struggle against Government The past fortnight has seen an extension of the strike wave When nas antected arce sociions of ine economy since the beginning of the year. Recent ondary school teachers, ClOVISIO workers and bank empioveas Real nrice increases in 197 wère of the order of 18 or 19 per cent. White are the hardest hit Іпиатоп. • nave received wage increases of around 10 * NAMIBIA The Turnhalle constitutional conference on Namibia, stage-managed or me coum Aircar Government nas oroouced its proposals for a draft constitutLegislative authority will be La National Assembly of ou.inese would be represent atives of ine various racia sno tribal groups proportional to their suffrage jected because that would lead 'domination of one peopie oy anoner planned to marry Hitler to the sister of Jose Antonio Primo Rivera, founder The aim anasty OT =m bire But Magda Goebbels nothing: would IDIe. •i nuer ca now have e Duler in nis contais Iom InE erst Worldwar Wich nas made him an invalid for ever.
The Fuhrer would Bandaranaike. major parties. of number of SLFP Parliament voting against CP MPs would have abstained. In any event CP dilemma the SLFP was critical of the way the Government The strike wave which hit Sri Lanka [Ceylon] earlier this year has had its effects on the coalition Government of Mrs The Ministers of the ex-Trotskyist LSSP were dismissed in 1975. Then, last month, the Communist Party withdrew its support from the 'United Left' Government with the capitalist parties, under strong pressure from the workers Already Bandaranaike had suspended Parliament to avoid discussion on a no-confidence motion. Now she has to call a general election and faces realignments of the A Ceylonese Trotskyist contributes these observations on the possible realignment of parties.
members Then a number of ally, che A much larger bloc of nancied June proroganon the 'right' behind the Madame.
In the context or a possiDic defeat and a certain embarassment to the SLFP and Madame persondecided to prorogue Parliament - that is to close session and recall it on 19 May.
In any event, in doing this, Government was orced 1o dis reported to Parliament. This cannot be done while Parliament 1s not in session. Therefore Madame had to forgo the Emergency. This itself will give some idea of the internal crisis of the SLFP-CP The CP has come out with a statement strongly disapproving of But in my view this is just bluff. They are the happiest people because Madame has saved them a great deal of embarassment by prorogation.
The LSSP is happy. They have also criticised the prorogation but in very mild terms. ney do not want to antagonise any elements in the SLFP with whom they may be able to collaborate in the future.
It is aggresively campaigning for its "Socialist Front'. No doubt the bloc of the SLFP - the lefts" -to ioin as well hen. of course the CP will follow suit Whether or not this will come to fruition is difficult to say at the moment. The lefts are watchins the situation. Their first priority is to regain their seats. Therefore if the Government uses its power and money effectively in the next 100 days, to win a substantial section of the voters through artificial job creation, relief to farmers and so on, they will wait within the SLFP to ensure that MPs in their block maintain SLFP nominations.
SPLIT Therefore nothing can be taken for granted. The SLFP could split Socialist Front emerge, arriving at an agreement with may produce no stable Govern-
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plained why the plan came to be