* Swaziland Soubhuza Il has been king of waziane sice oss. maxine nim ine longest reigning mon arch in the world. Two weeks exposition Wigs * Fascists Which city is the new home of LoDez heca.
Argentinian triple A and advisor to 'Isabelita' Perón?
Which city houses the European centre of the Dina, the chilean secret poncer Hecular readers winot EDe surprised to discover that the nswer to both is Madrid -opez Rega's bodyguards were seen anname a care u quelles. a Madro suouro. He has 40 million.pesetas invested in property the tourist resort of Marbella supposed to be a secret There is good reason for Four gentinian junta's secret police nave been seen in Barcelona, no. on Lopez necds wai and aoparentv outo kill nim. inev have got cold again - - they are now in Franc probably find him sooner or Accordina to the Montonerguerilla organisation Argentina, there are some 100 secret police in Spain.
our are aneren-wine exies To madazine received information that the Dina offices Avenida del Generalisimo, Madrid. operations base is near waacio de conoresos y posiciones just around corner.
A number of documents indicate that Colonel Edwin embassy Madrid, generally assumed 10 be head of the Dina in Europe, the fascist movement in Spain. * Sahara A piess conference last week in the middle desert venues rosano Claims victories ine Moroccar and Mauritanian armed forces.
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aeDosITS • nence tne interest cispieved ov ate netchbours the Algerians who A few months ago Polisario GUeTas destroyed name me Mauranian aitorse as far as we know, the other Polisario displayed 52 Mauritanian prisoners to Western journalists. All ine orisoners seemed ciao to be out of a war which has cost King soubnuza occasion for reasons best to abolish the Parliamentary system aer which me country nas been covemned or me to vears oinis reign. Swaziland will now be run bunties called Tinkhundla'.
* United States The Revolutionary Marxist Covoted National Conterence to seek fusion Socialist the American upporters of th Fourth Internavional. The RMC was pre Mousiv a tencency witnime international Socialists have links with the British RMC has differences For musemamonal.
InEl SWP in Outain. regaras ine soviet Union and the East European countries as regards of prerequisite tor a tull discussion and testing in the class struggle of the differences that Therefore the RMC nas emDarneo on a penod or JomE worK win our Amencan comrades with a view to the fusion of the two organisations. *South Africa South African defence spending increased by 21.s per cent the budget announced by Owen Hor wood on 30 March.
stands at a record agionan annual soending per white head of approximately E275.
At the same time the Bantu Education Department budget was increased by 50 per cent to 278 million. That is an annual spending, per African head, of £4.87½1 -rrench-Trained Moroccan DHO! explained cheerfully.
two years.
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CU. comoatvity guerillas. Many ot the maurdemoralised, crimination in favour of Arabs in me army.
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Italy, the only European country where une economic crisis is snato er than in Britain, applied to the Internatona Vonciary CunG ford loan. The IMF set down conditions which. by one of those happy co incidences, were just Government was trying to imple ment anyway.
The parallel with Denis Healey's Letter of Intent' is not just obvious — if is deliberate.
The coincidence does not stop there. Healey's cuts could only be tribal carried our because tne enders o the trade unions were not prepared to mount a ngnt. counterparts went even further.
The Andreotti Government ori ginally agreed with the IMF to cut real wages by removing the effects of recent rises in indirect taxation 'basket' is the index by automanc pay rises are calculated in line with the rise in the cost of who These cost of living agreements Have offered some against inflation for thirty years. But the weakness has always been that the Government's control of the index has enabled it to put up the prices of goods not included in the basket.
But this time the union leaders did Andretti's job for him. They presented an a ternaave Government proposal which in volved changing tne weignung o three items in the basket they proudly would mean a reduction of 1% points in the index over the coming year — a wage cut of 3.600 lira a month!
PRIVATE When the Government introduced its austerity plan last Octe ber, Luciano Lama, member of the Communist Party (PCI) and genera secreary or te cure unIo federation, to launch nis own paign against the index linked in creases. He claimed that they only benefitted the higher paid sections of workers and should be scrapDed. It never crossed his mind tha the way to help the low-paid was ine extension or automalic pay ments to all workers, index under the control of the workers' organisations themselves Luciano Barca, a leading PC economist who was consulted by the Government nouncement of the austerity plan attitude to the negative conclusion to the negotiations, which have already taken too long, would have serious repercussions on Italy's credibility."
But the time has passed since the Ine or what the ernment and financiers new tanan to the membership.
ENOUGH which defend their living Many WOrKCES.
protection struggle of students against fascist attacks Amendola, - news.
announced all good faith ...
takes on new faces.
took the opportunity private camorder"
against the students.
from the students in with the all over the country. alternative movement WOrKerS CILner before the talks:
tions of infiltration PCI could openly attack the indexlinked system. Although it continues to give tacit support to the Christian Democratic Government by abstaining in the Chamber of Deputies, the growth of a militant oppositon in une workers move ment has forced it to undermine -ne mneexce bavments more suory Even so, there is nothing too subtle about a wage cut. Already a statement by a group of rank and file trade unionists is circulating, attacking this sell-out to the Govinternational and calling on leaders to account for their actions Recent weeks have shown that many workers have had enough of the PCT's shadowing the Government and are demanding a fight to standards.
PCI members among them, have sided with the proposed Education Law and the The PCI has done its best to muddy the issues. Take Gioirgio La member Central Committee: "It isn't just a matter of isolating and defeating manifestations of fascist violence, but also ine pontical posions which are linked to them. It's not a cuestion or zood or bad rain. even among the 'squadristi" (fascists) of What Amendola fails to mention is that the fascists of 1919 were out to smash the organisations of the working class, while the students today are defending their organisations against those same fascists. Even some Central native. Committee memoers couldn t stomach Amendola's attack. structure is when ne was challenged, Amen dola replied that fascism always But there was not a murmur of cussent an are camersno wier li came to calling a demonstration in For when Luciano Lama ordered an anti-lascist strike This explains why workers were avoid them. only too ready to take their cue shouting Lama down at a series of meetings But the new within student offers little to such movement nas managed to so are tser tron the mass of students and apparen- compromise my give substance to rei accusa fascists, -ne autonom. resolute ooposed to the 'Establishment' (in which solutions are given to dressing as Red Indians, ted. Prime Minister Andreotti [above] presents his wage-cutting plan. Only wage increases calculated on a workers price index provide effective defence against the fascists which remains tirm under the control of the workers and students themselves.
Already assemblies of Spanish workers, like that at the Roc factory near Barcelona, have set up defence pickets, armed, to defend their strikes and neighbourhoods. The election of defence squads reduces the possi bility of irresponsible actions b fectiveness of the protection.
During me present struggies a student has been killed by police He is onlv the latest in a series of casualties inflicted on the Italian workers movement. Man workers are realising that the Italian police. like the Spanish, will provide no protection indeed, the pickets will often have to protect them selves from the police.
But, equally, the cost of indi vidual reprisals and the danger of isolation from the mass movement is high. Increasing numbers of workers and students will begin to look elsewhere for an answer.
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Italian trade union leaders have negotiated a deal which will cut most workers' wages by at least £2.50 a