- $350-BILLION SPEND ON ARMS

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Though mankind continues to
accumulate mountains of arms,
Me arms race not only must, but
Can be stopped.

Over $350-billion is being spent
_ 4Mnually on military hardware,
throughout the world. The USA
alone spends over $127-billion on
Its Open military budget plus mill-
1ons more hidden in the budgets of
the CIA. This at a time when
More than 10 million Americans
are unemployed, 25% of the popu-

tion live in poverty, wages are
clamped down on and vital social
Welfare measures are slashed.
The figures are different but the
ssence is the same for all capital-
_ Istcountries including Canada. So
Much for the lie that military ex-

penditures are necessary for a
healthy economy. ate,
Some people argue it is impos-
sible to stop the arms'race! While
it is true that it continues through
the pressures of the-military in-
dustrial complex and the global

No troops to Zimbabwe
CPC says to Jamieson

TORONTO — The Com-
Munist Party of Canada, in a
Statement from its Central Execu-
tive Committee, has criticized the
€xternal affairs minister’s readi-
Ness to involve Canadians on the
_ Side of the USA and Britain’ in
Zimbabwe.

“The statement by Mr. Jamie-
Son, minister of external affairs,
the Canadian government is
Prepared to send Canadian troops
to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) to up-
hold the U.S.-British Plan must
be-vigorously~ opposed ~by all
Peace-loving Canadians, all those
Opposed to imperialist rule and
Tacism,”’ the Communist Party
Said on Sept. 23. It’s statement
Continues:

The U.S.-British Plan is not di-
Tected to achieve the end of white
Minority rule in Zimbabwe. Its
Purpose is to preserve the in-

fluence and privileges of the white

minority, disarm the Zimbabwe
patriots and impose neo-
colonialist rule over that country
and its people.

The majority of the people. of
Africa oppose these latest man-
oeuvres of imperialism, which
has demonstrated again that it is
prepared to do almost everything

_except get off the backs of the

people. - :
Canada must not allow its name

‘to be besmirched. Canadian

troops and Canadian bayonets
must not ‘be used to impose this
‘‘settlement’’ on the people of
Zimbabwe. Instead of sending
troops to Zimbabwe the Canadian
government should stand firmly
behind the Zimbabwe. patriots
struggling for the liberation of
their country and endorse a trade
and arms boycott of the racist Ian
Smith government.

strategy of: imperialism, agree-
ments can be reached and indeed

must be reached. Peace is indivis-_ -

ible and the future of all mankind
is at stake.

The arms race is not a fatal in-
evitability. Over the last 15 years
close to 20 bilateral and multi-
lateral agreements have been
reached in the following areas:
The Moscow treaty on partial
prohibition of nuclear tests, the
nuclear non-proliferation treaty,
the convention on the prohibition
of bacteriological weapons etc.

While these treaties have not
‘by themselves stopped the arms
race, they have restricted the
areas of maneuverability of the
arms merchants. They have laid
the basis for more -extensive
negotiations and for the broaden-
ing scope of these negotiations.

Proof of this are the prepara-
tions for a special UN General
Assembly session on disarma-
ment next summer which should
become an intermediary link in
convening a world disarmament
conference.

The political balance of forces
in the world are changing in favor
of the forces of peace and prog-
ress, although this is by no means
an automatic process. Political
détente must be coupled to mili-
tary détente not through the
philosophy of the ‘‘positions of
strength’’ advocates which is no
more or less than active prepara-
tion for war, but through concrete
step-by-step agreements leading
to universal disarmament on the
basis. of equality of security of all
countries.

In the final analysis, general
and complete disarmament is not
a fantasy at all. But it requires
everyone who opposes arms
stockpiling to increase their ef-
forts to compel the opponents of

_détente and the merchants of

death to beat a retreat.

UN WELCOMES VIETNAM AND KNOCKS U.S.
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly welcomed-
Vietnam into its ranks and speaker after speaker greeted the event,
many criticizing the U.S. veto in the past and the American war against
that country. The General Assembly now embraces 149 nations.

200 EXAMPLES OF ISRAELI TORTURE LISTED

LONDON — More than 200 formal complaints have been registered
with the International Red Cross of torture of Arab prisoners during
interogation by Israeli military. The London Sunday Times says it has
studied 336 of 550 reports of visits to Israeli prisons by the Red Cross
and writes that 200 of these have been formally handed over to Israel.
The Red Cross says that Israel has permitted it only to visit prisoners
and not persons held in detention for questioning and has received the
complaints by those who previously had undergone questioning and
are now jailed.

