remains
that a university education, in
the main, remains the privilege

Petrov, age 96, who is a member
of the CPSU since 1896, ex-
tended greetings to conference.

“Lenin on the Motive Forces
of the Revolution” was the sub-
ject of the concluding address
by Academician P. N. Fedo-
seyev, Director of the Institute
of Marxism-Leninism of the
Central Committee of the CPSU.

TWO WORLD SYSTEMS

The present-day aims pursued
by state-monopoly capitalism
must be countered by the mili-
tant unity of the working class
and all revolutionary ‘forces.
The growing contradiction be-
tween capitalist anarchy and the
need for social planning intensify
the: objective processes of the
centralization of capital. The
confrontation between two
socio-political world systems,
one socialist and the other ca-
pitalist,. lend an -even greater
urgency to this process.

In this way the facts of life
repeatedly confirm the correct-
ness of Engels’ forecast that “in
the trusts . . . the production
without any definite plan of ca-
pitalist society capitulates to
the production upon a definite
plan of. the invading socialist
society.” : J

Growing monopoly _ concen-

tration on both a national and
international scale means that
capitalist states are increasing-
ly caught up in a process lead-
ing, as Lenin wrote, “towards
a single world trust absorbing
all enterprises without excep-
tion and all states without ex-
ception.” But it is a most high-
ly contradictory process, and,
as Lenin pointed out, “inevit-
ably impcrialism will burst and
capitalism will be transformed
into its opposite” long before
the single world-wide trust can
materialize.

ACCELERATED PROCESS

An accelerated development
of productive forces is taking

place, albeit spasmodically and .

on the background of increas-
ing concentration of capital and

increasing state intervention in

the economy. — ;

The closer the link between
the monopolies and the state,
the .more the anti-monopoly
struggle is spearheaded against
the bourgeois state and the
more pronounced become the
political implications of strike
actions. Mass _ struggles plus
scientific socialist theory spell
victory in the struggle for peace
and the social transformation.

university tuition

of the rich rather than the right
available to every young Mani-
toban who can qualify academ-
ically.

POVERTY LEVEL

The inequality in access to
university education is under-
scored with the recent startling
disclosure by the Provincial
Government that over 40 percent
of the people of Manitoba have
an annual income of $3,000 or
less — far below the recognized
poverty level.

The existing situation is not
only in contradiction to the
spirit of a just society projected
for Canada but it deprives our
province of the potential contri-
bution that increased numbers
of university-trained graduates
could make in building a better
Manitoba.

The present inflationary situa-
tion, with the resulting series
of tuition fee increases, only
creates. additional barriers for

_many young people wishing to

attend university. Yet in spite
of these continuing fee increases
it has been noted that tuition
fees are a diminishing source of
revenue in relation to the total
cost of higher education. Ac-
cording to recent figures, the
student fee structure now pro-
vides only 16 percent of univer-
sity support, while a statistical
review prepared by the Mani-
toba Association of Students in-
dicates that ‘tuition fees contri-
bute less than 2 percent of the
provincial government’s direct
revenue.”

STUDENT STIPENDS

We are of the opinion that
university education should be
accessible to all young men and
women who can meet the aca-
demic standards. The best way
this can be done is to eliminate
tuition fees entirely and provide
free and equal university train-

‘potential.

ing to all. In addition, students
should receive stipends in cases
where need exists. These meas-
ures. would be logical steps in
extending our universal public
educational system to its full
University education
would then become a charge on
society at large with the provin-
cial and federal governments
sharing financial responsibility,
thus relieving the Universities of
burdens of raising funds from
private sources. More attention
could then be devoted to im-
proving the quality of university
training.

We recognize that free uni-
versity education by itself would
not immediately eliminate all
the obstacles preventing many
young people in low economic
groups from taking advantage of
university training. The univer-
sity as an institution and the
social composition of the student
body only reflect the class char-
acter of our society. Many other
social and economic changes
would have to be made in our
society in order to make equal
opportunity for university train-
ing a meaningful and realistic
measure. However, in our opi-
nion, the elimination of tuition
fees and the granting of stipends
would be important steps in the
right direction and would indic-
ate the priority that should be
given to this measure. It is also
our opinion that with modifica-
tions in the tax structure, to
bring it into line with ability to
pay, we could afford to finance
a free university system.

The people of Manitoba have
the right to expect that the pro-
vincial government which was
elected by promising to improve
the quality of life for the people
of Manitoba would proceed with
implementing a policy of free
university education.

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