The struggle that has been launched promises to be a nara one, long and for the invader commands material and military superiony onv a socimoo ilisation of the entire peasantry and of he uroan workers ang sopulal layers can lastingly defeat the Indonesian invasion. The liquidation of the existing property relations in the countryside is a precondition for this.
The risk of being 'closed up' in the half-island of East Timor is very great. That is why extension of the struggle to the part of the island under Indonesia's comaton accuses teamborance and as canno be done wmoura moo ilisation of the peasantry to overthrow In order to win victory the struggle now going on in East Timor will have to go beyond the limits of the programme currenuy tornunca by rrenun ana fully respond to the interests of the social layers on which it is based. Born in isolation and without deep anti-imperialist political traditions, Fretilin is a movement or nauonar nocratior that can find no third road between the neo-colonial treat and the struggle to full national liberation, which can only The mobilisation of the masses constitutes a very important clement in this struggle, which must be supported becuase it represents a link in the anti-imperialist struggle in the region and because it is fighting against an Indonesan amar actatorship that has not faced any opposition since it took power in 19o0. Ine international dim ension of the situation thus created in Timor must be utilised to denounce inprecor Ertish N° 43 F7 BRI NRY 5 19 The current issue of Inprecor, the fortnightly information journal of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, contains a lengthy analysis of the situation in East Timor as well as a declaration by the USFI - "Solidarity with the Struggle of Fretilin. This issue, which also includes articles on other struggles, can be obtained for 30p (plus 8p & p from Red Books, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1.
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