Nuclear weapons-free by 83 —

Since the movement for nuclear disarma-
ment took a mass, organized form in 1949
with the founding of the World Peace Coun-
cil, the ranks of the peace movement have
been swelling — first in Europe but now in
Canada and the USA.

Not only is the world-wide consensus
against nuclear weapons and nuclear war
expanding at an unprecedented rate, but
those who have long put their energies into
that cause now see vastly more prominent
spokespersons of the professions and the
political spectrum taking a stand.

One of these is former federal finance min-
ister Walter Gordon, who pointed to the So-
viet pledge of “no first use” of nuclear weap-
ons, as well as guarantees to countries which
bar nuclear weapons. Canada should declare
itself a nuclear weapons-free zone, Gordon
said.

Another to speak out is Toronto’s mayor,
Art Eggleton, who chose Remembrance Day,
Nov. I 1, the day for remembering the dead
of two world wars, to declare his opposition to

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the Cruise missile and its testing in Canada.
It’s “just not wanted here,” he said, referring
as well to the manufacture of its guidance
mechanism by Litton Systems in Etobicoke,
near Toronto. Eggleton had earlier urged in
a letter to Trudeau that Canada not allow the
Cruise to be tested in Canada.

It was a different sentiment expressed by
External Affairs Minister MacEachen, who
brushed off anti-Cruise anger and deter-
mination, saying the government would
allow the U.S. military to do its testing despite
widespread protests.

Buoyed by an overwhelming “yes” vote in
the nuclear disarmament referenda across
Canada, it is timely for the peace forces to
now demand that Canada become a nuclear
weapons-free zone. It is equally a time to di-
vorce this country from its nuclear shackles
— the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
the North American Airspace Defence
agreement, and the Canada-U.S. defence
production sharing agreement. Make
Canada nuclear weapons-free by 83!

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

When Leonid Brezhnev died on
November 10 at age 75 the sorrow and sense
of loss spread far beyond the borders of the
Soviet Union. For many millions, Brezhnev
was the voice of the Soviet Union confirming
backing for their building of socialism, or
their fight for national liberation, or their
world-wide struggle for peace and disarma-
ment.

Collective leadership ensures the con-
tinuity of Soviet policies, domestic and for-
eign. Yet, a person entrusted with ‘such
leadership responsibilities, and entrusted
with them on the firm foundation of exper-
ience and proven ability and dedication —
nothing to do with million of dollars for elec-
tion campaigns — brings his personal style to
the work.

Perhaps that is why Brezhnev is remem-
bered in particular as a champion of détente,
of peace and disarmament. That comes of

traditions. One of the first decrees
signed by Lenin after the 1917 October
Socialist Revolution was the Decree on Peace.

In 1936, before World War II erupted, the
Soviet representative at the League of Na-
tions, Maxim Litvinov, told the member

countries: “To strengthen the League of
Nations is to abide by the principle of collec-

Flashbacks

25 years
THIEVES FALL OUT

Canadians are being treated to a spectacle of quar-
relling, wrangling and political recriminations in the
higher councils of the North Adantic Treaty Organ-
ization, the basis for Tory-Liberal foreign policy.

‘The French walked out of the NATO parliamentary
meeting. The U.S., fearful of the Arab liberation
movement, is exploiting French imperialist difficulties
in North Africa and the British, having lost Egypt, are
anxious to get in on the deal.

Small west European states are restive, fearing the
rising power of West Germany, not willing to become
the “shield” in the event of a new war.

The crazy, ramshackle NATO structure is in critical
shape. Unprincipled “unity” is exposed as a sham.
Growing Soviet strength has thrown the “massive reta-
liation” policies of the U.S. into the ashcan. And
thieves fall out.

Tribune,
. November 25, 1957
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 26, 1982—Page 4

tive security . . . to abide by the principle that
ace is indivisible.”

“As Brezhnev wrote in his modest book,
Reminiscences: “In that year a steep turn Oc-
curred in my life: I was called up into the Red
Army.

“We went via Moscow,” he recalled, “and I
hoped to visit Red Square, see the Kremlin
and pay my respects at Lenin’s Mausoleum,
but I managed to do that only on the way
back.”

Yet, that same Brezhnev, having given
stalwart service to the Soviet Union, the-
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and to
the tide of world progress was, on November
15, buried with highest honors beside that
Mausoleum, in an unequalled hero’s funeral.

His progression as factory worker, farmer,
soldier under fire, and political officer, pre-
pared Leonid Brezhnev in the many schools
of reality. © .

He was a socialist man, taking a leading role
in advancing the USSR and the socialist
community, and in support of the liberation
and democratic struggles of workers every-
where. His life’s work is forever a part of the
struggle for a new world for humankind —
for socialism’s advance to communism.

50 years
LAST BULWARK

BERLIN — The Junker president Hindenberg con-
ferred this week with Adolf Hitler and asked the Nazi
leader to form a government. The conditions set by
Hindenberg were that the fascists should secure
cooperation from other capitalist parties and agree to
continue the wage cutting policies of Von Papen.

Hitler demurred at this. He wants a free hand to put
into effect anti-working class measures even more vic-

_ jous than Von Papen’s. In the interview Hitler de-

clared the Nazi party to be “the last bulwark against
communism”.

At the same time lightning demonstrations of Ger-
man workers are occurring throughout the country in
opposition to the Hitler-Hindenberg plan. The Ger-
man Communist Party has issued a strong appeal to
the workers and to the rank-and-file of the Social
Democratic Party urging a united front against fas-
cism. The Social Democratic leaders continue to resist
unity. The Worker,

November 26, 1932

What we paid $100 for in 1971, we ne
have to hand over $269.20 for. That’s inf
tion. If anything the quality is lower. But}
are told that we’re really making head
because in October the inflation rate was 0?
10% over October 1981, whereas in Sé€
tember the rate was 10.4%. :

The fact is that prices are going up eV
month, but we get media double talk abe
inflation “declining”. If we are robbed of 0
10% more this month instead of 10.4% mo
we are supposed to cheer. Do the masters
the capitalist system think there are sl
people who are fooled by such lies?

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60 year
STRANGE SILENCE

Everyone must have noticed how difficult it seem
be for the states bordering the Soviet Union to find
answer to the note of the Soviet government con
ing mutual arms restrictions.

The Latvian government answered that on P
ciple it would be glad to accept, but that it would
to consult other Baltic countries. Finland endeav@
to delay with various quibbling questions as to wh
conference should take place.

Poland has remained silent about the Soviet
and French imperialism has already declared the*
tence of the Red Army makes it imperative to
arms in an enormous army.

The Soviet Union has made its arms reductio® |
posal quite sincerely for the simple reason that it
sires a part of the Red Army to return to produt a
work. Let those who are silent bear the responsib®

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November 15,