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to the press Nov. 2nd, tho House Un-Amorican Ac ivi os Commi cin eemoumend te the Scoiaiiet Workers Party and Vommnist Party had wnaee common cause“ in support of tho Los Angeles Fair Play for Cuba aerial oabors lend a cloak and daggor touch to this latest smear, tho committeo adds ' a eon of the SWP wero tho “concealed masterminds" bohind this ELOUDe The allega Ses follow closed hoarings hold by the houso re in Los Angeles last Apri
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mason eece vesetan as tho Socialist Workers Party is concorned, if this rere of of making "common causo" with tho CP on behalf of Fair Play for Cuba is intendo as an offort to dictate what sort of associations aro on or off limits, the Congressmen aro wasting thoir time. Tho SWP has long-standing, been irs F political diffcrencos with tho CP. But the S'P has an equally well-osta she record of roadiness to work with any group, rogardloss of difforoncos, in tion in promoting progressive causose It has consistontly engagod in united ac aes a host of civil rights and civil libertios movements, on union picket linos an the fight for poace,
On this basis, the Sir has joined forces with others of various views in spreading the truth about Cuba and in defending its heroic revolution against U.S. aggression.
The SWP has also consistently defended the Comaunist Party against the feame—up attacks under the Smith and NicCarran laws. SWP National Secretary Farrell Dobbs public ly offered the use of thy Party's platform and necting halls to Communist Party representatives in tho fight against these measures,
Those efforts at united action in support of a common cause which HUAC would twist into a "conspiracy" flow from a principled policy openly proclaimed and publicly performed. And the sup intends to continue functioning on this basis regardless of what a gang of anti-liberties Congressmen nay say.
One group with which the SWP does not intend to associate or co-operate is HUAC itself, That committee is a mortal enemy of democratic and constitutional liberties. It seaks to smear, disrupt and divide every progressive movement.
The whole Sickening rocord of HUAC's work demonstrates thes need for such a stand. Timid and compliant officials in many organizations thought they could purchase immunity by Carrying out purges of their membership under the committee!s pressure. These moves have served only to throttle democracy, divide the ranks, and cripple the effectiveness of such organizations without in any way stating the committeets thirst for destruction.
The SWP has made clear that it will not proposes or participate in any witch hunt. On the contrary, it will continue to stand in uncompromising defiance of HUAC's smear attacks and it urges every partisan of genuine democracy to join, regardless of other differences, in nation wide movement to abolish this agency of reaction,"
"Unofficial figures, issued by the Police Department, for the sp election ticket in New York City show an encouraging increase over returns for previous years,
Richard Garza and Sylvia Weinstein, SP candidates for Governor and Lieut. Governor, polled 15,215 votes, more than double the amount polled by Garza in the 1961 Mayoralty election,
Leroy licRae, running for Attorney Gsneral, received 15,863 votes - the highest number of any candidate on tho SWP ticket. Allen Taplin, candidate for Comptroller, and Carl Feingold, Candidats for U.S. senator, polled 14,983 and 13,510 votes respectively.
Ths gubernatorial candidats of the only other socialist party on the ballot,. iric Hass of the Socialist Labor Party, polled 7,096 votes in New York City."
The novel about life in one of 3talin's slave camps, reported in last week's Bullotin, is a great success, Novi liir, the leading Soviot litcrary journal which published the novel complete in this month!s issue, was sold out within minute: of appear~ ing on the newspaper stalls. Red Star, the Soviet armed forces newspaper, described the novel as one of the outstanding works of Sovict literature. The Guardian of Yovember 26th reports:
“According to Soviot sources, thu story, "One day of Ivan Denisovich," was road by one of the top Soviet leaders before permission to publish it was granted. For although repressions carried out by Stalin have beon revealed no Sovist publication has
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CTT oe from previous page. RUSSIAN SLAVS CAP NOVGL. 'yet told what went on in the camps to which the victims were dolivered. ;
lir. Solzhenitsin, the author, is a former "zeki" (political prisoner jargon for "Zakluchoni" or "imprisoned ones"), Ho was an artillery officer during the Second World War and is now a secondary school teacher.
