| The

havens or prisons?

The United Nations High

| Commissioner for Refugees

| reports from the camps along

the Thai- hean border | that 30,000 of the 140,000

| Kampucheans want to return home. The problem they face

is harassment from the Khmer Rouge bandit groups in the re- gion, military units supplied and supported by Thailand, Peking and the U.S.

Faced with this, the UN has proposed airlifting these people home ‘to ensure their safe passage. The UN says that the Phnom Penh govern-

The UN reports 30,000 Kam- pucheans want to return home from the camps, Thailand re- fuses to let them go, Kam-

established

nation-building programs. ment will welcome them and has programs in place.

United Nations officials have even produced a film showing the success of the rebuilding programs underway in Kampuchea.

Thailand’s response? It re- fuses the offer. One official said, ‘‘We can’t let the UN air- lift refugees to Phnom Penh, it would make the Heng Samrin regime look good.”’ ‘‘It’s not in Thailand’s interest to permit that,’’ said one Western dip-

capitalist States keep on recog- nizing Pol Pot’s murderers as the government

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of tng

But all reports from inside

the country tell of tremendous |

successes achieved with the

aid of many nations (the USSR | and Vietnam first of all) so that |

Kampuchea can return to

normal and heal the wounds of ;

war.

And so, bit by bit, the real story of Kampuchea filters out and with it a clear picture of who are the enemies and who are the friends of that heroic people.

Canada’s man in U.S. has an identity crisis

fj can National Congress (South Africa). the day of the rigged vote in South Africa, |

Canada’s ambassador to §

Washington sounds more like § m tions,. saying it will not be long before |

Washington’s ambassador to

| Canada. Peter Towe, speaking &

to a group of Canadian stu- § dents visiting the U.S. capital §

recently, went all the way

@ and Black aspirations for democratic

down the line to sell Reagan’s ‘

policies. Towe argued: war than were Carter’s;

e Canada is partly to blame

fishing treaty cancelled by the U.S:;

isn’t hawkish — we need a

, Stronger U.S. to deal with the Bj ibited by racist law from voting or being

; voted into any organs of state power.”

Soviets; e Perhaps Reagan’s tough

line stopped a Soviet invasion e

of Poland; e Canada’s differences with

‘‘more apparent than real’’. The students weren’t quite

that certain everything was so

great: They raised the tor-

pedoed fishing treaty and @

Towe conceded maybe Canada ‘‘may have relied too strongly on the (U.S.) adminis- tration to push our cause.”” He added that lobbying

e Reagan’s arms build-up

a an unprecedented level,’’ Saloojee _"e Reagan’s policies are less §j pointed out. ee ee ee ed over to the press copies of a statement by

% Alfred Nzo, ANC secretary-general. Nzo for the aborted U.S.-Canada fj 20ted that, ©... tions to choose representatives to the all- ) white Cape Town parliament, which liter- ® ally has the power of life and death over

i arrogantly ...

= Its foregone outcome is therefore of no Be ee race material interests or relevance to the lm Black oppressed majority, except for the = fact that it represents the naked exercise of = white minority power for the perpetuation

‘i ceeded, but his forecast was accurate.

a taken 99 of the 165 seats before returns }

in @

Washington is a tricky busi- |

ness.

= rest of democratic mankind the repugnant

Towe’s incredible role re- §&

versal is quite an insult. In-

stead of representing Canada’s -

positions and interests in Washington, the man sounds

like one of Reagan’s travelling :

hucksters policies.

concessions from the Ameri-

cans (would you believe it?) iq and that Canada i is more skill-

peddling his § our country that at this point in human

He chattered on about § history it is still possible for white South Canada extracting to many §

save the racist clique, Nzo said the ANC § goal is ‘‘a democratic republic of all the | — people of South Africa, with a parliament |

= eotod iy ME Ow poppin £0 Ihe Dee / | one person one v

§ the better,” Nzo charged.

= governing itself and its motherland.”

= sed South Africans ‘‘to intensify the strug- gle for the victory of democratic rule, and ee on the world community to isolate the ille- i gitimate ee

S. Africa’s White vote entrenches oppression

TORON TO—“*... mass resistance by | the Black populace may mean that South | Africa.is conducting its last all white elec- | tion,’’ in the estimation of Yusuf Saloojee, [| chief representative to Canada of the Afri- |

In a comment to the press on April 29,

Saloojee quoted Bishop Desmond Tutu | who recently addressed the United Na- |

South Africa will have its first Black prime | minister. “*The confrontation between white rule

majority rule in South Africa has reached His comments were made as he handed

an all-white 8% of the population of South Africa is holding elec-

the 83% of the population which is pro-

Nzo condemned ‘‘this exercise’? which a ‘tiny minority has fraudulently and labelled a general election.

and entrenchment of white minority rule.”’ Nzo was speaking as the vote pro-

Premier Pieter Botha’s National Party had were complete.

