+ 3 represented an im- rtant people’s victory. It aS placed the political © on new terrain - from ew victories are attain- t has made possible a f legislative offensive. there is no guarantee that people voted for — 1 rights, greater de- ‘and a real war on pov- re now assured. Can be no mere re- m the administration hewly-elected Congress, he overwhelming char- the victory and the proved composition cf House and the Senate. tr the election returns Tead correctly by those ‘9 public office does not ‘lone on their ability to the national will ac- . ®Pends even more on the 8 ability to make that ation stick, to translate NM. In this alone lies the that the election Will be fulfilled. © lugele to achieve this * be easy. The ultra- ‘lthough badly beaten in 10n, still represents a able force. While it aim- ee in 1964, for the ultra- US was not a win-all, lection . . . €nt kind of threat to : lar mandate comes Ne big business forces their own reasons, op- a Goldwater candidacy ~ Varying degrees of © President Johnson. ‘that these groups do & trigger-happy for- fy that could blunder N into a nuclear disas- is.why they feared a Victory. *Mplete end to the cold ther do many of them 7 war and arms race, nor a true policy of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and all other socialist dands 2.5: These capitalist groupings, contrary to those who support- ed Goldwater, find it in their interests to make certain con- cessions to labor in order to avoid all-out class conflict. But they are no less bitterly op- posed to a new labor upsurge, to a new extension of labor’s right to organize and to bargain collectively, and to a great new advance in progressive social legislation. e One of the major objectives of these big business groupings is to try to halt the process of political regrouping which in this election, more than any previous one, indicates a radi- cal transformation of the mass base of each of the two major parties << . ’ (For many years) the parties were little more than unprin- cipled. electoral. ..combinations held together to win elections and not in fact bound by any platform or program. However, with the Roosevelt New Deal a shift began to take place in the mass base of each party. The Democratic Party nationally be- came identified in the public mind as the party more respon- sive to mass pressure, especial- ly from the workers, Negro people and lower income groups. The Republican Party became identified in the public mind with the vested interests. In this election the shift in mass base reached a new level. Every section of the labor movement supported the na- tional Democratic ticket, some- thing which did not take place even in the Roosevelt landslide - of 1936. The Negro people, who up to the New Deal were tra- ditionally in the Republican column, this year voted Demo- cratic by an estimated 95 per- cent. Contrariwise, national the Republican Party in this elec- tion became the die-hard party of extreme reaction. int below some excerpts from that statement. The question is: Will the new mass base of the national De- mocratic Party reflect itself in politics, leadership and in the exercise of power? Or, will the Administration take this mass base for granted and seek in- stead to mend its political fences on the Right? Concretely: Will the Admi- nistration take steps to bring America’s undeclared war against Vietnam to an end, or will it give way to the Goldwa- terites in the State and Defense Departments who want to es- calate’ that war into an _ all- Asian conflict? Will the Administration give protection. to the Negro people ASSAGE: TO PROGRESS U.S. Communists have issued for wide public ussion in their country a draft statement on the ions of the recent election and the prospects as opened up for the American people. We in the deep South and guaran- tee them their constitutional rights, or will it close its eyes to the reign of terror in the in- terests of recementing party harmony? Will the Administration push through Congress a major crash anti poverty program, transfer- ing billions from military ex- penditures to the task of wip- ing out slums, building schools, expanding education, and pro- viding jobs for our youth, or will it be content with only token efforts in that direction? It is on these basic questions that the new Administration will be judged. What is needed to combat Goldwaterism in all its mani- festations and to counter the organization and cohesion of the ultra-Right, is a great peo- ple’s coalition for peace, equal- ity, security and opportunity. It is the labor movement, repre- senting the most progressive ° and best organized class in modern society which has the responsibility of taking the lead in the formation and heading of such a popular coalition ... Of all the social forces in our land, the Negro people are the most dissatisfied with their lot, unable and unwilling to live in the old way and determined not to sell their birthright and self-dignity for some minor ad-_ vances . . . For these reasons the Negro people’s movement is the most determined and mili- tant force in America today. Its courage, self-sacrifice and noble ideals have attracted to it also many of the best of the white young generation who under- stand that by winning freedom for Negro America they will en- - sure freedom for all America. A central task in helping to weld a coalition that can block the path to Goldwaterism, no matter what guise it may take, is the building of an ever more united and ever stronger Left force in American life of Com- munists and non-Communists... But what many of the Left fail to see is that the exact pro- cess of political regrouping tak- ing place is different from that at the beginning f the century. It is not following the old clas- sical pattern of straight-line third-party development. The. process at work is more com- plicated and complex. It is stil! taking place within the frame- work of the institutionalized | two-party system... The Communist Party can be rightfully proud of its correct basic analysis, its line of policy and the way it worked during the election campaign. Now a new phase of struggle is open- ing. In this period ahead we seek to strengthen our own party and its influence but not as against the rest of the Left or against. the great populars forces not yet Communist or Left in their thinking. We seek to find the basis for a greater unity and greater initiative of the Left within the framework of a greater unity of -all Amer- icans fighting for their imme- diate needs and rights. struggles stand out: In the period ahead, the following issues and THE STRUGGLES AHEAD 3. End Poverty. The war against poverty must be made into 1. End the Cold War, Win the Fight for Peaceful Coexistence and End Colonialism. The most urgent of all tasks at this moment . is the mounting of a powerful movement to stop the dirty war against the Vietnamese peo- ple and for bringing our boys back home. The fight for peace also requires mass pressure. for recognition of People’s China; for a world conference of nuclear powers to ban the bomb; for opening reciprocal trade relations with all socialist countries, including China and Cuba; for immediate withdrawal of men and aid from the mercenary war against the Congolese people; and against any proposal to give nuclear arms to West Germany. 2. End Jimcrow. In the first place this requires a movement to get federal protection for the constitutional rights of the Negro people in the deep South, and to get the Administration to stop all fede- ral funds to states refusing to comply with federal law. This also makes necessary the full enforcement of both Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution as well as the 14th Amend- ment to the Constitution. These require a re- publican form of government in all states and fora reduction of state’s congressional repre- -sentation where the principle of one man, one vote is violated. To win full equality for the Negro people in the period ahead requires the most determined struggle for full enforcement of the Civil Rights Law and against every act of discrimination, especially in employment, housing and occupational opportunities. a real war. In addition to the immediate adop- tion of an effective Medicare bill, it is neces- sary to struggle for a basic extension of all social security and old age benefits and for a major crash program of ten billion dollars a year to combat poverty in America. 4. Extend Labor’s Rights. To protect labor’s rights and to help in or- ganizing the workers of the South and South- west it is necessary to demand the repeal of all existing anti-labor legislation including the state right-to-work laws and to win a new and stronger charter of labor’s rights. 5. Extend Democracy Throughout the Land. The repudiation of Goldwaterism and _ its “states rights” doctrine is the final confirma- tion that our country can and must become 2 united nation — a nation with one constitu- tion and one Bill of Rights that applies uni- formly to all our citizens in every state. What is needed is a new federal charter and a new addition to the Bill of Rights that unify and revitalize all of our democratic institutions. The time has come to make all laws pertain- ing to democratic rights and social legislation uniform throughout the land. To move in this direction requires a struggle for democratic reapportionment in all states; an end to the seniority system in congress; the abolition of HUAC and all remnants of thought-control; the protection of the rights of minority parties, including the right to the ballot; and an end to the persecution and prosecution of Com- munists. - : December 24, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7