3s fpvueands of young people from
Ae y every country in the world
t Bye in Havana, Cuba in 1978 for the
“venth World Youth Festival there
d Bi. Spectacular political, cultural
letic show in store for them.
ie sn be sure of this because the
ue World Youth Festival will be
pause Own making, sponsored,
aaeea and developed by an inter-
risin preparatory committee com-
Bite representatives from over 63
les. And they can be sure of it

, of the overwhelming support

Pr the Festival by its gracious hosts,
' aaa Communist League, the
a nist Party and the Revolution-
‘ ee oment of Cuba.

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fy mittee for the Festival completed
Second meeting March 15 in
pene
aes a doubt the broadest and
representative event of young
onl a pawocre in the world, the
aes outh Festival is in the first
ok Political event. And as such, the
task of the International Prepara-.
8 pee aittee in their four-day meet-
i leventh adopt the politics of the
through Festival. This was done
all ts the adoption of an appeal or
Th the Festival.
ihati © Appeal calls for the formation of
ent Preparatory committees in
estival ntry to build support for the
Under the slogan ‘‘For Anti-
Peace and

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estiver the political issues of the
ace ey € anti-imperialism and world
a oe that the purpose of the Festi-
oe the Appeal says, ‘‘to strength-
Peration and mutual understand-
sions ae youth and student organiza-
muggle ifferent persuasions in the
‘Peace ane anti-imperialist solidarity,
t Plow: friendship.’’
fe Ing out of the slogan, the Appeal
in top Cleven different campaigns that

‘ will embrace the political con-

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i
Hn ctbor Power, like any other source of
Comme ah product of industry, is. a
2 Drice j Ity ‘to be sold on the market for
{Price ic Aa form of wages. Its selling
: Mividuar ees over, either on an
(0ld, ay, or collective basis. Once
oe eet s labor power belongs to

e Sas aser, that is, to the owners of
lorieg ans of production — land, fac-
jfor fee the instruments of labor —
, tracte, d eo of hours per day con-
. Worker labors for a part of the
Rt o eat the cost of his wages. The
Out tem © working day he labors with-
Which j Uneration creating surplus value
h; a pocketed by the capitalist who
is the © 0ved him. This surplus value
Capita, Uree of profit, the source of
Nita the sourge of wealth of the

ISt class.
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/ voit Created by the labor of the
Ht Y0rker,” bears down heavily on the
bom; (Particularly in periods of
# ts a4 i> Ctisis), ruins the small own-
by Sie es an army of unemployed
HS necec This army of unemployed is
Nd its Ssary for capitalist production
€xpansion as are land, raw

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A spectacular show is in store

tent of the Festival. The campaigns in-
clude the strengthening of international
détente, to make détente “‘irerever-
sible’”’ and for its extension to the mili-
tary sphere. A related campaign is for
the application of détente to Europe
and for the implementation of the Hel-
sinki accords.

Other campaigns of solidarity are
with the youth and people of Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia in their struggle to
elimjnate the sequels to imperialist ag-
gression and to rebuild their countries,
along with a solidarity campaign with
the young People’s Republic of Angola
to consolidate its national independent
against U.S. and South African aggres-
sion. With these campaigns come
others to support the struggle of the
Arab peoples: and the Palestinians ‘in
particular, to achieve a just and lasting
peace in the Middle East and to support
the struggle for the re-unification of
Korea.

But perhaps the most important of
the solidarity campaigns will be those
that co-incide with the unique impor-
tance of the Eleventh Festival, the fact
that for the first time the Festival will be
held in the western hemisphere, and in
particular that it will be held in Latin
America and in Cuba. Both the political
content and the actual participation in
the Festival cannot help but reflect the
significance of Cuba and Latin America
as the site, for it: means that the anti-
imperialist struggle is now on the very
doorstep of world imperialism.

Other countries of Latin America
will also be of major importance to the
Festival. Not least is Chile and the
valiant resistance movement against
the fascist junta. The fascist dictator-
ships in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay
in alliance with Chile presents the
danger ofa fascist axis in Latin America
aimed at the vicious suppression of
progressive movements in their own
country and aimed aggressively to-
wards Cuba. The Appeal to the Festival
made special mention as well of
Panama in their bid to secure
sovereignty over their lands and the
canal, and of Puerto Rico, still suffering
under colonial bondage, but whose in- -
dependence movement grows stronger

each day.

Canada was represented at the IPC
meeting by Fred Wilson, the General
Secretary of the Young Communist
League of Canada. In his address to the
meeting he expressed the support of
Canada for the proposals put to the
meeting by the Cuban Union of Young
Communists.

In accordance with the Appeal to the

Be
so ic ne

Festival which calls for the formation of
the broadest possible Festival commit-
tees, invitations will be sent to student,
trade union, cultural and community
youth organizations to join as full
partners in Canada’s central prepara-
tory committee, still in existence from
the 1973 Festival.

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The Habana Libre hotel, where World Youth Festival conference was held in March

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

materials, energy and so on. in addition,
the army of unemployed stands as a
constant threat to the security and wage
standards of the employed workers.

Capital leads to the increase of pro-
ductivity of labor and the creation of a
monopoly position for the biggest
capitalists and the combinations of big
capital: Production on an ever-growing
scale becomes more and more social.
Millions upon millions of workers are
linked up in a systematic economic sys-
tem. But, the product of this social
labor is appropriated by a veritable
handful of capitalists.

The capitalist system, while increas-
ing the dependence of the workers on
capital, creates the power of combined
labor — the modern working class.

* OK OK

The founders of Marxism in their
profound analysis of the economic
structuré of capitalism discovered that
this social system contained the seeds
of its own: destruction. They pointed
out that the development of modem
large-scale industry “‘cuts from under

its feet the very foundation on which
the bourgeoisie produces and ap-
propriates products’’. ‘‘What the
bourgeoisie, therefore, produces,
above all,’’ they said, ‘“‘is its own
grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of
the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
(Communist Manifesto)

The proletariat — the modern work-
ing class — as the creation of capital is
destined by history to be the liberator of
all the working people from the opposi-
tion and exploitation of capital. For in
securing the downfall of capitalism, the
working class will replace that system
by socialism, which once and for all
puts an end to the exploitation of Man
by Man.

This is so, because the working class .
by its very position in large-scale pro-
duction is truly connected with the fu-
ture of social production. And, as a re-
sult, with the future of the whole
society. In other words, the future of
large-scale production does not threaten
the existence of the workers as a class.
Neither does it undermine the position

The real source of wealth and profit

of the class in society but leads to an
increase in the numbers of workers, thus
enhancing the role of the workers in the
life of society. -
* OK OK

The working class has the qualities to
qualify it for this historical task. First of
all, the working class has the advantage
of size. It is the most numerous, and the
most rapidly growing class. It is the
class most capable of the highest degree
of organization. Large-scale produc-
tion daily instills in workers the spirit of
collectivity, discipline, unity, mutual
aid and support. ~

By gathering hundreds and

thousands of workers together in one

plant, the capitalists help workers to
overcome disunity and isolation that is
a negative factor of other mass move-
ments of working people.

In addition, the working class is the
most capable of developing political
consciousness. It acquires its “con-
sciousness not only from books, but to
a large extend from its experiences in
production, labor and class struggle.

All of which, taken. together, makes
the working class the most militant and
revolutionary class of society.

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