‘people,

Each day, 696,000 children
attend school in_ the
People’s Republic of
Mozambique. This number
has increased six-fold since
the winning of indepen-
dence in 1975.

“As we construct the basis
of a socialist society,” said
president Machel, “one of
‘our main tasks is to liquidate
illiteracy and acquire know-
ledge of modem science
and culture.

“Life shows that only a
people armed with modem
ideas and who understand
the tasks of national con-
struction will win the war
against colonial backward-
ness and poverty.” Photo:
school girls in the capital of
Maputo.

WAR AGAINST COLONIAL BACKWARDNESS

On current policies of

NEW YORK — The following
is a statement of the Communist
Party, USA on current policies of
the Morning Freiheit, abridged:

What has been happening to the

policies and practices of the:

Jewish daily newspaper, the
Morning Freiheit? It has become
necessary to raise this question
before its readers and supporters,
progressives — individuals and
organizations — who, along with
Communists under the leadership
of Moissaye J. Olgin, helped bring
it into existence 55 years ago as
the Freiheit.

For most of its honorable his-
tory, the Morning Freiheit distin-
guished itself by vigorously
championing the unity of the
working class — Black and white,
of all nationalities — and by
promoting class _ struggle
unionism. It was a tireless and
foremost fighter against Right-
wing social democracy, typified
by David Dubinsky of the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Work-
ers Union (ILGWU), and all var-
ieties of reformism. It was an out-
spoken fighter against the deadly
poisons of anti-Semitism and ra-
cism. In this way it defended and
advanced the glorious role of
Jewish workers and all others
who fought for social progress.

It has become necessary to
pose this question openly, since
prolonged and patient discussion
with the Morning Freiheit leaders
has failed to halt their drift over
recent years from such a sound
policy.

It is made more urgent by the
present editors’ persistence in
exploiting and distorting, for op-
portunist reasons, healthy na-
tional sentiments among Jewish
particularly among
Jewish workers, in a way which
supports the reactionary
nationalistic position of Zionism,
and which adds fuel to the mount-
ing danger of nuclear war in the
Middle East.

The leaders’ of the Morning
Freiheit brush aside the capitalist
character of the state of Israel and
the fundamental importance of
the class struggle there; the strug-
gle for democracy inside Israel is
played down, while the demand
for equality for the Arabs and for
darker-skinned Jews in that coun-
try is minimized or overlooked.

The annexationist, colonialist

the ‘Morning Freiheit’

aggression against the Arab
peoples by Israel, which flows
from the reactionary nationalism
of Zionism, could not success-
fully be carried out in today’s
world without substantial aid
from abroad. But U.S. im-
perialism has its own stake in
promoting such policies in the
Middle East, enabling the ruling
circles of Israel to work hand in
hand with U.S. bankers and
militarists.

The imperialist bourgeoisie is
not concerned with the welfare of
the Jewish or Arab peoples, nor
with the continued existence of an
independent Israel, but with sec-
uring for itself Mideast sources of
oil; with crushing or hindering the
growing anti-imperialist move-
ment among the Israeli people
and the Arab peoples; and with
assuring itself a base of opera-
tions, in league with Israeli reac-
tion, against the democratic
forces in that area. Together, they
want to keep the U.S. Sixth Fleet
in Israeli waters, to control the
Mediterranean if possible, and to
maintain strategic bases for use, if
so decided, for war against the

Soviet Union. That is where -

present-day Zionism leads, and
that is why a different direction is
needed for the Morning Freiheit
today.

For the past decade in particu-
lar, the line and activities of the
Morning Freiheit under the
editorship of Paul Novick have
deteriorated, step by step, sliding
from crude opportunism to open
service in the interests of U.S.
imperialism. From the time of the
1967 aggression by Israel, with
Washington’s support, against its
Arab neighbors, Novick tried to
justify this chauvinist crime as a
“‘defensive war.”

After many months of extended
discussions with him, when
Novick still stubbornly resisted
the appeals of his comrades to
correct his pro-imperialist posi-
tion, the Central Committee of
the Communist Party, USA sus-
pended him from its ranks. When
he arrogantly demonstrated in the
following year that he would not
learn the elementary, but fanda-
mental, lesson of Leninism —
that the starting point of Com-
munist responsibility everywhere
is to combat the chauvinist and
imperialist policies of the ruling
class of one’s own nation — he

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 17, 1977—Page 8

was expelled from the Com-
munist Party. :

The Morning Freiheit has take
to making the Soviet Union and
other socialist countries its main
target, resorting to every device
of exaggeration, distortion and
slander; it also singles out espe-
cially the Communist Party of Is-
rael and the Communist Party,
USA for its venomous attacks.
But Tel Aviv is given praise and
encouragement while it wars
upon its neighbors, occupies their
lands, jails thousands of protest-
ing patriots, tortures its prisoners,
and actively supports every reac-
tionary government from Iran to
South Africa.

The Morning Freiheit, tries to
hide the fact that, while it pre-
tends to support the United Na-
tions resolutions that would undo
injustice and thus make possible
peace in the Mideast, it actually
rejects the need for evacuation
from the occupied lands, for rec-

ognition of the national rights of _

the Palestinian people and for re-
convening the Geneva Confer-
ence on that basis.
Furthermore, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO),
which is recognized by the United
Nations as the authentic voice of

the Palestinian people, is de-.

nounced, in accord with the line

from the Washington-Tel Aviv

axis, as a “‘gang of murderous ter-
rorists.’"” And this chauvinist
stand further obstructs the recon-
vening of the Geneva Confer-
ence, for which the Soviet Union
has consistently pressed as a
means of resolving the conflict
and bringing peace and security to
all the peoples of the Middle East.

The Communist Party, USA,
shares-the desire of this great
body of Morning Freiheit readers

to make their paper once againa _

fighting tribune of the working-
class and worthy of support by
the progressive movement, by re-
suming, as a guiding line, the
principles of class struggle and in-
ternational proletarian solidarity
upon which it was originally
founded.

It looks to the united expres-

sion of the will of the builders and

supporters of this paper to bring 7 ™

forward a responsive leadership
which will once again give daily
voice to the struggles and aspira-
tions of the workers and all pro-
gressive forces among the Jewish
masses of the United States.

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