JAMAICA AND USSR SIGN AID AGREEMENT KINGSTON, Jamaica — Strengthening of Jamaica’s ties with the ‘socialist world moved forward with signing of an aid agreement be- tween Jamaica and the Soviet Union. The agreement provides: - __ aid in the construction of a 500,000 ton cement plant, — training of Jamaican production and technical personnel both in Jamaica and the USSR, — participation in setting up three technical: training centres in Jamaica, — aid in the area of geological prospecting. SADAT BANS EGYPTIAN PEACE COUNCIL CAIRO — President Sadat on Dec. 19 banned the National Peace ~ Council of Egypt. Khaled Mohieddin is general secretary of the Peace Council. He is a Lenin Peace Prize winner and chairman of Egypt’s __ National Progressive Party. 3 ANGOLA FORMS WORKERS’ PARTY : LUANDA — The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) became the MPLA-Party of Labor Dec. 11 at the closing session of the organization’s first congress. The president of the Re- _ public, Agostinho Neto, was elected chairman of the new party. The congress passed a resolution saying the party would be Marxist- ___ -Leninist whose members would work for a socialist society. Economic guidelines were also adopted. which stressed the need to strengthen State and cooperative sectors of Angola’s economy. STUDENT IN U.S. ON TRIAL FOR WEARING MASK » ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The trial of an Iranian student here for “wearing a mask” during a demonstration against the visit of the Shah began Dec. 14. The student was arrested under a law directed against the Ku Klux Klan. Iranian students are forced to wear masks during _ protests to protect their identity from agents of the Iranian secret police (SAVAK) which operate also in the U.S. SAVAK takes reprisals against students studying in the U.S. and their families at home. % TEXAS JUDGE FORBIDS NAZI HATE MESSAGE | HOUSTON — Judge Richard Millard has forbidden the American Nazi Party from usthg recorded racist telephone messages which offer a $5,000 prize for killing of any non-white (specifically Black), Jew or undocumented worker. : TRIBUTE TO BERTOLT BRECHT PLANNED FOR 1978 Ly _ BERLIN — The GDR will mark the 80th Anniversary of the birth of with a variety of events next © - Bertolt Brecht, poet and playwright, year. Highlight will be an international ‘‘Brecht Dialogue 1978 — Art and Politics” to take place here Feb. 10-15. Theoretical workshops with internationally-renowned directors will be complemented by stag- __ ing of Brecht plays. The annual Political Song Festival, also in Feb- __ruary, will feature songs with words by Brecht. a COORS BEER STRIKE AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY _ GOLDEN, Colorado — A nine month strike against Coors Brewery here centres on the union’s disgust to screening questions put by the company using lie detectors. Questions, according to Time magazine, would include: ‘“What are your sex preferences? How often do you change your underwear? Have you ever done anything with your wife that could be considered immoral? Are you a homosexual? Are you a Communist ...? The brother of Coors’ chairman is a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and settlement of the strike is made more complex by the company’s demand the union accept an open _ shop. SOVIET COSMONAUTS CONDUCT TESTS IN SPACE LAB MOSCOW — Two Soviet cosmonauts successfully docked their Soyuz-26 spacecraft with the Salyut-6 orbiting space station me ag ‘Air Force Lt.-Col. Yuri Romanenko, 33, and Georgy ae Ot civilian, are presently conducting experiments of tae pions and phenomena in outer space, medical and biological studies eee |; LUANDA — The: Popular Mo i i heric data. The Salyut cal experiments and gathering earth and atmosp aly rutng station has two docking systems and is capable of receiving - two spacecraft at the same time. OLDS FIRST CONGRESS _ ee vement for the Liberation of Angola i Pray 2 - |. ing dozens more in Derry in Jan ~, \ Rights Association demonstration de _ -1 Amassacre. On the contrary the commander of the its first congress earlier this month. MPLA chairman ee told the Pecaibled delegates that the formation of a vanguard party of the working class is a priority item on the congress We need a vanguard organization which could most usefully per- form its role in the administration of society. A vanguard party of the working class will become such an organization, organized a aa dance with the principles of Marxism-Leninism,” said Neto. 3 i program of the MPLA stresses a development of the state sector Is the main task in the economic Neid. “BLOODY SUNDAY”? TROOPS TO RETURN TO DERRY LONDON — The butchers of Derry’s “‘Bloody Sunday” are to “retutn to Northern Ireland sometime early next year despite storms of protest among anti-Unionists. The first battalion of the Parachute i i killing 14 unarmed civilians and wound- eee oe 1972 when they attacked a legal Civil manding an end to interment. i ished for the part they played in the ,a No soldier has ever been punts Rta ee _ been awarded the DSO and. promoted. EDITORIAL COMMENT Real jobs plan can’t wait With an arrogant piece of hocus pocus, Prime