THE VOLCANO of La Soufrière in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe is expected to erupt any day 'with the power of an atomic bomb'. More than 70,000 people have already been evacuated from the area. Now a new disaster threatens: a cycione. sut ine arrancements made to protect une answer is neighbouring island Martinique, is a colony of France [together French Antilles]. aspect of life nave been distorted to suit the interests ol French imperialism •cent Guadeloupe's exports go to France, and 72 per cent of its imports come from there one ouaner or ine workine population is unemployed. The minimum wage is 20 per cent lower than in France, although cost of living is 30-40 per cent higher Social service benefits are minimal.
mesures which have been takan to deal with the threatened disaster seem likely only to allow the colonial authorities to further distort economic life In imperialism's interests. To combat this the Trotskyists of the Socialist Revolution Group section of the Fourth International] have put forward their own pian to deal wiin tne crisis.
They call on the refugees to take control into their own hands of all relief inside and ousice Ine Populd! committees at the base'. They explain that this is the only way to crack down on market, to prevent price rises, to make sure that big doesn't profit from people's distress.
Red Books is now in temporary premises at 183 Pentonville Road, London N.I, 1923-1928 Opposition clude *The requisitioning of all the big hotels and all army, police and CRS (riot police) barracks for the sole use of the victims' is also amona the measures they propose. Al debts, rents, taxes, etc. for the refugees must be waived. Those who have lost their jobs should be guaranteed 90 per cent of ineir tormer waces like workers in rrance and public works should be set up. rinaly say the GRS , Antilles solidarity must also all the big hotels De organisod nave recentv been closec in marinique must be immediately re-opened and put at the service of the refugees.
Of course, these proposals might pu out the French capitalists a little, but they are the only way to protect the population of Guadeloupe against the disaster which threatens them.
SWP Suit Exposes New FBI, CIA Crimes Hugo Blanco: Como me Deportaron The slander campaion of the workers Revolutionary Party of Gerry Healy, to implicate the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party as 'accomplices of the GPU has been taken up enthusiastically by the bourgeois press.
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But the hostel dwellers' rampage did not significantly affect the impact of the general strike. In any case, the struggle against the racist regime is no longer confined to Soweto and other black urban townships.
On 15 August workers and youth in the "coloured" (mixed race) townships of Cape Town took to the streets following demonstrations by coloured at the University of the Western Cape. The struggle has also errupted in the rural 'homelands" (bantustans), with demonstrations and arson being reported from Mabopane of the Bophuthatswana bantustan, on the same day.
Afraid to lose its huge privileges, the white regime is using the only methods it knows- brute force to keep the black majority in submission. Since police first opened fire on African demonstrators on June 16, governm ent sources admit that 287 people have died, all but three of them black. The
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