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also is the disease of trotskyism
Disearding what little knowl:
edge of dialectics they may have
possessed; pretending to be irk-
ed at (for them) the Slow te

of workingclass progress he
wards socialism, our Dreten:
tious trotskyites woula Sump
over historical stages, propel-
ling themselves by blasts of

ultta-leftist oratory,
the main disresards
ties or conditions of the period.

Back in the 80's of the
century, Edourd Bernstein
Cialist? and bourgeois (
won a dubious fame by becom-
ing the father of ‘vevisionism’-
that is, of the art of diluting
Marxism of its revolutionary
class content, and making it a
respectable Fabian cuit for par-
jor socialists, psuedo intellectuals
and thick-witted liberals. Since
these years Bernstein’s preduct
has become a handy ideological
weapon in the ranks of Social
Democracy and among the trot-
Skyites—used in different politi-
Cal recipes, but for similar ob-
jective ends. The social demo-
crats fulminate against the La-
, bor-Progressive Party for being
tee ‘extreme’ and ‘undemocratic’
in seeking to achieve a Socialist
Canada; the trotskyites
(and are used by) the parties of
Social] democracy to attack the
communists with charges of “re

which in
the reali-

last
‘so-
literati,

use

wisionism,” “betrayal of Marx-
ism” and so forth.
Burst, on the anti-fascist war

just concluded. According to the

trotskyites, it was an ‘imperial-
ist’ war from start to finish,
nothine more, nothing less.
Pherefore the workers should
have nothing to do with it. The
fact of Big Three unity — an
alliance of the big capitalist
powers with the USSR to de-
feat nazi-imperialism, is abhor-

rent to

And in the capitalist countries
the national unity attained to
assure victory over fascist slav-
ery constitutes ‘betrayal of the
working-class. When organized
labor introduced its ‘no strike’
pledge to assure a steady flow
ef the tools of victory, that was
another ‘betrayal’ by the com-
munists. The Canadian trotsky-
ites were whooping it up for all-
out strikes during the war years,
when the fate of the civilized
world hung in the balance—and
when the trotskyites in the axis
and sattelite countries were
working overtime in the fascist
Camp to destroy the under-
ground resistance movements.
When the war ended and strike
action became necessary to par-
tially offset skyrocketting prices,
the trotskyite line changed.
“Strikes now,’ they parroted,
“ill delay peacetime recon-
struction, and anyway the time
to strike was during the ‘im-
perialist war’ when the bour-
geoisie were vulnerable.”

eS

EN the Juabor-Progressive

Party launched the slogan of
a ‘liberal-labor coalition’ prior 2
the 1945 federal elections, social
democracy (in this case the
CCF) and their trotskyite hans-
loud in their de-
nunciations and silanders. Tim
Buck sells out to Mackenzie
King’—a betrayal of sociale
—‘selling out the WOE a
and so on. One of the mos
elementary lessons of Marxism
which requires to be strictly oe
hered to in the formulation ©
policies for the next steps oe
ward, is a close and carefu
study of existing objective ee
ditions arid forces of the Dene ly
The slogan of #& jbperal-labor

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the trotskyites.

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Coalition’ corresponded to that
essential Marxist rule, and the

results were.the yardstick which
Proved its correctness.
ee aout regard to these reali-

S € CCE raised the Slogan
of ‘socialism now’, with the
trotskyite hyenas baying in uni-
son. And, like the famed Gar-
bo, the CcRr wanted ‘to be
alone’ and rejected any and all
Proposals of electoral unity,
which would have given both
the €CE and the LPP, as well
as other sections of labor and
the people, 2 greater measure
of labor representation in parli-
ament—a representation ‘wiicn
could have forced a ‘coalition’
for progress, rather than what
we now have—a liberal-tory con-
cert of reaction.

Whether we like it or not—
and most progressive Canadians
in all walks of life don’t like it,
the overwhelming majority of
the Canadian people are still
voting the old-line parties, with
the liberal party finding its way

by “coalition and

class prefer-
ence, into the
camp of tory-
ism The Qn-
tario elections,
which, as a re-
sult of CCE
anti-unity  poli-
cies, returned

the Drew tory
govern m en t,
Should h a v e
been sufficient warning to the
CCE political strategists
‘socialism now’ was neither pos-
Sible nor realistic. But in all this
the trotskyites howled to high
heaven against the LPP ‘selling
out to King’, ‘splitting the vote’,
‘betraying socialsm’
not. Ai

Tom McEwen

Even the most recent muni-
€ipal elections in Vancouver,
much as progressives every-
where dislike the results, and
which again leave the CNPA
spokesmen for monopoly capital

in full control of the city’s des-
tinies, it should be clear to the
most encrusted social-democrat
that only the maximum of labor
unity can win a measure of ef-

fective labor representation in
the civic government of Van-
couver. It should also be clear

that the disruptive and poison-
Gus ideology of trotskyism, while
mainly directed at the LPP or
other Communist movements, is
also the most destructive force
against a much-needed working-
elass unity.
e

