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Struggle of Irish people
for unity and freedom

When in 1921 the British im-

perialists were compelled - to,

grant Dominion rights to Eire,
the Irish Free State (in 1949 it
became the Irish Republic), they
retained Ulster, the six north-

ern countries, as part of
United Kingdom.

the

Not one Irish M.P., neither of
the South nor of the North, vot-
ed for this division — actually
annexation—of Irish territory.

For:50 years Northern Ireland
has been governed from London
with a puppet regime in Belfast.
It has been ruled by military
force plus that old tried divisive
device — Protestant against
Catholic—and by so _ gerty-
mandering the electoral districts
that the people couldn’t gain

representation. _

For 50 years a divided Ireland

has not been able to solve
ills.

its

The struggle for civil rights

in Northern Ireland this year
assumed great scope. The work-
ers, the common people, were
fighting together, Catholic and
Protestant, to win their demo-
cratic rights and fight the blight

of poverty.

London then sent an ar
into Northern Ireland. The m
the Irish united and fought,
more British soldiers were s

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ore
the
ent

Now the battle has grown

into a national strugg
pel the withdrawal of
troops and to re-u

le to com-
British
nite Ireland.

May their struggle at long

last be crowned with success.—

(J.W.)

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Demand U.S. accept -
the 7 points for peace

As we go to press news is arriving
of the political crisis of United States
imperialism’s puppet government in
Saigon and its impending collapse.

Disclosure in the Pentagon papers
of the fraudulence of the whole Penta-
gon-White House “case” for its crim-
imal war in Vietnam is now followed
py-the degrading spectacle of presiden-
tial elections in South Vietnam that
stand revealed as nothing but manipu-
lations by the Nixon administration.

In this situation, and with the fur-
ther news that Nixon’s response to the
Saigon crisis is to place US. troops in
South Vietnam on special alert—pre-
paring further murderous attacks on
the people there—Canadians have the
urgent responsibility of demanding the
Trudeau government at once call on

the United States to accept the Seven-

Point Peace Proposals advanced July 1
by the Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment of South Vietnam.

Basic to the Seven Points are the pro-
posals that the United States armed

- forces and those of its allies withdraw

—-men and material—from South Viet-
nam simultaneously with the exchange
of prisoners on both sides; and that the
eople of South Vietnam, in freedom
and independence, decide on their own
government. » :
All attempts by U.S. Ambassador
Bunker in Saigon, of the U.S. military
and the CIA to force the appearance
of a democratic presidential election in
South Vietnam on October 3 have
failed. . :
Undoubtedly the American people
will again raise their mighty voice —
in greater numbers than ever — for the
U.S. to accept the Seven-Point Peace
Proposal and to get out of Vietnam,

now! :
‘7 Canada must act to have our
ester make this same demand
of the Nixon administration without
delay, in the interests first of all of
peace and the heroic Vietnamese peo-
ple, and because from the U.S. aggres-
sion in Vietnam stems the present
threatening economic crisis.

The hook’s showing

recruiting is on full steam.
eee much emphasis on keeping
the peace, helping the poor nations, de-
veloping the North and guarding oe
sovereignty,” reports The Financia
Post on the front page of its current
issue, adding that “such things as guns
and fighting are downplayed to the
point of being almost nonexistent.
That’s the bait. But the hook is show-

naa he head
dier General Legge, the heé

of the military reserves in Ontario,

roared at a pee eee ate

ay thatas fs

CNE last Saturday gan tae

¢ in the Telegram) “to guard

ane ee lent disruption from within

against vio

"and the possibility of violence spilling

into Canada” from what he called “the
cauldrons that are the U.S. cities.”

He cited the occupation of Quebec
last October as an example of why
Canada needs such an army.

That’s the hook—and it’s barbed.

Brasshat Legge wasn’t asking the
directors at the luncheon to join the
army, of course. He is after Canadian
youth — young workers, farmers, un-
employed, students. He wants to drill
them and equip them with arms to
maintain the Establishment in power
here in Canada and enforce its gouging
policies on the Canadian people.

The outspoken brigadier - general

_ shouted against “Canada’s free ride”

on the “bandwagon of American mili-
tary strength” ... (How many Cana-
dian lives have been lost in this century
riding the imperialist “bandwagon”?
... not generals or directors, but “‘com-
mon clay” !)-

Legge’s “Canadianization” smacks of
Nixon’s “Vietnamization,” which was
to make Vietnamese kill Vietnamese.

CIA over Bolivia

’ Miners and students fought back va-
liantly, but they were shot down by the
soldiers and could not stop the Right-
ists from taking power. Col. Hugo Ban-
zer was installed by the military as the
new president and his first declaration
was that his regime would welcome
foreign capital investment in Bolivia...

The previous government of Presi-

dent Juan Jose Torres had also come —

about as a result of a military coup.
But Gen. Torres was a patriot and a
man of progressive leanings. His gov-
ernment nationalized the U.S.-owned
tin mines. He permitted a national
people’s. assembly to be called, repre-
sentative of workers and farmers, of
the Left and progressive groups, a fore-
runner to a popular front government-
to-come. He was preparing to act on
the proposal advanced by the trade
unions for workers’ control in mines
and workshops.

The Communist Party and the labor
and democratic forces supported the
progressive measures of the Torres
government while working toward a
people’s coalition type of government.

This has now been temporarily tram-
pled under the army jackboot. The army
revolt was led by Col. Andres Selich.

“Selich,” a Reuters story recalls, “is
the commander of the American-train-
ed Ranger regiment that captured
Cuban guerrilla leader Ernesto ‘Che’
Guevara.”

Guevara, you will remember, was
murdered by these hired assassins of
the Central Intelligence Agency, headed
by Col. Selich, in 1967.

So who engineered the bloody coup,
initiated and led by Col. Selich, in 1971?
Selich and the CIA don’t figure openly
in the new fascist-type regime of Col.
Banzer. But there’s no doubt as to who
stands behind that regime.

In proclaiming open house to foreign
capital, Col. Banzer wasn’t just an-
nouncing policy. He was paying a debt
—a debt which the people of Bolivia
will continue to pay in sweat and blood
until they dump Banzer, Selich, the
CIA and the Yankee capitalists off their
backs for good.

; PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1971—PAGE 3