SPECIFIC AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
BERLIN — More than 2,480 factories and other industrial projects
operating in 75 countries have now been built in developing countries
‘with aid from countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
(CMEA), reports the GDR news agency ADN. Added to this, CMEA
countries granted 15 billion roubles in credits to emergent nations of
which 75% is spent on industrial plant.

NEW YORK TIMES AND FBI COLLUSION
AGAINST ROSENBERGS?

NEW YORK — FBI documents, secured through a Freedom of
Information suit, showed the New York Times approached the FBI to
offer its services to counteract the campaign to win freedom for the
Rosenbergs in 1953. Dated June 16, 1953, three days before the Rosen-
bergs were electrocuted, FBI documents.show that a Times staffer, .
concerned that the campaign for a stay of execution was succeeding,
offered the services of his paper.

The memo describes the reporter as having been “‘highly coopera-
tive’’ with the FBI. This material contradicts a Sept. 13 statement by _
NY Times executive vice president Sydney Gruson who claimed the
paper had no knowledge of such activities. The story was released
Sept. 24 by the Communist paper Daily World which printed a copy of
the FBI memo on its front page. -

YOUNG JAMAICANS TRAIN IN CUBA
- HAVANA — Forty-eight young Jamaicans have completed training
in socialist Cuba in the construction trades. The 48 spent a year of work
and study in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. The Jamaicans,
members of the “‘Nanny Brigade,’’ were trained as bricklayers, car-
penters, welders, technicians in installing electric power and equip-
ment, etc. ;

Popular Unity and MIR agree _
on plans for common action

Popular Unity and MIR
Ovement of the Revolutionary
ft) Exterior Committees have
held discussions aimed at reach-
ig an agreement to stimulate

Common action against the mili-

tary junta,

5 Ina joint declaration issued in
erlin, GDR, on Aug. 15 Popular
nity and MIR recognized that

Conceptual differences remain,

_ Ver political and ideological mat-
ters of great importance for the
lean revolutionary process
and that difficulties exist in the
field of practical action in several
Countries. However, says the de-
Claration, we think that these dif-
ficulties must be solved through
‘nk and respectful ideological
discussion, always emphasizing
€ required unity to confront the
¢ommon enemy.

The declaration continues:

Popular Unity and the MIR,.

ng into account the experi-
€Nces derived from the military
Coup on September 1973 and all

- the historical developments since

then, have reached an agreement
intended to arrange and impel
joint actions in the following
areas:

1. To join efforts to urge the
unity and the understanding of all
those willing to struggle against
the military junta, convinced that
the only true popular alternative
to it is the one shaped by the
broadest united base, arising from
the unity of the Popular Move-
ment and its parties.

2. To fight repression and to
defend human rights, especially
denouncing the kidnappings and

disappearances, demanding ef- -

fective and real dissolution of the
DINA, freedom for the. prisoners
and the restoration of all political
rights; to make efforts leading to
the repealing of those decrees that
suppress trade union rights, par-
ticulary the rights of assembly,
free election of their leadership,
collective bargaining and right to
strike. :

3. To fight for the defence of
the standard of living of the

people, supporting their specific
demands, struggling against the
economic policy of the junta,
based upon the superexploitation

of the workers, the handing over ~

of the national resources to im-
‘perialism and the control of the

country’s economy by national —

and international monopolies.

4. To defend Chilean culture
and spiritual heritage, to fight
against the militarization and fas-
cization of the educational system
and for freedom and autonomy
for the universities.

5. To stimulate international
solidarity with the Chilean
people. To intensify the political
and economic isolation of the
junta especially by promoting a
boycott of miljtary goods, the
granting of loans and investments
that benefit the international
economic monopolies, the ex-
porting of foodstuffs from Chile

’ which are needed by the Chilean

people. To facilitate this, the
work of the solidarity committees
must be strengthened to avoid
anything that could favor the dis-

membering and parallelism of or-
ganizations, and to ensure collec-
tive leadership by all the particip-
ant groups.

6. To encourage and reinforce
the workers unity abroad, around
the Workers Central Union of
Chile (CUT) and to oppose any
splitting attempt or union paral-
lelism. :

These agreements imply main-
tainence of fraternal, loyal,

.friendly and constructive re-

lationships between the different
popular organizations, non-inter-
ference in internal matters of the
other groups, and the complete

fulfilment of the present apes

ment:

Common actions to be prom-
oted will be arranged beforehand
by the political bodies and meet-
ing will be planned regularly for
this purpose.

Inside Chile, the planning and
carrying out of common actions is
the responsibility of the leader-
ships in the interior.

The tactical unity in joint ac-
tions against the dictatorship is
also a pre-condition and incentive
to the development and deepen-
ing of the ideological dialogue at
the grass roots of the people and
their organizations.

‘ee

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