The Cadre, February 10, 1976, page 4 Kg»
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On October 13, 1975, Tru— deau, the spokesman for the monopolies in Canada, annou— nced that he and his govern— ment was planning a massive intervention in the economy to "battle inflation." He failed to indicate however
’that the cause of inflation
in Canada, as well as in the rest of the capitalist world, was the profiteering and price-gauging by the monopolies. It did not oc— cur to him to mention that corporate profits are at
an all—time high; it did not occur to him to_point
'out that, if the monopolies are to maintain their prese- nt rate of profits, wages , must be cut. He either ref— uses to see, or cannot see, that the profiteering by the corporations is putting pri- ces at a level that the wor— king man; poor, as well as- those on fixed incomes, ca— nnot afford to pay.
The more that prices go up, the more real wages de- cline. “Thus, the workers are forced to strike to ma- intain their standard of living — which has taken the working class of this
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country many years to attain. ' To protect profits, the executive aim of the capita— list class — the bourgeois government — resorts to in- tervention to prevent work— ers from making further ga— ins. This is precisely wh-
,at Trudeau and his axemen
are doing. But they dare not call it what it is - wage controls - for that would be too conspicuously discriminatory; he calls it "wage and price controls." Nonsense! Profits continue to soar as prices continue to rise. This phrase of his is but verbal camouflage to confuse the workers, farmers fishermen, students, et-a1., to quell resistance.
But his failing, as the labor fight — hack indicates.
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trated'by government in thh context is the so-called cut—back on government spen‘ ding. -They're cutting back alright:_on people's servi- ces! In Ontario alone, 34 hospitals are threatened wit complete closure, or severa, nce of departmentatlserviceS education is being cut‘bach the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce has proposed that fam, ily allowance benefits be discontinued altogether.
.They also proposed the dis&
olution of DREE (Department of Regional and Economic Ex- pansion) and termination of the government program to promote bilingualism! L.IJ C.Y.C., and O;F.Y. have bem dispensed-with. These are but a few "cut—backs on gow ernment spending." But whert are the cutbacks in govern~ ment spending on subsidizim the already fat corporatiom‘ Where are the cutbacks on government spending on the arms reace?' Regarding the latter is to be pointed out that in this areal alone an most superfluous expenditum is made by a war—managering government which is currenu gathering momentum for neo- fascist, war-time hostility Since capitalism can no lo— nger pull itself out of crf sis by peaceful means, it resorts to warfwhich is cap italist policy carried out by different means.
Every time the governmem acts, it acts on behalf of the capitalist class as awh gig, Yet, the interests of the capitalists, and those of the workers, are diametr ically opposed: the capitfl ists exploit and oppress we workers so as to realize 5w rplus value created by the workers; and the workers 3% to free themselves from exfl citation and oppression and to have, as their own just due, the fruits of their 1% or.' ,
Their relationship is an antagonistically contradid dry relationship — its refi ution is only through revol tion culminating in the dfl lopment of a Socialist SOd ety characterized by workfl control over the political apparatus; public ownershfl of the means of productiom
man by more; nationalizatfi mines, forests, food, bank’
nication, etc.
This is what the workflw class in Canada, as in all capitalist countries, is “ iving for; and this is pric isely what the capitalist class is trying to preven“ as the Trudeau Wage Contr01 makes so clear.;