By JOHN WEIR
Tribune Moscow Correspondent

MOSCOW — Nineteen
seventy-eight began with new vis-
tas unfolding for the peoples of
the Soviet Union. The new year
vas celebrated by four Soviet
cosmonauts from two spaceships
aboard the orbital station. School
children hitherto getting text-
books cheap are now receiving
them gratis. With last year’s Five
Year Plan targets reached and
urpassed ahead of time, the work
on this year’s goals is off to a good
start with the Party, government,
trade union and Young Com-
munist Leagues leaderships issu-
ing a joint statement on socialist
emulation measures.

Soviet advances are parallelled
by those of the other members of
the socialist community. With not
only mutually-beneficial trade
and exchange in scientific and en-
gineering know-how, but- also
dovetailing their economic plans,
these countries are profiting from
one of the great advantages.of the
socialist way of life, international
cooperation.

Council for Mutual Economic

‘Assistance (CMEA) countries

(Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia,
GDR, Hungary, Mongolia, Po-
land, Rumania, USSR) with 9.3%
of the world population are pro-
ducing one-third of the industrial
goods. In the first 11 months of
1977 industrial production of
Hungary increased by 7%, ag-
riculture also was above plan. In
the GDR more than 142,000 new
and remodelled apartments: were
provided, Bulgarians built 70,000
new flats. Wage increases were
given several categories of work-
ers in Rumania.

One of the new features. of
socialist cooperation is joint con-
struction of major enterprises. Of
over 2,500 such projects in
socialist countries with Soviet
technical assistance, more than
1,500 are already in operation.
Teams from CMEA partners are
helping build the gas pipeline from
Orenburg to the westemm border of
the USSR.

This year the CMEA countries

will account for 59% of Soviet

foreign trade. Soviet deliveries

Baikal-Amur railway.

The Y-240 isochronal cyclotron,
Europe’s largest, at the Institute of
Nuclear Research, USSR
Academy of Sciences.

include machines and equipment
automobiles and farm machin-
ery, oil, gas and iron ore, import-
ing from them equipment which
will help technical progress.
While the rate of growth and
volume of production and trade
are significant, for example during
the past five years industrial pro-
duction of CMEA countries grew
by 9.5% compared with 4.9% in
developed capitalist states, still
more significant is the fact that in
the socialist community relations

‘are based on full equality and help

to raise all together to a higher
level.

Comparison of the per capita
national income is revealing. At
$4,345 that of the United States is
more than double that of the
Soviet Union’s $1,973. But in the
USA that figure hides the tre-
mendous disproportion between
what the exploiting minority gets
and what the unemployed and
poor receive. And what of the
trading partners of the USA?
Iran’s figure is $275, Brazil’s is
$185, Egypt’s $130, Zaire’s $51.

Capitalism seeks to hold ‘its
partners down, to prevent the
development of industry, to make
those peoples hewers of wood

and drawers of water for the im- -

perialist ‘‘partner’’.

Socialist relations are built on
mutual assistance to build the
economies and enrich the lives of
all partners.

Construction workers from Moscow arriving at the railway station of
Tynda in the Amur region, Siberia to take part in the building of the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 27, 1978—Page 4

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, a de-
legation of the Communist
Party of Canada, headed by its
national leader, William
Kashtan, appeared before the
Commission of Inquiry Con-
cerning Cértain Activities of the
Royal Canadian Mounted
Police. The Commission is
headed by Mr. Justice D.C.
McDonald. William Kashtan
presented a brief, dated Jan.
10, expressing the Communist
Party’s views, of which the fol-
lowing is an abridged version.

Our aim here is not so much to
deal with the alleged illegalities
but with what is undermeath them,
and their implications. What is re-
ferred to are the alleged illegal ac-
tivities of the RCMP Mr. Fox
solicitor-general of Canada told
the country that the offices of a
left-wing news agency and of
some political parties were raided
and names of members seized. He
told the country of the. surveil-
lance of individuals, the inter-
ception of mail, the burning of a
barn, the stealing of dynamite...
the. country was further informed
by Mr. Fox that a fake com-
munique was issued by the RCMP
in the name of the Front de
Libération du Québec which cal-
led upon the people of Quebec to
rise in armed revolt.

