ASTRIONAL AND NO LACEYISLNDERS ACTS The fall of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman writes A picket outside Queensland House in the Strand was held on Thursday 14 August in support of three Australian militants-two black and one white-who are on trial for 'attempting and conspiring to attempt to obtain goods with threats and menaces'. They are being framed because of their involvement in a campaign to smash the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait. Islanders Acts, which give the authorities the power to strip aborigines of all rights. To quote just one example: an aborigine on a reserve can be ordered to perform any work deemed suitable. There are no provisions for wages to be paid on the reserve-this is left to the discretion of the manager, and refusal to work is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. The aborigines outside the reserves are equally discrimina ted against, as they are classified as aged, infirm, or slow workers, and thereby paid less than the basic or minimum wage. The demands of the picket were: that the Queensland Government drop the charges against the three, and repeal the Acts; self-determination for the Australian aborigines; immediate and unconditional land rights.
creature of CIA who represented the alliance of the milnary and me ran caotansts Ahmed is a creature of the CIAwho certainly backed the coup and probably helped to organise it.
In some areas there had been isolated outbreaks of guerila warfare against Mujib. Ahmed obviously decided to take over before the disillusionment turned into a political opposition The instant recognition by Pakistar of the new regime-which has dissolved me secular state and converted. it into the Islamic Republic of Bangladeshtshows clearly where the regime considers its interests lie. The Chinese Peoples Republic, which prefers the shady games of diplomatic manoeuvres to reliance on the struggle of the masses, has likewise recognised the new One of the first acts of the new regime was to abolish the Mujib-backed guerna orgamsanons and replace them with a para-military organisation firmly under the control of the new leaders.
Once again the events in Bangladesh 'show that the road to bourgeois democracy is closed. The choice facing the masses on the Indian sub-continent is either that of muntary style dictatorships and grinding poverty or the road of the proletarian revolution.