+ 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. - :

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