25 years ago... PASSPORT OF WORLD YOUTH LEADER LIFTED Removal of passport privi- leges from Enrico Berlinguer, president of the World Federa- tion of Democratic Youth by the _ Italian government is sharply rotested in a direct cable to emier Gasperi from the Na- tional Federation of Labor Youth (YCL). The cable calls for cancella- tion of this “odious” action which “was taken” solely as a re- prisal against the successful World Youth Festival held in Berlin this summer. Berlinguer played an outstanding role during this historic gathering. More than 1,100 Italian youth joined their brothers and sisters from 104 countries in Berlin to show their unity in the struggle for world peace. Tribune, Sept. 17, 1951 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... SENSATIONAL MOVIE NOT FOR CANADIANS The Manchester Guardian calls it “one of the greatest pic- tures ever made.” The Sunday Observer calls it “the greatest picture ever made.” “Don’t bother: phoning your nearest theatre. You're not go- ing to see it at all. It’s forbidden in Germany. It’s forbidden in Britain. It’s forbidden in the United States. And the censors are certairi to step on it in Canada also... For this sensational story-in- light comes from Soviet Russia, _and it shows the workers break- ing their shackles. So it would never do in this land of freedom for the working class to be allowed to see “The Armored Cruiser, Potemkin”. “Who is the director? Why don’t we know him in Hollywood?” exclaims Mary Pickford in amazement. : Worker, Sept. 11, 1926 ~ march. RALEIGH, North Carolina — Five thousand marched here Sept. _6 demanding the release of the “Wilmington 10”, framed by the racist state and sentenced to a total of 282 years imprisonment. — Speaking at the rally, Angela Davis called for a complete tourist boycott of North Carolina to protest racism and repression. Over 1,000 national guardsmen and 100 police were called out for the PHOTO — MAXINE ORRIS POT EL Pa SRR Cae PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 17, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT More reasons for Protest To prove that the monopolies are boss in this country, the federal government has opened the way for the corporate profiteers to grab a bigger take, and for prices to rise at an accelerated pace. Wages, as before, are fair game for the Anti-Inflation Board axe. Finance Minister Macdonald has now admitted blackmail by the corporations, as was charged in this paper long ago. “We were concerned,” said Mac- donald, “that Canadian companies had talked of investing in the United States. _That’s what we were dealing with.” Some might say that what we were dealing with was the sabotage of Can- ada’s economic and social development for the sake of profits. For how long are the millions of Canadian working people, who are the real creators of the country’s wealth, to permit the moral and social values of these corporate vul- tures to direct Canadian policy? _ Once again as the monopolies bleated for “incentives” in the form of higher profits at the people’s expense, the big business Liberal government has come through. But, lest anyone think that an election jump to the Tory frying pan would “show” Trudeau, it should be said that such a tragedy would immediately pile a new, smothering arms budget onto the struggling working class. In West Germany, Canadian Tory leader Joe Clark pledged to the FRG and NATO brass that if he can persuade Canada’s monopoly rulers to put him in power, he'll boost Canada’s multi, billion-dollar arms burden substantially. The class system by which the monop- olies, their governments and media try to maim the labor movement, to drag workers’ living standards down to Dirty Thirties levels is at the core of the workers’ struggles. Canadian Labor Congress president Joe Morris truly singled out a leading | lieutenant of the anti-labor drive in the person of (anti-) Labor Minister John Munro. “Our federal minister of labor .. Morris said, “intends to be in the van+ guard of repressive action, encouraging Ey ‘private employers, federal and provin- _ cial governments to retaliate against the CLC through firings and layoffs of or- ganized workers.” ; : Among thé power elite there is the notion that this is permanent, that they, | for all time, have the right to decide the future of millions of working men and women. : 5 _A different view is taken in the Draft Resolution prepared for discussion prior to, and at, the 23rd Convention of the Communist Party of Canada this fall. The CPC, fully backing labor’s Day of. Protest, and ousting of the AIB, puts forward a 12+point program by which the united progressive forces can break the power of monopoly .and win for working people a genuine say in the direction and development of Canadian life in the interests of the workers. No effort must be spared to make the Day of Protest the kind of resounding» answer to monopoly and monopoly gov- ernments — the instigators of Bill C-73 — that will raise the level of working- class struggle from that day forward. For complete unity, for complete par- ticipation on October 14! Asia policies examined — Several unpleasant considerations are raised by the tour of Canada’s external» affairs minister Allan MacEachen through south-east Asia. On the face of it the Trudeau govern- ment’s third option, diversification of trade, lessening of dependence on the U.S. market, greater exchange with other “Pacific rim’ countries is commendable. But what is the government really do- ing? With MacKEachen’s statement that Canada is considering selling a nuclear reactor to Indonesia, Canada is supply- ing potential mass murder know-how to the keepers of yet another political — prison house. The South Korean dic- tatorship and the Argentine dictatorship are other nuclear “customers”. In- donesia admits to 30,000 political pris- -oners, but the Indonesian Communist Party puts the figure much higher. While External Affairs protests that its interest in the Association of South-East Asia Nations (ASEAN) are péaceable (no armaments involved), are in the interests of developing Canadian trade, one is left with serious doubts. (ASEAN is made u of the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.) _ By coincidence another south-east Asia group met in Australia just weeks before MacEachen’s visit. Delegates from Australia, New Zealand and the United States (the ANZUS mutual sec- _ urity pact), lauded the building of a U.S. base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and agreed on the need for in- creased “aid” for small nations in south- east Asia to counter Soviet diplomatic penetration. And, “... the council reaf- firmed the importance which it attached to the security of the region and in this connection emphasized the contribution to be made by steady and sustained economic progress.” . Canada’s plans do not run counter to that edict. The Ottawa government, al- lies of the USA in NATO and NORAD, has made available to Indonesia, for ‘example, $200-miilion credit. The Ottawa initiative also embraces a hugely-profitable investment of $850- million by the International Nickel monopoly in a nickel mining and smelt- ing project in Indonesia. Other aid will be heavy in transport and communica- tions, not objectionable to Canadian monopolies, and certainly not to the ANZUS military alliance. . _ Canadians have a right to ask about the motives and beneficiaries of the ven- ture. At the saine time, they might de- _ mand at least similar interest in restoring Vietnam, destroyed by Canada’s “friend | and ally” the USA. ons -s