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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

Quebec Liberal leader

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tune is Trudeau’s tune. To se-
cure the status quo we must
help industry and make the
working people pay the expense.
As well, the sight of good Que-
becers being willingly fleeced
by their state will induce and
persuade foreign capitalists to
join in by investing in the pro-
vince.

One of the reporters com-
mented on Bourassa’s creden-
tials as an economist. Yet Lenin
said this before Bourassa was
born: “Although (as an econom-

' ist) he may be capable of very
valuable -contributions in the
field of factual and specialized
investigation, he cannot be trust-
ed one iota when it comes to the
general theory of political econ-

omy. For economics is a partisan
science.”

And Bourassa stands on the
other side of the sea when it
comes to classes.

Meanwhile, the Quebec popu-
lation, inflicted with media
mania, cursed with clericalism
and plundered by both foreign
and national capital, will con-
tinue to oscillate between the
electoral demagoguery of the
bourgeois parties. But, in the
words of Marx, “the situation is
pregnant with the contrary.”
Never has the level of working
class consciousness been so high,
never has: the militancy in cer-
tain social levels been so acute
and never have the objective and
subjective features for change in
Quebec society approached so
close to term.

Nigerian Peace

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this, whereas imperialism work-
ed for divisions and disunity in
order to establish its dominance.

All Canadian democrats and
progressives, who are concerned
with the right of the peoples of
Africa to achieve their national
and social liberation, must sharp-
ly condemn and repudiate those
who are striving to undermine
the sovereign rights of Nigeria
and interfere in its internal af-
fairs. This they are now trying
to do around the issue of relief.

All the evidence shows that
ample food stocks are available
in Nigeria itself. The problem is
not availability of food but of
transport.

In any case it is for the Ni-

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gerian government to declare
what kind of relief they need,
how it should be sent and whom
it should be sent to. The respon-
sibility of the Canadian Govern-
ment is to make such relief
available without political
strings attached. Those.who are
sincerely concerned about the
sovereign rights of the Nigerian
people and the cause of indepen-
dence should fight for this prin-
ciple.

No interference in the internal
affairs of Nigeria!

Make aid available through
the agencies decided upon by
the Nigerian Government!

Support the struggle against
imperialism and neo-colonialism
and the national and social liber-
ation of the peoples of Africa!

_ cist Germany.

RYT AT NTT SET Te ee 0 A OOOO UVC O 08000
Historians distort Soviet role

In an article in the Kommunist
magazine Marshal Georgy Zhu-
kov has accused many Western
historians of distorting the So-
viet Union’s role and its decisive
contribution to victory over fas-

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Marshal Georgy Zhukov

The 73-year old marshal, who

: recently published a book about

the war, reminiscences and. re-
flections, states that Western
historians _uncritically repeat

“immutable truths”: formulated -

in the 1950’s in the memoires of
former Hitler’s generals and dip-
lomats.

Marshal Zhukov recalls,
among other things, that the
events of 1941 are described by
Western historians as a trium-
phal procession of the Nazi
army. The operations of Soviet
troops are depicted as a whole
series of defeats, and confusion
and weakness are attributed to
the command. But why did Hal-
der, chief of Hitler’s general staff
of the ground forces, complain
as early as July 20, 1941, that
the German troops were over-

Women’s Congress
protests premiums

Peter How, business agent for
Local 524 of the United Electrical
Union at Peterborough, Ontario,
reported that his union collected
3,000 signatures in the first 3
days of circulating a card deman-
ding Real Medicare Now. In an
address to a Toronto meeting
sponsored by the Toronto Chap-
ter of the Congress of Canadian
Women, he outlined the main de-
mands of the UE, in calling for
the elimination of premium pay-
ments for medicare to be replac-
ed by ability-to-pay taxation,
and for no additional medicare
charges over the fees paid by
OHSIP. His union is also de-
manding that there be no private
insurance companiés involved in
the scheme. The Robarts govern-
ment pays private insurance
companies six percent. This, he
said, without any effort on their
part, is a guaranteed income, al-
most all pure profit.

UE, he said, is recommending
full national medicare along the
lines of the Hall report. He said
that the Robarts government
had deliberately introduced a

. scheme which was worse than .

most schemes in industry, with
the sole aim of discrediting
medicare. Doctors, he said, had
raised their scale of fees 10 per-
cent 90 days before the scheme
came in and, as the highest paid
profession in Canada, also with
a guaranteed income’ under
OHSIP, they were not entitled
to any further increases.

A woman in the audience who
said she worked in a non-union
place of employment said that
she is compelled to pay out 80
percent of her wages for OHSIP
and hospital insurance.

tired after “continuous bloody
battles” and that the “morale of
leading bodies has declined.”