Minister Trudeau has crowned a year of slurs against Canada’s working people — a million-and-a-half of them unemployed. It is incredible, but this man entrusted with leading a government and a country is now given to voicing such silliness as: think right and the crisis will go away. _ What is more incredible is that he and his board room sponsors expect enough working people to take this nonsense seriously, that the fight against his gov- ernment’s crisis policies can be divided and defeated. So reasons the chosen political spokesman for the corporate monopolies, the multi-national corpora- tions and United States imperialism. Not surprising is the anger of thousands of workers and their families, denied jobs, hit by layoffs, youth shut out of productive life, workers cheated and intimidated -by the Unemployment In- surance Commission, or impoverished by cutbacks in health and all social ser- vices. While inflation combined with Anti- Inflation Board wage-slashing erodes liv- ing standards, and profits hit all-time re- cords, the government feels so secure in privileged class protection that it doesn’t have to answer to workers’ demands. Its fraudulent jobs program — $150-million (a drop in the bucket com- pared with military squandering) — is touted to put 26,000 people to work for “an average of five months! This is monopoly capitalism’s solution _ to the mass unemployment crisis! This is _ the way they plan Canada’s future! This is the alternative to putting key sectors of the economy under public ownership and democratic control! This is what they substitute for sovereign control of our resources, and a secondary industry to utilize them! This miserable scraping of the bottom of the Liberal idea barrel is supposed to be the only alternative to the Tories who,. it’s true, would deepen social cuts all the way to the bone. With capitalism’s own indicators pre- dicting 1978 unemployment higher than today’s 8.4%, the need taq rally all forces of labor and democracy is staring work- ers in the face. By refusing to fall for the splitting devices of racism and anti- communism, labor will be able to get on with forming a powerful anti-monopoly coalition — with real policies for working people. The everyday fight at the grocery counter, on the rent front, for jobs and civil rights, merges with the long-range fight for a working-class say in the plants, in the neighborhoods and in parliament. To have that kind of say, workers, and. the whole movement against the stiflin status quo, needs organizing in unit action. Begin plan not for peace Peace will come in the Middle East when the Israeli regime is forced to abandon its military aggression and ter- ror raids, and occupation of territory be- longing to its neighbors, and cease the army-backed settlement of its citizens in territories belonging to neighboring countries and to the Palestinian Arab people. Peace will come in the Middle East when Israel accedes to numerous inter- national demands, and to resolutions of the United Nations requesting that it withdraw within its own borders. Peace will not come to the area without acknowledgement by Israel of the right of the Palestinians — the victims of Is- raeli forced migration — to their own state. Peace will not be brought about by the project thrown together by Israeli Pre- mier Menachem Begin, Egyptian Presi- dent Anwar Sadat, and U.S. President Jimmy Carter — a project aimed at strengthening imperialism’s foothold in the Middle East. : The tripartite scheme, about to be re- leased, will reveal just how much front Sadat will need to put up as the self-pro- claimed leader of all Arabs. Begin’s remarks confirm that Israel in- tends to consolidate its expansionism. The insulting gesture of “granting” au- tonomy to the West Bank of the Jordan, land stolen by Israel, cannot but arouse resistance. The attempt by the USA to pick up Kissinger’s infamous step-by-step Mid- east “diplomacy” is an ominous move which does not resolve the crisis because it refuises to face up to basic questions. In Canada the federal government . and provincial governments like the Davis Tories in Ontario, regularly pros- trate themselves before every Zionist propaganda barrage, and to hell with the rights of the Palestinians, or the right of all peoples of the Middle East to a secure peace. It is in the interests of Middle East peace and world peace for Canadians to support the convening of a further Geneva conference on the Mideast; but not on the terms of the aggressor. Genuine steps toward peace must be based on the rights of the Mideast - peoples, on international concensus ex- pressed in the UN, and not on momen- tary advantages to imperialism. Here’s to 1978! In the tradition of greetings and well wishes at the close of the old year and the beginning of the new, we wish our read- ers good health, the happiness of being - ‘together with those they love, and re- newed strength in the struggle for a new world. Here’s to 1978 — to a year of working-class victories, to a big step closer to the final victory of the Canadian ~ -working people — socialism! PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 6, 1978—Page 3