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Canada's sovereignty.

WHO IS DOING WELL?

Prime Minister Trudeau, as
© told the House of Commons

on December 3, thinks his gov- -

ernment has “done beauti-
fully in. combating inflation.
It's a view unlikely to be shared

y the workers who find them-
Selves unemployed as a result

| OF the government's distorted

SPplication of economic res-
traints, by. young families des-

Cannot obtain mortgages ex-
cept at usurious rates, and by
rganized workers who find
themselves the target of abuse
ecduse they refuse to accept
Wage restraints while corpora-
tion Profits and rents continue
their unrestrained rise.

The . Fisherman, Vancouver.

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DARKEST U.S.A.

Having scratched and chip-
Ped at a few lunar rock sam-
Ples, scientists with the Natio-
nal Aeronautics and Space

Ministration are starting to
come aggressively posses-
sive about the moon. One of

€m wants to set off a nuclear
€xplosion on its dark side in an
€xperiment which could “say a

great deal about the moon to.

N€ very core’’.

We had thought there was

sul Some general plan to keep
© Moon uncontaminated.

Apart from this, a nuclear blast
GS one of man's earliest salutes’
gin moon, is repellent. -

great deal about the

to the vir
t says q

__NEWS ITEM: Minister of External Affairs Mitchell

7

, Sharp said that
Conbership in alliances such as NATO and NORAD secures

dark side of earth. To the very
core.
Globe & Mail.

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FOR THE BIRDS

The U.S. upper. echelons
have decided that, in defense
of the Establishment, no living

‘creature should “be ' exempt
‘from service;

the next con-
scripts will be birds. The De-
partment of Defense has
awarded a $600,000 research
grant to the University of Mis-
sissippi to determine whether
doves (!) crows, ravens,
pigeons, . vultures, _mynahs,
chickens, etc. could be trained
to guide missiles, locate mines,
or otherwise assist in- search
and destroy missions. This: te-
search. will operate with one
thought in mind: to “replace
humans for activities that are
dangerous, difficult, expensive
and boring.”” The hawk is not
mentioned; evidently this bird
will be exempted for sentimen-
tal reasons.

U.S. Farm News

WON'T BE GOAT

We have a greater stake
than than anyone in putting a
stop to inflation—it's persons
on small incomes who suffer
most—but we aren't going to
be the victims of the campaign
to stop inflation.

OFL president, David Archer

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Socialism in the 1970's

The Prime Minister’s New Year
message, and the predictions for the
Seventies made by the other spokesmen
of capitalism, were gloomy. They re-
flected the mortal crisis affecting the
social and economic life of Canada and
the capitalist world.

The Prime Minister projects his goal
to create unemployment by as much as
6 percent of the work force. He plans
to recruit the provincial premiers, by
whatever means necessary, into a fight
to unload the burden of developing
crisis onto the backs of the working
peovle. And that’s.just for openers.

Professor Leslie T. Wilkins of New
York, told the University of Toronto’s
Centre of Criminology that, within 20
years, city dwellers will live like medie-
val lords in apartment blocks, guarded
with moats, the streets abandoned at
night to outlaws.

Thus, for the Seventies, capitalism
hunger, unemployment, poor housing
and inadequate educational, medical
and recreational services.

In contrast, socialism offers a bright
and hopeful future to all mankind. The
direction of struggle in the socialist
countries is to give their citizens the
highest world standards in both the
material and spiritual realms. The
working class, the leading class in so-
cialist societies, is creatively building
the new social order and the New Man
with a socialist personality.

Socialism produces creative, produc-
tive, educated people, with many-sided
intellectual and cultural interests, who
have learned: how to govern their own
countries, and who are pushing on to
new outposts of human progress.

That is why Communism inspires and
gives hope to the working people. The
Seventies are pregnant with the pro-
mise of new advances and major vic-
tories for the working class and its
allies.

Pride goeth hefore a fall

The moving of French gunboats -

from Cherbourg to Israel is a brazen
example of international imperialist
unity, which is auite prepared to fight
the Arabs to the last Israeli.

It is difficult to imagine that the five
naval vessels got out of Cherbourg

without .the government. of France
knowing it. In fact anyone who doesn’t
believe it is on sound grounds: But,

even if they succeeded in getting out -

with the complicity of local French offi-
cers, it is just as difficult to imagine
them going through the Straits of
Gibraltar without being stopped, had
the French government so wished. It is
also clear that if Pompidou had wanted

Fleet to stop them in the Mediter-
ranean.

Pompidou and his cabinet are put-
tine on a stage play to try to obscure
French collusion in the whole affair,
which could not have been pulled off
without that French collusion.

The government of Israel is jubilant
—prematurely. The acquisition of
these war vessels, rather than doing
anything towards settling the crisis in
the Middle East, indicates that the im-
perialists may push the situation there
to the point of no. return.

If the government of Israel does not
change course to seek a pees settle-
ment, a situation could be created
which will place in real. jeopardy the
legal borders of Israel, and the well-
being of its people. Quite obviously
international imperialism is willing to
run that risk, but it is not a risk in the
best interests of the people of Israel,
nor of world peace.

Freedom for whom?

There is a Senate Committee investi-
gating freedom of the press. It is a bit
like asking a criminal to investigate
himself.

How can there be such a thing as a
“free press,” which all the submissions
from the capitalist publishers pro-
claim? The idea of a.“free press,” that
is, a press taking positions which stand
above classes and outside of classes,
free of bias, is sheer nonsense. The
Canadian Tribune—the freest press in
Canada—makes no bones about its bias
in favor of the working class and
socialism. That alone makes it infini-
tely more free than any capitalist
newspaper.

Ownership of the capitalist press is
concentrated in the hands of a few
wealthy individuals and corporations,
all part of the economic anit political
power structure, who use it to further
their own ends.

Any serious study of the news re-
veals that the capitalist. press writes
the same from coast-to-coast — news
that is managed, that is “official” from
government sources, that is what capi- .
talist officialdom wants the public to
read. The main direction of the editor-
ials published in the hundreds of capi-
talist newspapers in this country, could
have been written by a single editorial
writer. They are written to advance
the ideas of the capitalist system.

No one could hold down a job with
the capitalist press if he took positions
contrary to the capitalist class. .

The capitalist press, all in the name
of freedom of the press, uses its great
power to fool the public, to whip up
public opinion against the Communist
Party, against democratic advance,
against strikes, reforms and peace —
against the working class. It limits its

Social protest to'a little muckraking, in

which all human
rificed.

The capitalist press has been called
many names. To best express the trade.
it plys, its entrances should have red
lamps, hanging.over. them... ......

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