“‘The holding of this racist election by the white oligarchy demonstrates to the and anti-democratic nature of South Afri- can apartheid reality and the hollowness of all claims that South Africa is changing for

He called it ‘‘an insult and a challenge to the oppressed and democratic majority of Africa to play out in the open its assertion that the Black majority is incapable of

The ANC, he said, calls upon oppres-

regime. Declaring that the “‘election”’ will not |

More than six months have missing men. Viola, President of Argentina, gone by since the kidnapping in . The other was Emilio Roa, a Quinta Presidencial Olivos Pro- Buenos Aires of two prominent — leader of the building workers of vincia Buenos Aires, and appeals members of the Communist Party Paraguay, but who has been for putting on additional pressure of Paraguay. Despite demands forced to live abroad in Argentina should be addressed to United

upon the Argentine Government to produce information about their disappearance, their fate is

still unknown.

Antonio Maidana, first secret- ary of the Paraguayan Communist Party, who spent 19 years in the prisons of the Stroesser dictator- ship in Paraguay, and was re- leased in Jan. ieee ee

past 25 years.

who oppose _ the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE— MAY 8, "1981— — y a

~ Appeal Tate = missing Paraguayans

(with legal documents) for the

An appeal has been made to all fascist Paraguayan regime and its col- laborators abroad, to join in a campaign of letters and telegrams to press for clarification of the fate: of the two patriots. The demands should go to the General Roberto

Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, the UN Human Rights Commission, International Red Cross, trade unions and other concerned organizations.

The Argentine authorities have made no public or official state- ment on the case despite repeated appeals by relatives of the missing men.

BPR SE ASE RE IRE AE ERI

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Open struggle against Party in Poland

. By FILS DELISLE Tribune Berlin Correspondent BERLIN — A number of commentaries in socialist capitals have in recent days warned of negative developments in the complicated situation in Poland. Contrary to the outright lies spread by Western Press propagandists, none of these commentaries has been

| anti-Polish. On the contrary, they are made within the

contest of a policy of helping the Warsaw government solve its difficult problems.

The critical commentaries, however, do reflect con- cern at what is seen in the socialist countries as the development of a.counter-revolutionary movement in Poland, which is pushing its assault on socialist power more openly every week. ~

Both in Moscow and in Prague, for example, there has been press criticism, reported here ~and in western Europe, of provocative actions by Solidarity union ele- ments, and by Warsaw’s turnabout in sanctioning the formation of a so-called Solidarity union of farmers for the approximately three-and-a-half million private farm- ers who own their own individual farms and in some cases even employ farm workers. Not long ago, Poland’s highest court refused to certify such a so-called union of private farmers on the grounds that they cannot be valid members of a union, especially when they themselves employ others. The latest sanctioning of the private farmers’ ‘‘union’’ has raised strong doubts here and in other socialist capitals.

Poland is the only Warsaw Pact country in which 80% of the land is still held by private farmers. In the German Democratic Republic, the collectivization of agriculture and the setting up of agricultural cooperatives was com- pleted as long ago as 1960.

View from Budapest

In Budapest, Nepszabadag, organ of Hungarian Communists, viewed other Polish developments with misgivings. Last year, Nepszabadag pointed out, the Solidarity unions said they had been founded ‘‘to protect

| the neglected interests of the workers,. while upholding

the socialist social order, the constitution and the leading role of the party, and wanted to work as a trade union and not as a political party’.

_ Nepsabadag continued: ‘‘But now one can read (in Solidarity program drafts published in the Polish press) the following: ‘Solidarity is the main guarantee for the progress of renovation. There is no other political force in Poland that can take over its function. Either Solidar- ity will create its own social environment or the present order i imposes upon us, with force, its standards and its goals, in order to cripple our forces and to divert us from our path and to end the renewal of our hopes. But there is no turning back on the road we have chose.” ”’

‘*That is unmistakeable language, without a doubt,”’ Nepszabadag says. The paper also points out that “‘th- ese forces’’ have openly declared that their strikes should be aimed at the state, at its most sensitive points. ‘“The main enemy to be assaulted by them,” the paper declares, “‘is the socialist Polish state. Is that partnership with the government?”’

The Hungarian Communist paper concludes that the

d 9th plenum of the Polish United Workers’ Party central |

| committee was correct when it declared ‘‘that what is | apy Oly od saan ete eres sensor meng ae i

| state power, against socialism. é

Opposition Fraction Here in socialist Berlin, Neues Deutschland carried a | report from the GDR’s official agency, ADN, from War-

| saw, which it headed: “‘New attacks on the party and the

state in Poland.’’

ADN ‘reports that a group of people, some of them 5 | expelled from the party and some from an opposition |

fraction, met in the Polish town of Torun to calf for changes in basic principles of the party, including the

| principle of democratic centralism. ‘‘It is significant to

note,”” ADN said, “‘that prominent Solidarity leaders

| participated in the meeting,’’ which demanded that 80%

of the members of the central committee be removed.

~ ADN also drew attention to the fact that solidarity has dropped its pretence of being ouly a trade union move- ment and has decided that its strikes should be directly

primarily against the ‘socialist state.

‘‘Among the ringleaders of the farmers’ Solidarity

organization there are Solidarity leaders, and according

| to information in the Polish press, also members of the | former large landowners and other counter-revolution- ary forces,’’ ADN reports.

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