‘abilities . .

Guerrillas in Mozambique take an oath to fight for their country’s liberation from colonial rule.

Rap Portugal for chemical war

and financial aid of NATO, Lis-
bon cannot check the growth of
the liberation movement in the
colonies. In these circumstance

By A. DOLGOV

Independent Africa has again
accused Portugal of barbarous
methods of warfare in its Afri-
can colonies. The Organization
of African Unity has issued a
statement condemning the Por-
tuguese authorities for using
chemical weapons — herbicides
and defoliants—in northern and
eastern Angola regions, where
the Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola is conduct-
ing offensive operations against
the colonial army.

Reports about the chemical
war: conducted by the Portu-
guese have already come from
Mozambique, where South Afri-
can mercenary pilots are spray-
ing chemicals over areas con-
trolled by the Liberation Front.
Just as in Angola, these crim-
inal actions have not only de-
stroyed crops over vast areas,
but also poisoned people and
animals.

Even with the lavish military

MOSCOW (TASS)—The third
volume of Speeches and Articles
by Leonid Brezhnev, general
secretary of the CPSU Central
Committee has come out in
Moscow.

“The contributions in the
volume give a detailed analysis
of the CPSU’s stand on the
basic questions of the develop-
ment of the Soviet land, and in-
ternational life, and confirm the
Party’s resoluteness to follow
Lenin’s course. to the victory of
Communism,” Pravda writes of
the publication.

“The more than half-a-century
experience of socialist economic

“management confirms convinc-

ingly that the CPSU’s economic
policy adequately expresses
society’s objective require-
ments. sc.

Well demonstrated in the fact
that the main aim of the CPSU
policy is “to create the most
favorable conditions for work,
studies, rest and recreation, an
conditions, public education and
all-round development and the
best use of the working people’s
. Per capita incomes
are growing in the Soviet Union
from year to year, with living
health service improving.

Leonid Brezhnev’s book anal-
yzes essential, problems of the

the Portuguese regime pins
hopes on those especially inhu-
man methods of warfare which
have not led to victory in Viet-
nam for its American partners
in NATO. The chemical war
which is bringing suffering to
the civilian population of An-
gola and Mozambique is multi-
plying the numbers of refugees,
peasants who abandon their now
barren fields and go to neighbor-
ing African countries.

Its chemical warfare in the
colonies deepens the isolation
of Portugal. There is throughout
the world mounting support —
moral and material — for the
liberation movements of Angola,
Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.
Their representatives have’ al-
ready been granted the status
of observers at many UN com-
mittees.

A statement published in

further development of social
relations; of Soviet socialist
democracy which, (is) a means
of drawing millions. of working
people into conscientious, histo-
ry-making creative effort, into
the upbuilding of communism...

“The book shows convincing- .

ly,” Pravda writes, “that, as a
result of the implementation of
the Leninist national policy, in
joint work, in the struggle for
socialism and communism, a
new historical community of
people—the Soviet people, came
into existence and is developing
successfully.” .

The leading role of the Com-
munist Party is one of the basic
issues of the revolutionary
movement, the upbuilding of a
new society, and a key point in
the struggle between the Marx-
ist-Leninists and the revision-
ists. Brezhnev’s writing makes
clear.

Progressive Forces

The Soviet Union together
with the fraternal socialist
countries and the progressive
forces of all the world, has been
rendering all-round assistance
to the heroic people of Vietnam.
the patriots of Laos and Cambo-
dia in the struggle against U.S.
aggression, and has been sup-

_porting the Arab peoples’ just

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1972—PAGE 10

Addis Ababa by the Secretariat
of the Organization of African
Unity calls for international
pressure against Lisbon. World
opinion will no doubt respond
to that call. But the direct ap-
peal of the OAU to the Western
powers—“Portugal’s friends”—

_is certain to be left unanswered

again. The imperialist powers
link the Portuguese dirty war in
the colonies with their own
hopes for preserving their econ-
omic and political positions on
the continent. Only collective
and practical measures of the
independent states can exert
the necessary pressure on those
who have firmly tied their Afri-
can policy to the existence of
colonial and racist regimes.
The Soviet Union and other
socialist countries invariably
support the Organization of
African Unity, the independent
African states and the liberation
movements in their struggle for
the final decolonialization of the
continent.

struggle for the elimination of
the consequences of Israeli ag-
gression.

