LONG LIVE THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION!

Cuban poster honoring the 50th anniversary of the USSR.

Mark 75th birthday of Argentine CP leader

By V. GONCHAROV (excerpts)

The Communist Party of Ar- gentina, founded under the di- rect influence of, and only two months after, the Great October Socialist Revolution, has _ pro- duced from among its ranks a whole cohort of outstanding Marxist-Leninists, true interna- tionalists utterly devoted to the great cause of communism.

Much of the credit for the development and putting into practice the political line of the Communist Party of Argentina in the extremely complicated situation in the country belongs to Jeronimo Arnedo Alvarez, the Party’s General Secretary since 1938. His life and work are a striking example of selfless ser- vice in the interests of the working people of Argentina. This is why the 150,000-strong army of Argentinian Commu- nists and YCL members and to- gether with them the working people of the country are wide- ly marking his 75th birthday.

Born in San Nicolas, Argen- tina, Oct. 14, 1897, son of a farmhand, Arnedo Alvarez had to begin to work at the age of eight. :

Led General Strike

Having experienced landown- er and capitalist exploitation, with the early’ awareness of so- cial injustice, Arnedo engaged in vigorous political activity, and in 1925 joined the Communist

’ Party.

In 1927 in Zarate, Arnedo led a generai strike in solidarity with the workers, Sacco and Vanzetti who were sentenced to death in the United States though com-

_ pletely innocent.

In 1933 hé was elected gen- eral secretary of the Party.

with V. Codovilla and R. \Ghiol- di who had returned to Argen- tina initiated a broad popular movement for solidarity with the Soviet Union and organized the struggle of the people against a fascist threat in Argentina it- self. This activity of the Argen- tine democrats was conducted in conditions of repression and persecution by the authorities.

At the Central Committee’s enlarged plenary meeting on April 29-30, 1972 Arnedo made a thorough report on “The Com- munists and the Institutionaliza- tion of: the Country” exposing the- manoeuvres undertaken by reaction to debar the Commu- nists from deciding the future of the country. The report gave a Marxist analysis of the situa- tion in the country and mapped out a concrete action program.

The bourgeois press has been compelled to admit that the Communist Party of Argentina is the country’s third major party in strength and influence and that, if it gets the possibil- ity to work in legal conditions, it will achieve a yet greater in- fluence. :

Steps to the Future

The Communist Party of Ar- gentina is with a renewed force urging the need for the earliest possible establishment of the unity of all progressive forces to carry out an agrarian, demo- cratic and anti-imperialist revo- lution with the perspective of accomplishing a socialist revo- lution in the future.

Working for unity, the Com- munist Party at this stage sets the task of doubling its member- ship, changing the relationship of forces in the trade union movement where the bourgeois ideology of Peronism still has a considerable influence, and

Expose Peronist deception

The return to Argentina last month of 77-year-old Juan Do- mingo Peron, the country’s pro- Nazi dictator from 1946 to 1955, has raised many more question; than it answered.

What does it mean to the working class—to the military government — to peace in the area?

For an insight into the politi- cal situation in which the 17- year exile, Peron finds himself —and more important in which the Argentine people find them- selves, we offer a recent article by Jose Perez in the Daily World.

.By JOSE PEREZ

Since 1962 the Republic of Argentina has been under open military rule. This decade has been characterized by the bru- tal political and physical re- pression of all Argentinians who dare to criticize or oppose the status quo. The principal victim of this situation has been the

Argentinian working class and

its organizations.

Using the pretext of outlaw- ing the leadership of the move- ment of former dictator Juan Peron, the military establish- ment has turned its repressive machinery primarily against the Communists and other progres- sive elements in the country.

Peron returned to Argentina in November after 17 years of political asylum in fascist Spain. His arrival has not impeded the continuous repression against non-Peronist, anti-government forces.

