waste storage centre in Gorleben, Lower Saxony.
drop the reprocessing aspect of the plan. Socialist Challenge, 1? Jure 1980. Pase 12v.
Former workers at such camps say that although the maximum term is set at four years, many inmates must stay for the rest of their life because there is no work for them elsewhere. Chinese dissidents are also sent to the camps.
this year the Chinese People's Daily reprinted on its front page the government regulation permitting the detention system as applicable to: "people with who behave like hooligans counter-revolutionaries ... people who have been dismissed from government jobs, who refused to work or who willfully keep making trouble, jeopardise public affairs and refuse THE Portuguese government declared last week that it would not permit the stationing of NATO nuclear arms on despite the country's membership of the Defense minister Adelino Amaro da Costa said that nuclear capability is 'not important for Portugal'. Who is it THE South African regime's minister of posts and telecommunications, a certain Mennie Shit (sorry, typing error, the right name is Hennie Smit) explained last Thursday why blacks are not included in a new body that the government Smit declared that blacks are 'less developed' and have The reaction of the black Anglican bishop Desmond Tuto was most 'undeveloped' and obviously a product of his After declaring that Smith was 'sick', Tuto asked: 'But if Africans are less developed and have a slower thought process why then are the whites afraid of competing with them DESPITE the attempts of the US ruling class to engulf the country in a great wave of patriotism, there are indications that perhaps not so many Americans are prepared to die for the American Way as Messrs Reagan and Carter would like.
The US Army announced at the weekend that overseas tours of duty for single US soldiers and married soldiers who travel without their wives will be reduced from the present The change, said the Army, 'is an effort to boost morale THE ruling junta in El Salvador has extended its 'state of seige' for 30 days. Under this all constitutional rights are The El Salvador regime continues to torture and kill as many of its opponents as the army can find. But the government itself remains shaky. One indication is that all European embassies, apart from Italy's, have now closed down.
WEST German police and frontier guards last week used water cannons, helicopter squadrons, and armoured cars in an attack on 2,000 demonstrators who for the past month had been preventing test drillings for a planned nuclear Gorleben has been one of the centres for protest by West German anti-nuclear power groups. The town was originally destined to be the site for a compreensive reprocessing and waste storage centre. But pressure forced the government to DAMNING evidence was published daily last from the Tehran conference on American Iran, outlining lengths which perialism is prepared to go to look after its interests. However, the interests of the Iranian people figure in the accounts American intervention.
Perhaps the most astonishing revelation the plan the Shah's last prime Bahktiar, at the head of a military ralli, unal to a military coup in Iran!
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thousands of tons of military hardware are on the way from cal Ulllla the dian Ocean post for East defence of the Afghan people is at stake, ring less and less true.
ALLCI lanure called hostage rescue -revealed at the conference to wer oevone a mere Icscuc US is having major difficulties in the face of the deep-going antiCommittees The conference, ex-Attorney Clarke, co-incided demonstraton Iranians thousands who died revemon a amist une onan. fronted with a mobilisation of this scope, Khomeini called cartel court for his flagrant violation of human rights.
This movement has indicated its potential class character by its rapid identification with the plight of black people in Miami Tameous mercres on prayer day in different cities chants of 'Blacks of America, atre aBlacks or An suooo ters.
America should be set The struggle in South Korea solidarity.
The anti-imperialist movement today combines with an extension of land occupations by peasants, especially in the provinces around and in northern cils, have been formed in new areas in recent months. Lessons from week intervention the US imdidn't of drawn up minister, the South - which was struggles involving go - the workers' over their industry are ac cumulating. 'There are limits on the develos ment of the shoras. First, they are only coordinated and centralised not seen by even the most advanced workers as a political alternative attended by to the government. Furthermore Ramsey the shorah leaders refuse to advance any demands to break out of these limits the Ivevertneiess, une nrst tentauve the 1963 steps towards unification of the shorahs has been COn Although the for a trial dominates the shorahs, a break is becoming evident. On May Day called. In the morning; the Işlamic shorahs marched. moon. nowever. two to turee unes as many demonstrators rallied to the call of the Fedayeen and nonDoUl Islamic shoras.
• MOST important however, in Kurdistan. «overmeni troops distan trying ror luc mst ume macre das Deen ? serious decomposition of the Iranian army, with desertions among the officers Since August ing of the Kurdish, population has counnumbers land Neighbourhood Armed militants of Iran's Turkish minority.
control established Khomeini exten. ano thev are of repression The registered organisational clergy the after.
Hall cobIC , is the escalating struggle Imam Today, half of leading role in CLIC are In Kur- movenent bassy occupation, tories.
generalised armincreasin take-overs committees - which have many of the features of the civil defence committees so important in the success of the insurnave OCCI attempting crush the ad-cavens movenen in the name of anti-imperialism He justifies the ruthless use of the minorities because it dividess asalls national anti-imperialist front'. A new wave against the left is universities for sical base such groups as the redaveel and ont place where political debate has centred since the insurrection 1o speech by Bani-Sadr calling for the universities to be 'Islamised" Ans imposition of an Islamic cultura. revolution' has nothing to do with advancing the interests of the Irastudents, who ahti imperialist played the closure as an extension of the embe followed that by occupations of the land and fac Whatever truth may be at tached to such claims, this can't be the starting point for assessing th torcerui closures. It ignores carefully prepared political campaign by the ruling class to purge the 'universities and weaken the anti-capitalist movement.
Today Khomeini and government are trying desperately to roll back the gains made by the of the Shah. The testimony of the strength of the mass mobilisations is the inability of the ruling class to governmen enough impose The continuing rifts between Bani-sad are evidence deep crisis bourgeois leadership in Iran todav The best way socialists can ensure that the anti-capitalist move. ment in Iran is strengthened is to organise against the US war drive;
campaign for the repeal of th sanctions bill which receiv-" ed its third reading in Parliament week: demand and to support the struggles of all the oppressed and exploited in Iran Re Tardinh resistas de enc Kurdish resistance socalsts would do well to take note or tne statement dy leaders o resistance which explained that, in the event of an attack b 'American imperialism, they woul defend Iran.
They are dead right, because the fight against Carter's war drive is fundamental to the defence of the Kürdish, nation, however falsely Khomeihi may try to counter pose them.