retically coherent critique of the the workers states which, in its Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. To say it is coherent does not mean we agree with it, but its signiticance is that now everything isup for grabs.
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DAZZLING SUCCESS TOES WaS We WERE SUCCESS of the Special Air Service TOCol in deline with the South Moluccan school siege in the NethCALLUS poison the water supply to appea to the big chers 000d will release the hostage children. Only a mind trained in the occupation of Bellast or Derry bought of that one.
Mogadishu. In the they didn't have the chance to join in the slaughter that was righted when it came to dealing with the Red Army Fract10n. The three Britons who led the attack had had their training with the Sultan of Oman, who continles to receive British troops on loan to deal with an uppity population. cration berween European governments in compilinginformation on "subversives them in this beavy-banded way was meant to be a secret. Inevitably, perhaps, it was British Home Sec retary Merlyn Rees — everyone's Idiot of the Year - who let the cat out of the bag over the Mogadishu Ireland and the Green Goddesses; Bermuda and Belize; Mogadishu and Assen; Hong Kong and Zimbabwe. The common denominator is the presence of British troops at Of course there is only one mili operation. tary representative of Britishi im mentioned:
Lord Carver, the Resident Com- Decembe . But the increasing tendency for Britain to throw its military weight around raises the theeat thar there may be a few more in The first of Britain's overseas tary RegiThe lactic there was te shore ail deposits, could лате Stu, the SAS surpassed itself at Netherlands - an omission muda expedition Of course, the increased co-opand dealing The two Caribbean outings Belice in July and Beeruda in scale. When Britain first sent its Harrier jump-jets to "protect the Helizeans from Guatemala years ago, NATO military observers sat in ships along the shoreline watching this unresisted display of military hardware. The 1977 expedition too was Little more than a showense for British militechnology. Except, of course, that some people - like Socialist Challenge - pur around the malicious rumour that British intervention was not unconnected considerable offTROOP PROTECTORS In Belize there was at beast the pretenoe chat the troops were protecting the population against the Guatemalan dictatorship. The Berdressed up in those humanitarian terits. Two blacks faced the death senlence. The colony's millionaire Prime Minister was afraid of pop ular reaction, so deferred the deci sion to Foreign Secretary David the Gaitskellite mould, told tbe with the executions, and sent the able militant protests Owen must be jostling with Jim my Carter for recognition as im perialisa's "Man of the Year', A part from the heroic defence of White racismo in Bernuda Owen had the distinction of being the List British Foreign Secretary for some time to visit the South Afr ican and Rhodesian Prime MiniThe umpersalist powers have left direct military intervention in Altica up to the French this last year. But when it comes to political Owen-Young plat for an undema . No doubt the bulk of the ratic transition to a neo-colonial Zimbabwe was formulated in Washington. But it is the British Government which has been enthusiastically and none too successfully touting the plan around Africa BACK BREAKING Even with two black nationalist lenders suring dowo to nepotiate with lan Smith (which is not what Britain wants anyway) imperialism still has the problem of how to break the back of the black resist ance, to impose the Owen-Young plan. It is a bit early to say how that will be done, but we can predict another bloody year in Zimbabre in 1978, with British imperialism, faithfully administered by the Labour Government, bearing most of the blame.
has seen the same old story, only mote 30,10c 3car stepped-up repression in the North of Ireland. But atibe same time the exposure of police brutality and ine masterous deaths or two Do dercover British soldiers began to reveal the truth about the British occupation.
And the Brits ended 1977 in the way they intend to continue i 1978: a trade union leader in jail and an opposition paper suppressed. Three cheers for tbe defenders of democracy.
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