To understand the present situation in Argentina, it is necessary to understand the po- sition of the Communist Party of Argentina (ACP) on the phe- nomenon of Peronism. This po- sition is not generally known abroad.

Communist Position

The position of the Commu-

nist Party of Argentina on Per-

onism was defined by Rodolfo -

Ghioldi, member of the Execu- tive Committee of the ACP dur- ing a recent conference on ‘‘the struggle of the ACP against Per- onism” at the Latin American Institute of the USSR’s Acad- emy of Science.

During this conference, Ghiol- di analyzed the causes that gave rise to Peronism. He pointed out that this nationalist movement was marked by various specific traits: the foremost role of the Army in the country’s political life; the pro-Nazi orientation of its chiefs—reaffirmed during the

course of World War II—and the multiple support, financial included, given by Hitler’s dic- tatorship to Peron’s military- fascist coup d’etat on July 4, 1943, the date which marked the birth of Peronism.

Ghioldi asserted’ that the apologists of Peronism, all of whom are exponents of bour- geois nationalism and _ poly- classism, strive to disassociate the Peronist movement from the context of World War I and from the global struggle against fascism, thus seeking to beautify the image of Peronism.

Peron and Peronism

Since its XI Congress, which took place shortly after Peron was sworn in as president after the 1946 election, the Commu- nist Party of Argentina dif- ferentiated between Peron and his bureaucrats and the Peron- ist masses who honestly be- lieved in Peron’s revolutionary assertions. The ACP then point-

ed out, Ghioldi said, the n@ tionalist bourgeois essence of Peronism and the compromises that it made with the landowl ing oligarchy and with im perialism. Ghioldi added that the ACP strives to help the workers influenced by Peron ism regain proletarian com sciousness by contrasting the words of Peronist demagogy and the deeds of the Peronist hierarchy.

The national socialism pr jected by Peronism, according to Ghioldi, is another trick 10 set the masses apart from Com munist influence, from the class struggle, from the struggle for agrarian and anti-imperialist democratic revolution.

The battle against the boul geois nationalism of the Peron ist hierarchy, and against its most disgusting form, ant

Sovietism and anti-Communism, is a major responsibility of the Communist Party of Argentina.

The “Villas Miseria” shantytowns are growing and they prove the

failure of the regime.

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trade union resorts

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MOSCOW — In the Soviet Union trade union health resorts are widely popular and a year- round stream of working people receive the advantages of their vacation-land services, at little or no cost.

During the- five-year plan (1971-75) an additional 600 mil- lion roubles will be injected into

the network of resorts and tour- ©

ist centres. What pleases the people who will be using these facilities is that the choice of location is growing every year.

Added to the traditional re- gions of health and holiday re- sorts — the Crimea, the Cau- casus and Baltic area, they are developing at a fast rate in the Russian Federation —

in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

in the - ’ Urals, Siberia and the Far East;

In recent years the Commun- ist Party Central Committee, the USSR Council of Ministers and the All-Union Council of Trade Unions have agreed on the prior- ity construction of major health- building complexes.

Health-resort construction is now concentrated largely in the hands of the trade unions which regulate such construction on a country-wide scale and pursue a unified state policy in the deve- lopment of the health and holi- day resort network.

The recently founded self-suf- ficient Capital Construction Board under the All-Union Cent-

ral Council of Trade Unions and ~

capital construction administra- tions and departments under

republican, territorial and regio-

nal trade-union councils ‘havé

been commissioned with the functions. of supervising am controlling the respective pro” jects. ~The building program of health-resort, boarding hotel, holiday resort, tourist centre, overnight sanatoria and pioneer camp projects is a contributio® to the further rapid rise of Soviet people’s living and cultur standards. 3

A resolution of the 15th Cone — gress of Soviet Trade Unions — stressed the importance of cal — rying out the health-resort cane. struction plans so as to provide — from 1971 through 1975 no les*- | than 240 million working peopl®

and members of their families

with accommodations at: health “and Holiday résorts7"*""-°

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