His story tells of a camp surrounded by barbod wire and lit by searchlights with prisoners sleeping on sawdust mattrosse3 without sheets but with tiin blankets in the cold winters. The prisoners got up at 5 aom. to a broakfast of "vory bad soup of a small fish and rotten cabbage or carrot and some oats."
Their supervisors are not guards but hardened criminals to whom they are orderod to "take off their caps five paces boforo passing, and to keop them off two paces aftcr, Failure to do this means a spell in a punishment cell, and "prisoners who spend 10 days there usually dic, perhaps from tuberculosis; if they got 15 days they always dioc.'
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ist eae BP Pet ce abr eee ae ore aad AO Ae? eae eee ot Bes cantes had mst keep strict order in the column. WNo pushing. No talking. No looking around. Keop hands behind backs. To step to the left or right is regarded as an attempt to escape, In such case guards will fire without warning."
The camp was run by a security police chief called Volkovoi, "a real bastard," who was "dark and tall, and moved quickly on his fest. Once he carried a leather—thongec whip to bsat prisoners...but luckily not now."
According to press reports, Khrushchov speaking at the closing session of the GeP.S.U. Central Committee, made the most vigorous attack against Stalin and the ‘cult of the individual' he has yet made. he speech, made on the 23rd. Novembor and which may be made public shortly, is said to have roferred to death of 100 people in the crush before Stalin's coffin in 1953. He is said to have told tuis story to justify the length of timo which elapsed after the death of Stalin before the attack on the "cult of the personality" was made. Khrushchov also said that he had issued instruct ions for Yevtushonko's poem, tic "Heirs of Stalin", to be published in Pravda, after Yevtushneko had written to hin. As if to back up these reports, Pravda on November 28th, published another anti-Stalin poom by K.Nikolai Dorise in which ths author spoko of his father being takon from home and lost in the snows of Siboria. Other roports of the speech say that Khrushchov explained that the decision to publish the novel about life in a slave camp (referred to above) was taken after it had been debated at length in high party quarters.
Thus the process of 'destalinisation' goes ahead at a truly amaziny rate. Khrushchov it would appoar, partly for factional reasons in his strug.le against the Chinese and thoir allies, and partly to hoad off the struggle, is putting himself at the head of the process. No doubt some of thoso who wers actually the victims of repression are asking awkward questions — how long will they be satisfied by the prevarications of Khrushchov?
At the 20th. Congress of tho C.P.S.U., Khrushchov spoke of dealing with political opponents such as the Trotskyists, Bukharinists, eotc., calmly. In other words he was in favour of treating tiom as political op,onents rather than merely denouncing them as imperialist agonts. Since thon the history of the CPSU has been rewritten and all reforence to the Trotskyists, etc., as being police agonts has been removed. Howovor, in Japan where Trotskyist ideas aie a real throat to Stalinism (the Zengakuren, tho 300,000 strong student organisation is lead by people who are either Trotskyist or are strongly influenced by Trotskyism), the technique of the amalgam is still used. Writing in World liarxist Review, September, 1962, Itaru Yonchara wrotce
"The U-S-Japaneso intelligence agencies in an offort to split the working Glass and the democratic organisations and to destroy te Communist Party, are rendexing financial and other assistance to tho Trotskyite and revisionist anti-Party groups, using thom as thoir tools. There is also a Japanese Committes cf the Fourth International through which tac U.S. imperialists are trying to unite tho scattored forces of the Trotskyites."
The following report, appearing in tho Financial Times of Novembur 27th. shows very clearly tic 'cold-war' charactor of the Common Market, and how this aspect of tho 13.1.C. would be developed upon Britain's entry:
i, Huropean armaments production pool should be set up in the perspectiv: of the U.K's ontry into tho %.13.C., according to a recommondation by the Defence Committee of Western Suropean Union, a body originally sot up by Britain and the Six to control ané¢ standardise the manufacture of woapons,.
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Tozsthor with another rocommendation for a l.i.T.O. nucloar executive to exerciso political control over a N.A.T.0. nuclear force, this will come up for debate on Decombe 3, when the W.i.U. Assombly opens its mooting here.
