THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPM scored an portant sidory in the scatc elections in West Bengal.
A five-party alliance domina d by the CPM won in overa bengal will once again have ensuring that Wes CPM-dominated government with the CPM having an overall majority in its own right. This ten without depending on othe parties in case of rifts Jyoti Basa, the CPM leader, has indicated that he expects no conflicts with business interests ever the problem he is going to face is that the masses, and Calcutta, might not accept this view.
Serday before publication alitical Revolution in Eastern Eu diffik the END THE SOCIAL CONTRACT NOW Orders of 10 or more 10 Cash with orde ON SUND DO Woman For over half a decade they Have been at the recesving una o state repression backed by loca big business interests. They could of anticipatory struggles both to elebrate the CPM's victory and to anticipate some reforms. l they are disappointed the situation could become precarious for the Cry on the mentary front.
It should be recalled that it was after the CPM's victory in 1967 hat she Naxalites split the pare struggle'. This was a failure from which lessons have been learnt An orranssed miss struegie could prove to be a different affair altogetber, especially as this time the CPM will not be able to 1is the excuse of not having an overall majority.
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chief Brigadier Jan Visser, 'bat when their lives were in dange hey had to protect themselve Soweto hy the evening of 16 June, trong them two young children. sunday her ple represent a None of them wasanned. Eleven at Kahahn township near Por Elizabeth arrested more than 100 black youths court sentenced to caning. Like last year students has quickly spread outsidetheSowctocownships, but.the police have also used the last year 1o busld up their weaponryRUBBER BULLETS "Sneeze machines' are the latest — a vicious new way of serving up tear-gas Jinumy Kruger proudly announc using rubber hullets. But, judging by last week's events, they still have a preference for the real variety But we can still draw solace from INC BOWE IT DOES Ok sional inefficiency. eleven dead was ccidentally shot by one of hi There was overwhelming support for the Sowelo Students Representative Council call for a stayaway strike on 16 June. The centre of Johannesburg was almost completely deserted and the townships filled with black-clad marchers. It was a show of strength the police could not ignore. CHRIS O'BRIEN were wounded in Hern Africa.
the activity by black about the need for the and police Minister way connected with this.
cently granted to One of the I policense EXCLUSIVE PICTURE from Brazil shows not troops moving to crush student demonstrations. collengues, and another policeman managed to wound himself in the stomach, chest and shoulder FAKE INDEPENDENCE Prime Minister James Callaghan "statesmanlike spooch on soutbOn Namibia, where pushing whead with its fake indipendence plans againse the wishes was optimistic for a negotiated He was also rather disparaging struggle' (as be insists on calling it;
dence be seems to think that we will continue to find another way"
Unfortunately be was not ques which British Petroleum (with a Government holding) has in the racist regime was in any Nor did he botherto mention Ric police drive LOUS HASSIVE SORIC TO TRE Namibian uranium industry or the licence supply the South African Govern cent share. ment with a military communica Government.
It probably just slipped his memory that the South African SOWETO mar gas victim. 'When police ives were in danger they had to protect themselves: said the Sowero police chief around in Land Rovers built by British Leyland (nationalised) or that the tear gas (see picture) is manufactured by a company in which ICI has a 40 per Healso apparently forgot which which war, which occupied territory not a million miles from the Irish Sea, first developed the rubber butlets which Jimmy Kruger is so proud But to point all that out at the very moment when police were streets of Sowero would be a little tactless. And, when it comes to the Timisnothingif nottactful.
UN From a correspondent THIRTY Chileans have occupied tbe United Narions building in Santiago and started an indefin told what has happened relatives who have disappeared.
carly days, the military junta has resorted to sooner arrests and the on criminal charges as a way of covering up is suppression of BUT CAMEL Among the hundreds of Chile ans who bave disappeared in thi beader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Jorge
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