ECEPTION and disruption is

the stock-in-trade of our
home-grown trotskyites. Their
ideological cycle runs from ul-
tra-leftist ‘revolutionary’ phrase-
mongering to the most cowardly
defeatism. I have before me an
article written by the trotskyite
Jock MacDonald just before the
CPC

fifth convention of the
back in 1928. It is a ‘cuckoo’s
ege’ laid by a trotskyite while

still posing as a leader of the
GPG, and just before he joined
with the trotskyites Spector,
and James P. Cannon (ex-
CPUSA) to spend the rest of his
days fulminating against the
USSR and the Communist Party
of Canada. The trotskyites Mc-
Donald and Spector, and their
prototypes in the USA, Cannon,
Schachtman, Max Eastman and
others (many of whom have
since featured as stool pigeons
against the party and other sec-
{ions of the labor movement be-
fore the Dies and Rankin com-
mittees on ‘Un-American activi-—
ties’) found they haq ‘differ-
ences’ with the Communist In-
ternational on the trend of
world capitalism. Coincident with
newly discovered ‘differ-

these
came the discovery that

ences’

that

and what.
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By Tom McEwen

within the party which promot-
€d them to the high privilege
and honor of leadership, there
Was ‘no fredom of criticism’
no ‘democracy,’ too much

‘bur-

€aucratism’, and ‘suppression of
disussion’. Needless to add all
the fullest opportunity both

within their respective parties and
the Communist International was
Siven to discuss differences, but

that of course was not their.

objective. Waturally these so-
valled differences got ample
space in the pages of the capi-
talist press in both the USA
and Canada. McDonald’s ‘differ-
ence’ consisted of the admission
that the CP estimation on the
maturing crisis in capitalist
economy in the late 20’s was
correct, but that the USA and
Canada were - an ‘exception.’
There capitalism was strone
and stable, so what’s the use
advocating mass struggle
higher standards of life,
anyway the ‘reformist’ unions
were hopeless. This ‘exception-
alism’ was shattered in the
thunder of the New York stock

and

»exchange crash which heralded

the mass hunger of the 30’s,
but the trotskyite game of dis-
ruption, defeatism, slander and
ultra-leftist demagogy went mer-
rily on.

e@
‘es the trotskyite press one
will often find the oft-re-

peated cannard of ‘lLenin’s test-
ament’; the legend that Trotsky
was the closest co-worker of
Henin, and the latter just before
his death, ‘willed’ the leader-
Ship of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union and the lead-
ership of the Soviet people to
Trotsky, but that Stalin cruelly

diquidated all the trotskyites,
drove Trotsky into exile, and
seized the mantle of leadership
for himself.’

This fantastic cannard is part
and parcel of the cloth of trot-
SKkyism. Posing as ‘lLeninists’
they distort Lenin, ang slander
bis memory and work with their
distortions, just as their ‘Marx-
ism’ with which they seek to
cover up treason to the work
ingclass, has nothing in keep-
ing with revolutionary Marxism.
“heir prolific quotations from
the great works of Marx, En-
gels, Lenin and Stalin remind
us of that classical observation
that “the devil also can quote
scripture” to cloak evil.

Trotskyism belongs in the
foulest swamp of bourgeois op-
portunism, dedicated to the task
of dragging down the Marxist
vanguard of the people, and de-
livering the masses, broken and
confused, over to the camp of
reaction and fascism. Their 1leit-
ist demagogy must be recognized
for what it is—to lure the un-
suspecting into the swamp of
opportunist adventures and re-
action. The party and the work-
ingelass must exercise the sharp-
est vigilance against trotskyite

disruption, and remember the
words Lenin used in reply to
their slimy attacks: “Qh _ yes,

gentlemen, you are tree not

only to call upon us but to go
wherever you please, including
the swamp;; we even find that
your proper place is the swamp

‘and we are prepared io offer

any assistance in having yeu
moved there.” In the struggle
for labor unity and the streng-
thening of the bonds between

workers, farmers and progres-
sive middle-class people, as part
of the essential task of achiev-
ing a Socialist Canada, our task
is also to quarantine the disease
of trotskyism and give every as-
sistance in transferring and ise-
lating its germ-carriers in the

swamp where they belong.

for_

Short Jabs by Ol Bill

il NEVER heard it myseli, being too busy in a polling booth doing

some of the work of the paid staff through the inefficiency or
parsimony of the city council, but some of my scouts informed me
that the bouncing, blisterous mayor-elect
made a thank-you speech on election
' night. In that speech, he thanked all those
who had helped to elect him, either by working or voting for him.
According to his say-so, these included tories, liberals, G@H’ers and
even, he believed, some communists. This latter belief- of his is
like the most of his ballyhoo, pure hokum of the worst kind. I
challenge him to name any known or recognized communist who
voted for him.

