Canada fights onslaught
of American imperialism

begun Freed and Jeanette Walsh, members of the Central

sented ve Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, repre-

An the party as fraternal delegates at the CPUSA convention.
ro his address to the delegates, Norman Freed said in part:

; women us Caunadians, working people, farmers, young people,

cancer, intellectuals, democrats and real patriots it is of direct
dent a to what course, what policies are pursued by the presi-

nd government of the United States . - -

peaetian-U.S. relations have reached a crisis point. This is not
exempl in the relations between our two parties. They have been
Tadely aed throughout the years. They are most friendly and com-
our Soho We hold identical views on all the major issues of
tent on the Our Present and future depend to a considerable ex-
es e continued fraternal cooperation and mutual assistance

N our parties, our working. classes and democratic forces.
same multi-national

F- ..CO eee : : 1
tporations; this makes it imperative to develop joint actions and

’ Pende
*ndence as a two-nation state is in grave danger. 2
The aggression against our

co
ane US. imperialism is not of the nature suffered by the
eless ee it is more subtle, but it is aggression never-
. There is not another developed imperialist country the
mainly US. the percentage of foreign ownership and control,
4nd control” is as great as it is in Canada. U.S. monopolies own
+ etermined the main levers of the Canadian economy. They are
‘draw, to transform our people into hewers of wood and
ers of water.
that they were

the
the first to raise the issues of U.S. economic domination. We raised

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ey becom

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On Gowen of Canadian independence or

mare
rou,
impernt into the open the extent and

: .
S development may have caught many by surprise, but it
Movement. The world

Telati : imperialism was
Ve decline and that other imperialist countries were chal-
its home base.

lopment

did n :
Moy, Ot surprise the World Communist

aa a *

} their Sah, Sess social developments. Because
eveloped by rather than by their appearance.
of Political y Lenin, the operation of the absolute law of th

and economic development under capitalism, incl

State-monopoly stage.

Launch election campaign

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uding in

NEW YORK — Historic steps
were taken by the 20th Conven-
tion of the Communist Party of
the USA, General Secretary Gus
Hall said in his summary re-
marks.

The burst of applause from
the 254 delegates from 36 states
showed they felt the same way.

Reports from the field to the

‘convention testified to a ferment

of struggle rapidly developing
throughout the United States. It
was reflected in the convention
proceedings and decisions.

A special feature of the con-
vention, Hall noted, was the
large degree of participation by
shop workers. Nearly half the

delegates are members of trade
production

unions and 50 are
workers.

The convention was notable
for the large participation of
women. Almost a third of the
delegates were women (the per-
centage was higher among the

Y The es, conflict finds its reflection in the Canadian-U.S. relations. alternates), and they played an
;| Nd the € negotiations between Canada and the USA have collapsed important role in shaping the
Gf At ee 3 danger of a trade war. gece of ; ake commissions
Ne st conventi i incided with the 50th anni- and the convention.
y fibnee of our party, oe xe ge conclusion that Canadian The convention elected “ated
fs Sociated ty is divided. A considerable section, particularly those as- member Central Sea Fee
te Soe with manufacturing, cannot any more be simply charac- highest leadership body of the
y in oy as junior partners of U.S. imperialism. They have become party between ee og
y ne * Wiew “antagonistic rtners”. Their class interests are being Party Chairman Henry Winston,
f ies a i on- General Secretary Gus Hall and
Vention «. UPon by U.S. monopoly. We made it clear at our al Si ane
4 e at however, both in our Policy Statement which is to guide Organizational Secretary anie
nf Teo of our party until the next convention and in the new, Rubin were re-electe ae
Out the Program, ‘The Road to Socialism in Canada,’ which sets mously amid a tumultuous de
Wy achi € strategy and the various intermediary stages leading to the monstration of party unity.
ft are Fecment of socialism, that Canadian monopoly circles which The convention hall at the
f Natu “cling the pressure of U.S. imperialism, because of their very Towers Hotel in Brooklyn erup-
A indepe Cannot be relied upon to lead any real struggle for Canadian ted in cheers as the Laage
the eaence, This democratic, patriotic goal can only be led by elected Angela Davis to e
ty ce class and its democratic allies. ‘ Seuss ioe iaiahe ca eee
= akon ee es i = 2 Ang OF pehalf of himself and
Winston, Hall placed Miss
i e.-D IRA LEADERS ARRESTED IN EIRE Davis’ name in eo =
rf arreePLIN—Police in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) last week —_ The leprae ees
dy * ene “ key leaders of the Irish Republican Army and put a drag- anere aes pete ate
6 effect for those still at liberty. All those Sao et mt sees Serre eee eal:

Ports ated” list were members of the official IRA, whi
a soclalter ce! solution to the Northern
Which 5 i “Oriented policy. The minority
Milita Plit off from the IRA several years 4

“provisional”

ombiny The pretext for Eire’s crackdown.
d, in wreaet 2 British Army officers’ mess !
= Which seven were killed.

