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Tsar and Trotsky. too...

We are currently being shown a film purporting to tell the story of the late last: tsar of Russia and his empress, in which Nicholas the Bloody be- comes a model family man and his wife just a homebody (pre- sumably Rasputin was simply a pious divinity student?). It is so raw that the Canadian critics ‘couldn’t stomach it and have panned it.

Why such a film at the pre- sent time?

Perhaps after more than half a century the public does not remember how odious the tsar and all his works were not only for the people of Russia but throughout the world. Especial- ly the younger generation to whom even Hitler is already “ancient history.” The cruel despot must be whitewashed (retroactively,' so to say) and facts turned upside down so that the public sympathy be turned to his favor and against the revolutionaries who put an end to that monstrous tyranny.

We are also informed that a film is being shot post haste on the life of Trotsky. Its purpose. we are told, is to portray Trots- ky as Lenin’s equal in the Rus-. sian Revolution, no less!

One thing we can be sure of is that this film will be as pho- ny as the one about the tsar. Will the history of Trotsky’s fight against Lenin on cardinal questions both prior to and

after the 1917 be shown? Will :

Lenin’s devastating criticism of “Judas” Trotsky be quoted? Will Trotsky’s continued strug- gle against Lenin’s policies after he (Trotsky) supposedly _ re- nounced his opposition and

joined the Bolshevik (Commu- nist) party in 1917, his ‘fight against the signing of the trea- ty with Germany, which nearly the

lost revolution, and on

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other key questions be de- scribed? Will the story of how Trotsky fought against building socialism in the Soviet Union and how he went over from un- derhand machinations to. an at- tempt at a counter-revolution- ary demonstration appear in the picture?

You can just bet your boots history will be rewritten again and Trotsky will come out smelling like a rose, just as Tsar Nicholas did—on film.

Why play up Trotsky at this time? :

Because everything goes when it comes to promoting -preju- dice against the Soviet Union, against Lenin, against Commu- ism. If one is not caught on the “Tsar” bait he might fall for the “Trotsky” lure.

That’s why a British-prepared exhibit “Art and Revolution” now showing at the Ontario Art Gallery gives prominence

to those artists of the early

years of the Russian Revolu- tion that expressed decadent moods and ideas and soon drop- ped by the wayside. These are suggested as the beautiful flowers of the revolution that were blighted by the frost of Stalinism (how eager they are to exploit the tragic misuse of power that marred Stalin’s later record in order to discre- dit the things that were just and right!). ; The enemies of friendship and misunderstanding between Canada and the Soviet Union attack in many forms and from various directions. If success- ful, they will bring to naught the fine agreement on cultural exchange signed by Prime Min- ister Trudeau and Premier Ko- sygin. There should be a strong Canadian movement to promote the truth in place of lies. (J.W.)

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Hands off the . right to strike!

The treacherous proposal this week of AFL-CIO President George Meany that U.S. workers give up their right to strike and accept binding arbitration in its stead multiplies a thousand-fold all the reasons.that had already result- ed in the sweeping demand for more autonomous rights for Canadian mem- bers of international unions.

Just two weeks ago in this paper the Central Trade Union Committee of the Communist Party of Canada warned how George Meany and his fellow labor- betrayers in the AFL-CIO leadership are trying to do away with tens of thousands of Canadian jobs. In collab-

oration with the U.S. leaders of 11 in- |

ternational unions, Meany and Co. are pressing for Congressional adoption of their ultra-protectionist Hartke-Burke pill. And this without a solitary word of information, let alone of fraternal consultation, with their Canadian mem- bers.

The urgent need for more Canadian trade union autonomy was again indi- cated last fall with AFL-CIO support for Nixon’s wage freeze.

To the planned sell-out of Canadian workers’ jobs, and participation in Nixon’s wage-freeze pay board, Meany has now added his treacherous call to do away with the right to.strike.

This, however, is not the sum of the AFL-CIO president’s boot-licking ser- vices to U.S. imperialism.

Within twenty-four hours of his “binding arbitration” proposal, Meany denounced U.S. critics of Nixon’s war escalation in Indochina. _

Faced with such policies of class be- trayal, involving Canadian workers’

_ jobs, the struggle against an incomes policy, the right to strike and, above all,.

the great international cause of peace, it is clear that organized labor in Can- ada must have more autonomy in order to achieve a united and sovereign Cana- dian trade union movement.

No place for youth

Toronto lawyer Vince Kelly, a mem- ber of the Wright commission on post- secondary education in Ontario, whose report was released last month, pre- dicts that Canadian young. people will find jobs as hard to get during the next 30 years as they are today. (He cer- tainly seems to think capitalism, Tru- deau and Stanfield are here to stay!)

Quoting statistics which point out that unemployment rates for Cana- dians aged 14 to 24 are twice as high as

-for other Canadians, and no let-up is in

sight, Mr. Kelly said “for 17 years they have borne the brunt of our failure to provide enough jobs.”

As a result, Kelly went on to say, young people will refuse to enroll in universities and community colleges because even those with degrees won’t be able to find work. He suggests that more programs, such as the fed- eral government’s “Opportunities for Youth,” would help young people, but admits that such programs could only provide work for a few. What is need- ed, he said, are massive projects, such

as the development of the Canadi -North.- a

This confession, which begins to at the roots of the problem, is the m interesting because Mr. Kelly is one the authors of that same Wright port that holds out no future for y Canada.

Pilates at Ottawa :

The biblical story about Roman ¢ ernor Pontius Pilate Washing — hands of guilt in Christ's geath been repeated by our fathers who at Ottawa. They have declareg they can’t speak up to stop the bl shed in Northern Ireland becayse don’t want to interfere in the affa; a fellow-Commonwealth count

Exactly because Canada js yi. eally tied to England and Irelan d bot it should speak on behalf of the people who are suffering milit arya pation and denial of civil liberties kept divided and repressed. Rema ing our own long struggle to pe ters in our own house, a Struggle has yet to be continued if we an achieve genuine independence “dat we be silent on the tragedy of Trelagl

That was not the rea] Canil speaking at Ottawa, but the gion re would keep Quebec sUbmerge + | that sent troops and imPoseg the Measures Act in October 1979 W pudiate them. :

Let's have jobs, not cynicism

Is Canada’s new Manpowe <a Bryce Mackasey, trying to Minis ‘i pseudo-aristocratic aloOfi@a,,, master, the Prime Ministey9 i he should quit now. ; For too long the Canaq;., ~ have witnessed Mr. Trudeayc peop indifference to our country’, tical problem, mass un€Mp]o The “let them eat cake”

But when his Manpowey "ye OMe

across Canada that the Une Insurance Commission S$

the lawful claims of the 5 has been marked by bUreg

competence and inhUman; Bryce Mackasey appeals ag political buffoon.

If the 8,800 UIC staff Mem} q as he says, been “overWOrkeg ©'S hal burdened,” that’s not the = and ove mass of unemployed wOrke, ult of #

If, Mr. Mackasey, your bose 4 on behalf of monopoly have = police! mass unemployment, then j oj, sulted lions of Canadian working |" the ml are demanding new polici.? Pople wi jobs. Or, if you won't do tp. to erel hire more staff for the Ung at let Insurance Commission. bloymé n't tr

But whatever you do, do

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