IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 129, 10 January 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 306 words

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page 11 of the scan

Revolutionary advance. Such stability might be treatened by the effects of the guerilla war (which distance from imperialist powers among the fibes that are found on both sides of the fairly ibitrary Afghani-Soviet ontains many more Islamic communities along ¿southern borders that are a continuous source - and, it must be said, a target for LA-backed subversion.

Evidence But will the Russians impose a tem in Afghanistan? The evidence points the t way. The new government is not even going be Parcham old-style. The only link between Parcham and today's governments government.

large financial The USSR Done. by way movement, socialist Karmal is bureaucracy. from the mark. These measures did have the potential to win over the masses, and for the masses themselves to take action to promote Even more perverse is the comparison with Czechoslovakia in 1968. Cynically the bourgeois press argues that the Afghan affair is more serious than that of Prague as it affects a region previously considered to be outside the Soviet zone of influence. But all the imperialists are worried about The fate of the Afghani people is nothing to them.

Nor were they overly concerned with the crushing of the Prague Spring in fact. Western were informed Russian action prior to the invasion, but did not see fit to inform Alexander Dubcek The United States is now ready to commit itself to 'defence' of the reactionary and fanatical dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan withheld. Many of these weapons will find their American arms directly into the hands of the (Islamic Brotherhood). The imperialists will do all they can to favour such a which would have the by-product of easing relations with the Khomeini The Soviet invasion, far from defeating such a counter-revolutionary bid by imperialism, promises to assist its development. measure of the bankruptcy of the Moscow

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