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Ireland conflict and has
group,
ry go and adyocatee =

: Solution ; ined untouched by the
lice i to all Irish problems, remat nee

n Aldershot, Eng-

transport, an

pallot drive.
have signed

cs

on the ballot in the few days
the campaign has been under
way is proof, he said, “of a new
receptivity to the party among
the masses of the people.

two or three years ago,” he not-
ed. “The people just weren’t
ready for it. The party was not
ready for it.”

struggle for democracy in the
U.S. and against President Nix-
on’s reactionary offensive is
the rank and file of organized
labor.

to do much of anything if we
don’t build these ranks and file
movements,” he declared. .

continued, is more a “working

GUS HALL leader of the Communist Party USA.

‘ sciously,

d other basic in- ~ of the party’s role in unifying

dustry. 3
In his summation, Hall hailed
the response among voters

across the nation to the party’s
The fact that 30,000

to. place the party

Black, Chicano, Puerto Rican
and women delegates spoke
from the platform “than at any
time in the past 40 years.” Hall
continued. .

The soaring victories of the
international struggle against
U.S. imperialism also resounded
in this convention, he said. He
praised the speeches of dele-
gates from Canada and Chile
where strong mass movements:
based on the working class are
on the threshold of victory over
reaction. é

“What impressed me,” said
Luis Figueroa, member of the
Chilean Senate and fraternal
delegate to the convention of
the Communist Party USA, “is
the optimism, the determination
to be able to change the entire
situation in the United States.”

The convention adopted un-
animously a report by George
Meyers, CP national labor sec-
retary, stressing “industrial con-
centration” in the drive to re-
cruit masses of workers to the
CPUSA and to infuse the party
with an_ orientation towards
shop wofkers.

Meyers | accused President
Nixon of unleashing a war
against the workers with ap-
peals to patriotism to cover up
the most massive production
speed-up campaign in the na-
tion’s history.

A 39-point program to win
Black liberation demands ex-
penditure of $120 billion per
year “equal to current spending
for war and related purposes,”
to end poverty.

Also adopted was a resolution
on Chicano Liberation which de-
clares, “The Texas Rangers, the
racist FBI, and the Immigration
Service continue to be arms of
the ruling class against Chicano
workers . . . a united Chicano
people’s struggle based on the
primacy of the interests of Chi-
cano workers and allied with
the working class of all nation-
alities — Anglo, Black, Puerto
Rican, Indian, Asian and all for-
ces arrayed against the monopo-
lists . . . (is) the only path of
struggle that can win victory.”

A wide-ranging series of 1972
election platform planks to be
“fought for today and in the
immediate years ahead” was
drawn up.

The principal planks are di-
rected toward ending war and
militarism; ending of poverty
and defending labor’s rights;

om ending racism and winning of
states are organizing to put the freedom for Black, Puerto Ri-
Communist candidates on the can, Asian and Indian peoples;
ballot. a tax program to shift the bur-

The needs and demands of the den from the poor to the big
most oppressed peoples recelv- monopolies, and the extension
ed fundamental, probing atten- of democracy.
tion. The issues facing the The total will be the platform
Black liberation movement, the on which the Communist candi-
Chicano, Puerto Rican, Indian dates, Gus Hall, the party’s
and Asian peoples in the United general secretary and candidate
States were raised to a new for President, and Jarvis Tyner
level, Hall said, especially in chairman of the Young Warkere
relation to the class struggle. Liberation League and candi-

The resolution on the role of date for Vice President, will
Asian people in the United campaign. :
States marked a new extension Among the. party goals was
gaining 1,000 members in the
coming eight months, as the
first stage of a goal of 5,000 by
the es convention. Of this
° n number, 75 percent

At this convention, more workers, aa SRE AnITA te:
workers, more youth, more Chicano and Puerto Rican.

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“we couldn’t have done it

He said the heart of the

“we are not going to be able

The Communist Party, Hall

class party” now than it has
been for years. “We must never,
either consciously or__ uncon-
distort, revise, OF
water down the basic class ap-
proach,” he said.

Stressing the priority of the
campaign for the Communist
ticket of Hall and of Jarvis Ty-
ner for Vice-President. Hall em-
phasized that the independent
Communist campaign was not
separate from but an organic
part of the total election cam-
paign.

At present, Communists in 30

the struggles of oppressed peo-
ples with those of the U-s:
working class and in helping to
give direction to them.

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