The Defence Committee follows up its case for joint arms production by urging NeAeT.O. to adopt only one model of V.1T.0.L. fightor for production by momber countrics, after financing the development of two difforent models betwoon which the choice would bo made - evidently a refcronce to the rival Hawker P-1154 and Dassault ilirage 111 V projects.
The U.K. is criticised for its unilatoral decision to continue the development and production of tho 1T.5.R.2 striko aircraft and the Blue Steol, Thunderbird and Sea Slug missiles, although none of them has boen adopted by any other country for joint product— ion,
Speaking in Bonn on Novembcr 27th., Horr H.J.Sendlor, a director of tie huge Kleckner concern and prosident of the German Rolled Stoel Association, said that the 1 = " 5 We + a 3 a 5 fey : é 3) ALS
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In an assessment of the current state of businoss, lir,Sondler stated that the industry's order book of 3.5m. tons was enough to keop t.e mills busy for an averago of two months. From July to Octobor they had delivered something short of 1.7m. tons of rolled products monthly and had booked orders for only 1.5m tons a month. Orders fel off most heavily in tio case of oxports to countries outside tho &.C.5.C. where the German steol masters aro often eithor unable or unwilling to match their competitors! prices. Prices in oxport business outside tho Community woro from 11 per cent. to 28 per cent. below German domestic list prices with competition at its heaviest in the caso of quality flats.
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endinted ier ea ee Ponte Bem e eS EE ee re eee ee by the U.S. Moreover, this increase in military expenditure would be tempered by the balance of paymonts difficultiss that thc U.S. has been experiencing, and that consequently there would be a drivo by the U.S. Government to got other advanced countries to pay thoir share. This would apply especially where otherwise the U.S. would have to usc forcign curronecy reserves up. Striking confirmation of this opinion is contained in a report in the Financial Times of 26/11/62 where their New York correspoudent writes:
The Kennedy Administration will make a ronewod attempt next month to persuade its N.A.T.O. allics to step up thoir defences oxpenditures in Furope.
At the December meoting of the North Atlantic Council, which will be attended by Mr.Rusk, Secrctary of State, and lir.!’acnamara, Defence Secrotary, Amsricans are likely to stress at loast one lesson to bo derived from the Cuban crisis — tho importance of military proparedness. With this in wind they will again urgo that ifropean nations should contribute more in manpower and in weapons towards Buropoan defonce. NeAeT.O. is still cight or nino divisions short of the American goal of 30 divisions, andy in the U.S., view, several nations are not yet pulling thoir weight. The U.S. would like to see Britain onlargo her forces in Burope, which now amount to about treo divisions, but since Britain’is already diverting 7 per cont. of hor gross national pro= uct to def : j 3 Q Oo Ue Se * sub i guct to defence (a proportion cxcouded only by the U.S. and Portugal) no substantial
A&A moro promising candidate is Wost Germany, which has been spending only 4.8 por cent. of her gross national product on defence. Both Gormany and France, whose proportion is about 6.4 per cont., may again be pressed to purchasg more arms from tho U.S. - a topic that was discussed in tho recent mecting botweun President Kennedy and Dr. Adenauer. Tho proposed sale of an atomic submarine to Franco, which has to bo approved by Congress, will also be important in tiis connection.
Although tie press gave widespread covoraye during tie 'sonsational! days of ths attempt by Jamos MereditlL to got into Mississippi University, noting appears thes» days and one might tiink that all goos woll. This is not the caso as tho following report from llilitant of 26/11/62 (slightly shortonod) shows:
4. Mississippi-born whito freshman, Craig Knobles,has boon driven from tio University of llississippi by racist throats and harassment. He was ono of tho soven white studonts whe sat with Janes Moredith,the only Negro student, in the cafeteria.Knoblus and his roonmata lator found their room broken into and wrecked. Subsequently they and others, who befriended Morcdith, wore ostracizod, taunted, and spat upon. A racist student ox plained, “Such warfare was used by tho South during Reconstruction and tho South evont=ually triumphed."