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None can be aloof

actively their solidarity with the
Indochinese peoples.

e Appeals particularly to the
younger generation, to their
noble enthusiasm, to step up
their support for their brothers
and sisters in Indochina.

“Solidarity with the peoples
of Indochina has become a fac-
tor for achieving a still broader
unity of action between the
Communists, socialists and all
progressive and peace-loving
forces. A noticeable evolution is
taking place in the view of the
clergy and the mass of believ-
ers in connection with the Viet-
nam problem. We declare that
we are prepared to begin a wide
discussion on the question or
joint action.”

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—Globe & Mail, Toronto,
July 25, 1972

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Facing election facts

Election campaigns—whether hurried
through by B.C.’s Wacky Bennett, or
dragged out by Trudeau—are a con-
trary phenomenon for the ruling class.

As conceived by these big business
spokesmen, elections should offer the
vast working class, farmers and small
business people a choice of right-wing
policies as expressed by Liberal, Con-
servative, Social Credit and other such
groupings.

In practice, it is difficult to exclude
working-class spokesmen—trade union-
ists, socialists, Communists—even when
every means short of prohibition is
used to smother them—radio and TV
networks, newspaper chains, pressure
groups, business associations and, in-
creasingly threats and violence. __

To fight off progress, the most vicious
elements of the Right are now making
their pilgrimage to the Tory party
(Kupiak, Zink, Roman, Jelenek, all of
whom brought their hatred for the
working class from abroad, and to give
it a born-in-Canada balance, Hellyer).

Trudeau too is pushing his policies
to the right to plug any run-off of his
big business support. Canadians should
make no mistake about the danger
from the Right, should have no illusions
about the severity of restricting prohi-
bitions and belt-tightening under such
a crew as this.

The platform of the Communist Par-

7 ty, whose full weight backs election of

a progressive bloe including Commun-
ists and NDPers, to whatever kind of
parliament ensues is a keystone in re-
tention of democratic rights. Neither is
the CP dependent simply upon platform
planks, or trying to match wordage
with the masters of the kept press.

Some 24 years ago, Tim Buck wrote
in his book, Canada: The Communist
Viewpoint that: “Every Canadian who
takes more than a passing interest in
social and political development, and
particularly the many who declare
themselves socialist, must choose in this
period between bourgeois and socialist
ideology, that is, between the bourgeois
and the Marxist approach to the prob-
lems of society.”

True today. Our approach to the
problems of society wins support for
progressive policies; and in the course
of electioneering this approach can be
demonstrated again and again. As with
problems like unemployment, the needs
of the youth and the seniors, the rights
of native peoples, and an independent
Canadian foreign policy, it is valid in
the effort to create an effective unity of
the Left. Such a working unity requires
a patient, but principled, approach for
its solution. And no delay is permissible
in view of the hardening right-wing
alliance.

Another 1,626 lives

On August 6, 1945, the United States
atom-bombed the Japanese City of
Hiroshima. The same terror struck Na-
gasaki three days later. The destruc-
tion, the death and suffering have been
often described and never forgotten.

The pain, the sickness, the deaths,
and the births of deformed children go

he Edttorial Commeut...

on to this day.

And each year, August 6 is commem-
orated as Hiroshima Day, when people
around the world pledge their efforts
to impose peace on the warmakers. On
that day, in Peace Memorial Park in
Hiroshima, the names of the victinis of
that U.S. atrocity who have succumbed
since the previous August are recorded.
This year 1,626 names were added be-
fore 40,000 participants.

The political thinking of the United
States has not changed since that out-
rage 27 years ago. Only world opinion
and the fear of retaliation now that
they no longer have an atomic monopo-
ly prevents the U.S. leaders from atom-
bombing Vietnam.

if ever the Hiroshima Day pledge
needed comparable peace action on the
part of all who have not followed the
U.S. leadership into its depths of bar-
barism, the need is now.

Really Mr. Bales!

Back in May, 1969, 12,000 trade
unionists hooted and jeered the then
labor minister of Ontario trying, from
the legislature steps, to convince their
demonstration he understood their
needs, that his new, Tory labor legis-
lation wouldn’t squeeze labor. “You
may not want to listen to these words,”
ke said, “but I’m going to say them.”

That was Labor Minister Dalton
Bales, later municipal affairs minister,
now attorney-general. That September
he and two friends bought, for $252,200,
100 acres of land near Metro Toronto
(Pickering), an area designated by the
province for development in the
Toronto-Centred Region Plan.

Mr. Bales took precautions. He noti-
fied the premier at what he thought
the proper juncture, he refrained from
a part in debates on the matter (having
already acquired the land). But he and
his partners stand to make “between
$77,000 and $177.000” on its sale, re-
ports the Toronto Globe & Mail.

Mr. Bales denies any guilt. “I like
land and I always have,” he says. “I
think it’s a good thing for people to
have an interest and want to acquire
land.” So there you are: take your $200,-
000 and buy land — preferably where
the federal government plans an air-
port, or the province plans a new city.

Whose pawn?

If a contest is to be of any stature—
and interest—both sides must be sup-
posed to have skill worthy of the op-
ponent. Such seems to be the case in
the World Chess Tournament in Reyk-
javik, Iceland.

Fischer, of course,~has won no
friends among those primarily con-
cerned with chess by his vicious anti-
Soviet mouthings. At the same time,
his childish behaviour irked a lot of
pro-West rooters. Who else could get
the Americans cheering for the Rus-
sians? as Art Buchwald asked.

But Fischer has one friend — the
other member of their mutual admira-
tion society — Richard Milhous Nixon.
And Uncle Rich has invited Bobby to
the Whitehouse — win or lose. This will
prove that U.S.A. loves her defenders,
whoever they may be. Bobby is report-
ed to have said, with due regard for the
honor, that he was “wowed” by it.

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