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1% Fifteen years ago socialist Cuba was attacked by mercenary troops
| ttained and financed by the United States. The Bay of Pigs was im-

Perlalism’s answer to Cuba’s efforts to throw off colonialism. Following
| three days of fierce fighting the invasion was smashed and the bulk of
| Ne invaders captured. Our photo shows Fidel Castro leaping from one
the first Cuban tanks to engage the enemy.

ANGOLAN PRESIDENT AWARDED PEACE MEDAL.
LUANDA — Agostinho Neto, President of the People’s Republic of
& Bola was awarded the Frederic Joliot-Curie Peace Medal here re-

tly. Presenting the medal, which is given by the World Peace
cil, was Council secretary general, Romesh Chandra. The medal
ve oe of one of the founders and first secretary general of the
ouncil.
On presenting the medal, Chandra said ‘‘the peoples of the world
jyih the People’s Republic of Angola new successes in carrying out
““Volutionary changes. We award this medal to Agostinho Neto for his
rage and for his loyalty to the cause of peace and: progress,”’
is reply, Neto said the medal ‘‘really belongs to the entire Angolan

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: ple ... The liberation war is over and Angola has entered a new
1 the stage of national reconstruction and economic rehabilitation.
People’s Republic of Angola will advance toward socialism.”

x UNEMPLOYMENT ‘CATASTROPHIC’ IN SPAIN

tp MADRID — Unemployment in Spain is ‘‘catastrophic’’, according

pene country’s Central Bank President, Alfonso Escamez. Speaking
T€ to a special news conference May 10, Escamez admitted that there

More than 760,000 people unemployed, and that this official figure

Sfeatly understates the reality of the situation. He said the Spanish

80vernment had taken some steps to try and deal with the crisis, but

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Nothing has helped.

Y ONE-THIRD OF BRAZILIANS HAVE NO PERMANENT
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_, BUENOS AIRES — Goverment statistics here show that nearly
terthird of Brazil’s work force is either unemployed or only doing
“Mporary work. The unemployment figures are only a part of a long
tas of statistics that point to.the growing economic instability of the
~SCist regime of Gen. Geisel.

Wi efforts to improve the economic situation, Geisel is holding talks
with leaders of numerous capitalist powers, including the United States

Britain, in the hope of receiving trade preferences and aid.

_| ‘WILMINGTON TEN’ LEADER CALLS FOR INQUIRY
_ RALEIGH, North Carolina — The’Rev. Ben Chavis, now in the
0nd week of a hunger strike to protest his unwarrented incarcera-
«ina prison for mentally deranged persons, called for a Congres-

Nal Inquiry into the whole justice system of North Carolina.
in avis and nine others were involved ina 1971 civil rights campaign
. Wilmington, N. Carolina that ended in their imprisonment on
fs uP charges of murder and arson. They were tried in North
lina, Chavis’ attempt to have an appeal hearing in the Supreme
: was turned down last year, though he is now repeating the

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____ DUTCH PRINCE CLEARED OF BRIBERY CHARGES

iy MSTERDAM— A Dutch commission set up by the government to

tevcStigate charges of bribe-taking by Prince Bernhard, husband of

tog ing Queen Juliana, declared there was no evidence that the Prince

‘ok $1.1-million in bribes from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. The

| tajeission said the Prince, due to awareness of his position, did not
€ the bribes, but must have been aware of payments to his as-

© lates in the Dutch airforce.

WAKE RELIEF CALLED INADEQUATE BY ITALIAN COM-
MUNISTS se
UDINE, Italy — The Communist Party of Italy (PCD criticized
7 vernment action in relief operations for victims of the recent ear-
quakes which have brought disaster to much of northeasterm Italy.
: In a front-page editorial of the PCI newspaper Unita, the relief
(petations were called inadequate due to bureaucratic red-tape and
q K of coordination.

New ties, form

BAKU — The Fourth Confer-
ence of the Soviet Afro-Asian Sol-
idarity Committee was opened in
this capital of the Azerbaijan re-
public of the Soviet Union on
May 12.

Mikhail Kotov, a_ leading
member of the Committee, and
executive secretary of the Soviet
Peace Committee, predicted that
this meeting would “‘usher in a
new stage in the consolidation of
the unity of action of all anti-
imperialist forces, of all the
peoples fighting for the eradica-
tion of the disgraceful system of
colonialism and oppression, and
for social progress.

