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Trudeau's 'New Society'
BY WILLIAM KASHTAN
In the midst of the growing
monopoly offensive against the
working people, prime minister
Trudeau injected a number of
questions into the debate on con-trols
which further charged the
political atmosphere.
Clearly, Trudeau 's New Socie-ty,
like his Just Society, is not a
socialist society. Far from it,
monopoly will be as firmly in the
seats of power as before even
more so, and exploitation will
continue as before. The oppo-nents
of Trudeau's New Society
mix up state intervention with
socialism. State intervention is
not socialism. Socialism requires
the transfer of political power
from one class to another class, to
the working class and its allies.
This is furthest from what
Trudeau is proposing. His "New
Society" is aimed at making the
system work better in the in-terests
of capitalism and thereby
strengthen the position of
monopoly. One should make no
mistake about that. Trudeau's
policies are directed to protect the
over-al-l interests of monopoly.
The Trudeau program is di-rected
to bringing about cen-tralized
management of the
economy. However such cen-tralization
under state monopoly
capitalism inevitably leads to limi-tation
of democracy and creates
fertile soil for the development of
authoritarian and bureaucratic
tendencies.
Trudeau's New Society of cen-tralized
management and in-creased
regulation of the trade
unions must be rejected and be
replaced by a democratic alterna-tive.
The booms and busts, the
"stops and goes" which typify
capitalism must be replaced by a
society free from periodic crises,
poverty, unemployment and
inflation.
Inflation can't be fought with-out
getting at its underlying cause.
Ottawa Munro,
Minister
has
Canadian
hold
The crisis is not a result of
mistakes in managing
it flows from the very
nature of the capitalist economy.
On that score, CLC president Joe
Morris's criticism of the Trudeau
program this point com-pletely.
While Morris is correct in
drawing to au-thoritarian
tendencies inherent in
centralized management, where
he down completely is in fail-ing
to advance a democratic al-ternative
to this state monopoly
capitalist line. Such a democratic
alternative necessarily includes a
program of democratic nationali-zation
and democratic planning,
the bringing into being of a demo-cratic
coalition which would open
the door to a fundamental reor-ganization
of society on a socialist
basis. Without such an alternative
which includes giving
class the right to a
economic and social policy!
technological change, investment
policy, safety, health and produc-tion
in plants and industry, Morris
is finally giving tacit support
to program he criticizes. This
is implied in his statement.
As against centralized man-agement
the working class
to fight for democratic nationali-zation
and democratic planning
with a democratic coalition to im-plement
such a program.
As against regulation of the
trade union movement and re-strictions
on its democratic rights,
the working class should fight for
workers' over monopoly
power as an integral of the
for working class politi-cal
power. This link is essential to
avoid turning the working class
off into an
The struggle for workers'
participation in management of
enterprises must be tied in with
the struggle for political power
outside the enterprises.
Enduring worth of Jack London's
works marks his centennial year
LAST WEEK marked tho centenary of the birth of Jack London,
a literary giant, who created 53 books in a short 1 7 years becom-ing
the most widely-rea- d American writer of his time.
Bom In grinding poverty in San Francisco on Jan. 12, 1 676, his
pen won him an enduring reputation for both
fiction and social criticism — fiction that was romantic and
highly entertaining social criticism that struck at the heart
of the wealthy privileged class gave hope to the disadvan-taged
and dispossessed.
Today, 60 years after hie death, London Is still widely-rea- d
and assured a lasting place in American literature. His works
have been translated into 68 languages, including Japanese
and the native tongue of Greenland Eskimos, and new col-lected
editions have recently appeared In England, Germany,
France and the Soviet Union.
In his novel The Iron Heel, published in 1908, London foretold
the coming of fascism, and now 68 years after Its original re-lease,
It has appeared in a new edition In England, Its Jacket
depleting the iron heel Jackboot crushing the late Salvador
Allende and democracy and freedom In Chllo.
