FOR a number of months Socialist Challenge has remained as if the country had ceased to exist.
The last series of articles was an attempt to dismiss the massive popular resentment which was developing in the cities against the Nove mu 000000 a manifestation of the riff-raff, the flotsam and jetsam that exists in every city.
But since that time there have been further developments. It is now virtually indisputable that:
1. A growing movement among school students saw some or me eroet ste denonstr.tions in Kabul since the overthrow of Daud in April 1978.
taken place inside the Afghan army and certain reports emanating trom New Delal sug телено то Newsel Su est that there have been clashe between regular Afghan army The Afghan army remains an unreconstructed bourgeois army. The links between the soldiers and the villages remain strong and clearly the general mood of the country is beginning to affect the Hal all 3. According to Agence France Presse there have been a number of strikes in Kabul against the Soviet presence.
Any notion that what is taking place in Afghanistan today is a civil war fought by two conten •ding social classes and their L WOOD but it will be the people of Histar WIo decide their own fate. in both town and countryside many socialists in the West today, Communists and May '68 when it revealed that the French Government naa appomica as a high official a man guilty of mind him that without us the STA would be a very tiny rummp JOHN BANGS, STA executive member, London