FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957

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ISRAELI COMMUNIST CHARGE

Jewish question used
to smear socialism

TORONTO

A message from the Israeli Communist party denouncing
exploitation of “the Jewish question by international reaction
and Jewish bourgeois nationalism in their campaign against
socialism and the Soviet Union” was roundly applauded by
delegates to the LPP national convention here last weekend.

The message was one of a
number of fraternal greetings
received from Communist par-
ties in Britain, Ireland, China,
Sweden, Finland, the Soviet
Union and Albania.

The Israeli Communist
party’s message said in part:

“Our party has had to pass
and in still withstanding hard
attacks of Israeli ruling reac-
tion, in consequence of our
party’s patriotic and interna-
tionalist stand against the
policy of aggression and servi-
tude to imperialism, a policy
which is detrimental first and
foremost to the national inter-
ests of the Israeli’ people,
which endangers its sécurity
and independence, and threat-
ens world peace as has been
shown by the Israeli aggres-
sion against Egypt in collusion
with British and French colon-
ialists.

“Our Communist Party of
Israel is engaged in a hard
struggle against the Eisen-
hower Doctrine, against the
actual services of the Ben-
Gurion government to_ this
doctrine, which is a program of
aggression, imperialist expan-
sion and colonial enslavement
of the peoples of the Near and
Middle East.

“Qur anti - imperialist strug-
gle, our fight for an Israeli
policy of peace, independence
and neutrality, our policy of
unity of action of the working

Totem-raising rites
staged at Courtenay

COURTENAY, B.C.
Mungo Park, noted B.C.
Native Indian carver, Mildred
Valley Thornton, Vancouver
artist distinguished for her
paintings of Native Indian life,
and Wilson Duff, curator of the
provincial museum, were
guests at a totem-raising cere-
mony held at Lewis Park here
last Saturday. The two new
poles were carved by Mungo
Park and his assistants, Dave
Martin and Henry Hunt.

class, for consolidating a broad
anti-imperialist patriotic front,

is the only alternative for

Israel, is the only possible way
corresponding to the true na-
tional interests of our people,
to the interests of liquidating
the Israeli-Arab conflict and
achieving peace with the Arab
East on the basis of mutual
respect for the just rights of
the Israeli and Arab peoples.

“As Israeli patriots and true
internationalists we are strug-
gling against exploitation of
the Jewish question by inter-
national reaction and Jewish
bourgeois nationalism in their
campaign against socialism and
the Soviet Union. Historical
experience itself proves that
there is no better friend for
the people of Israel, for the
Jewish people in general, than
the Soviet Union, than the
socialist camp and the Com-
munist movement.

“Developments prove more
and more that opportunisny
and revisionism within the
ranks of the Communist move-
ment lead to the camp of
reaction, and are dangerous
for the cause of peace, democ-
racy and socialism.”

NERUDA ARRESTED —
Police terror raids
staged in Argentine

BUENOS AIRES

Many hundreds have been arrested here in police raids conducted on a scale

equalled only in the worst days of the Peror
Among those seized in the raids which
the dawn hours of last Saturday was the famous (

was on a visit to the country.

Police took him from bed,
where he was lying sick, and
carried him off to the state
jail in an open truck.

In an appeal to working-
class organisations throughout
the world, the Argentine Com-
munist party pointed out that
the arrests extended beyond
the working-class movement to
an “endless list of political and
social personalities which is
growing longer every day.”

Among those arrested are
Margarita Pence and Fanny
Edelman, president and secre-
tary of the Union of Argentine
Women, two leading railway
trade unionists, Gaston Redivo
and Ricardo Gomez, 10 law-
yers and several Buenos Aires
doctors.

From Berlin the Women’s
International Democratic Fed-
eration sent a strong protest
to provisional] President Pedro
Eugenio Arambu demanding
immediate release of the two
women leaders.

The arrests follow big strikes
on the railways and in the
sugar refineries, by municipal
workers and :meat packing

Newsguild drive

TORONTO
The Newspaper Guild is
opening an organizing drive
among Canadian magazine
workers. If the big Maclean-
Hunter Publishing Company
topples it will be the first
Guild unit in this field.- The
company publishes four mass-
circulation magazines and 35
trade publications.

Continued from page 1

SCHWEITZER

comes from internal radiation
as a result of drinking radio-
active water and eating radio-
active food. After describing
blood and bone diseases caused
by radioactivity, he noted, that
cells in the reproductive or-
gans are particularly vulner-
able, commenting:

“Thus it is not only our own
health but that of our descend-
ants which is threatened...
we are forced to regard every
increase in the existing danger
through further creation of
radioactive elements by atom

bomb explosions as a catas-
trophe for the human race, a
catastrophe that must be pre-
vented under every circum-
stance.”

The world-famous human-
itarian said Japan was the
only country in which public
opinion demands nuclear tests
be ended. That opinion, he
said, has. been forced on the
Japanese people because “little
by little they have been hit
‘in the most terrible way by
the evil consequences of all

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workers, against -the
rising cost of living, and the
formation of an all-union com-

ever-

1 dictatorship.
took place all over the Argentine in
Yhilean poet Pablo Neruda, who

mittee on which dozens: of
unions in the country’s basic
industries are represented.

Buck asks two-year
holiday’ from. H-tests

TORONTO

A two-year “holiday from atomic and nuclear bomb tests”
was advocated by Tim Buck, LPP national leader in his key-
note address. to the Labor-Progressive party’s 6th national
convention “here last weekend. All countries, working through
the United Nations, should be involved in the bomb test mor-

atorium.

“There is a world-wide de-
sire by all men of good will to
prevent a holocaust of nuc-
lear warfare,’ said Buck.
“There is a real possibility that
historic contest between the
two social systems may be de-
cided without world war.”

The central question of our
time is ‘whether ‘the people
can go forward to
freedom and socialism with-
out undergoing the horrors of
H-bombs.. .«

“The peaceful co-existence
of states with differing ec-

national:

onomic and political systems
hias become an imperative ne-
cessity for all mankind,” he
declared.

While possibilities for pre-
venting war are growing, Buck
noted; “the instigators of wat
have not given up.”

But, he added, the changes
which have created the pos-
sibility that world atomic wat
will be prevented here created
also posibilities for the work-

ing class in a number of capi- 7

talist countries to unite the
overwhelming majority of the
people under its leadership. —

MAY

Hear The

COME TO THE

RALLY

Outdoor Theatre
EXHIBITION PARK

Sunday, April 28 - 2:30 p.m.
CHAIRMAN
ALEX GORDON

SPEAKERS
JOHN BOYD — NIGEL MORGAN

Youth Folk Singers

In case of rain rally will be held in Pender Audito

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