national mourning deceive you. the - the 220,000 Europeans, companies and them Christianity e easy victims was a against the African LCH OCODIC.
tor ine smooth f the population so that a few can make maximal profits. The Church itself is a fantastic property-owning institution whose interests can only be well protected by the present set-up, in which the wealth of the country is so unfairly But you cannot exploit or cheat people for ever. The black man is now rising up in arms, and the greater the threat to the system, towards viet back waves. Because bester AFGHANISTAN towards their black slaves. Because western governments are controlled by the same people with property and other financial interests in There is widespread student unrest in Kabul Rhodesia, these governments have not seriously tried to change the trend of events.
Since between the ment which noting more, the nanas the Friends of '60s some organizations gave Roberto's Revolutionary Government in Exile based in Congo-Kinshasa, and the movement is now almost defunct. The intention was to destroy it from within. The British Left, therefore, should also help the liberation movements from Southern Africa to guard against such deadly infiltration.
Chenhamo Chimutengwende continuing street demonstrations following death of a student at the hands of police three weeks ago. Since it gained independence in 1956, Tunisia democratic state.
of US experts'. Its greatest claim to western alone of the reactionary Bourguiba, Tunisia's president, has come out openly for recognition of a state of Israel.
Lebanon, have tacitly accepted the permanence of Zionism, Bourguiba has revealed his position quite openly.
result of the class nature of the Tunisian state. result or me cids natale or Bourbuiba's seizure of power was effected after go to class. a ruthless war waged against the socialist forces, led by Saleh Ben Yussef, who was shot down in building themselves has led to the following were eliminated by 1957 and for years the a new bourgeois elite captured the state halls used by the police, all kinds of union or machine, the unions were taken over and academic meetings. In April a student whistled militant unionists purged. Similarly, the student at some police in the Economics Faculty. The union, UGET, was integrated into the Tunisian police then launched an indiscriminate attack state. In 1963 the Communist Party was banned after a Muslim fanatic group tried to halls, the bar and the lavatories - particularly SHOOT TIe President; they continue the underground work, and sent a delegation to the recent Moscow Conference. In 1963 another group of anti-imperialist students founded a were arrested. magazine Perspectives in France and the radicalisation of the student body began. The paralysis of first major confrontation came in June 1966 when many students were imprisoned, but the decisive conflict came in June 1967 when of young workers, with those who are active in students demonstrating against British and American support for Israel were framed and sentenced for sentenced for inti-government activity The leader of this was en Jennet, a theolog tudent, who came from a peasant family i southern Tunisia and had been active as socialist militant in the UGET opposition.
In March 1968 a strike at Tunis university was demonstration was partly due to this. followed by the arrest of hundreds of students, who were then tortured and isolated in prison University was in the hands of the students for some months. Two show trials then took place, in which the defendants were framed and May. They passed a new law on banditry and accused of a plot to overthrow the state. One group, tried in September 1968, were charged with belonging to the Perspectives group and killed a student, the state of emergency was being in touch with the Chinese embassy - who gave them a type-writer, it was alleged. A 1969) second group, tried in February 1969, were charged with belonging to the Tunisian branch University, of the Ba'th party.
Now, hundreds of progressive intellectuals are in Tunisia's jails, either held without trial or framed on absurd conspiracy charges. Much of liberalisation and Workers' Commissions were the information on them comes through a French agronomist, Jacques Chabert, who was framed with the Tunisians and put in Bizerta jail, but then released following pressure in France This repression in Tunisia is a direct result of the country's dictatorial internal system and its forming part of the world imperialist system.
All opposition has been systematically eliminated in the interests of Bourguiba's new ruling class and their imperialist masters. But the Arab world as a whole is approaching a decisive revolutionary stage, as the workers fellahin and intellectuals Palestinian struggle clash with CONGO supporting the Reports of violent repression in the Congo have reactionary iust reached us. ccordine to a
Black Dwarf, Re Squatters Campaign. Congratulations the individuals concerned, and many more ocesses in the near future. Why not No.10 week-end when Harold down Here in Glasgow as in many other cities sands of families live in the most appalling Most of these families will spend rest of their lives in such sloms, as the rate ebuilding new houses in Glasgow has fallen This is the city where a strong wind is s likely to blow the roofs of 20,000 homes WASTE DaDCl as apparently forThe corporation has apparently gotten the horrors of the storm of January I appeal to Black Dwarf to provide the leadership to remove all the families from their trible plight. I suggest as a start to the ampaign a march on London from every slun • the country to a rally outside Buckingham Palace, and dare I suggest it occupying the said remises (or at least the spare rooms At last the Duke of (WORK) would se for himself that we all listen to his advice and at last have taken our fingers out.
