laying the foundation for

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COMMUNISM

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of the Soviet Commu-

a Party as:
mi Classless social system in
Hiner there is common public
duti ship of the means of pro-
°n, full social equality and
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of ia in which all sources
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‘ommunity.

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tty ,.-8 SOcialist relationships
he a Unist ones for provid-
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ke technatalism. It employs
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a mere build-up of productive
capacity.

It demands a revolution in en-
gineering, a changeover to a
new set of technological prin-
ciples.

The scientific and technical
revolution becomes the main im-
pulse behind the building of a
communist society.

The whole edifice of commun-
ism will rest on a mighty, highly-
developed industry, the first
stage of which will be marked
first by the complete mechani-
zation and then by the com-
plete automation of productive
processes.

The backbone of that is elec-
trification, which today plays the
leading role. in developing all
branches of the economy and in
all scientific and techncal pro-
gress.

The advance of complex auto-
mated production presupposes .

an enormously greater output of
electric power. ,

- During the present Ninth Five-
Year Plan period (1971-1975),
the envisaged rise is over 43%.
That will provide industry with
a third more electricity per man,
and agriculture with twice as
much.

Another facet of the techno-

logical revolution on which com-
plex automation of production
depends is the replacement of
traditional mechanical process-
ing by stamping, rolling, weld-
ing etc.
’ And entirely new processes
like electrotechnology are a ma-
jor factor in raising the technical
level.

The injection of a flood of
technical novelties into produc-
tive processes is not an end in
itself, but a radical means of
rapidly increasing the efficiency
of the economy, saving labor,
improving working conditions,
and cutting out dull and repeti-
tive jobs, the monotony of the
production line, and so on.

Besides a powerful industry,
the material foundations of com-
munism call for a highly devel-

oped and highly efficient agri-
culture; and that again calls for
all-round mechanization, electri-
fication and intensive produc-
tion.

Under communism, said Karl
Marx, productive processes
would cease to be mere expen-
diture of labor and turn into a

‘scientific process shaping all the

forces of nature to people’s
needs.

That is what is now happen-
ing. Science is itself becoming,
more and more, a direct produc-
tive force.

In the USSR the progress of
science is planned. — Scientists’
attention is focussed on the most
promising lines of research.

Research bodies play a more
active part year by year in devel-
oping new types of engineering
and production. ;

State expenditure on research
is rising by two thirds from 1971
to 1975.

The latest scientific and tech-
nological achievements make
working operations ever more
complex, so that they must be
manned by highly “trained per-
sonnel.

That is why Soviet people are
now taking steps to improve
education as a whole, and par-
ticularly the work of colleges,
specialized secondary schools
and other centres of vocational-
technical education.

Another factor must be men-
tioned: cooperation among the
socialist countries.

The comprehensive program
of socialist economic integra-
tion adopted by CMEA member
countries promotes wider spe-
cialization and cooperation. in
production, consultations on po-
licy, elaboration on forecasts,
exchange of scientific and tech-
nical achievements and know-
how, and training of scientific
personnel.

TORONTO—Ronald Anderson,
the young U.S. war resister who
was grabbed on Canadian soil
by U.S. officials and dragged
illegally across the border, has
been returned to Canada after a
massive protest campaign.

Mr. Anderson, who was grant-
ed landed immigrant status on
Sept. 17, 1969, was coming ‘back
from a visit to his parents in
Seattle. His license plate was
run through a computor and he
was detained. He broke away
from his captors in the U.S. and
ran across the border, pursued
by U.S. authorities and the im-
migration patrol. He was seized
on Canadian soil, handcuffed,
and then taken across the bor-
der where he was placed under
arrest in a military stockade.

After Canadian government
protests to the U.S. over viola-
tions of territorial sovereignty,
Mr. Anderson was returned to
Canada. In the interim, numer-
ous organizations and_ indivi-
duals across the country pro-
tested the illegal capture.

In Toronto, a demonstration
called by U.S. war resistors of
AMEX (Americans in Exile) and
the TADP (Toronto Anti-Draft
Program) drew a crowd in front
of the U.S. Consulate on Aug.
30. With signs reading “U.S.
Cops Stay Out fo Canada”,
“Free Ron Anderson” and “Uni-
versal and Unconditional Am-
nesty’”’, the demonstrators hand-
ed out leaflets explaining the
issues. behind Mr. Anderson’s
arrest.

The leaflet stated: “The arrest
of Ron Anderson at the Peace
Arch last Saturday once again

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demonstrates the opinion of U.S.
authorities that they can violate
Canadian sovereignty with im-
punity. Demand that U.S. cops
stay out of Canada!

“Please encourage the Exter-
nal Affairs Department to pro-
test and demand that the U.S.
free Ron Anderson!

“Anderson’s arrest also proves
the need for total amnesty for
all U.S. war resisters. While
President Ford has been talking
of “earned re-entry” for war
resisters, Anderson was brutally
beaten by U.S. border officials
and dragged across the border.
With three weeks to go until he
could apply for Canadian citizen-
ship, Anderson is still consider-
ed unworthy of the rights of free
citizenship in the U.S. because
he refused to be a part of the
U.S. government's criminal geno-
cide in Indochina. Canadians
who understand that this war
was and is wrong should sup-
port our demand for universal
and ‘unconditional amnesty.”

Before the demonstration end-
ed Dee Knight of Amex told the
crowd that the Anderson inei-
dent ,“‘showed the arrogance of
U.S. officials in their desire to go
anywhere, do anything to im-
pose their view on an unwilling
world.

“The struggle must continue”,
he said. “Although we are small,
this is a symbolic act, not as a
show of weakness, but as a show
of. strength. . . . We ask our
Canadian friends to put pressure
on the U.S. government to free
Ron Anderson, and to grant
universal and unconditional am-
nestry to all U.S. war resisters.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1974—PAGE 7