Rally in Red Square Theatre hails moves to amity By BERT WHYTE Moscow — From all parts of the capital contingents set out at dawn on Nov. 7. They con- verged on Red Square and at 10 a.m. the traditional celebra- tion to mark the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution began. Applause greeted the appear- ance of Brezhnev, Kosygin, Pod- gorny and other Soviet leaders on the reviewing stand. Foreign guests present this year includ- ed trade union delegations from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. As the Kremlin chimes struck the hour, Defense Minister Grechko, standing in an open car, drove along the lines of troops, then made a_ short speech from the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum. He stressed that the USSR and the coun- tries of the socialist community “are actively implementing a concerted line aimed at the fur- ther strengthening of the forces of peace and social progress,” and pointed to the broad sup- port by world opinion of the re- sults of Soviet leaders’ visits to Various countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Following the 45-minute mili- tary parade the people of Mos- cow marched across the Square for another two hours. Main theme of the slogans they car- ried was support for the peace program proclaimed by the 24th Congress of the CPSU. Kerer- ring to recent visits by Brezh- nev to France and the GDR, by Kosygin to Canada and Cuba, by Podgorny to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, streamers above the columns read: “We approve of the domestic and foreign policy of the Communist Party.” On the eve of the anniversary Viktor Grishin, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committe and first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party, spoke at a celebration meeting in the Kremlin. “The exchanges of visits, con- sultations, talks with statesmen Protest South Africa police murders The following telegram was sent by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada to Prime Min- ister Vorster, Capetown, South Africa: “The Communist Party of Canada protests, in the strong- est possible terms, the terror and torture practised by the police against South African democrats fighting the repres- sive racist regime which you head. “We particularly condemn the brutal murder of the young man Ahmed Timol thrown from the tenth story window of the Witwatersrand headquarters of the security branch. We con- demn also the savage torture inflicted on another young man, Mohammed Essop, tor- ture so severe that Mr. Essop is confined to hospital in very critical condition. “We demand that you act immediately to put an end to present mass police raids, tor- tures and killings of demo- cratic opponents of the pre- sent South African regime.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1971—PAGE 10° and politicians from various countries, extensively conduct- ed by the Soviet Union, serve the interests of consistently improving the foreign political situation, of strengthening peace and cooperation among the peo- ples,”’ he stressed. Grishin pledged militant soli- darity with the Vietnamese peo- ple. support for the Arab peo- ples, and expressed the hope for a peaceful settlement in the Asian subcontinent. “The Pakis- tani authorities should stop re- pressions against the popula- tion and create conditions for the return home of the refu- gees,” he said. On China, he said: “the posi- tion of our party is a position of principled struggle against the ideological-political plat- form of the CP of China lead- ers, that is incompatible with Leninism, of resolutely expos- ing Peking’s hostile propaganda and protecting the national in- terests of the Soviet state. At the same time, we have and we are proceeding from the pre- mise that the cardinal, long- term interests of the peoples of both countries coincide. Our party is doing everything de- pending on it to normalize the inter-state Soviet Chinese rela- tions, having in view the per- spective of a restoration of goodneighborly friendly ties be- tween the Soviet Union and the Chinese People’s Republic.” Communist Party makes ready for 21st convention The 50th Anniversary (21st) Convention of the Communist Party of Canada will take place Nov. 27, 28 and 29 in Toronto. Delegates are expected from British Columbia, the three prairie provinces, Ontario, Que- bec and Nova Scotia. The opening session of the convention on Saturday, Nov. 27 will hear the keynote ad- dress delivered by party leader _ William Kashtan. The work of the convention will centre on three main items. The first will be adoption of the policy state- ment dealing with the immedi- date period, the highlight of which is the Communist Party’s call to the Canadian people to build a democratic, anti-mono- poly, anti-imperialist alliance. This alliance, the party holds, must be led by the organized working class movement which includes the Communist Party. The convention will then have before it the matter of adoption of a new draft of the Communist Party’s program, The Road to Socialism in Cana- da. The third main item will be elections of a Central Commit- tee and of the party leader. An outstanding event during the convention will be the ban- quet on Saturday evening Nov. 27, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Communist Party of Canada, at which tribute will be paid both to the founders of the party and those Nici have recently become mem- TS. By BERT WHYTE MOSCOW—The Bolshoi Ballet was performing in Hungary, the winter theatre season was bare- ly getting underway and many theatres were still closed. Our Canadian guests had already seen Obraztsov’s marvellous puppets. So where could we take them tonight? We decided on Ten Days That Shook the World, a play based on John Reed’s book, at the Drama and Comedy Theatre (known to Muscovites as the Ta- ganka Theatre). It’s an action play and if one is familiar with the revolutionary events of Oc- tober 1917 a knowledge of the Russian language is hardly es- sential