EDITORIAL

Tell Ottawa no sanctions!

The foreign ministers of the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization were
scheduled to meet during the week of
Jan. 11. They would concentrate, it was
made clear, not on how to solve the crisis
of living standards in NATO countries
including Canada, but on how to deal
with U.S.-dictated sanctions against Po-
land and the Soviet Union.

The sanctions, as part of the U.S. drive
to win the fruits of nuclear war without
the immolation of the USA and the
world in nuclear war, were to be foisted
upon all NATO-member countries
which would lie down and be jack-booted
by Washington.

So far, the Canadian Government of
Pierre Trudeau has rejected that sub-
servience. For one reason, such sanctions
have been proven self-injurious without
achieving any results. Losses to Cana-
dian and U.S. farmers in the grain boy-
cott, and lifetime losses to Olympic
athletes in the previous U.S. boycott tan-
trum are proof positive.

But it’s clear that Canadians have to be
on guard — and immediately. The U.S.-
inclined External Affairs Minister Mark

MacGuigan is hedging in his statements, °

ready to kneel at the earliest opportuni-
ty. And he, MacGuigan, is off to Brussels
and his NATO counterparts.

Fortunately for Canada, there is likely

to be plenty of pressure from European
NATO members to give the reckless U.S.
sanctions a wide berth with or without
condemning them. Who, after all, is
Reagan to dictate the ruination of their
beneficial trade with the Soviet Union?

Canada’s representative should be
helped to stand on his feet and to ask that
same question.

This requires the intervention of the
Canadian people, who should phone,
wire, write, or whatever they can afford,
to tell the Government of Canada: No
sanctions agianst struggling Poland;
none of the nonsense of sanctions 2
against the USSR for being Poland’s 3
greatest benefactor!

Canadians can take as a warning the ?
fact that MacGuigan has pledge to Gen-
eral Alexander Haig, U.S. secretary of £
state, that MacGuigan’s Canada will do®

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U.S. sanctions. What a cute per-
formance! But deadly. Will that in any-
way help Canadian workers out of th
crisis of capitalism?

MacGuigan is part of the Trudeau
cabinet, but lacks the guts of Trudeau. It
is equally obvious that the cabinet is split
between Reagan cold warriors and
level-headed members.

The USA is using every method (and
media ploy) to destroy socialism in Po-
land — and to inflict equivalent havoc
throughout the world-to gain hegemony.

Canadians who don’t want to end upas
nuclear ash, or the alternative, boot
polishers for Reagan, should express
their views of the perilous course of
anti socialist sanctions.

It is the responsibility of labor bodies,
and of the New Democratic Party, to see
through the propaganda curtain and
veto sanctions by yes-men of the trans-
national monopolies and Washington.

Fight for peace in 1982

As 1982 dawned, the forces of public
opinion throughout the world who fight
for peace reached unimaginable
strength and proportions.

At the same time, with Reagan in the
saddle in the USA, the year could be the
most dangerous one for humanity since
Truman pushed the Atom Bomb button
in 1945 and wiped out 200,000 people in °
two Japanese cities.

People have sometimes questioned the
seemingly contradictory term — fighting
for peace, but whether it’s put on a politi-
cal, economic, mass action or individual
initiative basis, the fight for peace has to
be a fight.

Whether most people want to both
survive and see world peace secured is
not the question. The question is how
well they see the need for their own per-
sonal effort or sacrifice — instead of ex-

ment in western Europe on the very days
of the first UN Disarmament Confer-
ence.

Canada, are under pressure to boost
arms output and adopt Washington’s be-
ligerant policies. A major peace fight is ©
needed against this pressure and the
economic destruction and increased risk
of war it entails.

mass destruction weapons, from the
atom bomb onward. It is against these

escalations, not against catch-up efforts
of other powers, that peace action must
be directed. The USA also made the
more than symbolic gesture of launching

its new round of nuclear missile deploy-

The USA’s NATO allies, including

This is the year of the UN’s Second

Disarmament Conference. Many kinds
of actions for peace will lead up, to it.

Poster by Gerhard Vo!

United @& Nations
General Assembly

Second Special Session On
DISARMAMENT
1982

Flashbacks.

25 years ago...

ANTI-BATISTA
ACTIONS IN CUBA

The United Press reported
Dec. 2 that 40 anti-Batistas were
slaughtered when they landed
from a Mexican yacht on the
southern Cuban coast. They
were literally blown to bits by
bombing planes supplied by the
United States.

Survivors fought back in two
battles. Twenty-five more were
said to have been killed, and a
manhunt is on for the rest in the
woods and hills of eastern Cuba.
But the outcome of this latest
people's movement, which js
directed by Fidel Castro, the
well-known anti-Batista leader,
is still uncertain.

Batista first took power as a
“liberal” in 1933 but quickly
proved to be another stooge of
the sugar planters and today is
said to be millionaire many
times over. His regime closely
resembles Franco's.

Tribune,

While workers are being evicted from their homes or harassé
by rent-gouging landlords, banks and real estate corporations are
raking in profits, and banks are even collecting houses. Trize¢

50 years ago...

COPS HARRASS.
WORKERS’ FUNER/

TORONTO — Over ti
thousand workers marched
hind the red and black fune
cortage that carried the bodj.
comrade Phillips Halperin
editor of the “Kamf” and Wf
known revolutionary leader?
ing trial on charges of sed
in Montreal.

It was one of the mos
posing demonstrations thi
has seen and showed up #
ugly role of the police of ]
ronto who could not even ali
a funeral procession with?
breaking it up. All along?
route through central Torot!
cycle police and detectives we-
very prominent and did ti
utmost to create disturban!
and several times bra)
through the parade. 8

But the procession march! ,
ten miles to the graveside wh@
tributes to Halperin were giv

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JAN. 15, 1982—Page 4

1982 is the year, not simply to agree
with the idea of world peace, but to fight
for peace.

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