HARRY POLLITT

Buck chairs Session at conference

LONDON Tim Buck, general secretary of ‘¢ Labor-Progressive party, presid-

at the opening session of the

tne 1 Onference - of Communist and

eae parties in the sphere of = ish imperialism, when it open- here last week: tite coming delegates, Harry Pol- ’ Seneral secretary of the British peeunist. party, spoke of “the aia privilege” of that party in ‘apage the conference and said fee the meeting would show that Bri € was another Britain from the tain of Churchill, Lyttelton and © big monopolies. : ee fortunes of these big con- bibsa were “cemented with the sae and bones of those slaughter- a ay the blood baths of colonial ars,” he declared. ain condemned the difficulties ced in the way of the conference Y various governments refusing

_ Permits to some delegates.

ot Buck expressed the gratitude he Communist parties of the Mmonwealth countries and the

of

Colonie, i ence. S for holding the confer-|

is Communist Party of Brit- 4 Tuly and well fulfils its role : owe of the other Britain in ght for national independence Boats Peoples and for a better Md,” he. said. Ate wild thrashings of im- ee ism in its death throes, like ay of a prehistoric monster, injure but not delay those, Se hee, atrugsling against im- Poe he declared. een €rence delegates and ob- Monwe, came from all the Com- : Yaseen countries, from Africa, iddle East, and many colonies.

Rearming of

Germany hit

Ree: LONDON to Bie Majority of more than two erene the Cooperative party con- cided © in Blackpool last week de-

ae to oppose rearmament of

€rn Germany.

‘ hag € Party’s national committee

tion falled for continued occupa- : A rearmament of West Ger- » Dut the proposal was defeat-

941,02 card vote of 5,092,000 to

410,000

up a chairman W. Coldrick, ative ater said that the 18 Cooper- mong S in the House of Com- feren, Would be guided by the con- ere decision but were subject the Sa of the Labor group in ed te resolution adopted reaffirm- tion = Cooperative party’s: opposi- ‘Many any proposal to rearm Ger- » both East and West.” € Northern Ireland Labor as also opposed rearming

i> of 'G 100 i any by a card vote of 17,-

2,400

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End colonial wars call of

London Communist parley

Calling for an immediate end to all colonial wars, R. Palme Dutt warned hore lesen i

government planned to turn them into a world war. Pe Making the political report to the London conference of Communist and Workers’ parties in countries in

the sphere of British imperialism, Dutt, vice-chairman of th British Communist party said: ‘“The ware now in pro- gress are colonial wars. ‘To end these wars is an imperative necessity,’ before Dulles can make them an eee yo

apply his doctrine of “massive re- taliation.” nS “The first concern of this con- ference is to’ express opposition to the war plans in Southeast Asia and Eastern Asia,” he added. | “We hail the historic advance of the Communist Part of India and its allies,’ he said amid loud ap- plause. The conference also warm- ly greeted his declaration that: “The future of Africa belongs to

the African people.” “h

Dutt put forward a five-point pro- gram for alliance in action between the British and colonial peoples.

Déclaring that the imperialist system of domination was neither in the interests of the colonial peo-

close of the war, the revolt of the colonial peoples is higher and more universal than ever before.

“Today the colonial front is the principal active fighting front against imperialism.”

Dutt then dealt with the posi- tion in the various colonial and semi-colonial territories in South- east Asia, the Middle East and in the West Indies.

,. “Most significant of all in the

_ present period,” he said, “is the upsurge in Africa.

“All over Africa the African peoples are demonstrating that

they are no longer prepared to be

ples nor in the interests of the}

British people, Dutt said it was in their common interest to end it.

The conference, he said, set it- self the following aims: —

1 To proclaim to the world the needs and demands and aspira- tions of all the peoples of countries at present under the

domination of British imperial- | ;

ism.

- To draw closer. unity and co-|f operation in the struggle for|}

peace against the war policies of U.S. and British imperial- ism.

3 To draw closer unity and co-| (me

operation in the struggle for

national independence of all},

the peoples at present held in

colonial and semi-colonial sub- | *

jections or whose national in- dependence is threatened or subverted by U.S. penetration. 4 To build the alliance of our peoples for common victory in the struggle against imperial- ® ism, and for fraternal. coopera- tion and mutual help after vic- tory in the reconstruction of our countries on the basis of national independence and equal rights. ; 5 To strengthen the cooperation of the Communist and Work- ers’ parties in Commonwealth and colonial countries as the vanguard of the struggle of our peoples for freedom, peace and the aims of socialism. —

Dutt called for the ending of the colenial wars in Malaya and Kenya and for withdrawal of British troops from British Guiana, Egypt, Cyprus, Iraq, Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries.

“He said that the fight for peace was a joint fight in which all the peoples of the countries represent- ed at the conference could play their part in order to defeat the war plans of the British and U.S. imperialists. :

He pointed out that it was seven years since the, first such confer- ences was held in London in 1947 on the initiative of the Commun- ist Party of India. ee

“Our conference,” he said, “will speak, not for the imperialists, not for the Lytteltons, Menzies, Malans and their associates.

“Tt will speak for the hundreds and hundreds of millions of _work- ing people who are oppressed and exploited by the British monopol- ists, who are subject to the extend- ing offensive of U.S. imperialism and the drive to war.

“During these seven years the liberation movement of the colonial and dependent peoples has swept forward through every corner of the world.

“1+ is no longer a question of the postwar upsurge which fol- lowed the Second World War. Today, nearly a decade after the

the subject of imperialist enslave- ment and exploitation.

“They are growing conscious of their strength. Once they march forward and fight in unity, the future of Africa belongs to the African peoples.”

Dutt said that in the present conditions of the deepening crisis of British imperialism, the alliance of the British working class with the national liberation movements of the countries subject to British rule was the essential condition for the liberation of these countries and for the victory of socialism in

Britain.

He said it was the undying shame of the present dominant leaders of the British Labor movement that they had spurned this elemen- tary teaching of socialist intérna- tionalism and had united with the Tories against the colonial peoples.

Exposing Tory and right-wi labor leaders’ claims that a Fae ‘guiding the colonial peoples for- ward along the path to self-govern- ment and freedom,” Dutt said that experience showed that no conces- sion had ever been made to any subject people in the empire save in the face of the revolt of the

_| people.

S

North Korea rebuilds from ruins

Out of the devastation left by three years of war, the Korean Democrati ic, ai Soviet Union and People’s China, is rebuilding North Korea. The great Sony apg tg el ya! (left) is now nearing completion. Pyongyang, the capital city, is-being rebuilt and new buildings a rising out of the ruins. One of the first to be opened was a theatre. When the surveyors (right) nd builders are finished, Pyongyang will be one of the world’s most beautiful cities, with a nine-acre eit

square.

Finding. it cold? Well, it could be those bomb tests

TOKYO

U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific may cause “a big climatic change, bringing on an unseason- able cold spell ruinous to crops,” in the opinion of Hidetoshi Araki, Japanese weather expert.

Araki said that hydrogen bomb explosions were «somewhat similar to voleanic explosions, and minute particles of dust in the strato- sphere as a result of the hydrogen explosions may bring about a drastic drop in temperature which would eause frost damage.”

Uganda congress calls for boycott

KAMPALA, Uganda

_ The Uganda National Conference has called for a three-month buy- ing boycott of all except “bare necessities” from May 1 as a pro- test against the deportation ordin- ance under which Governor Sir An- drew Cohen can exile any Uganda citizen he deems dangerous to

“public security.”

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