DISARMAMENT

‘Make Canada nuclear-free’

The deal allowing the U.S. mili- tary to test its ‘‘first-strike Cruise missile in Canada should be scrap- ped and replaced by a policy mak- ing Canada nuclear weapons-free zone’’ Canada’s Communists have declared.

The nearly-concluded . agree- ment giving the green light to flight testing of the medium-range of- fensive weapon will only heighten the danger to this country’s secur- ity, and will draw Canadians in- creasingly into the U.S. adminis- tration’s plans for world domina- tion, said the Communist Party in a recent statement.

It stated that Canada’s survival

‘instead depends on its growing peace movement, which should pressure the Trudeau government into pushing for U.S.-Soviet de- tente.

The Communist statement re- jected the argument advanced by U.S. foreign policy-makers that arms buildups will force the USSR to the negotiating table.

“The Soviet Union does not have to be compelled to negotiate. It has called for negotiation of arms reductions time and time again, on the basis of one principle — parity and equality of security. This prin- ciple, however, has been ignored by the U.S. because its aim is not equality of security but achieve- ment of military supremacy and, with it, world domination.”

In fact, the Cruise missile is not a deterrent at all, but a first-strike

weapon that furthers the plans of the most reactionary elements of U.S. imperialism for a so-called ‘limited’? nuclear war, the state- ment said.

Cruise-missile testing is only the latest manifestation of Canada’s involvement in the U.S. war ma- chine, it said. Right now there are three sites in Canada where Ameri- can nuclear weapons are stockpiled (one being the armed forces base at Comox). The involvement reaches into the corporate sphere also, with federal subsidies granted to Litton Industries, the company which manufactures the Cruise guidance system.

“This new danger for Canada and her people is the direct result of our country’s membership in NATO and Norad,’’ the CP noted in calling for Canadian withdrawal from the military alliances.

The Communist Party laid the blame for the escalating arms race squarely on what it calls U.S. im- perialism, “*the main enemy of hu- mankind.”’ In furthering its global strategy of world domination the US. engages in provocations against the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, national libera- tion movements and newly emerg- ing nations. Even Canada has been threatened with U.S. sanctions, it said. es And Virtually all nuclear arms in- itiatives have come from the U.S., the CP argued, pointing to the neu- tron bomb and the medium-range

Cruise and Pershing II missiles which, from European bases, can pinpoint Soviet targets with deadly accuracy.

Additionally, U.S. militarism can be seen in president Reagan’s unilateral scrapping of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Agree- ment (SALT II), and such actions as the convening of a NATO con- ference during the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament in 1978, the statement charged.

It emphasized that Canada’s survival is in the hands of the grow- ing peace movement, because ‘‘this vital question cannot be left for solution by the monopoly corpora- tions, their political parties and governments.

“Instead, it is action by the peo- ple that is now decisive in the battle for disarmament and against the threat of nuclear war. Action, de- monstrative action by all Canadi- ans,”’ the CP declared.

The statement pointed favorably to the growth of Canada’s peace movement as evidenced by increas- ing trade union involvement and the mass circulation of numerous peace petitions.

“At this dangerous moment in world history, the Canadian people need to unite their efforts to compel parliament to speak and act now for peace and disarmament — through an independent Canadian foreign policy in the interests of

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The Canadian government should put deeds behind its words and sever all military and economic ties to South Africa to force an end to that country’s il- legal occupation of neighboring Namibia and the bloody repres- sion of its people.

That’s the message two Na- mibian liberation fighters will be bringing to Canadians as they travel across B.C. and the rest of Canada, according to Pashukeni Shoombe of the South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO).

‘“*We’d like Canadians to be in- formed of our position, and to tell their government to be serious about negotiating independence for Namibia,’’ Shoombe told the Tribune. Together with fellow Namibian Reverend Erastus Haikale, an Anglican minister, she has been visiting B.C. com- _munities this week.

In B.C. the Namibians’ tour is handled by the Southern African Action Coalition. The two will address a public meeting, Focus on Southern. Africa, at Templeton High School in Van- couver Apr. 24, at 8 p.m.

During the tour Canadians will be asked for ‘‘financial and ‘material support”’ to aid the Na- mibian struggle. Supporters will also step up efforts to organize a boycott of all South African products sold here.

Namibia, or South-West Af- rica under its colonial name, was in the news a few months ago when South African forces invad-

ed neighboring Angola to attack Namibian refugee camps. The move, in clear violation of Angola’s sovereignty, drew worldwide condemnation.

South Africa, which has sta- tioned over 100,000 troops and mercenaries in Namibia despite numerous United Nations reso- lutions demanding withdrawal, claimed its troops were pursuing ‘terrorist forces’” — the regime’s term for SWAPO’s Peoples Liberation.Army soldiers. In fact, the camps contained mainly women and children, according to Shoombe.

“They massacred over 1,000 in Kassinga (Angola) alone, and over 400 of those were women,”’

Cut S. Africa tie, SWAPO rep urges

PASHUKENI SHOOMBE -. .

on Canadian tour.

she said. “SWAPO guerrillas are only fighting inside Namibia.”

But not all SWAPO fighters are men — women too have taken up arms ‘“‘to fight alongside their menfolk,”’ said Soombe.

Namibian women are ‘‘doubly oppressed, because we are women and because we are black’? — which is why Shoombe as a SWAPO central committee member and a leader of the organization’s’ women’s com- mission sees to the special training for women in SWAPO camps.

Independence for Namibia has been the subject of much debate in the UN, ever since the in- ternational forum invalidated an old League of Nations mandate granting South Africa the right to administer the large territory. Resolution 435 of the UN Securi- ty Council calls for the withdrawal of South African troops and their replacement by a peacekeeping force to oversee free elections — an election SWAPO feels sure it will win.

But this has been consistently blocked by five major countries which have appointed themselves as a buffer between the South African regime and SWAPO. These countries — Britain, France, West Germany, the United States and Canada — are home base for the transnational corporations who reap huge pro- fits exploiting Namibia’s mineral, sea and ranching resources, said Shoombe.

“‘That’s why we are asking the Canadian people to pressure their government into working seriously for Namibia’s inde- pendence,” she said.

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