OPPOSED N-BOMB, TWO GIs DISMISSED |

Two U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany have been discharged
from the army for circulating a petition opposing the neutron bomb.
_ The British news agency Reuters reports the two men were “instantly
discharged” for ‘‘failing to meet NATO standards’. The soldiers, who
reported many others were also against deployment of the bomb in
Europe, had been circulating a petition in U.S. army barracks in
Mannheim, Heidelberg, Augsbrug and Karlsruhe.

CHILE SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS TO U.S. FIRM
SANTIAGO — The junta has sold oil prospecting rights in the Strait
of Magellan area to the U.S.-owned Atlantic Richfield Corporation it
was reported here last week. The Chilean magazine, Ercilla, said that
the offshore concession is for a 223.5 million acre region for 35 years,
with 40% of expected profits going to ARCO and the rest to the junta.

NATIONAL MARCH SET FOR ‘WILMINGTON TEN’

NEW YORK — A nation-wide march at the White House has been
set for March 18 to secure freedom for the Wilmington Ten it was
announced by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political
Repression (NAARPR). The march will put pressure on the Carter
administration to step in following a refusal last month by North
Carolina governor James Hunt to grant the 10 pardons.

March organizers will seek to pull in all forces who have supported
the struggle to free the 10. Specific demands include Justice Depart-
ment intervention in federal court on the side of the defence, asking for
immediate bail pending the appeals process and for overturning the
conviction.

The 10 have been in prison for the past seven years and have faced a
total of 282 years for their defence of a church froma four-day seige by
KKK in 1971. :

PEACE PROPOSALS ADVANCED IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE — The 35-nation Belgrade Conference heard major
proposals from the socialist states urging signatory states to adopt a
treaty barring first strike nuclear weapons. Bulgaria made the proposal
saying the final agreement should include such a treaty as well as agree
to freeze the size of military alliances (NATO and the Warsaw Treaty
Organization). The German Democratic Republic has proposed
mutual renunciation of the production of the neutron bomb. The USSR
said the Belgrade conference cannot stand aside from efforts to prevent

a slide to nuclear disaster in Europe and criticized the U.S. delegation
for trying to prevent discussion on disarmament.

ISRAEL FORCED TO RELEASE COMMUNIST JOURNALIST

TEL AVIV — Israel has been forced to release one of two com-
munist journalists (see Tribune, Feb. 13) arrested last month. Hans
Lebrecht was freed on bail but Panayiotis Paschalis, a Cyriot journ.-
list, is still being held. Both writers incurred the wrath of Israeli
authorities for their press coverage of the Begin-Sadat talks where they
insisted on bringing the cause of the Palestinain people to the fore.

BRITISH TEACHERS FIGHT NATIONAL FRONT RACISM

LONDON — Both the 250,000-member National Union of Teachers
and the 21,000-member National Association of Head Teachers (prin-
cipals) have joined in a campaign to prevent the fascist National Front
from instilling race hatred in school children. The NF has distributed
leaflets to primary and secondary schools entitled, ““How to Combat
Red Teachers” and ‘‘How to Spot a Red Teacher’’. The NF recently
formed the Young National Front (YNF) aimed especially at students.

SADAT AND THE ROCKEFELLERS

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fighter planes. The deal was part of a $4.8-billion package the U.S.
worked out for fighter plane sales to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

During the Sadat visit Carter described the Egyptian president as one
of the “world’s foremost men of peace”. Israeli premier Begin an-
nounced he will also visit Washington soon to try and get the Egyptian
portion of the deal cancelled. Observers have noted the parallel be-
tween U.S. “shuttle diplomacy” In the Mid East and the dramatic and
alarming increase in sophisticated weapons sales there by American
firms.

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EIDIMOMWIALL
COMMENT

A dirty deal in Sudbury

Sudbury workers — 1,260 of them —
lost their jobs February 13, laid off inde-
finitely by the giant nickel corporation,
INCO. That brings the total to 1,843.

Those miners and their families, as
well as other workers whose jobs will now
disappear, got a dirty deal on a whole list
of counts.