The foreign policy of the

CPSU exerts a great inffuence .

on the international situation in
favor of peace and security.
Questions concerned with the
international Communist move-
ment, the CPSU’s struggle for
the unity and cohesion of this
movement on the basis of Marx-
ism-Leninism and proletarian in-
ternationalism hold a pride of

place in the volume, Pravda
writes.
“The CPSU is consistently

and persistently conducting a
struggle against ‘left’-wing and
right-wing revisionism, which in
many cases merges with nation-
alism.

“It is on nationalistic tenden-
cies, and particularly on those
of them which take the form
of anti-Sovietism that the impe-
rialist forces and bourgeois pro-
paganda now seize most willing-

ly in their struggle against
socialism and the Communist
movement.”

Publication of this third volu-
me continues the earlier pub-
lished two-volume edition, Fol-
lowing Lenin’s Course, and in-
cludes speeches and articles
made in 1970-1972.

Monopoly attack on Chile
seeks to stop copper exports

A new form of attack by U.S.
monopoly against Chile is taking
place in the economic sector.
Kennecott Copper Corp. is haras-
sing Chilean copper exports and
is trying to seize shipments to
foreign countries claiming that
its assets in Chile were illegally
seized by the Popular Unity
Government and are, therefore,
stolen property. The first at-
tempt took place over a ship-
ment to Le Havre last month
where Kennecott got a French
court to issues an injunction
against payment of $1,400,000
by two French firms for the or-
der. The copper sits until the
court decides on the case.

Time Magazine claims that
Kennecott will continue with
this tactic not only against Chile,
but against other newly-deve-
loping countries who might con-
sider nationalizing their natural
resources now controlled by
large U.S. corporations.

Chile nationalized its copper
industry in July 1971. Up till
that time Kennecott (second to
the U.S.-owned Anaconda Com-
pany) enjoyed a net return of
$10 million per quarter in 1970.
The company made $35.5 million
profits in Chile the year before.
Today it claims Chile owes it
$180 million compensation and
has begun monitoring Chilean
shipping in an attempt to tie up
copper exports in lengthy legal
battles.

The long-term implications
are clear, not only for Chile but
for countries like Canada which
have massive U.S. investments
controlling the key sectors of its
economy.

In a statement condemning
the U.S. action the World Fede-
ration of Trade Unions says:

“This decision constitutes a
violation of the sovereignty of
the Chilean people, who, by a
unanimous Congress vote, na-
tionalized the copper mines, cop-
per being the country’s main
source of wealth, and thereby
fulfilled a profound aspiration
of the Chilean workers and peo-

ple. In addition this action is a-

characteristic attack by the mul-
tinational companies on the

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rights of peoples to own theif
natural resources, as is formally
recognized by the United Na
tions.

“Since its coming to powels
the Popular Unity Government
in Chile has had to face bitter
opposition from the North Ame
rican monopolies which, with
United States support, have us
every possible means to exert
pressure to overthrow it. The
publication of secret documents
of the International Telephone
and Telegraph Company reveal-
ed an extensive plot to provoke.
economic and political chaos
Chile. On direct instructions
from Washington, internationa
finance bodies have cut loans t0
Chile or reduced them to almost
nothing, in this way creating
economic. difficulties. The e™
bargo on copper exports is an
attempt to deprive Chile of its
main source of foreign exchange

“The aim of this plot of the
international monopolies is t
block the current process 0
economic and social change
which Chile has undertaken if
order to rise out of under-deve
lopement and achieve full eco-
nomic independence. The 1
perialist conspitacy aims to ef
able the monopolies to get pack
their privileges so as to com
tinue their exploitation of the
working masses and keep Chile
in a state of under-development
and economic dependence.

“The World Federation of
Trade Unions expresses its ful
solidarity with the Chilean work-
ers and people whose trade
union centre, the CUTC has
called on the workers and all
patriots to mobilize themselves
to defend the nation’s legitimate
rights, indignantly condemning
‘this flagrant aggression and in-
terference in the country’s life.

“The WFTU appeals to work-
ers and trade unions throughout
the world to promote the most
active solidarity with the work-
ing class and people of Chile
against the attacks and econ0-
mic blockade of imperialism,
and to defend the nationalization
of the copper mines and nationa
sovereignty of the Chilean pe
nle.”” :

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d copper mine in the world, ip
perched 9,200 feet up in th e Andes, 110 miles from the coast.