Ub arms. Laire is une recipien! of about half of total US aid to Africa problem for the Carter administration is that while it one richest countries in mineral deposits - impenansm nas arreday nad ITs tingers ournt in Carter may be forced to leave Mobuto to his own devices However, the extent of underCover activiTIes DY ше нтенcans ane mne carrois is anyone's guess. It would seem likely that the assassination week leftwardeaning President of the Congo reobies nebuble Was ПОЕ unrelated to ine events in Zaire.
On the other side, the full extent of the Angolan interest One obvious motive une MPLA Katandans - need eliminate reactionary guerrilla bases on the Zaire border with Angola. The ques eves on me Tantastic minera This was the issue around which the Congolese civil war of the early 1960s was fought, as the imperialist powers attempted to sour nat anga trom the tormer beigian Congo.
rate, the MPLA's instrument for intervention in Zaire is a singularly unsavour one. ne natancal censermes were armed ant organised by the Belgians in they vere expelled from the Congo they tound refuge in colonial Aneola. where nev were usee by the Portuguese as a striking force against liberation fighters of the MPLA A well-timed piece of opporCUTISIN COUCH SWITCH sides Dulles out in 1974 support to the MPLAiving their wnen ine strong, but US experts are not optimistic about its capacity to deal with this threat. How they know? Because Zairois have ence active service against the MPLA in Angola.
Australians are divided between TOVaHSIS drunken oats who have rudeness Republicanism Has DOOH gaining ground since the Goyernor General, sine Queen's representative stepped in to Labour Govern. nent in 1975 Since then massive anu royalsı campaign nas doggea Governor quaranteed parliamentary seat JUMBLATT which provided his attraction to organisations like the Communist Party in tneir search to maker than a mass leader. In The had one- Dolica caree! neloec to make ang oreak succession of prime ministers late 1960s when he took up support for the Pales untan movemens MIS DollIcal those of the Palestinian move ment and Party. He reformist whose aims extendTuner manne SeCU Marisation or Lebanese Dotics and the defeat of the Christian threat. His father sinated while ne Was Sud chile ano nIs SisTer LInGE murdered rightists last summer.
As we predicted (hea weeks) 10 March) Avanguardia Operone of the centrist organisations in italy has split in two.
leave the ganisation. This group is poliTormel majority ot ine PouP which tself split in two three weeks ago. A fusion between the two DOCHIS HACEY.
ine decision was announc d during the congress of th Milan federation of AO, just a week before the national con which gained about 20 per cent of the vote in une milan meeting, wHl RIC SISSONS continues our series on one Jubilee that really matters to the working class-the 60th Ann iversary of the Russian Revolution.
The Duma, a mockery parliament, had first been convened in 1906. legislative chamber to complement the Tsarist appointed State Council, the upper house. The Duma had no real powers, was based on a limited electorate and could be dissolved by February the Fourth Duma ended its ne at the isar s decree The deputies in the Duma were undecided as to wetner to accep this dissolution. On the morning of Tauride Palace. An attendant rusned in. soldiers were approach ing. The members panicked. RodWent Provisional Committee. body agreed and left. The soldiers arrived but to greet the However the discretion was the better part of valour and disappeared.
NIGHT During the night of 1/2 March the Provisions Commitee oscus sed with the Executive Committee One sover me Has ouc negotiations Rodzianko was called 10 go to the telegraph office. He refused to leave, unless escorted b HenDers Or ine DovICh, lor Car U being arrested. Here can be seen the control over the city which the Soviet wielded.
Perhaps the leaders of the Soviet were discussing their taking over the Government? In fact, far from Il. Iney, were trying to persuade the Provisional Committee to form a Government based on we buma Menshevik leaders of the sovere evens or rebruary wert a bourgeois revolution, therefore it should be the bourgeoisie with its parties in the Duma that should form the Government. Sukharnov, of a This was the lower the Tsar. On EveryDuma!
Deputies decided bourgeois power.
Social Revolutionaries yamatotorm me bovernment announced the replace Tsarism must be only a The masses having seized the who Constitutional Soviet. They in turn, pressed the parties of the were dismaved The morning papers of 3 March Provisional ately The ruling class and its support- Не, а ers in the allied embassies were delighted. The 11 ministers were word.
Minister, Prince Lvov. What could be better than a Prime Ministe Kadet Democrat main ruling class partyl wealthy and part of the nobility? Needless to say, the workers and the soldiers Amongst the list of minister: there was one name that immedicaught the eye. nerensky member Soviet Executive, had taken the job ol Minister of Justice. The Executive abiding by the Executive decision, he refused. Kerensky lacked any such principles.
SPEECH On the evening of 2. March he suddenly appeared at a plenary session or me soviet ane maue ar impromptu speech. Not only did • Can orte release of all political prisoners, but also asked for sanction to enter the Government. The applause he took to mean a vote of support. To further ovation he exclaimed - I cannot live without the people and if at any time you lose faith in me, kill me'. In the following months, the masses nearly took him at his rome ministers, Kerensky was a raving revolutionary. accepted the need to maintain Sovalty to the entente in its pursuil of the war. The secret treaties were •to De nonoured The demands of the workers for an eight-hour day were met with the call for sacrifice and greater productivity in the war effort. The Minister of Agriculture, Shingarev, set up local land committees whose role was never made clear, but certainly not to give peasants the land.
ASSEMBLY Despite accepting in their Governmental declaration COnvening of a Constituent Assembly on 2s Maren, one monin arter ine revolution began, it was no nearer seeing me light of day. Government had no wish to allow Instead a specia conference was called to work out me electoral aws for me Assemb ly. That never met.
The Government was awaiting better They - longed for victory and peace and an end to the revolution. In the meantime they played for time, but as the days passed by and no action was taken to end the war, let alone to give the land to the peasants and lessen the workers exploitation, the noose around neir necks rentened. m masses suffered from a lack of ponucal cirecuon, mey nad n revolutionary leadership.
nat stuation wowe chantesa hundreds of revolutionary exiles returned to Russia. Among then were Lenin and Trotsky.
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