always been started the interpretations of Never since revolution' all at clients to of this existence.
The Saudi the British monarch.
is Shi'ite the most IT is still not quite clear who latest round of fighting in the Arab peninsula.
What is not in dispute is that the Democratic Republic of Yemen [PDRY] was established, there has been a consistent attempt Oman. by imperialism and its local undermine Arabians have While consistently backed the reactionary North Yemeni regime. Yemen Iran under the Shah backed the barbaric Sultanate of Oman, language, recently graced with a visit by The reason for this hostility to the PDRY was simple. It was The militant reactionary imperialist regime in the region.
opposition, moreover, was neither verbal nor limited broadsides against the United States. It gave military sid and training to guerillas fighting against the Sultan of The North Yemeni regime was inebted to Saudi Arabia both materially and politically.
the of separate North and a South Blacks any national rationale — there is a common culture, and an uneven historic unity were are very suaro ponnca and economic differences.
North led by royalists and sion traditional rulers in that region It is backed by US imperialism.
The South is the control of creme en petty-bourgeois nationalist organisation, internationally al igned to the Cubans and the USSR. The Chinese who initially backed the PDRY have since switched their support to the North.
There was a Saudi attempt to overthrow the southern government in 1972. A full scale war was launched.
The invasion was halted after a week, but it was accompanied by a shock announcement that the two Yemens had united. This was obviously a concesfrom the South Arab League pressure. But it remained on paper.
The present conflict is a continuation of the old divisions. The United States has shipped in a massive supply of military aid. The Saudis have withdrawn their troops from the "peace-keeping force' in the Lebanon and their placeu forces on alert.
It is obviously a case of Iranitis: the fear that the overthrow of the Shah might encourage the disease to spread in the whole peninsula.
DOCESS MUSe be cras the PDRY and its failure to fulfil its own programme. The like Angola Afghanistan, has modelled itself on Stalinist monolithism.
In all three cases it is the East Germans who are training the police There democratic life. The masses remain outside politics But the PDRY must be given support against the North. Its important strategic position would make it an invaluable for overthrowing feudal-tribalist regimes dotted TONNA Be T For that reason the imperialists want to overthrow the covernment. And for thai reason we must defend it.