T is two years since the

Labor - Progressive Party
was Organized in this building
(King Edward Hotel, oron-
to) by hundreds of delegates
from all over the country. In
those two years we have devot-
ed our :
have subordinated every consid-
eration of immediate party inter-
ests to the fight for national
unity to win the war. Our party
members may be proud of the
record we established. In the
fight for uninterrupted produc-
tion, for universal service, in
the struggle over the plebiscite
and over the. conscription crisis,
in the fight to win labor to an
understanding of the new role
that. it was playing and must
play, our party played a very
important role, and sometimes a
decisive role.

We can be proud of this just
as we shall be more and more
proud as the time goes by of
those of our comrades who laid
down their lives in the struggle,
and those who came back with
their lives but with scars that.
will testify to their service
throughout their lives.

nYain energies and we|.

ICTORY over fascism was a
victory of democracy, not only
because the more a country re-
mained true to democratic prin-
ciples the more successfully it
could resist the fascist agressor,
but because by the very charac-
ter of the war the democratie¢ in-
itiative of the people was aroused
in a way that it has never been
aroused. before. The. common
people and the organizations of
the common.people were drawn
intc the struggle and exercised
an influence on the course of the
struggle in a way that has never
been known in history before.

Above all, precisely because of
the historical’ character of the
war, victory over fascism must
and can only lead to tremen-
dous new advances and exten-
sion of democracy not ‘only in
Europe but all over the world.
The victory of the United Na-
tions in Europe on the basis of
the Teheran and Yalta accords
has already brought. national

erated countries. I+ will-be our
task to do everything that is hu-
manly possible to mobilize the
labor movement In Canada to
ensure that victory over Japan-
ese fascist-militarism shall also
bring similar freedom. to India,
China and the other colonial peo-
ples of Asia.

But we must beware of the
illusion that the end of the war
means the end of the democra-
tic struggle.. We must beware
of the illusion that the end of
the war means the end of the
struggle for democratic prin-
eiples and the extension of de-
miocratic unity by the Com
munist movement. The war
against fascism is a historical
war. It is a war not only
against armies and navies and
governments, it is above all and
supremely a war against the
idea which brought those gov-
ernments and armies and navies
into existence, and we shall fail
to win the full victory that has
been made possible by the armies
of the United Nations unless we
assume leadership of the strug-
gle to carry this struggle for-
ward to unite the anti-fascist
people and utilize every pos-
sibility that exists in the pres-
ent situation for the complete
extirpation of fascism.

iT would be entirely wrong for

us to assume that the struggle
for democracy is over, that the
struggle against fascism is over:
but it would also be entirely
wrong for us to assume that we
must now revert back to the
policies and tactics of struggle
by. which we were guided before
the war.

‘The outstanding examples of
the new stage of historical de-

freedom to the peoples of the lib-

velopment that is being ushered

in are to be seen in the liberat-
ed countries of Europe. - Tre-
mendous changes are still in
progress there. Under the lead-
ership of the anti-fascist forces
the people of the liberated coun-
tries of Europe are carrying
through an agrarian revolution.
Hereditary privileges are being
destroyed. Landlordism is being
destroyed.

Let me give you a couple of ex-
amples of how Jlandlordism has
already been destroyed. If there
is one country in the entire world
which could be held up as an ex-
ample of the link between land-
lordism and hereditary privi-
lege and finance capital it was
Poland. By April 1 of this year

of landlords’ estates had been di-
vided among the peasantry. By
April of this year the overwhelm-
ing majority of peasants in Po-
land tilled their own land and
sowed their own seed for the
first time in history.

In Hungary where 80 per cent
of al-land was owned by 1,020
families, all of the biggest es-
tates are being distributed
among the peasantry. The gov-
ernment of Czechoslovakia has
announeed. that all the big es-
tates will be expropriated by the
government and. distributed
among the peasantry. Last
Tuesday Marshal Tito announced
a new law which had just been
adopted, by which all large es-
tates in Yugoslavia, including
not only the estates of those who
did not collaborate with Hitler,
the estates of the Crown and
those held by. public corpora-
tions, but also estates of ‘the
Church will be taken over and
distributed among the peasants.
These developments are of his-
toric. importance.

