_ Greek Cypriot students are shown on hunger strike outside British
_ Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s residence recently to protest Britain's
' decision to evacuate thousands of Turkish refugees from Cyprus.
: Greek Cypriots fear they will be allowed to return to areas captured
by the Turks and take over homes and properties left by Greek
Cypriots.

VALENTINE’S DAY FILM FESTIVAL
FEATURING 3 SOVIET FILMS

Depicting — Culture, Sports
and Environment Protection in USSR

also Selected Comedy Shorts

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14-7:30 pm.

LADNER FISHERMAN'S CO-OP HALL
Spons. Surrey YCL :

_ For Information Phone
946-9902 — 946-6188

New Westminster

1975 BETHUNE SEMINARS

The following classes will be held at Douglas College, New
Westminster Campus, room 308D in the four room complex,
corner 8th Ave. and McBride Blvd.
All classes commence at 7:30 p.m.

(1) “Role of the Soviet Union in World Affairs.” Will be led
by Jack Phillips — Sunday, February 16.

(2) “China's Foreign Policy,” led by Ben Swankey —
February 23.

(3) “The Future of Canada’s Trade Union ‘Movement.” Will
be led by George Hewison —- Sunday, March 2.

Participants are requested to register in advance by phoning
521-5847 or by writing to 214 St. Patrick St., New
Westminster.

LESSONS OF
CHILE FOR
THE
CANADIAN
PEOPLE

BONUS LECTURE
NORMAN
- BETHUNE
CLASSES -1975

HEAR

| Jack Phillips. - Provincial Organizer
~ Communist Party of Canada

Ukrainian Hall - 805 E. Pender St.

|__Wednesday, March Sth. 8 p.m. |

Mabel Richards, Vancouver,
writes: Just a line to say the Trib is
most interesting and informative
these days and I bless it as the only
antidote to The Sun and TV
propaganda. I particularly enjoyed
the article on the police-crime

situation. Surely it is time
progressives advocated a
government-sponsored and_ con-
trolled addiction centre where
drug addicts could receive free
drugs and scientifically-controlled
withdrawal assistance; as well as a
rehabilitation program.

If it is to cost us $5 million to hire
extra police, surely there are few

taxpayers who would object to
having their money spent on re-
habilitative programs instead. The
zeal with which the advocates of an
increased police force push their
case would almost lead one to
believe they have a= stake in
keeping the drug traffic alive and
well; for never have they men-
tioned the need for a sensible
program to lessen crime through
such measures as outlined above.
Enclosed is a few dollars toward
your Spring Drive, and keep up the
good work!
* * *
Vancouver,

E. Engle, writes

‘Women’s Year milestone
in fight for equality’

Hailing International Women’s
Year as.a “milestone on the road to
women’s equality,’ the chair-
woman of the Communist Party’s
women’s commission labelled the
federal government’s ap-
propriation of $5 million to IWY as
“tokenism”’ which is “thwarting
the genuine desires of Canadian
women to advance their position.”

The charge was laid by Mona
Morgan as she addressed the latest
of the Norman Bethune Marxist
classrooom series in a_ lecture

titled, ‘‘The Emancipation of -

Women: From a Class Viewpoint.”

Morgan said that substantially
more funds should be available to
women’s organizations during

-IWY to aid in more practical

projects that will be of a lasting
value. A case in point that Morgan
noted was. an_application by the
Women’s Auxiliary of the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union for a grant that would enable:
the WA to document the par-
ticipation of women in the B.C.

. trade union movement.

“The Communist Party will
support and work with other
women’s organizations,” she said,
“but we also need to develop and
expand our own understanding and

a program of activity around the ~

IWY theme: Equality, Develop-
ment, Peace.”

Morgan singled out the question
of ‘‘equal pay for work of equal
value’’ with its related issues of
child care and maternity leave as

points of emphasis in the Com- -

munist Party’s approach to IWY.
“Fighting for equal pay,’’ she
said, “‘is also fighting against

discrimination and for the tight to —

work — to enter the labor force.”

A controversial area of equality
which points out the differences
between the class and feminist
approach to women’s rights was!
the question of protective laws for

women. Morgan said that when the ©. -
. NDP government repealed the

legislation prohibiting employers
to require women to lift more than
35 pounds, it was applauded by
feminists in the name of equality.

_ “Equality does not mean that men

and women do the same things,”
she stressed. ‘‘Employers are the
principal beneficiaries of such
legislation as it gives them the
right to exploit female workers in
the same way as male workers.
“Another feminist position is the
B.C. NDP women’s campaign for a
Ministry of Women,” she said
quoting the NDP women’s caucus
as saying that ‘“‘women are ex-
ploited because they are women.”
“These women believe they are
oppressed because of their sex and
not because they are workers,”
Morgan said. “A ministry of
women would be a vehicle to
separate the struggle for women’s

liberation from the over all
struggle of the working class.”
The Bethune classes continue
each Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the
AUUC hall in Vancouver and each
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas
College in New Westminister. Next
class will be led by Jack Phillips on
“The Role of the Soviet Union in
World Affairs’’ followed the next
week with ‘“‘China’s Foreign
Policy,” led by Ben Swankey.

FORUM

saying, “It is ‘time we had more
public discussion on the role of
Norad, because it was con-
summated between a few in-
dividuals and never was debated in
the Canadian Parliament.

He also sends a long editorial

from the Financial Page, dated
Dec. 28, 1974, which says in part:

‘Military alliances, unlike old
soldiers, do not fade away. They
get renewed. When the alliance in
question happens to be the North
American Air Defence Command
(Norad), the renewal, it seems, is
done with a casualness that
boggles the mind.

“Prime Minister Trudeau has
now tipped off everybody that
Canada will sign up for another
tour of duty in the 17-year-old
continental air-defence pact with
the United States. But he told
Canadians about it in Washington,
not Ottawa. And first he told
President Gerald Ford.

‘Presumably, if Canadians have
any doubts about this fait ac-
compli, they are expected to
register them between now and
next May, when the dotted line
becomes available to sign on.’’

The FP editorial makes some
pointed criticism of our mem-
bership in Norad, and says that
before signing again the whole
issue should be brought out into the
area of public debate.

TOM McEWEN

DRINKS ~
HORS D‘OEUVRES

VANCOUVER COMMUNIST PARTY CLUBS

Present

MUSIC AND SONG

Saturday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender St.

HAPPY HOUR

ADMIT ONE $1.50

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FEBRUARY 15 — Come to
C.0.P.E.’s FOLK SONG NIGHT.
Featuring ‘“‘Bargain at Half the
Price’ and “Union Train.’’
Saturday, February 15 at 8:30
p.m., Masonic Hall, 1795 E. 1st
Ave. Refreshments. Admission
$2.50. $2.00 Sr. Citizens.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 — 8
p.m., films from German
Democratic Republic WEIMAR:
Its History and Culture; plus a
documentary. At the Unitarian
Church, 49th and Oak, Van-

couver. Admission free,
auspices: Canada-GDR
Association.

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