Neither the federal Liberals nor the
Ontario Tories intend to do anything
beyond window dressing to create jobs
and defend the security of these work-
ing-class families. They are too busy de-
fending the profits and power base of the
real rulers of the system we live in —
monopoly corporations like INCO.
These bosses of the system use the fact
that Liberal and Tory governments are
their governments, the big business
media is their media. ;

Cabinet ministers at Queen’s Park and
on Parliament Hill laughed off in a mat-

ter of hours, the recommendations of a »

select committee of the three parties in
the Ontario Legislature, which sought a

_ 60-day time cushion to ease the crisis in

Sudbury.

Apart from the merits of the recom-
mendations, workers have a right to
know why it was the committee, which
labored for several weeks, produced its
plan just 48 hours before the layoffs —
too late for accompanying mass action by
the labor movement? .

The anti-labor attacks by govern- |
ments, whether in Sudbury, in New- —
foundland, or anywhere élse, are to be
expected. They are the people who gave

us the union-thwarting Anti-Inflation

Board, cutbacks in social and welfare
benefits, and soaring prices and profits at
the expense of workers.

The tragic consequences of layoffs,
lockouts, plant closures, and.scabbing on
strikers will only be answered by workers

themselves, powerfully united, and with”

a wary eye on “friends” who counsel
cooperation and patience with the boss —
and his system of society.

It’s not hard to see the worth of such
“advice”. The point is to fight back, build
solidarity, for the victories labor can wit”
over layoffs and all the other evils of the
boss-run society. :

How workers can change it

It’s no coincidence, when the economy
is stagnating, that the old political parties

try to make the workers pay for it. What

is important is how workers respond.

It’s nothing new for big business bos-
ses to harden their stand against em-
ployees and an ungrateful public when
curbs on profits are the call of the day.
These are the corporate pirates who are
hampered on a world scale by: the exis-
tence of socialist, newly-liberated and
non-aligned countries.

Not for the first time, governments of
Canada’s capitalist system are moving to
the right, using threats, legislation, il-
legal police activities, and training the
army in anti-labor assaults.

Immediate fights have to be won on
tax cuts; unemployment insurance for

_ the full term of unemployment; protec-

tion for workers’ homes in face of sick-
ness, layoffs, soaring rents and taxes;
training or retraining for real jobs; the
right to retire on full pension at an ear-
lier age. —

Workers have never had just one bat-
tle at a time. Protection of their families’
future demands a parallel battle, first of
all for unity — the trade unions, New
Democratic Party, Communist Party, the
unemployed. United labor needs an all-
out campaign to nationalize key sectors
of the economy — first the resource sec-
tor. Only then will the Canadian people
benefit from their own riches.

Nationalization — that.is public own-

ership, not under a Tory or Liberal re-
gime, but democratically controlled by a
representative body — could strengthen
Canadian independence, level out reg-
ional disparity, develop secondary in-
dustry and jobs. With a Canadian
Development Fund, aided by slashing
billions from armaments squandering,
and by using industrial revenues for
Canada-building projects, unemploy-
ment could be tackled seriously.

What would be a pipe dream under
Liberal-Tory rule, would be a natural
development for a new government,
with new policies, in which the working
people play a major role. And the elec”
tion of such a government is yet another —
of the tasks before Canada’s working
men and women.

A bar to peace

Illegal, armed, permanent settlements _
on the occupied territory of neighboring
countries is Israeli policy, as stated by
Prime Minister Begin and Defence
Minister Moshe Dayan.

Despite the snake-like twists and turns
in its pronouncements the Israeli gov-—
ernment inevitably comes down with 2
refusal to get its armies and its squatters
who have stolen the land of Arabs out of
the occupied territories.

Israel refuses, like a throwback to. the
despotic empires of the past, to recognize

the land rights and human rights of the

Palestinian Arabs, contrary to ‘world-
wide and United Nations insistence.

For the eighth year, the UN Human
Rights Commission has condemned Is-
rael for atrocities in the occupied
territories. ee”

With a record like that Israel deserves
heavy pressure from any government
which calls itself democratic. _

The USA’s purchase of Sadat and its
cynical arming of Egypt, Israel and

Saudi Arabia with fighter planes only

emphasizes its role in aggravating the
Mideast situation. |

Canada’s government should, be
among those to take an independent
stand, free itself of its Israeli and U.S.
commitments and demand genuine

ace talks, at which the spokesman for
the Palestinian people, the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization, participates as al)
equal. _ . . FP