If anybody has the least doubt
as to how important they are I

ten and a quarter million acres.

A Triumph for Democracy
By TIM BUCK, LPP Nationaljleader

Excerpts from opening address by Tim Buck to meeting of Na-
tional Committee of the Labor-Progressive Party, Aug. 10-16.

would urge them to read some of
the literature that was published
by the revolutionary movement
immediately following the last
world war, and particularly read
how the Hungarian revolution
was crushed, how the struggle
for land reforms in Bulgaria was
crushed, how the struggles for
land reforms in Poland were
crushed, how the revolutionary
movements and movements for
agrarian reforms were crushed
in central, eastern and south-
eastern Europe. It is a tremen-
dous historical change. It is
the carrying through of the
bourgeois-democratic revolution.
And it is bringing the peasantry
and working people on the stage
of public affairs in a new, unpre-
cedented way to play a new
role in those countries.

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6

T is not only in the agrarian
“countries that such changes
are being made. Great changes
are also being made in indus-
trialized countries such as
France. It is no longer the
France of the pre-war days. It
is France, liberated France of
the national’ front, and it is
Communist-Socialist unity which
is the core of a wide national
front of all the anti-fascist forces.
In France, Italy and countries
where similar forces are coming
into power we may see already
opened up the perspective of
struggle for the socialist revolu-
tion.

Even Britain itself is not im-
mune from this sweep of demo-
cratic sentiment. The election
of, the Labor Government re-
flects not only war ‘weariness
in Britain, it reflects a turning
away from the Tories and their
reactionary policies, and it also
reflects the deep and powerful
admiration that the people of
Britain . feel for the Soviet

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BRACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 10

BACK TO WORY!
THAT'S ENOUGH
FOOLING AROUND!
THIS IS A SHiIPp—
NOT A MOVIE SET,
REMEMBER?

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Union and *the psi
meeting of the sentime
British people with
ments of the people of
ated countries of Fran
and other countries. ]
clear now that the Com
Europe were absolute
in following the policie,
did and one piece of ¢
show their correctness;
seen in Britain in the,
the Attlee government,

The Attlee governm;
a revolutionary govern:
Attlee government wi)
troduce socialism into |
is extremely unlikely
Attlee government willl
marked or basic chang
fundamental colonial
Britain. i

The Attlee governme
all probability in a
reaching reforms int
forms which will estab]
capitalism on a much mW
than hitherto establishe
capitalist country. In q
they will meet the
carry out the desires of
of the capitalist class
some of the most pows
tions of finance capital,
Britain’s industries can?
to function effectivel: |
competition on the we
ket if they are comple;
ganized, unified and co4
through the governmen|

Similarly the Attlee
ment will undoubtedi
through far-reaching re
the colonies in which ©
also meet the needs g
ests of powerful sectioi
nance capital, as well as
timents of the majorit;
British people. The Att
ernment will undoubte
intreduee social reforms
thing the Canadian gov
could strive for. 4

Our critical attitude
the Attlee governmenj:
characte#4 should not |
cur recoghition of the
dous victory gained by
tish people in electing {
ernment. ee

OW is it possible i

perialism can  acce.
changes without atter
military intervention; D

it possible that even ee
main centers of imper
nance capital, Britain |
United States, finance
and its representative
given no public sign of
tempt to actually orga:
tervention against these:
es and have actually is-
pronunciamento againsi
changes. If we find ol
caused that we will find
fundamental new factors
situation.

First of all, these th
flect a fundamental ch
the relationship of force
world as well as in Ew.
cluding changes in the ©
lation of classes. First ¢ |
was quite true to say |
back as 1935 that ca”
was no longer in a por”

-make decisions on worli ;

independently of the |
sixth of the earth. That
but. they tried to ignore
cannot do so any longet
the Soviet Union is one.
three great powers of tl)
and after the Potsdam S34
tion we can say the Sov
ion is the greatest powel.
rope. Not only is the So" |

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