It has been reported that all the
above activities were carried out
in the name of national security.
This raises a number of questions

swhich your Commission must of
necessity give thought to: What
constitutes a threat to Canada’s
security? What is a subversive
act? What constitutes a security
risk? What is legitimate political
dissent?

It is interesting to note that in-
sofar as the Security Branch of
the RCMP is concerned, the lable
of ‘‘security risk”’ is never applied
to the Establishment or any
member of it, the multi-national
corporations, nor to the racists
and pro-fascists ... the Security
Branch of the RCMP has been
holding briefing meetings with in-
dustrialists to draw their attention
to what are considered dangerous
organizations. The Globe and
Mail reported that labor groups
and their traditional political af-
filiate, the New Democratic Par-

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ty, have always been a primary

concern of the Bourne group, and

of the Security Branch of the
RCMP. This link-up between the
RCMP and the corporations in
‘Canada shows what is the real in-

tent of the Security Branch. It has”

very little to do with the security
of Canada but very much to do
with maintaining the status quo.

How can this be explained?
The same Globe and Mail is
quoted as saying that in the early
1970s ‘‘there was an anxiety bor-
dering on paranoia in the RCMP
hierarchy with regard to the activ-
ity of radical groups. Prevalent in
the force was a right wing attitude
nurturing unrealistic fears about
certain people in the NDP”’.

It is suggested that this
paranoia and right wing attitude
did not exist in the past. As any
serious student. of Canadian af-
fairs will tell us, this is simply not
true. The main energies of the
RCMP and its hierarchy have al-
ways been directed against radi-
cal, left-wing, trade union and
progressive movements, that is,
against all those advocating
democratic reforms and social
change. Canadian history is full of
such examples, from the killing of
miners in Nova Scotia, Estevan,
Sask. and British Columbia, the
use of the RCMP during the Gen-
eral Strike in Winnipeg in 1919,
their use against the trek of the
unemployed in Regina, and the
harsh treatment of the Native
peoples, to the forcible expulsion
of the Japanese people from B.C.

It is a matter of public concern
when the RCMP hierarchy and
the Security Branch take upon
themselves the right to decide
whether a political party is legiti-
mate, to decide what opinions
Canadians may hold or espouse.
The illegal actions of the Security
Branch illustrate how danger-
ously far they have taken Canada
towards an authoritarian state in
the name of alleged threats to na-
tional security, and how neces-
sary it is to reverse this process
before it is too late.

In the opinion of the Com-
munist Party of Canada, the real
threat to Canada’s security comes
from those who support aggres-
sion abroad and advocate vio-
lence against the people at home.

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COMMUNIST PARTY BRIEF URGES:

Such violence as we know, cfd
take on many forms. It inclu
advocacy of racism, of cultl
genocide against the. Nallit
peoples, of anti-Semitism, of
cism, of the use of violence in i
ferent forms against the Frey
Canadian people. It includes#
vocacy of illegal activities @®
rected against trade unions -
other democratic organizatio ri :
the Canadian people. :
“It is these forces advoctgy
such violence, combined
those who connive in the U :
take-over of Canada, and the
undermine Canada’s indé
dence and sovereignty, wh0%,.
the ones threatening Canada’s
tional security. j
We have further illustration®

as to open the door to suppom™al
of fascism, including crim;
guilty of the death of inno@r
people during the Second Wh
War, while anti-fascists, dé K
ocrats, progressive min@*
people, including Commi
have Canada’s door closed ,}p
them. at
The Communist Party an
Canada stands for the securitie
Canada based on the unrestri¢
defence of its sovereignty and)n
dependence. This is why wen
vocate public ownership of Caar
da’s natural resources and défit
ocratic control over the
branch plants in Canada.
This is why we call for a m@>
in-Canada Constitution based=¥
the equal voluntary partnershl
the English speaking and Fré
Canadian people in a bi-nati®
state. a
This is why we call for®

guaranteeing democratic
for all Canadians as part is
such a new made-in-Cat 5
Constitution. 3
And this is why we advoc
foreign policy based on peact,,,
coexistence, on détente and &
armament, in conditions of € ai
security, as the only sane alte™ ;
tive to the danger of world nucl,

war. |
We believe these - constill
firm building blocks for the |
tional security of Canada, p p
larly if to these measures ©

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