HIS article, reprinted from the

journal, For A Lasting Peace,
For A People’s Democracy, will
be of particular interest to readers
of the Pacific Tnbune for the
conciseness with which it notes
and summarizes world develop-
ments of the post-war period and
the clarity with which it poses
the issues under the heading,
“For Peace, Against War and
Fascism.”

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Ki more. distant the period
separating us from the end
of the Second World War, the
clearer it becomes that U.S. im-
perialism, pursuing a policy of
aggression and preparation for
another world war, is taking the
path of Hitlensm.

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resistance of the peoples, to de-
stroy the democratic liberties won
by the masses, to smash the peace
movement.
kill freedom so that it will be
easier to kill peace.

Behind the smoke screen of

~“defense of American traditions,”
and “by means of the “two-party

system,” fascization of the state
machine in the U.S. has advanced
considerably in recent years. This
is reflected in the state of emer-
gency declared in the U.S. in the
anti-labor TaftiHartley law, and
a whole number of anti-demo-
cratic laws (McCarran, Smith and
others), ‘in the legal persecution
of peace fighters, the shameful
legal violence against the leaders
of the U.S. Communist party.
intensified activity by fascist or-

ganizations of the Ku-Klux-Klan
type and the “Un-American Ac-

tivities Committee,” in unbridled

chauvinism, anti-semitism, Negro
lynchings, fascisz -pentration of

The imperialists reckon that, - the army, navy and diplomatic

by means of war, they will be able
to restore the decrepit forces of
capitalism and get rid of the or-
ganic defects inherent in capit-
alism—defects which make them-
selves jparticularly felt in the
period of the sharpening of the
general crisis of capitalism. But
it is not so easy nowadays for
the imperialists to unloose a new
world slaughter: the extending
and deepening struggle of the

peoples for peace, constanly re--

inforces the camp of democracy
and socialism, weakens the camp
of imperialism and makes it ex-
tremely difficult for the imper-
jalist aggressors to unleash war.

“Hence, the imperialists are
seeking, first of all, to crush the

service, and in the typically
Goebbels’ moral corruption of:
people.

The misanthropic ideas of rac-
ists, geopoliticians, neo-Malthu-
sians, the abnormal and criminal
‘ravings of various “theoreticians”
seeking to justify extermination
of millions of people, are wide-
spread in the United States. With
it putrid breath, fascism poisons
the minds of the people and turns
over culture, civilization and all

the progressive gains of mankind ©

to be rent by the degenerates.
The aggressive war in Korea with
all its monstrous atrocities show
how far the U.S. has been taken
along the path*of fascist canni-
balism.

They want first to:

Throughout Western Europe
the werking people, like ‘the
West German students (below)
and the Italian workers (left)
ave demonstrating against U.S.-
dictated policies.

Following in the footsteps of
American imperialism, the bour-
geois governments in the Mar-
ghallized countries, also inculcate
fascism in their countries; they
protect fascist thugs from the
wrath of the people. In France>
they are trying to suppress deé-
mocratic organizations, to pave
the way to power for de Gaulle.
The governments of Italy, Britain,
Austria, Belgium and Finland
patronize the fascists in every
possible way. : j -

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Fascist barbarians in Western
Germany and Japan—the Krupps,
Halders, Guderians, Sigemitsu and
other super-killers—have been re-
leased and are now helping the
American successors to restore
German and Japanese militarism.

The fascist regimes in Yugo-
slavia, Greece, Brazil, Argentina,
Chile and in a number of other
Latin American countries, in
Spain and Portugal, enjoy the
unstinted support of Washington.

Preparation for war and fasciz-
ation of the state regimes in a
number of capitalist countries
are two organically linked and
accompanying processes. The
arrogance of the fascists in
France, Italy, Western Germany
and other countries grows ac-
cordingly as the Marshallized
governments subordinate their
countries to Wall Street—the hot-
“bed and patroniser of fascism.

/
Fascization of the state regimes

in a number of capitalist coun- -

tries testifies to the fact that the
so-called. “third force,” right-wing
‘Socialists and other lackeys of
imperialism are no longer’ able
to straight-jacket the ‘working
people, to halt the growing peace
movement. The imperialists utilize

ail

the right-wing Socialist and other
“American parties” top
to
open the way for fascization in

whose
leaders are utterly corrupt,

these countries. '

The conspiracy against demo-
cratic liberties, the strivings of
the more aggressive circles to in-
stal fascist regimes in a number
of countries, is a conspiracy

against peace; it is a new attempt

to halt, with rivers of the people’s |
-blood, the inexorable march ‘of
history, which has condemned im-

perialism to inevitable doom.

