ANGOLA: MPLA holds

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But the South African-UNITA offensive to the south is being directed towards Dondo, which ectrical power.

Sects on the city.

the Russian invasion Price 90p (post vention of South Africa that has Two weeks ago the red and black flag of the Popular Movement for the LibLiberation of Angola (MPLA) was optimistically raised over Luanda, while in the north and the south the armed wing of the MPLA attempted desperately to hold out against the reactionary offensive that has been launched to isolate Luanda. In spite of the escalation of military intervention by South Africa and Zaire on the side of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the MPLA has - except at the town of Malanje - managed to keep these forces at bay.

In the north the FNLA has been unable to make any advances at all.

and peasants.

supplies Luanda with water and elThe capture of Dondo would have disastrous effThe capitalist press in Britain has of course concentrated its attacks on not a word is said against the supply of military and financial aid by the USA to the FNLA, nor against the military interexisted for months. In a statement revealing of the meaning of detente' Kissinger has denounced the USSR's intervention in Angola as being 'incompatible with detente' - that is to MPLA. say, incompatible with a policy that allows rampant imperialist intervention against the struggles of workers A similar policy exists between the African neo-colonial regimes and the racist regime of South Africa, such that there is a conspiracy of silence amongst the majority of the African states regarding the South African intervention in Angola. In essence, the military intervention is very much a part of this policy of dedetente. As the Financial Times has commented: "Unfortunately for too rich and too strategically important to be left alone to work out its own future...the politics of whoever wins control will have a decisive influence on southern Africa as a whole.

It is therefore not surprising that desperate moves are also being made in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) for a 'peaceful settlement'. The international bourgeoisie is well aware that the rise of the struggles in Zimbabwe will quickly become connected to the dynamic of the struggles in An-