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isly Prime Minister Tru-
ping his best to evoke
scussion on the shape
future defense policy.
e hand, Mr. Kierans
y urging our with-
from NATO. Just as
Mr. Cadieux, well
by his military and
isors, is presenting
tional point of view,
gintenance of existing
nents.
debate, we are on
of Mr. Kierans. If we
we break new ground, to
divert some part of our re-
| from sterile military
nts, to play a more
and, to our way of
a more fruitful role,
| do it only the Kierans
> follow Mr. Cadieux is
to spend more and
, as he says, the main-
of the present balance
ear terror .
adieux makes no bones
what he means. We
main strong militarily on
the sea and in the air.
dieux, moreover, has no
‘lose. Our existing mili-
stablishments have be-
Ibsolete. We need new

round of spending. The time
for assuming a new role is
now.
—Editorial, Montreal Star

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FIGHT RACIALISM

Mr, Heath's speech at the
weekend has certainly borne
out the accuracy of Mr. Wil-
son's reference last October to
“the virus of Powellism which
has taken so firm a hold at
every level” in the Tory Party.

Although Mr. Heath sacked
Mr. Powell from the Tory Sha-
dow Cabinet, he is, in fact,
spreading the same foul ra-
cialist poison.

No wonder Mr. Powell, who
was on the platform with him,
was all smiles and applause
when Mr. Heath had finished
speaking. ...

Both of them, as well as
other Tory leaders in or out of
the Shadow Cabinet, are whip-
ping up racialism in a bid for
political power.

By embarking on this course,

Mr. Heath, Mr. Powell and
other racialist Tory leaders arg
building up the most serious
threat to democracy and to all
British working people, for very
many years... .

Racialist hatreds divert work-
ing people from the fight
against their real enemies, the
monopolists, the bankers, the
landlords, the Tories and Right
Wing Labor leaders, and
cause them to go against each
other.

It has always been a matter
of the utmost importance for
the labor movement to stamp
out racialism, and to champion
the cause of unity of white and
colored workers. ...

They must fight, side by side,
to cleanse this country of the
foul racialist pestilence, and
insist that the government
should strengthen the race
laws so that the Heath-Powell-
ite campaign can be stopped,
and all discrimination on ra-
cial or religious grounds
thoroughly stamped out.

Morning Star

New Communist journal

Hellyer and housing

The essence of the Hellyer Task Force report
on housing is the rejection of government
responsibility for decent housing for Canadians.

Posing private housing against public, he ap-
pears to want to make home owning easier,
through longer term mortgages and lower
down payments. Even if this propositions were
to be adopted in full, they would do absolutely
nothing to meet the housing needs of any family
earning less than $7,500 a year. This group
makes up two thirds of the barge The
most probable outcome of Hellyer’s financial
gimmicks would be to raise the cost of housing.

Another element in the report which was
noted by the Toronto Globe and Mail, is that the
report denies that the government should have
anything to do with housing, “beyond doing
what it can to maintain a stable housing market
and rigidly enforcing standard housing ylaws.”
Thus the whole onus for maintaining housing
standards will be placed on the backs of those
who are forced to live in sub-standard homes,
yet it is these families who are the victims of

or housing conditions, not the cause of them.

o draw the analogy between the individual
responsibility for a run-down automobile and
his responsibility for living in sub-standard
accommodation as Hellyer does, is dishonest
and reactionary.

Housing, particularly as it relates to the rapid
urbanization of Canada is very broad and com-
plicated question. The problem has festered for
years during an orgy of land piracy and specul-
ation until it has reached the crisis point. Yet
the approach of the task force, as it travelled
around the country indicated, that while the
problem could not be ignored, a solution was
quite beyond its grasp.

Now the report has been tabled and as the
dust settles on the ary headlines of last
week, it is evident that the report indicates
both a philosophical and practical approach
which pre-dates indoor plumbing.

The report is a retreat from reality in as
much as it poses the illusion that private hous-
ing and private enterprise, (which is a eu hem-
ism for legalized ususry) can adequately house
Canada’s surging urban population.

It is, also a model of early 19 century think-
ing in its attacks on even the existing pathetic
gestures towards public housing.

To solve the housing problem in Canada
requires a radical new direction of thinking
and action. It requires massive low rental
projects as part of the renovation of the urban
core of the city. It requires the nationalization
of the huge tracts of unused land and the de-
velopment .of planned communities.

However, neither Mr. Hellyer nor his report
approaches the essence of the housing problem
which is naturally tied by a thousand stands
to the whole archaic system. Thus his report,
rather than being any part of a solution

Communist Viewpoint, a new theoretical-political jour- intensifies the problem.
nal of the Communist Party of Canada, will appear in

March as a bi-monthly.

The editor of the new journal, Norman Freed, and the
editorial board will deal with the stormy, ever-changing
Canadian and world scene from the point of view of the
social science of Marxism-Leninism.

The contributions to the new journal will engage in dia-
logues and polemics with the socialist left, with anti-
Marxist and petty-bourgeois ideological trends at present
current in the radical and left movements in Canada and
on a world scale.

The journal will deal with the policies advanced by the
Communist Party of Canada in the field of Canada’s
domestic and foreign affairs.

The journal will discuss the Communist Party Program
“The Road to Socialism in Canada.”

Price is $4.00 a year, $7.00 for two years. Single copy
is 75 cents.

For subscriptions please apply to — Progress Subscrip-
tion Service, 487 Adelaide St. West, Toronto 2B, Ontario.

S, new. ships, new
Planes. The total cost will run
iny billions of dollars.
idget will be hamstrung

irs. And to what pur-
maintain the world

®@ of nuclear terror.

| grand phrase to use

Nes and a few ships!
lost all sense of pro-

available for effective
Ns is getting very short.
Policy on its present
already makeshift.
‘have now in the way
f and naval hardware
to much. If we want to
adical change, now is
Oo do it. If we hesitate,
mble inevitably into
d ‘very expensive

“We shall never get another shop steward like you,
Smith ... ahem... we'll see to that!”

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