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CUBAN CHILDREN. Photo shows some of the thousands of children who gathered at the Presidential Residence square in Havana recently. They came from middle and primary schools and are holding aloft bocks and_ pencils _ collected to help in their education. The Cuban revolution has brought education for the first time to Cuba’s children.

JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY EXPOSED IN BOOKLET

“«“ gm ONSTITUTIONAL fascism ; ed with powerful financial in- : C is a real danger to’ the terests, key military figures, - American people.” This is the anti-Semites, southern segrega- theme of a current booklet by | tionists, anti-Catholics, the ex- Mike Newberry: The Fascist | treme conservatives of the Re- * Revival . . . The Inside ‘Story publican Party, southern Dem- of the John Birch’ Society. | ocrats and some of the Cath-

Having rejected the principie olic hierarchy. It is also. of peaceful co-existence be- connected. with former nazis tween socialist and capitalist} and a large number of influen- countries, the U.S.A. is pursu-| tial journalists, scholars “ing a reactionary, ‘aggressive intellectuals.

- policy in foreign affairs. At

The pamphlet shows the sim- ijlarity between the activities of the Central Intelligence As- ency (CIA) and -the Birch Society. It also raises the ques- tion of whether or not goverh. ment money has been diverted.

in repressive measures against the Communist Party, organiz- ed labor and other democratic groups. ,

The Communist Party was attacked because of its leading role in the fight for peace and the social needs of the people

—but the main target is the _ majority of the people, not a minority. Newberry leaves no doubt on this last point.

Right-wing reaction in the U.S.A. would muzzle the trade » unions, destroy democratic lib-

erties and establish a fascist dictatorship — all-in the name of “patriotism and freedom.”

In this booklet we learn that the. John Birch Society is link-

“WORTH “READING

Cuba Versus The C.I.A., By Rovert E. Light & Carl Mar- _ zani, $1.10 — The authors have gathered and analyzed all the material available on the at- tempted invasion of Cuba in . April 1961. A view of the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency un- der Allen Dulles is given on the Cuban invasion and its fail- ure.

Our Generation Against Nuclear War, 75c. — A new Quarterly journal devoted to the research, theory and re-, view of the problems of World Peace and directed toward presenting alternative solutions _ to human conflict, eliminating War as a way of life.

Available at People’s Co- Operative Bookstore, 307 W. ‘Pender, Vancouver, B.C,

CIA.

But Newberry is not pessi- mistic: “The Right is beset with conflict.’ He maintains that

not yet taken place “in defin- ite and decisive form i °«< Tt the people fight pack .. . the yet unformed Right may be- come formless, defeated .. .”

Newberry’s pooklet, | pub- lished by the New Century Publishers of New York, is ' well worth the 45 cents it sells for. No journalist can deal exhaustively with such a big subject in 45 pages, put he can give the reader a popular ex- position studded with new and interesting facts. This New- berry has done. Despite some shortcomings, his booklet is an informative and useful piece of literature. It should help te mobilise public opinion in Can- ada in support of those who are resisting the ultra-right in the U.S-As

Fascist Revival. by Mike Newberry, is obtainable at People’s Cooperative Book-

store, Vancouver. e Jack Phillips

Curb those smiles

ies Union reports that two ed- ucational films on China have been banned from San Diego public schools because they showed too many smiling Chin- ese children.

e | ed and distorted in the United here is: Why not?—when U‘S..

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to the Birchers through the

a polarization of the right has|_

The American Civil Libert- }

BOOKS

THE SHARK AND THE SAR-

DINES, by Dr. Juan Jose’ ‘ Arevalo, People’s Co-Opera-

tive Book Store, 307 West

Pender, Price $5.25.

This book has had over a million readers in Latin Amer- ica, and many thousands more in Europe. It tells facts that have been censored, suppress-

| States.

| It presents one of the most

' shattering profiles of the Unit-| |ed States ever to appear in| | print. It shows how the United States has damaged and de-| graded Latin America with 150 years of economic slavery _. . how the U.S.A. still takes the shark's share of Latin, American wealth — and keeps pushing its neighbours into) tyranny, poverty and despair.

Because of this book, and! because of the facts behind this’ book, millions of Latin.Ameri- cans now see Uncle Sam as. a_ powerful, hungry Shark. Back-) ed by a weird kind of interna-| tional law that he himself makes and breaks, the Shark eats well: on the Sardines to the South. F

Read this book to see how the Monroe Doctrine works for the benefit. of United States corporations — when it works vat all. Learn the suppressed | history of Europeans meddling} in Latin America. The Shark

England, Germany and other) countries. These “adventures” came after the announcement. of the Monroe Doctrine.