Robert Gibb 158, Allison St Glasgow S.2.
Dear Dwarf, As one of the young workers I keep earing about I thought I'd drop you a line The following may be a bit garbled, but so am The affluent Midlands - I work as a fitter in a factory making magnetic equipment. I also do electric arc and gas welding which are Dwarf's self-examin ald focus on the problems nary left especially the of the left and the people who feel a vague with it as a result of the Vietnam May events the general with established political sectarianism of the left reflects its disorientation during the thirty or more years in which it has existed in profound isolation from any genuine MasS working-class movement. The persistance of sectarianism in the present period groups parading themselves as the British section of the Fourth International. oblivious of the fact that they are a tiny minority of a revolutionary left which as a whole is still not a meaningful presence in the British working class Is nowever, muen more serious present period because opportunities are at last opening themselves up. And although it is unrealistic to belleve that they will disappear overnight, because genuine political differences which will only be resolved in struggle, it is necessary to fight now for a minimal revolutionary unity and against attempts to claim a leading role by formal devices (like the adoption of pretentious descriptions of the kind already mentioned). If the Dwarf seriously wants to promote left unity it should not pander to the self-centred illusions of any tendency. It should actively promote a debate in its columns between representatives of different tendencies on the forms of unity, and on the politics underlying them. It is clear that the work of united fronts like VSC, PSC, and the new Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign BUSE be extended.
Stratesy towards shero bestige set hin the trade unions should discussed in common, as should electoral tactics. A greater measure of common action, and possibly some sort of organisational unity short of a full merger, may well be possible between some groups. The dialectical attitude - that the left will develop "through struggle" - should not obscure the need for initiatives to ensure that the unity of the left corresponds to the requirements of struggle in the present period.
The present divisions cannot now be afforded, if their result is that the Dwarf can offer young revolutionaries immediate perspective except to read The Black Dwarf and Ted Short was the subject of endless placard few instances of sheer bloody mindedness from puns on the National Union of Teachers demonstration of 6,000 for more pay and smaller classes on July 9.
DON'T SELL US SHORT DON'T SHORT CHANGE US Other placards exhorted teachers to JOIN THE CLASS SMALLER CLASSES, MORE PAY FOR TEACHERS. Someone else had been doing some useful sums. The managing director of British Leyland earns the same as 50 teachers. Randal Cremer Infant School teachers trom Shoreditch carried AVERAGE TAKE HOME PAY 613 PER WEEK. WE WANT LIVING WAGE NOW. They were accompanied by a mother from Stepney MOTHERS SUPPORT THE TEACHERS' CLAIM. She said she spoke for quite a few others who couldn't be there from Stepney.
The teachers want an interim pay award which would raise the basic scale in proportion to the rising cost of living, which the 14 year a more democratic form of education. deal agreed to by the NUT executive doesn't. They stressed that they were concerned especially about the effect of overcrowding on school children - 40,000 teachers short. The NUT representative from Munster primary school said. "If we don't do anything the children are definitely going to suffer." She added she had never been on a chopping demonstration before. She must have been fairly typical of the majority of people on the march. The general atmosphere was one of good-humoured determination but there were a the police. charged, 15 minutes after he had started a One was picked and chant or one policeman's number for obstruction. A police inspector watched a large group of men walk past on the road and then started to hustle three girls onto the pavement in an extremely officious manner. One of them commented: "Well, my opinion of the police goes right down."
As a teacher from a boys' secondary school in West London observed, teachers in the London area have realised the only way they could do something about their conditions was take action themselves. He felt the demonstration was a small thing but a hopeful one, and thought perhaps many of them would draw further conclusions about the nature of the society they lived in.
RANK AND FILE is a group of left wing teachers in the NUT who want democratisation of the union, better conditions for teachers and They produce a paper called Rank and File and there are several groups throughout the country. Contact 87 Brooke Road, London N.16. LEFT TEACHERS IN FURTHER EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES.
An action group is just being set up which i concerned with the threat to liberal studies, th of part time further education teachers, and with the general educational situation of day release students especially. Contact Nigel Wade, Sa Palmerston Road, London N.22. Tel 888 4165.