LAOS - Phoumi Rides Again

Clearly there is a crisis in the education programme and even with the increased numbers being trained there will still be an acute teacher shortage.

AUXILIARIES

The present government's answer is to provide auxiliaries with 12 weeks' training, and teachers on short-term commissions with two years' training.

The government will approve of these two - year trained women with sub-standard qualifications teaching for 5 years, and then they must take another 'one-year course to teach for another period. Two versions of the same story-with a difference! VIOLENCE Violence became commonplace. Where the Bolshevized peasants or workers gained con: trol, landowner or employers were robbed, tortured, murdered. Where the Whites kept the apper hand, police or soldiers ruthlessly stamped out Bolshevism wherever found or suspected. (APone): A White esecurion squad! shoots two suspects then hangs two mets!

CND Conference Rejects INDEC THE strong ties which have been established between the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Labour movement are not likely to be easily shaken by the witch-hunting attacks of the GaitskellBrown Labour Party leadership.

This was clearly shown at the Annual Conference of the Campaign's London Region last weekend where a score of resolutions supporting independent nuclear disarmament candidates and INDEC) in Parliamentary elections were defeated by a large vote.

A resolution from Amersham and District CND group which said, 'This Annual General Meeting is opposed to the Campaign putting up independent CND candidates at the General Election or at any by-election, was carried by an overwhelming majority.

Delegates speaking in the debate constantly reiterated the necessity of continuing the fight against Gaitskell and the Right wing of the Labour Party.

A young delegate HAVING failed to gain an TAVING failed to oain an outright victory against Pathet Lao, the right-wing forces of Boun Oum-Phoumi Nosavan are now banking on the partition of Laos and United States intervention across the Mekong.

While the hand may seem to be that of the Right wing, the mastermind behind the plan seems to be that of the CIA. It was the CIA which masterminded the 1957 coup which overthrew the neutralist, coalition government and gave power to the Right wing.

le current number of the monthly American journal ' Look, which boasts a 7,000,000 circulation, devotes a whole issue to 'The chilling story behind the man who created the Communist threat to our world', the 'evil genius'-Lenin. It claims to be a 'A new pictorial history' and employs the slickest methods of modern journalism quotations torn ruthlessly out of context, television gimmicks, pictures juxtaposed for shock effect, etc. But the corker of the whole 'job' is the picture reproduced on the right. Its caption reads: ' With Lenin in power, Red firing squads began sweeping Russia of his enemies. "We will destroy everything," he said, "and on the ruins we will build our temple."' Now compare this with the picture on the left ley received big applause when he pointed out that the attacks which Gaitskell was making against the CND and the Young Socialists, and in particular the YS paper 'Keep Left', were part of his determination to make sure there was no return to the Scarborough decisions.

The delegate insisted, therefore, that the fight must go on in the Young Socialists, the Labour Party and the trade unions.

Other resolutions opposed NATO and also entry into the Brandt Points the way to Gaitskell WHILE Gaitskell and Brown push the British Labour Party further and further to the Right, their opposite numbers in the German Social Democratic Party indicate the road they will be travelling.

At its Cologne conference, the SPD leaders have made clear their willingness to join a coalition with the capitalist parties, if Adenauer were replaced as Chanceilor. Ollenhauer, the party leader, called ' (Above): A White execution squad ... Need more be said?

Now once again the Right wing rather than accept the offer of a coalition government from Prince Souvanna Phouma are doing their utmost to sabotage the talks and provoke a situation where the US Marines and British jets would be used in Laos. In this they have the tacit support of the Siamese dictator as well as the Filipino government which has sent its troops to fight in Laos. The Right wing know very well that not even a coalition government can save them from the wrath of the masses and the on 'Der Alte' to resign 'in national interest'.

Willy Brandt, Burgomaster of West Berlin, explained how the SPD's policy on the future of Germany was more in line with the wishes of the Western powers than that of Adenauer. The Federal Republic, he explained, must back those who want to unite the Western community, not those who try to divide it.

Brandt supported enthusiastically the idea of Tory Britain entering the European Common Market. 'We believe Britain belongs to free Europe,' he said.

This man, who recently visited this country for discussions with Gaitskell, is now to be deputy leader of the Party. He typifies the 'new style' social democracy which has taken over the party especially since the adoption of its anti-nationalization programme at the Godesberg conference in 1960.

Basing themselves entirely on the policies of the United States State Department, the German leaders have now abandoned any pretence of standing for social change or of being related to the working class.

Unlike the British Labour Party, the SPD has no organizational ties with the trade unions. Pathet Ian do not seem Pathet Lao do not seem to entertain the same illusions they had in 1957. Thus there is no prospect other than the continuation of the 16-year-old civil war and a steadily increasing involvement of the SEATO powers and the United States in this 'dirty war'. The slide in Wall Street and the fear of a slump in US ruling circles may prompt the brasshats in the Pentagon to turn the Mekong into a second Imjin with the same fatal consequences.

Only immediate and vigorous intervention by British and US labour can stop such a move. It is still not too late.

SPREE The German Gaitskells have therefore had an easier job turning the movement into a replica of Kennedy's Democratic Party.

Thus the Party formed by Marx, Engels, Leibknecht and Bebel is destroyed. British socialists must understand that the aim of Gaitskell and Co. is in exactly the same direction.

Tories Press Purge Plans THE Tories have decided to implement the recommendations of the Radcliffe Committee in full. The Committee's report urged a tightening up of security in the Civil Service and made special reference to the dangers of 'subversive' influence in trade unions whose members were employed on government work.

Even the request of the Civil Service Unions that anyone subject to purge procedure should have the right to union representation has been turned down. Trades union representatives are not even to be allowed to testify on the character and background

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