FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

CLASS CONSCIOUS
COMMENTS

There could be no stronger
testimony to the growth of Com-
munism than the results of the
elections in England and _ the

‘United States. The fear of Red
Terror which possesses the bour-
geoisie in both countries and no-
thing else, caused the landslide
of Liberals and Democrats to the
most reactionary party and the
defeat of trimmers and compro-
misers professing to serve the
cause of Labor but clinging to
constitutional ideals. Commun-
ism is breaking up the old party
machines and clearing the ground
for clear cut issues on class lines.

* * *

“Prisoner”, said the London
(Eng-) magistrate, “you are
charged with riding in a first-
class railway car on a third class
ticket. What have you to say for
yourself?”

“Why your worship, parson
told us last Sunday as ‘ow we
hadn't ’orter be class: conscious”.

The Worker, Nov. 22, 1924

25 years ago...

THE REBEL

On Nov. 16, 1885, Lotiis Riel,
founder of Manitoba, was hanged
at Regina. With him died eight
Indian leaders of the Rebellion
of 1869 and 1885 of the Metis of
the North-West against the land-
jobbers and speculators who for-

cibly deprived the French-Indian _

and English-Indian settlers ' of
their land and homes.

His execution aroused the peo-
ple of Quebec to such heights of
political militancy that Wilfrid
Laurier declared at a mass meet-
ing of 50,000 in Montreal six days
after the hanging: “Had I been

born’ on the banks of the Sas-’

katchewan I would myself have
shouldered a musket to fight

against the neglect of govern-’

ments. and the shameless greed of
speculators”. *
_A contemporary British poet,
Joaquin Miller, penned a tribute
to Louis Riel shortly after the
murder of this Canadian hero
whose tradition belongs to the
people of. English: and French
Canada.

Tribune, Nov. 21, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

You can understand why outfits like
Canadian Cellulose Co. Ltd., producers of
pulp from Canadian forests, would oppose
public ownership of resources. In nine
months of 1974 Canadian Cellulose made
Profits of $20,241,000 (compared with
$3,656,000 for nine months of 1973). Think
how it would weaken the characters of
Canadian workers if all that money were
squandered on people's social needs in-

stead of going to the coupan clippers who
own Cellulose stocks.

ars, Pacific Tribune

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1974—Page 4

_ End injustice to Palestinians

History was rewarded with a moment -
of truth when, on Nov. 13, on the invi- *

tation of 105 United Nations members,
Yasser Arafat addressed the General
Assembly on behalf of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.

Tracing the trail of crimes against .

_ the Palestinian Arab people in the wake
of Israeli expansionism, racism and offi-
cial terrorism, he elaborated conditions
for Middle East peace, and for justice
for the Palestinians and all peoples of
the area, Jews and Arabs alike. The
standing ovation, not the horrified
bleating of imperialism, was the real
signal of history being made,

Today the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganizations represents the interests of
the Palestinians. King Hussein of Jor-
dan has acknowledged it, the Arab sum-
mit meeting at Rabat confirmed it, and
the UN made it a fact of life. Yet Israel
rashly vows that it “will not permit the
establishment of PLO authority in any
part of Palestine.”

Defying the UN Resolution 242,
directing it to get its legions out of the
territories ‘of its Arab neighbors, the
Israeli Government stil] harbors its
dream of an expanded Zionist state in

disregard of the sovereignties it means

to crush.

es government which seizes neighbor-
ing lands, disperses the population, dy-
namites their homes, deprives them of

the freedom to develop their nation
culture, starves and harasses thea
government which conducts ‘a
attacks across the borders of a
states, killing; wounding, pillage
kidnapping, a government which ; és
the oil resources from occupied % i
tories, which, in defiance of appea EY:
the world assembly persists in 1ts a
gression — that government, we i
perialist-colonialist government 0 °
rael condemns itself as an outlaw.

Since December 11, 1948 when, U
Resolution 194 directed the israe
allow the Palestinian people to wa fo!
to their homeland, Israeli conteriy
world opinion and for the UN, has D®
flaunted without restraint. :

In the name of the 18,000 Palestinia’
now in Israeli prisons, in the nae
53,000’ Palestinians who died in sul
gle for their homeland, Arafat e
made it clear, and the now. liberay
United Nations affirms, that justice
the Palestinians is high on the age”

Israel’s threat to invoke war, 1%
fence of its imperialist pretension th
in fact, a threat to the peace 0 a
world, deserving of the most vigo"

demonstrations of rejection.

The people of the world do not
gate the right to decide on peace 0:
to the hawks in Tel Aviv and occup
Jerusalem. It is time for Israel to
in acceptable terms with the Pa

_ tinians they have wronged. -

Sharpen politics in
-anti-monopoly fight

The working-class anti-inflation bat-
tle increasingly represents blunt refusal
by workers to shoulder the burden of
the capitalist system’s inflation crisis,
Contradictions built into the system
run by he monopolies and their govern-
ments are the cause of inflation, are
the cause of the mad rush toward reces-
aN which has already gripped the

Despite what bosses may think, this

is not at all too difficult for workers to
grasp, as millions in many parts of the
world are demonstrating. Expanding
numbers of workers are turning anger
and frustation into a ‘tough fight to
wring concessions from the monopoly-

run system, and to prepare to replace
it: entirely.

While capitalist economists collide
with each other trying to explain away
the system’s crises — blaming working
people for earning too much, eating too
much and spending too much — we
can see inflation battering the living
standards of all but the well-to-do.

While profits soar to new levels “in-

vestigators” appointed: by the mono-
poly-controlled government find no

gouging, whether they investigate food
or steel.

Where- do the dollars come from
which, in just nine months, give inter-
national Shell Oil a $2-billion profit, or
Cominco $70-million, George Weston

$32-million or MacMillan-Bloedel more
than $60-million.

Not surprisingly, under pressure of

inflation, layoffs, unemployment, 12
est gouging, Canadian workers ree
nize tightening monopoly control as
source of inflation, of the assault
living standards, as the obstacle ie
equitable distribution of the coun

wealth.

Government policies designed
serve monopoly with its multi-nati?
ties, not only doom projects from h?
ing to transport which would a
Canadians, but dictate a lop-sided
pattern, depriving Canada’s econ?
of the stimulation of full trade wit
flourishing socialist economies.

The talk of world-wide receseeg ‘
heard from Kissinger, and some oth®
but millions throughout the world
that the socialist countries do not
the built-in crisis mechanisms of eit
talism. Recession is not world wide
a part of the parcel: of monopoly &
talism.

Every crisis of the capitalist syst
is met by increasing attacks on
working class, depressing its stan
to maintain monopoly’s domination:
the face of unchecked crises, of eC
mic stagnation, of recession, the fl
city of such attacks may be expecté

“grow.

In such conditions it is urgent, 2
that labor unity be built everyw

that striking workers be upheld by
whole labor movement, but also ©
the working people get into the -

‘with political weapons that are the

— an understanding of why the cap!
ist system breeds crises which ¢
the workers — and a political figh
win for the working-class the dom

place in society.