Lingo Ns ———— ss Ce CHEE) en YE r 4220) 19 Ay Pots, NS i Coes 84 oO hN) Wy Yi ACTION POLITICAL! yw j TOPLESS SSSA SSASSYSATASSTSESUAGASAVAASSUASCASSNNAAT AND COS 000000 vELEVELEAUAUNS Aaa 3n40 0504 U4sgELA A LaEDDADTALAEEEALEapEDEOE DS HoaEEOEEFaEEDNy EE TFTA A TREE GROWS IN VANCOUVER HAT DO YOU THINK? WA PSASS ASEAN NAESSSNTEMUANEANAAUAAUN EUS 3unnsrvuyesUUUU ANAS 00000049 00 eUCE OF SASUSTSAGALSSANSESCOAESYLSOSSSESSASLOELUEAL SUAETEL SIAL LEENUECGUEELUVOANEVEEDTETEDDDLDEFAAEFEREEELANFT ED) -§ GERMANY “any, April 20, °45. portable news- ~ fs, and when the "7S was posted, a = =r readers soon ‘len the big war = ed in to show the "1 the east and = ne from all over © > and plot the im- > of military op- | eir own satisfac- Hof the comments ping. ‘Stalin to deliver time. ooks a lot closer 1d fools! ng out for.” 1 Roosevelt didn’t S day!” — € day, the daily ngland came with What “er the papers 1p, I took a few German murder henwald and Bel- heard many dis- claiming to be Pl carry out such — ‘social oblivion! fiendish erimes. I did not meet one man who misbelieved the newspaper accounts. One year ago, in England, most of the same men were rather skepti- cal about accounts of Nazi atrocities, but since then they have seen with their own eyes what the Germans have done in France, land, not to mention the wan- ton reckless destruction of British civilian lives by hit- and-miss V-missiles. And many of them have met the fanati- cal treacherous Nazis in the field of battle, only to be con- vineed that these are men so brutalized that they no longer have the right to be classified as decent human beings. To such despicable depths has a great nation fallen. Never, as long as man is man and history will be read will the shame of Naziism be oblit- erated from the memories of decent men and women! Never has one regime, one nation, one people been so close to destroy- ing all that is best in our de- mocratic way of life! Never has humanity been so close to The tyranny of the Pyramid builders, the terrors of the In- quisition, the darkness of the Middle ages, the cruelty of cor- rupt Ottoman Empire, the im- humanity of the African slave Belgium and Hol- - trade; what were these but gentle breezes blowing through the pages of history compared to the foul cyclone of * Nazi terror that nearly swept away the foundations of modern civ— ilization ? But it is not enough to. feel for the victims of these murder camps. It is not enough to be horrified that such vile sub- .human creatures exist. Sym- pathy does not bring murdered men women and children back to life. Horror does ‘not guarantee that it will not hap- pen again. No! We must be guided by cold anger and in- flexible determination: anger because we failed to stop the plague before it spread to every continent and engulfed a world in war; determination that Germany will be purged of those elements who have be- fouled the nation and nearly ruined the world. Further, we must be determined that ail ac- tive and passive, conscious and unconscious friends of fascism and reaction within the demo- eratic camp will be eliminated from any position in public life, lest they contribute to a new and greater holacaust. We must fight on after the last shot, fight to win the peace, or victory will be futile. —JACK PHILLIPS, Set. Moy 5. T9AS Page 5 *AStMUABAVANANAREEUEG CEREUS onsyansossayezeseatiastersassazyeystassasya Seetuseudceacestsrasusvconssaznsss219539 Shor t Jabs by Ol Bill 2 ee REDD DIF CIT a UNDER ITS EI A Correction DEPLORABLE typographical error, which was also a political error, erept into this column last week. Anyone who knows me will under- Stand that I could not have written the statement the Way it read but for the benefit of others I am taking this opportunity to correct any Wrong impression it may have left. In one place it read, “In fascist Russia workers were shot down on May Day just as they were in Social Demoeratic Germany.” What I wrote was, “In Tsarist Russia workers were shot down on May Day just as they were in Social Democratic Germany.” : ane There never was “a ascist Russia.” The workers of Russia took 00d care of that. The revolution which placed them in power dealt relentlessly with all the elements that might possibly have grown into the kind of politieal Set-up we have witnessed in Italy, Germany, Spain, Hungary and in Portugal. . The genius of Lenin who was their Suide and leader in the revolu- tion, who outlined the stratesy of that revolution and devised the tactics to achieve the objectives of that Strategy, enabled the Russian workers to avoid the political pitfalls that the demagogy of reaction set for - them. That