respective supporters.
to the upsurge by (memories of C did not abate, answers. Cromwell war against the Eritrean people.
is the terror of Robespierre.
democracy and ront of national seir determination The national question by Italian and British imperialiant.
Somali no question about it sell determination also seems strong.
But impersalist interests again con lose of Ethiopia to the Soviet sphere of intiuarice.
Arabia, Egypt Ethiopia from Israel!
The Soviet role hao bean digestrous Afler backing create spheres of oppressors?
The Soviet atlilude these movements.
It is a sad thing, revolutionary socists and peasants. Nobody else will.
11 pou agree with these pri saries is my ares.
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blows THE WAR In the Horn is a tragedy: It is a tale of lost Imperialist powers and the Soviet Union, as well as their In Februsry 1974 the Elhiopian beagants and workers arose in a remarkable upsurge which ultimately led to the overthrow of the feuda: despot, Haile Selassie. The final plow was delored dy juniorany omeets, ano tasponoce first wrangling with the monarch romwell and Charles I) and finally removing COLTON TE UCE Joverned with the support of the pro-Moscow Communis Party, but was opposed by other workers parties and a but continued to gain strength. The Derg finally instituted major reforms, which question the radical Jacobinism of the Derg provided no the Irish patriots Robespierre retused to sancton compele independence for Haiti. Mengistu continues to prosecute a murderous The Derg. deapile Hs Marxist rhetoric, represents the most extreme form of bourgeois radicaliem, Its 'red terror it is progressive against feudal like Pancho Villa and Zapata in Mexico, 11 cannot go beyond that stage. Certainly the revolutionary process in Ethiopia has not yet exhausted itself. But the existing social relations and an accomplishment of all the especially now STOHUSHSWOHE attention on the Horn is a product of imperialism's ruie. Eritrea was arbitrarily dragged into the Ethiopian federation It has an indisputable case for separation. In the disputed Ogaden desert in the south it is again colonia boundaries that are 8: the root 01 the problem. The nomadio inhabitants of the region are but incorporated into One into play as the big powers want to re-establish their hold in the area after the Somalia — from Britain, France, West Germany and the USA, as well as Iran, Saudi Hence too. the becking for years of both the Somalis and the Eritreans it has now tumed its back on them lo support Robesplerre Mangistu, the Ethiopian dictator. This is not Russia's Vietnam as the bourgeois press is saying, echoed by some currents on the left, But if is a case history of the bankruptcy of Soviet foreign policy. If you adhere to the Russian strategy infiuence without overturning existing why not switch sides from one radical nationalist regime to another? Any why not stop helping a movement and switch to the side of their Eritrean revolution. But it is worse than that, for Sowlet attitudes have succeeded in driving the Somalls and even the Eritreans, into the arms of people like the Shah of Iran and Numeiry of Sudan, Imperialism is not known for its concern for the legitimate sapirations and demande of but It is the responsibility and probably us alone -support the struggles of the Eritrean and Ethiopian workers