Fiji Has A Communist Party
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. July 24.
COMMUNIST propaganda on familiar lines has been common in Fiji since the war—attention was drawn to it by the Methodist Mission’s journal last year. It is not generally known, however, that Fiji has a Communist Party.
Confirmation of the existence of such an organisation has come to light by way of a report in the People’s Voice, the organ of the New Zealand Communist Party, on July 6.
“The Communist Party in Fiji is be coming increasingly active in the interests of the workers,” states the report. It ap pears that the party held its annual meeting recently at which a new sec retary, Mr. H. Singh, was elected. (A photograph of Mr. Singh is published with the report.) Alleging that “a repressive colonial ad ministration rules Fiji,” the report states that the aim of the administration is “to keep the Indian and Fijian people divided and within bounds. This policy has not been relaxed by the advent of a ‘Labour’ Government in Britain.