struggle for the défense ‘of JOHN R. CAMPBELL SPEAKS ABOUT ‘Our common rs for peace and independence’ Following is a-digest of the speech delivered by | head. John R. Campbell, fraternal delegate from the British | Communist Party, to the 17th national conv ention of\ ‘the Communist Party of Canada. Campbell is the nation- al chairman of the British party and-a former editor of the British Daily Worker. Dear Comrades: It is g tremendous privilege to take part in your eonven- tion, to listen to the inspir- ing report of comrade Buck and the great oration which Leslie Morris delivered -at!} the banquet last night. Today, we are Struggling to prevent nuclear annihila- tien, to organize the Peoples} against the monopolies, as 3) step towards the eduaate to! socialism. There are two outstanding which I “think?” questions should be -at the forefront ‘of our minds. The first is to create the broadest .possible front ‘for the As that hot’ money began to flow out:again, British im- perialism, which “had. once financially dominated - -the}§ world, had ‘to go, cap- ee to the bankers in Zurich, Bonn;. in “Paris “and ‘the! Hague, requesting a tempor- 4 ary loan to»get. 3G Sut “of its difficulties. <:’ To-repay” “that«] «loan, it had Q to raise a Tong-term loan . of |: £714° “million® from. the Inter- “national: Monetary Fund: and one «of the terms on which] 4 that loan was probably grant- ed was that British imperial- -ism had to -puit its ~howse “in -order, had to inaugurate a greater export drive, reduce JoR. CAMPBELL eosts, ‘enter the. ‘Common Market in order ‘to. promote the imperialist unification of capitalist: Western Europe. British ‘imperialism is go- ing into the Common Market ; not from a state of economic strength, but of very «great economic weakness —. such »a aveakness ‘that it - has no al- ‘ternative (if it wants to’ go into the .market -at .aH) “but! to accept-the terms the *em- "battled «monopolies:of Europe seek to.imposeupon us. If this scandalous project-is ‘not defeated, “we ‘will have the-ghastly situation in. which Canada, New ‘Zealand, Aus-|* tralia and the African domin- ‘fons “will have to” ‘pear’ ‘the Common Market tariff when they: send their food and raw materials into Britain, while German, Italian; French and Dutch agriculture will be ad- ‘mitted “free. We Communists have*never glorified. the Commonwealth. ‘We have always understood that. exploitation was at its base, ‘that -oppression held it ‘together. But it’s worthwhile noting that the states most violently opposed to the Common Market are the new African dominions, ‘with Ni- geria and Ghana ‘at their | British agricultural interests ‘ment.of the people for peace have taken place ‘in most of ‘ganized against the Polaris ‘monstrations “were supported ‘the ‘Scottish “labor niovement. ‘tolerance. ‘But vas “they grew ‘sion, ~ heavier - ‘fines, — long ‘terms of imprisonment “were ‘imposéd ‘on’ those ‘participat- ‘ing. “Névertheless; ‘the ‘ move- “ment is no Tonger concerned “with abstract’ demands, but Dedibastrattons’ for ‘peace in Britain have grown apace during the past year. This picture shows a delegation nailing a “Declaration” against the Polaris and H-bomb on the door of the Ministry of Defence in:Lendon. SSS eae j | They recognize that the| Common Market is not a new! trading arrangement, but the creation of a great, monoply| capitalist power centre di- rected ‘against the Soviet Union, against the working class and against the emerg- ing peoples im Africa and | freeze on workers. ers from 39 unions staged a back down. Asia. British unionists fight wage freez Britain is witnessing ‘the greatest strike move mi Since the General Strike of 1926 as British workers J) the fight against the Tory government's attempt to, 10% & paypause, more popularly known in Canada as a wa The British ruling class are attempting to shif - & burden of the country’s growing economic difficule onto the backs of the working people, while promis, _ the monopolies continue to rise sharply. 