retreats and demoralisation into the transitional government. uous.
FAILURE These attacks have not only failed to reduce workers' combativity significantly, but have even permitted the strengthening of mobilisations and vigilance of the workers. But given the absence of a central alternative perspective from the MPLA, the selective repression by the FNLA could lead to localised Capitalising on the insecurity that the FNLA is generating in Luanda, UNITA is appealing to the backward layers of the Angolan masses by its demands that workers be revolution repatriated to their regions of origin. way it hopes to rebuild the base that it has lost from the massive departure of the white colons - the base which provided its entrance (1)
AMBIGUOUS (2)
In the face of the radicalisation of the (3) FLEC: masses, the MPLA's response has been ambig Beginning from a conception that views the mass movement as an instrument for improving the relationship of forces at the top, the MPLA supported the mobilisations in order to break its way into the government. A (4) heterogeneous movement founded on the basis of the urban petty bourgeoisie, the MPLA falls somewhere between the limits of a petty bourgeois gradualist nationalism and an empirical revolutionary approach with a socialist dynamic. Its political limitations do not The most radicalised elements of the urban workers are assembled primarily in the rank-and-file committees of the MPLA, and because of the position it occupies in the process of capitalist exploitation, this vanguard, with those organised in the UNTA trade union move ment, are the spearhead of the entire revolutionary process today. But these committees are locked in gradualist Maoist formulations and in tail-ending the MPLA leadership; their political response is insufficient to lead to real independance permitting their total emancip ation and the end to capitalist rule - the central question being posed by thousands of workers in their on-going struggles in factories, There are already elements in the MPLA aware of the stakes, who define themselves around a class struggle position, and are fighting for the emergence of an overall anticapitalist alternative. Against the ambiguous response of the MPLA, they are developing propaganda for self-organisation and self-defence, popularising and giving militant support to examplary workers' strikes, denouncing the imperialist grip on the Angolan economy linking the struggle for independence to the struggle for social transformation and socialist Julius Raranja Based on an article by C. Gabriel in Inprecor No 31.
FNLA: Angolan National Front of Liberation, rightist organisation financed ov d mixture or iviaoist American and Zairean aid, led by Holden Roberto.
MPLA: People's Liberation Movement of Angola, leaDy Acostinno Neto Liberation rront or tne caoinda Enclave. Two factions exist, one in Brazzaville (the Congo) and the other in Kinshasa (Zaire), the two cities that harbour the giant Gulf UNITA National Union for Total Independ ance of Angola. Led by Jonas Savimbi, past collaborator with Portuguese troops, UNITA is a -nonust movement rounded on al regionalist basis in the centre-south around Nova Lisboa. Supported by China, it has a strong base among the now depleted white colons.
inflation N44 063362 063362 red weekly If the cure to inflation appears relatively simply why don't the capitalists carry it out? The answer to this lies both in what would be the consequences of serious cutting of the budget deficit and the measures which would be necessary to carry it out