Strategy was, the setting up and maintenance of the prole- tarian dictatorship and the tactics for accomplishine: that objective— the unity of the classes who were to benefit from the proletarian dic. tatorship, the workers and farmers, a unity finally consumated through the masterly direction of Stalin. There were disrupters, of course! The unity of the peasantry with the workers for the maintenance of the proletarian dictatorship was not forged without opposition. Trotsky wanted to compel the peasants to unite with the industrial workers, by shooting them down With the ma- chine guns of the Red Army. Bucharin, Kaminieyv, Zinoviey and others tried to inject other demands into the program of the Communist Party which would have created a wide-spread gap between these two sections of the Soviet people, made a break in the unity necessary for the main- tenance of the proletarian dictatorship. : Had these elements been successful, the dictatorship would have been destroyed. History has already Proved that. Some of them ac- _ tually had made agreements with Hitler through his agents and had gone a long way in sabotaging the industrial development of the Soviet Union cwith the express purpose of driving: the wedge they needed. be- tween the workers and the peasantry. 3 ; But because of the keen political sense and watchfulness of the Workers and peasants and their. leaders, the traitors were always de- tected and suffered the fate they well merited. However their “taking off,” as Shakespeare calls it, had a measure of dignity to it. None .of them died in the horrible manner (deservedly so) in which Mussolini was “bumped off? a week ago. Their corpses were not left -hanging in a public square to be beaten to pulp by the angry infuriated victims ot their reactionary and treasonable actions, victims whom they had led to destruction. Because they were dealt with mercilessly in time, there was no fas- cism—and no victims of fascism, in the Soviet Union. There are how- ever, victims in our midst who. call themselves Socialists who still wail for them, just as the Portuguese newspaper “Voz,” writing of the mis- begotten, bloodstained, scoundrelly sadist, Mussolini, says, “We bow with respect before his memory. They have killed a great European and a great Latin.” Riff_Raff SOMEONE wrote once that the mind of the Tory is cast in a granite mold. “That is not quite right. To fit the situation precisely and leave no. room for doubt, the author of the phrase should have written that the mind of the Tory is cast in granite, or carborundum and cased in a coat of Harveyized steel. Here is one of them from the East to drive that message home to us. A man mamed Bone president of the Ontario property owners ASsso- ciation, a one-time Tory candidate for parliament, has been telling the world that Canadians with “leftist inclinations are exactly the same kind of down-and-ont riffa-aff who fomented the American War of Independence.” ~ And what, pray, is the matter with the War of Independence? To the granite-headed representatives of ‘old orders’ the men who ‘“fo- : ment’ wars of independence are always “riff-raff.? Bone I understand, was a Scotsman before he became a Canadian, so he should remember that the men who, in the Scottish War of Independence. defeated the Emeglish at Bannockburn and freed their country from English domin- ation were described by the English historians as riff-raff or camp- followers or words to that effect, both before and after the great battle which won them their national freedom. In France, in the classic revolution of the bourgeoisie, the re- proaches of the gentle blue-bloods of the ‘ancien regime’ were ex- pressed in the monikers with which they labelled the ‘fomenters’ of revolution. They too, had their riff-raff, the “sans culottes.’” Maybe some Frenchman will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it means “trouseriess” or “pantless.” And in the struggle of the Russian workers for their independence in 1917, the names the Tories found for the Bolsheviks—why, riff-raff might be a collection of angels beside them, names a mule-skinner wouldn’t call his “ornaryest” mule; hundreds of scurrilous names tagged on them, names invented by the “funnies” artists who invent most of the wisecracks. At that the riff-raff do not seem to have much to be ashamed of. Secogiand plays no mean place in the world today even if She does pro- duce a few Tory boneheads like the one who makes that viff-raft com- ment. Nor do the other three riff-raff products, for they are playing the major role in destroying fascism today in spite of Tory efforts to pre- vent them.