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By Charles Lister in Kabul WHEN the Party of and surprise in the Queen Mary factions, Parcham Khalq (The People), crumbled. were sent abroad as responded.
This deputy *socia is deficult to speaker fron It is difficult happened in Alain previous regimes Ogier) weren't anything new. Marxist Growth to have taken place.
Planning, "Total agricultural products per cent; and production of The land reform, typical peasant Street to refuse to sow, been for nothing.
т 1979 Page 10 Democratic Afghanistan [PDPA] overthrew President Daoud in April West. Was it a revolution or a coup? And the debate The takeover was the product of a fragile alliance between two PDPA (The Flag) and which rapidly The Parchami ministers 'ambassadors' and then recalled for consultations -a classic scheme to which few if any This left the way clear for Khalg leader Nur Mohammed Taraki and Hafizullah Amin to assess AlgialIslan April 1978 and the early months of this year. It appears that the 'countryside sat still, passively observing. The had also relied heavily on Soviet aid, so the Russians But some economic growth seems According to figures released by the Ministry of volume of gross increased by for about 6 per cent; total volume of gross industrial production increased by 4 the total gross public and mixed enterprises increased by 6 per cent."
however, • has the as run into considerable problems in the form of Afghan traditionalism. The response the government's gift of parcels of land is fearing that the government officials will return and take back both land and crops meaning that the work would all have The feudal relationship between the landless, the sharecropper and the US S URUZGAN work, evidence majority "tribesmen' military accompany Tions.
The atmosphere here in Kabul is unlike that usually very politics , but few have a kind word dream probing On talking and pampered army. Even this has seen unrest and defections; as a social base for the revolution it is certainly no substitute for the masses.
Amin is desperate for time. But it will require a considerable amount of sweet-talking and material persuauc the great of Afghans to forget old feudal values and forgive the regime's ruthless acts. And so, since fierce cannot be expected to respond to mere requests for patience. the napalming of villages goes on.
Revolutionary Marxists will argue that the solution to the crisis is not a promises for doaberul wonderful credibility) it The solution essentially political: the first steps being a healthy nationalities policy and conditions of workers demcoracy which extend beyond paper declaratUnfortunately for the Afghan people there is no group or party willing to fight on these questions. Yel without them a genuine independent socialist Afghanistan remains a pipe few disconcerted idealists in Kabul Intercontinental THE background to the overtbrow of