But his gushing thanks poured out in the greatest stream for
the publisher of a local reactionary mnews-distorter. This helped,
as part of his election machine, he compared to Abe Lincoln—a
Slander on the name of old Honest Abe if ever there was one.

That comparison reminded me of a story that is told of Lin-
coln. While he was in the law business in Springfield, Till, a New
York firm wrote to him, inquiring about the financial standing of
an inhabitant of Springfield.

Lincoln’s reply was typical of the man. “Hirst of all,” he wrote,
“he has a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth half-a-
million dollars to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which
there is a table worth a dollar-and-a-half, and three chairs worth,
Say; a dollar. Last of all) there is in one corner, a large rat hole
which will bear looking into. Respectfully yours, A. TWincoln.”

The rat hole part of this letter is intriguing. Ne doubt Gerry’s
publisher and booster has one in the corner of his office too. He
should be compared, not to Lincoln, but the man Lincoln writes
about.

Insulting Lincoln

“Y3TE are shedding tears; hot burning tears! Petulant tears; tears of

resentment! Tears of dejection and lamentation; tears of rage,
vindicative tears! And why are we shedding tears of such wide range
of qualities? Nobody wants us. Victoria
doesn’t want us. Oak Bay doesn’t want
us. HSquimalt doesn’t want us. Saanich

‘Flence these tears’

"doesn’t want us. Burnaby doesn’t want us. In every place where

the people are given an opportunity, by vote or plebiscite, to make
a choice, they don’t want us.

“In Vancouver the people don’t want us either, but our stooges
in the city hall are too well aware of that to allow them to express
any opinion as the councils in these other places did.

“No! We have no friends, except in the Vancouver city council
and the Public Utilities Commission. It is a saq fate that has
befallen us!” :

I did not actually hear that on the radio broadcast but that
is just like it sounded to me as £ heard the results*of the plebis-
eites on sranting 20-year franchises to the profit-greedy gougers of
the peeple of the lower Mainland of B-۩., the B.C. Collectric.

The vote in the municipalities named is an answer to the pre-
tentions of that grasping corporation about the service they have
provided in the past and the worth of the promises they now
make of improvements in the future.

The people who voted in these places have had years of ex-
perience of the B.C. Collectric and are satisfied that their present
promises are worth just as much as their past.

The Vancouver city council must be made to revise their
stand on the matter of the franchise. This proposal must be sub-
mitted to the people of Vancouver who will be the sufferers if the
decisidn of last years council is allowed to stand. What McGeer
does on this question will show just how much his claim to act
for the welfare of the people of Yancouver amounts to. He has
had many chances but failed. Here is one in which he can make
good.

| pet babies of the Canadian government, the Anders Poles, are

already creating “perturbation? in government circles, News re-
ports from Ottawa published in the press are much more believable
than many of the news items which
emanate from that source. It is news of
such a character that would not be
published if it did not bear the stamp of truth.

We refer to the disturbing story about the high incidence of
TB. and venereal disease among the recent immigrants imported
into Canada against the expressed wish of thousands of Canadian
citizens, the four thousand Poles from Anders fascist army.

In the immigration laws of Canada it is expressly stated that
no individual suffering from any infections or contagious disease
may be allowed to enter this country. If the venereal diseases are
not infectious diseases, what are infectious diseases? And why are
these fascist Poles allowed into Canada in that state of health, when
other sufferers from the same complaint are refused admittance?

Aecording to the Deputy Labor Minister, McNamara, negotia-
tions are being conducted to provide hospital accommodation for
these Polish proteges of the gang at Ottawa. There is a shortage
of hospital accommodation in the country. Canadian men and
women who helped to defeat the Nazi hordes are in neéad of hos-
pital treatment but there is no place for them in the crowded
hospitals of their own country.

But these fascists, many of whom expect to be kept as the
reserve of a patrician army that will be maintained for an in-
vasion of the Soviet Union are to get priority of hospitalization,
solely because Ganadian Big Biz think they can be depended upon
if a crisis develops in Canada. :

These reserves of monopoly capitalism are not only physically
eorrup: but morally degenerate. News from Engiandg informs us
that after protests of the people of Yorkshire, one of their military
camps was raided at Watton in that county and 80 young girls
from 14 to 18 years of age were found there. isn’t it a crime to
contribute to juvenile delinquincy? The Yorkshire people have de-
manded the expulsion of these Poles, and rightly so. :

The Seots have already expressed their attitude in Parliament
—if the government doesn’t throw them out the Scots will.

The Scots don’t want them; the English don’t want them;
why do the Canadians have to have Jhem?

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SEASONS GREETINGS

RE’S hoping all the readers of the Pacific Tribune get their
He. share of the good things that go with this season. If they
any-

Importing disease

don’t get turkey, I hope they do a good job on the hamburger
way!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946