new vistas for the mass struggle in the Arab East.
assessment of their significance.
Did the uprising have any effect economic opening' to the West?
The confusion in governmental HE MUTE ULCOTLE WEEDE regime to retreat on a number of fronts. For instance, the cuts in food subsidies, the Imamental:
Cuediety annulie. Then the regime started to say that the cuts had only been discussion and not for immediate implementation!
In general, however, we should not expect the policy of an econcinic opening lo imports and capital investment from the im perialist countries to change sigtually lead to capital coming into Egypt from either the imperials: countries or the Arab oil produis is a different quests e think that the entre of 1 Eggplian masses onto the political scene will scare off even those might have been stupid enough to believe the regime's propoganda before these events. What about the supposed liberalisation und relaxation The mass rising in Egypt in January shook the regime to its foundations. After the sethacks in Lebanon and the demoralisation of much of the Arab left and Palestinian movement, these protests against food price rises opened Nine months after these momentous events M. JAFAR asked S. YOUSIF, an Egoptian revolutionary, for his censorship that the bourgeois press talks about so much?
Here the regime's response was politically active student societies and clubs in the universities and impnsonca nunareasor sen-ping activists across Egypt A hysterical anti communist te left was portrayed as sabe airs who had incited the mass completely spontaneus, anything the far left lagged behind the masses in their understanding of the situation Bur the Sadat regime went even recognised Party of Juring tie uprisin This pressure led eventually b Secretary, Lufti Al-Khol his position as editor of the left journal Talia, which is funded by he Ahram foundation, alon Vith another well-known Arah Meckly calce Kos Both publications have tionally served as an officially of canctioned safety valve for the But the regime is likely to use repression very selectively and on the whole lightly, as any mass response would certainly topple it. We can see the contortions this insolves in the case of the two probibited journals.
1 Talio in partioular they a now colering the rinth of the Egyptian legal sys tem.
in upending legal and administrative procedures as opposed to brutally and directly repressing evolutionary left is to threate very hard suspended sentences en years. Tor belonging to organisation. then le out with a permanent threat of being taken hack in to serve their sentences if the authorities so decide.
Much of the hourgents press verage of the Jumuary ever Egyptian Workers Communist Party. Can you tell us something about This organission politics. wet in the End win oripin class?
This orpanisation, like all th Al-Yousit. universities. Its base is primarily tradi- student and pelty an as yet smited in Hoence in the working class Ideologically the organisation lasserismi ised Stalinism, and its theoric sending Is refers against 1t The people are revolutiona and left groups Tace in the studen bourgeois with CLIL UL But it has not criti these developments HERCE The EWCP is. through a deep organisational questioos This has been under the same name.
Workers DIE STELL and they have nor put forward slogans for workers control and workers NOW passing crisis as a reflec tion of its partial loss of popular ity through the rise of the ather The loss of many cares and the bureaucratic manner of handling large splits just before January.
Three currents were formed, all leading 1 do not What ahoet the other groups Many organisations grew up in the period since 1975. The most Important are the & June organi sarion, the Democratic People's Party and che Trorskyists, the Revolutionary Communist The Troskyists are the only current to have criticised Stalin alise perspective for the cion in Egypt, Linking it up with However, the blow directed to the organisa tica with the arrest of many of its elicatected is activiry for a As for the obers, quite frankh see significant differ between them and the canonstrabion: large numbers of workers rais ed the demand Down with the Govertment" and For a workers government"
ZAMBIA: The Zambian GoyMEET ONS OMELIMIN ATILS against British Petroleum (with a majority scare sbarcholding iaries. Among the charges is the charge tbat the companies conSmith regime in power in Rhodesia ASSH: Thirty-five prisoners in about camps in me cras nave begun a hunger strike against the lack of 'elementary human NAILS IN CDC DOVICE COICE.
USA: A congressional repor reveals that the oiled Stati wastes enough food each rear la feed Dearly 50 million people.
THE MOST Important theor erloar work to have come out a sky's The Revolution Belreyed That Is now Emest Mandel Eest German diss/dent Rudol oncritical, review in the latest JOVE TAD issue of Inprecor Series), also contains an sis of the diftarancas in the mant as expressed al the Paris programme WIN THERE Commun.gt Parm between groups supporting the Fourth In tomations Mexico and the USA; articles o Vance's visit to Peking and the elections, and a declaration by the Fourth International callin for US withorawel from Pana almostal! iMG branches. or b post from Impreco London N1 2XP [add 10p l0
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