“If the legend about a ‘confu-
sion’ of the Soviet command
were true, the question arises:
who organized and led in the first
weeks of the war the unprece-
dented build-up, movement to
the front and deployment of the
numerous reserves that became
a decisive factor for the success-
ful struggle and the wrecking of
the Nazi ‘Barbarossa’ plan as
early as the winter of 1941?”

Harper and Row publishers in
the U.S. issued a collected edi-
tion of what they call Marshal
Zhukov’s greatest battles. Har-
rison Salisbury, who edited this
edition ‘furnished it with such a
preface and commentaries which
due to the military incompetence
and scientific unscupulousness
of the author directly contradict
my thoughts, the text and prin-
cipled essence of my articles,”
Marshal Zhukov says.

He emphasizes that Salisbury
seeks to interpret war not as a
complex historic process but as
a result of the will and activity
of individuals with dictatorial
manners. “I could explain the
exercises of the author of the
commentaries by his commercial
interests if the issue were less
serious. But to write vaudevilles
on historical material, connected

with the hervism, blood, s
ces and exploits of the peo
infamous and vulgar.”

Zhukov writes that iner
attempts are being made
to-say personify Soviet m
art. Thus, Salisbury writes
some sort of “Zhukov stra

“To link Soviet military
tegy with the name of one

to speak of a “Zhukov” o:
body else's strategy mea
stand on false positions, t

play a lack of understandir
knowledge cf the very e:
of our military art.”

Many bourgeois authors
tently allege that the |
Army fought relying not o1
but on numbers. Exposing
myth, Zhukov cites figure
the battle for Moscow the e
by the beginning of the §
counter-offensive had 8¢
men, 14,000 guns and m
and a thousand tanks aj
718,800 Soviet soldiers,
guns and mortars and 720 t

“Our victory over fasci:
the most convincing proof ¢
progressive nature of §&
military art,” Zhukov writ

European conference
opens door to peace

The Soviet Government be-
lieves that preparations for an
all-European conference “should
be directed first of all at fulfill-
ing the proposal to convene a
conference’ and not at artificial-
ly delaying it.”

The statement, which was read
out at a press conference in Mos-
cow by Leonid Zamyatin, a
spokesman of the Soviet Minis-
try of Foreign Affairs, says that
the widespread response to the
appeal by socialist countries,
parties to the Warsaw Treaty,
“shows that an_ all-European
conference could play a role of
importance for the future of this.
area of the world, that it is al-
ready ripe and should be held
without any unjustified delays.”

“At the same time one can
see that not all governments of
Western countries have accept-
ed with a similar degree of
consent even the very idea of
convening a conference. In some
places one obviously senses a re-
luctance to slow down the cause
of easing tensions,” the state-
ment says.

“The confirmation on a region-
al basis of the principle of renun-
ciation of use of force ‘s not only
in keeping with the obligations of
states under the United Nations
Charter, but also. strengthens
and further develops these obli-
gations. It should also be taken
into account that not all Euro-
pean states are members of the
United Nations,” the statement
says.

Of great significance for es-
tablishing all-European coopera-
tion in various fields, would be
discussion on developing com-
prehensive cooperation among
all European states.

The statement stresses that
“the proposals put forward by
the socialist countries in Prague
are wide enough to permit dis-
cussion of the main problem, the

problem of ensuring Eur
security, that they are 2
same time specific enous
allow definite decisions ©
could be conducive to the a
ment of this goal.”

“The Soviet Union and
socialist countries are also_
to consider other proposals
ed at practical preparation
an all-European conference.
was Clearly stated by the
the Prague meeting. The S
Government is ready as b
to hold a further exchang
views with other states bo
a bilateral or any other bas
contribute to the speediest
vocation of a conference.”

The statement notes tl.a
discussions at the Brussels
sion of the NATO council i

_ spect of an all-European co

ence ‘‘were not at all marke
the unanimity of its pa
pants.

“The wordings of the dec
tion issued by the Brussels
sion of the NATO council
vague and are open to diffe
interpretations. .. : The dec
tion appears to be influence
the policy of those NATO «
ters, first of all non-Eurof
which regard with fear the ]
pects for a relaxation of tens
in Europe and the developr
of general European cooperé
and which are, therefore, s
ing means to complicate in e
way the preparations for,
the holding of a conference.

Some people, the stater
says, “would like to switch
work of the forthcoming cor
ence to talks between the
military groupings — Ni
and the Warsaw Treaty org¢
zation.” The Soviet Governn
proceeds from the assump
that ‘neutral European st
have also an important rol
play in the preparations for
holding of an all-European |
ference.” (TASS)