Is it true that the United | States Marines have been used. like a private army for US. | Corporations, killing and being. killed for the ‘sake of private | profit? :

Perhaps _ the — best

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capital often can get a 22%, return in Latin America, com-. pared to perhaps 13% when it stays home.

The facts bear this out. You will read one instance after, another of United States arm-. ed forces — and more subtle forces — being used to delay desperately needed reforms, to. uphold bloody dictators, to, smash long-overdue revolt, to.

make sure that one U.S. Cor-|—

poration or another keeps some Latin American country as its private plantation.

The Shark and the Sardines was written by Dr. Juan Jose Arevalo, former President of

Guatemala, and one of Latin’

America’s most learned:and re- spected men. ‘a 2

The Shark and the Sardines begins with The Fable: how the Shark was favored by His-

Shattering story of US. told by Latin American —

and tragic Fable. It is written as few other men could write it—and it unmistakably puts across its point. : Newspapers tell us of th frantic efforts now being made — to salvage United States pres- tige in Latin America - The Shark is uneasy. A new — -

| generation is rising down there

in the other America — a gen- eration at last equipped to kick out the poverty, illiteracy, graft and injustice which they have inherited as part of a pat-

‘tern set up by the United |

States.

The book tells how Standard Oil arranged a $311,000,000 super-profit — in addition to the normal profit on Venezue- lan oil — to be shunted from the Venezuelan treasury to its own pocket. : ; How the USA forced Chile for many years to sell copper at a ruinously low price—and

\ also ‘kept tin-prices down, for

United States profit. ;

How the United States holds much-needed public works pro- jects like a club over the heads of Latin American govern- ments. that are trying to do something for their people. Either they toe the Washington line or they don’t get money

tory with a large part of the ocean as his kingdom; how the}

enough to finish the project they so badly need. © “ig

local sardines were anxious to) ‘How the Panama Canal was

please him and how he. prom- ised to protect them . .

- and!

‘built. as the climax to one of

greatest political and eco-

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then ate them. This is a poetic’ nomic scandals in all history.

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By JOHN WEIR ‘Pacific Trivune. Correspondent 4

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| In 1990,- enrolment universities and colleges ox Soviet Union will be no than 8,000,000. It must be done, Vyacheslav ! Ilyutin, minister of higher ad-| ucation told us at a press con-| ference recently. That is how educationists understand the new party program as it re- lates to higher education,

Not only are higher educated | people. indispensable for build- ing communism, but the people of tomorrow, those who will, live under communism, will necessarily be higher develop- ed, he added—‘‘beautiful and strong mentally, -morally- and physically.”

In 1917 Tsarist Russia ha 105 higher educational estab- lishments with 127,000 stud | ents. Whole nations such as the! Kazakhs and Uzbeks had no} schools of. higher learning |

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pletely illiterate.

In 1961 there were 740 high- er educational establishments in the Soviet Union with 2,600,- 000 students: As for the Kaz-

tage of university and college graduates among them. is high-

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whatever and were almost com- | t = 2 - ‘curricula of all engineering col-

akhs and Uzbeks, the percen- |

er than in Franee, Western Germany or Italy.

Last year (1960) the number of engineers that graduated from Soviet colleges was 120,- 000—more than in all the cap- italist countries taken togeth- er.

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The law adopted in 1958, linking education closer with production has been a big help.

Now all young wo: kers with secondary education take even- ing or correspondence courses and go on to get degrees

There is now developing a system of factory colleges (so

‘far only in several of the larg-

est plants) that combine work and study. Each -factory col- lege is a branch of some insti- tution of higher education which supplies teaching per- sonnel and supervises the course. : e

There is no danger this trend will produce men and women schooled only in one field. The

leges include humanist and so- cial sciences, foreign languag- es, etc., as well as principles of industrial electronics, com- puter machines, the-use of at- omic energy in the national

| economy, etc. one

Ilyutin stated that some — students are also participating 200,000 university and college - in scientific research while studying. Even before they graduate they are bringing benefits to the country. :

One such team, for example, has designed a single-seat jet helicopter that promises to be a very important invention. Students in 18 higher education establishments in the Ukraine have brought proposals that

‘have resulted in a saving of

2,000,000 rubles. e

The “big push” to bring higher education to everybody by 1980 is underway with the help of 148,000 teachers and instructors in scientific re- search, armed with over 2,500 textbooks (862 new titles were aded this year so far) and op- erating on a budget of 1,500.- 000,000 in 1961, which of course will be increased from year to year

Thus is the great plan te build a communist society be- ing guaranteed the cadres nec- essary to its success — and at the same time, bridging the |gap between mental and phy- | sical labor, the all-round com- munist man of the future is be- ing. moulded. .

~ December 15, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9°