to enjoyment of the per- formance. In the foyer of the theatre soldiers and sailors dressed in period uniforms sang ditties to the tune of an accordian and this prologue prepared us for the lively presentation on _ stage. Vladimir Vysotsky, the popular poet, played the role of Keren- sky with verve and bombast. Profiteers and bourgeois politi- cians appeared and were swept off the stage of history by the workers and _ peasants who were changing the world. On a screen in the -background ap- peared a portrait of Lenin and his familiar voice is heard off- stage. Altogether, an exciting even- ing. World-Famous Of Moscow’s 30 theatres, only three existed before the October Revclution — the Bolshoi, the Maly and the Moscow Art Thea- ire: The Bolshoi is world famous, both for its ballets and operas. Every visitor to Moscow wants BOOK REVIEW ee elects night in Moscow vc to go to a performance at the Bolshoi. The building’s classical lines evoke universal admiration — and particularly the pediment where Apollo, the Greek sun- god, drives his giant bronze horses. Operas by Mussogorsky, © Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Verdi, Puccini . . . memories of Chali- apin, Nezhdanova, Sobinov. And on this stage danced the great Nijinsky, and ballerinas like Geltser, Semyonova, Ula- nova... and today Maya Pliset- skaya, A white seagull is the emblem of the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. It sym- bolizes the theatre’s greatest glory, its productions of Check- hov — The Seagull, Three Sis- ters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard. For many years Olga Knipper — Chekhova, the writ- er’s wife, was the leading lady of the theatre. Stanislavsky’s ideas, embodied in his theatre, transformed the whole concept Study of the Commune ON THE PARIS COMMUNE — Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1971. 357 pages, bound, price $2.75. Avail- able from Progress Books, Toronto. Among the. events comme- morating the Paris Commune of 1871 was a conference held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, October 21-24, 1971. This conference devoted its at- tention to a study of many phases of the great historic event in Paris a century ago. It is an excellent thing that this meeting of scholars took place at a Canadian university and that the Canada Council aided in meeting the costs associated with the gathering which in- ~ cluded speakers from Canada, the United States, Great Britain and France. Tables were arranged in the John Watson Hall in order to provide a display of the many splendid volumes issued in France and elsewhere in the current year covering all as- pects of the Commune. Sitting side by side with the monumen- tal work in five volumes on the Commune by Georges Soria was a work of modest size, On the Paris Commune by Karl Marx and Frederick Eengels which contains the most penetrating comments on the Commune available to modern readers. Writing many years after the famous Address to the General Council Working’s Men Association, En- gels observed “On May 28, the last fighters of the Commune succumbed to superior forces on the slopes of Belleville; and only two days later, on May 30, Marx read to the General Coun- cil tne work in which the histo- rical. significance of the Paris Commune is delineated in short powerful strokes and with such trenchancy, and above all such truth as has never again been attained in all the mass of lite- rature on this subject.” This work, pleasantly bound in scarlet, contains all the major writings of these two men on the Commune, and in addition includes articles, appeals, of- ficial documents of the working- class movement, speeches, state- ments in various periodicals, and letters. This is a volume that must be included in any collection on the Commune, no matter how selective. It provides, as Engels stated, the greatest understand-» ing and appreciation of the character and importance of that great historic event, the first assumption of political power by the working class. If you are planning to have on your shelf at least one book on the Paris Commune, this is the indispensable volume. R.S.K. Aram Khachaturyan’s “Spartacus” a of The International. Most! | ofl of acting throughout the yi to the point where 1 thot” | known simply as “the ™ iofh The third theatre wit al i history is the Maly, wir oye Gogol, Ostrovsky, Gt igeli and Gorky along with ( plays. ; ofl Unique — the only "1G S kind in the world —}8 i \ sy Theatre. Every P® is packed: Russians }4" ” ing t been mad about Gypsy li and dancing. Althoug# Bs t share of their repertoit®, anit i of Gypsy folk songs 2” se i the performers als As a Russian numbers. i us There are other fame ti ' cow theatres I coul conte t the Sovremennik ( ss" | ary), Vakhtangov, ~~ pysi) re Central Army, Satif© i Gogol, etc. ce Appreciative Audie” { But I’d like to sa, ( about audiences — SU e aR the most knowledge found anywhere. Moté a million Muscovitt” theatre, cinema an a y. 2 performances every 3 cally all performance. out. At entrances om le — predominant) © Banc accost_ theatt? 2 try and purchase 4. et” At the conclusion of formance many me” (olgit audience rush dow? bouquets of flowers cet actors, singers or G4" "4g Ni eel Yes, theatre flourish ip th cow — but equa ¥ nia” cities of the Soviet is n together there are mo major theatres in t lics. After the 19 all theatres (there Zh int? , many then) passe yi hands of the new {0 And the state allocate re fl the needs of the ei oe are self-supporting; i pall ar one knows, opera aM" yy Og formances are extrem” cht In capitalist counties. ate panies depend of Pot Sail and miserly gover™ ney Sof Here in the USSR ma gi? generous state finan” ig t the Bolshoi Theatre in Wee Artists’ salaries are Tih usually around 1 Ay po” months, plus 4 ye ; equal to a month’s e. ing artists with Jone yp! records receive what ; {i as a “personal Salat htt 300 to 400 roubles anit, ists can earn additio? of (and nearly all 40) in films, radio 4 ; and by taking part i concert performance”