limited and reactionary reverse both the staff in socialism bosses their nuclear weapons the Afghanistan crisis. all thosse gains that the masses had made Afghanistan, striking another blow to imperialistimposed stability in the area. That was why the United States government through Saudi Arabia and other agencies supported and supplied the "rebel' forces with aid of the barbaric dictatorship of General Zia in Pakistan.
Ever since their defeat in Indochina, American rulers have been looking for excuses to domestic and situation back to their advantage. This is why it has prolonged its gamble with the lives of its embassy Tehran, trying to whip up internally and get international pledges of support for its campaign against the Iranian people.
The proof that the USA is not the victim but the architect of aggression internationally can shown by its campaign to base a new generation of on European soil, establishment of a tactical strike force to intervene anywhere on the globe and the building up of я massive naval presence in the Indian ocean, prior to One rapid gain has been made with the offer by Margaret Thatcher to allow aiding the the it.
hysteria be materially strengthened the support in such a military conflict. dissociate ourselyes the workers of the world (which they do not) they would have opposed these methods of Amin by development of an opposition Afghanistan which based itself on the masses. Such an opposition would have strongly defended the reforms that were initiated by the Taraki regime in 1978, extending them to the complete overthrow of diasul A ciuoal, ane oortste rully wa chosen. The invasion did not aid the revolutionars process in the country. Socialists cannot welcome However the very fact of the invasion has changed the political conditions in the country. It has probably boosted the popularity of the counterrevolution, created the conditions for massively increased aid to the rebels through a politically and General Zia. The possibility of a full-scale civil war has now opened up. Socialists will be forced to say which side they utterly bureaucratic and reactionary motivation behind the Soviet invasion, but in the present situation a call for the immediate withdrawal of troops would witch-hunters in Transport right-wing. our and OOSCE DLOO .the affiliate to the Läbour Party.
treated with the contempt it deserves. REG UNDERHILL (now a peer of the realm) and Sara Barker were always the two most notorious House. During the Fifties they formed part of the Gaitskellite faction and ruthlessly hounded out enemies. So. it is no surprise that Lord Underhill and several right-wing MPs are obsessed with the Militant tendency.
Their outpourings have become the subject of red-baiting articles in the popular press. No masscirculation daily has been able to resist the tide. The Daily Mirror has also entered the fray, thus justifying every stricture Tony Benn has aimed at it as a pseudo-supporter of the labour movement.
We have many differences with the Militant grouping, but we must unite to defend them against the attacks from the Tory press and the Labour opinion these absurd witch-hunts would become redundant if all bans were removed and all organisations in the labour movement allowed to Without such bans being lifted all the talk about the Labour Party being a 'broad church' should be