‘*The pressing task of today’’,
he said, is the ending of the arms
drive, is disarmament, the elimi-
nation of the seats of colonialism
and racism, of all the infringe-
ments upon the peoples’ rights. It
is necessary to work to make Asia
a continent of peace and coopera-
tion, to establish a just and lasting
peace in the Middle East, and to
facilitate the solution of the de-
veloping countries’ pressing
problems.

“In view of this, the Soviet
Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee
should expand ties with the

: By SAM WALSH
It’s ageneral attack on all fronts
that has been launched by big cap-
ital and its governments. To-
gether with wage controls they
have adopted repressive laws in
order to intimidate, to divide and
to paralyze the united resistance
of the workers, all this in the- name
of the battle against inflation. The
hypocrisy of these claims is
flagrantly revealed in.the orienta-
tion of*the federal government
toward military expenditures,
than which there is nothing more
inflationary.
e

‘The Montreal Gazette of May 7
reports on its front page that the
Trudeau cabinet will this year
study a program of building 20

new helicopter-equipped de-

stroyers worth more than $2-
billion, of buying new fighter air-
craft in the USA for approxi-
mately the same amount, of buy-
ing Leopard tanks from West
Germany for $400-million.

All these preparations for war
go contrary to the policy of de-
tente and of disarmament which
the Canadian government claims
to support.

It’s an effort to get out of the
economic crisis into which the
capitalist world has been sucked
by the road of war preparation
(the same ‘“‘solution’’ used to get
out of the crisis of the thirties)
depending on the two most ag-
gressive imperialist powers, the
USA and West Germany. That’s
why one cannot separate the
struggle for peace, for detente, for
disarmament from the - struggle
against the attacks of the govern

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national-liberation movements,
look for new forms and methods
of work,’’ Kotov said.

Noting the tremendous pres-
sure the Afro-Asian solidarity
movement had exerted on the
successful national liberation
struggle, Kotov said that the
Soviet Committee had-for 20
years béen an active contributor
to the movement’s activities.

It was not surprising, he said,
that ‘‘reactionary forces are seek-

_ing to split the Afro-Asian solidar-

ity movement, to isolate it from
the socialist countries, and pre-
vent the consolidation of all
forces supporting the peoples’ na-
tional liberation struggle. A sinis-

SAM WALSH, president of the
Communist Party of Quebec.

‘ments on the standard of living of

the workers and their democratic
rights to defend themselves. Th-
ese attacks aim to make the work-
ing people pay the shot for the
crisis of the capitalist system.
War preparations constitute at
one and the same time, a threat to
the life of all humanity and an at-
tack on our standard of living by
way of inflation and higher taxes.
Elsewhere in this issue of the
Tribune we reprint the vibrant
and courageous appeal of Louis
Laberge and Fernand Daoust, re-
spectively president and general
secretary of the Quebec Federa-

tion of Labor, for united resis-

tance against the general attacks.

S, methods of work

Pd

ter. role in this is played by
Maoists,’’ he charged. ‘‘They are
conducting subversive activity in
an attempt to force the Afro-
Asian solidarity movement to
give up its basic principles of
struggle for ‘peace and peaceful
co-existence, which are the main
prerequisite for winning and
strengthening independence by
the peoples of Asia and Africa.
There is no doubt that the sound
forces of Afro-Asian_ solidarity
will be firm and consistent in up-
holding and keeping pure the
ideological foundations of the
movement and in rebuffing the
splitters and reactionaries,’’
Kotov said.

tacks that take the form of
blockbuster laws, injunctions,
trials ...

“*That’s why we ask you to or-
ganize meetings in order to give
the QFL the mandate to use the
weapon of a general strike. We
believe that the trade union

movement in Quebec, and, if pos-
sible, in all Canada, should reply
vigorously to the repression of the
governments subservient to the
big companies, before it’s too
late. <

Quebec Communists are proud
of the fact that the leaders of the
QFL have shown themselves to
be equal to their responsibilities
toward the workers of Quebec
and of all Canada, that eventual
sentences imposed by the
powers-that-be do not deter
them, that they reject the refor-
mist, class-collaborationist policy
so assiduously championed by
the darlings of the bourgeoisie
within the labor movement.

The Communists and. the
people of the genuine Left, not
only in Quebec but across Canada
will be at the side of the authors of
that appeal, not to tear them down
as the “‘r-r-revolutionary’”’ leftists
are trying to do, but to -help to
mobilize the workers, to help
them take the big decision to pre-
pare for a general strike as an
answer to the general attacks of
the powers-that-be.

They correctly émphasize that _

“the workers of the privatesector

just as muchas those of the public
sector are hard hit by these at-
tacks of the powers-that-be, at-

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