Red Weekly & WITHTHE MINERS | IMGpapers 1980

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MORE PICKETS 3 January 1980 Page 6 ruling classes to develop sustained and stable basis of support for their rule. The overthrow of the Shah and the fall of Somoza demonstrated that even the most brutal and well-oiled instruments of repression were of no avail against the power of the masses.

But it would be false to present a picture. It is worth recalling that the very first year of the last decade saw the defeat of the Palestinians in Jordan. The Hashemite monarch King Hussein (aided by a then obscure Pakistani military officer named Zia-ul-Haq) ruthlessly crushed the Palestinian resistance in the month which became known throughout the Arab world as Black September.

that time the leaders Palestine Liberation Organisation turned their attention away from any serious opposition to the existing Arab regimes and deepened their reliance on Saudi Arabia, Libya and Syria.

The Pinochet coup in Chile was aided and FRANCOISM! government important radical reforms.