NEWS MAY BE CENSORED BY THE POLICE

Broadcasters (CAB) and the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs were accused of having reached agreement which would allow 'news management by the police'.

Speaking at a Press conference in Ottawa, New Democratic Party leader David Lewis said he has seen a statement 'that journalists are supposed to exchange information with the police' '. He added: 'It sounds as if the journalists are going to become spies for the police, and that's hardly the job of a journalist . . . Newsmen ought to be free to find out information and give it to the public without being harassed by the police and without being part of the CAB's president, Don Hamilton, denies that any agreement was drawn up. He says it was simply 'a statement of objectives, principles and operating guidelines for effective working relationships between the mede a ence ison core tat binding on anyone'.

The statement does, however, contain a Clause sayıns because of investigative anc legal requirements, the police have the right to make the decision on release of news for publication'.

It has been pointed out that this could mean the police censoring news during any crisis situation.

Hamilton insists that clause merely recognizes 'an existing fact".

In that case, Lewis asked, why bother to draw up a special statement about it? Leon (New £1.65 Spanish Revolution' By Trotsky. Pathfinder Press York). Price £4.15 cloth. paperback.

The move by Andres Nin and most of the members of the Left Opposition into the Partido Obrero Unificacion Marxista (POUM) in September 1935 marked their passage to a centrist position and the abandonment of the struggle to build a rev. olutionary party.

The unification with Maurin's workers' and peasants' bloc was an unprincipled alliance which deCisive questions unanswered.

The new party declared its allegiance to the London Bureau of Revolutionary Socialist Parties which was opposed to the struggle to build a new, International which posed as an imperative task the light of the Stalinist betrayal in Germany which had paved the way for Hitler to come to power in 1933.

Nin's decision to join with jection of all Trotskys advice Maurin in the previous years and prepared the way for the betrayals which were to follow.

In February 1936, the POUM joined with the Communist Party and the Socialist Amniatie Générale pour tous les prisonniers antifascistes. Libération immédiate de tous les Camarades du P. O. U. M. Nous n'admettons pas le prinsigned the agreement which brought the Popular Front into existence, had foreseen nothing and they could not invoke ignorance as an excuse.

The Civil War began precisely with an uprising of the officer corps led by Franco. But it was the army that the