3 ' On Monday, Feb. 5 three million engineering wo 4,500 factories and shipyards. a The siruggle against Tory paypause is continuing! f. Britain with the prospect of sharper struggles still 4 come unless big business and the Macmillan governmé 24-hour strike, closing dor It would be wrong to re- gard this question.as already settled. It is true the tele- vision and radio are for it. An immense majority of the British press are for it. How-| ever, they ‘have not been able} to put it ‘across without promising they would respect Canadian, New Zealand and! during negotiations. Despite these assurances, the ‘opposition to the Com- mon Market has grown. in Gallup polls from 20 percent of the people ‘against ‘it. un-! conditionally a few months ago, to 36 percent at the pre- sent date. FIGHT FOR PEACE In Britain; the great move- goes .steadily ahead. . Huge sit-down ‘demonstra- tions «against nuclear arms our ‘major cities? Great ‘de- monstrations *have -been ‘or- base on the Clyde. Those de- ‘by the immense majority of “At “first ‘those’ movements were ‘received with ® humorous in volume, ‘increased repres- ment goes steadily ahead. “The ‘outstanding feature of the recent ‘period is the growth of political under- standing in all’sections of the peace movement. That move- sees the political implications of the struggle for peace. The same people, who a few years ‘ago couldn’t see beyond the demand to abolish the H-bomb, came out last August and strongly partici- pated in the demand for no war over Berlin. For our party, it would be a fantastic piece of politi- cal stupidity to express the slightest doubts or hesitations about the possibility of peace- ful coexistence when = all around us, the people are battling for precisely that aim. : It would be folly for us to get into a dogmatic rut, chew- |ing over familiar texts, spit- ting them out, sometimes in a distorted form, while fail- ing to see the growth of the peace forces, the changed re- lationships created by the ad- vance of the socialist world and the uncommitted coun- tries and above all the tre- mendous movement for peace embracing the -youth of the country itself. ‘It would he. ridiculous for us to engage in metaphysical discussions about the nature of imperialism and to over- look the real forces capable of chaining imperialism fant ever. We in Britain repect those conceptions of the interna- tional struggle for peace ‘profound today that the mw “front of — the struggle | which tend to write down! potentialties of the % movement and the p@# movement in the West, tend to write them off. We cannot unders those parties in the intel tional movement who. that the drive for peace’ existence and disarmam' in some way a hirnderan the development. of the tional liberation struggle: We think that the m opposition there is to zied arms program the 8 er is the possibility fo onial liberation. But we do not think # service fs rendered to * onial liberation by insis that this become the © plank ‘in the platform © of peace movement, which ovl 7 to be wide ‘enowh ‘to. brace all ‘sections ofthe’ e lation. ‘The desire for pened Communist governm®!) ‘struggle for it, the. Communist parties in the YT side world are in. the” ot peace, the more ‘the mass¢ the peace movement wil drawn nearer to the soc! movement. W. Germany dictatorial powers = By MAX REICH Pacific Trib. Correspondent BERLIN — The West Ger- man _ constitution pérmits the outlawing -of the Communist Party, the outlawing of hun- dreds of organizations “guilty” of independent thinking and the persecution of persons opposing the West German preparations for mil- itary aggression or advocat- ing-a sane policy of peaceful cooperation with the German Democratic Republic. .For West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, however, this constitution is still: too democratic and for a long time he has been pressing that it be changed. Now the Adenauer govern-| . ment has ‘prepared the bill necessary to create a. Not-| stands -. Gesetzgeburg, or “Emergency . Decrees”’ Lae ‘would enable the government} to- assume full’ dictatorial pears 5. - Qne can hardly: forget Fr the ‘Hitler. government’ came -to -_power ‘‘constitutionally,”’ Hitler having been:nominated chancellor by President Hin- denburg. February 16, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page ° hampered in their & |in West Germany, in, bre ger, éither’ from - -withot | from within, © to. call. troops © ‘and « hand , “OV i change the constitution. ~ .. seeks mor er a tae ee Fy «194 if ‘Parliament was dissolv™ Elections took place, and opposition candidates ry. * wf Ke * ne tioneering then, “so opposition candidates in W Germany in the Septem" 1961 elections. Hitler presented himself the new parliament after © Communist — delegates E been prevented from bs: 4 their seats. In the September electi no hy Se ee nls oy fle a A of the constitution, Com! ist candidates were not allowed to run. Hitler was “legally” v@ by -parliament.-to rule~ “emergency decrees.” — If the West German & stitution -is. changed: an emergency decrees bee law; «the “government | have ‘power, -when >i lieves’” the. staté to-be: in Doo ® @F om ot SS DOP AA SO ps: and order” “and: even . -affairs to the military. — D A two-thirds majority ’) quired in parliame h