Canadian consultative council
on multiculturalism to hold
second biennial conference
— John,
Responsible for
Multiculturalism, anno-unced
that the
Consultative Council on
Multiculturalism will
the Second Canadian Confe
specific
the
economy;
misses
attention the
falls
the working
say over
left
the
ought
control
part
struggle
anarcho-syndicali- st di-rection.
full
and world-wid- e
and
and
rence on Multiculturalism in
Ottawa, February 13th to
15th.
The theme of the confe-rence
is "Multiculturalism as
State Policy" with main
topics of discussion cente
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record lOt worst
OTTAWA — Camta hed tfw
lOth-hlghe- et Increase In
conoumor prlcoo over tho 12
months to November In o re-cent
survey of 24 countries.
The consumer price rise
over tho 12 months to
November averaged 0.5
percent among the 24 coun-tries
surveyed. Canada's In-crease
over the period was
10.4 percent.
Those countries with less
Inflation than Canada's were
Switzerland, Japan, the U.S.,
France, Germany, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Au-stria
and Sweden.
Higher inflation rates were
recorded by the United
Kingdom, Australia, Now
Zealand and Italy.
WASHINGTON — Despite the
deep economic crisis in the U.S.,
with high unemployment and
inflation, the Commerce Dept. has
confirmed earlier private surveys in-dicating
a resurgence in third-quart- er
corporate profits.
After-ta- x earnings in the July-Sep- t,
period rose 17 percent from the
previous quarter, the steepest upturn
since 1950.
It was the second quarterly corpo-rate
profit increase in a row, coming
on top of a 12.8 percent rise in the
April-Jun- e period.
Profits of American branches or
subsidiaries in foreign countries rose
to a $5.7 billion annual rate from a
rate of $5.5 billion in the previous
quarter.
Food chain profits up
TORONTO — Dominion Stores
profit take for the 26 weeks ended
Sept. 30. 1975, was $9,593,000, a 35
percent jump over their $7,098,000
for the same period a year earlier.
Steinberg's Ltd. of Montreal also
garnered a handsome profit take of
$4,535,000 in the 12 weeks ending
Oct. 31, 1975, compared with a profit
of $3,289,000 in that period in 1974.
The federal Anti-inflatio- n Board is
reported to be investigating to see
what made food prices rise so high
during that time. Undoubtedly Mrs.
Plumptre will conclude that workers
encouraged the profiteering by
squandering too much on food.
$70 BILLION WINDFALL...
THE founding convention of the
Public Petroleum Association of
Canada was told Nov. 29 that Cana-dian
oil and natural gas industries
have received $70 billion through ris-ing
prices in the past three years.
Bruce Wilson, an engineer and vet-eran
in the industry, said the money
should be used to assure a sound
energy future for Canada (by being
retained by the oil moguls?) rather
than go to the Alberta or the federal
government. — The Globe and Mail,
Dec. I, 1975.
ring on francophone and
anglophone viewpoints to-wards
multiculturalism. This
conference will be of great
assistance to the Council in
its advisory role to Mr.
Munro.
The first Canadian Confe-rence
on Multiculturalism
was held in October 1973
and recommendations from
that conference formed the
basis of the First Annual
Report of the Council which
was tabled in the House of
Commons in June 1975.
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Bach week, Adrienne Clarkson, takes an in-dep- th look at
controversial world events as co-ho- st of CBC-TV- 's new current
affairs magazine, the fifth estate, seen Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
Until this fall, she was co-ho- st of CBC-TV- 's long-runnin- g after-noon
magazine, Take 30 and last year hosted her own globe-trottin- g
current affairs show, Adrienne At Large,
TV personalities Laurie Jennings and Mary Chapman are the
popular hosts who appear intermittently on the CBC-T- V series
A Way Out seen at 12:15 p.m. on Sundays. They are also the
occasional hosts on the series This Land seen at 8 p.m.
Wednesdays.
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Reg Romero is one of many fine supporting actors appearing
regularly in CBC-TV- 's very popular family entertainment series
from Vancouver, The'Beachcombers. Romero portrays McLoskey,
a sort of 'town character' in the B.C. fishing hamlet Gibsons,
where colourful log-salvag- er Nick Adonidas (Bruno Gerussi)
piles his trade. The Beachcombers is telecast Sundays at 7 p.m.