That the imperialists, despite
the bitter hatred of fascism by
the people and despite the lessons

of recent history, seek once again

to use the headman’s ‘axe of fas-
cism in some countries, testifies
to the fact that the imperialists
are stricken with fear in face of

_ the growing forces of democracy

and socialism. The fact that the
imperialists, and the American
imperialists, in the first instance,
frequently abandon the traditional
» bourgeois-democratic forms of

rule is a sign not of strength but
of the weakness of the imperial-
ist camp. é

In answer to these machina-
tions of the American imperialists,
the masses of the people are re-
doubling: their efforts for peace,
strengthening and extending anti-
fascist unity.

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Struggle against fascism calls,
above all, for working class unity
and, on this basis, for the unity

of all democratic, national and
progressive forces,

Hitler, on his way to power in
Germany, utilized the treachery
of right-wing Social Democracy,
the split in the working class
movement, and the anti-popular
policy of German bourgeois par-
ties. Then, upon installing the
fascist dictatorship, Hitler squar-
ed accounts both with the Social
Democratic and with many bour-
geois parties. :

No honest socialist or democrat
in any country can forget this
lesson. On the basis of this lesson
and the experience of the pre-
war struggle against fascism,

during the war and ih the post-
war, the Communist parties of

France, Italy and other countries -

are waging an active struggle to
effect broad anti-fascist unity.

. The peace movement is indis-
solubly linked with the struggle
against fascism, with the actions
of the working people for their
daily demands and democratic
rights, with the formation and
strengthening of a broad anti-
fascist front. This movement is
linked with resolute and consis-
tent exposure of the anti-national '
policy of the “American parties”
promoting the growth of fascism,
above all, exposure of the right-
wing Socialist leaders.

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‘consider it their sacred duty

- sified imperialist preparations 1°

- ful moral support of the P®

The heroic people of Spain de-
monstrated by their latest actions
that a mass movement against
fascism; for peace, can be launch
ed despite the terror of the plood-
thirsty fascist dictatorship. The
struggle against the Titoites in
Yugoslavia is becoming more and
more organized and is assuming
a mass nature; it is developing
into national resistance to the
and theif
plans to unloose war in the Bal-

American ° colonizers

kans.

The French ‘Communist party,
rousing the people for struggle
against de Gaulle and his patrons
and courageously upholding thé —
national honor and freedom °
France, is defending. peace. °

In the United States the peace”
loving forces are coming 0
more and more: actively agains
fascization, for the preservatio?® —
of democratic rights and the CO?”
stitution, against the war in Ko
rea. Heroic struggle against fa
cism and militarism is being was’
ed in Western Germany, Japan —
and in a number of Latin Amery
can countries. -gaapreety ‘

The Communist and workers
parties, which have trained nund-
reds of thousands and millions °
selfless and heroic anti-fascist®

be in the vanguard of the strugs!@
for peace, the struggle again
fascism and war. The Commu?
ists ‘tirelessly explain to the pe
ples the essence of fascism, ite 9
direct connection with the inte™

another war; they are rousing \~
wrath of millions against the fa%
cist thugs and their accomplice®

Taking cognizance of the deeP”
ened consciousness of the masses”
who have learned the meaning °
fascism from their own expe
ence, and activizing the potenti#
anti-fascist forces, ceaseless
linking ‘the anti-fascist strugs!?
with the struggle of the people
for peace, proceeding alway?
from the _ concrete condition®
from the correlation of forct”
now taking shape, the Commuh
ist parties raise high the pannel /
of anti-fascist struggle. . 4
Communists know that success 2 J
this struggle gives a sound ba5"
for developing a proad patrioti®
popular movement for P x
against the main enemy of peat”
and democracy — American i”
perialism. ?

The anti-fascist forces at@ :
finitely more powerful now
before the war; the rich expe’
ence has endowed them, with wi
dom; they are operating 0? Bi!
basis of the historic, success®?
the camp of peace and deme
‘racy; they feel daily the pore)

of the USSR, China, the peor:
Democracies and the Germ
Democratic Republic. “ipa
Unity, staunchness and sell’
struggle will bring victory *
camp of democracy and P&
victory over the evil force?
imperialist reaction. : 2