struggles place in the South Asinn DEnL CAL CROCTS sea-bed re power. totally ialists", they ruling class parties. he socin Puerto Rican Jade Rican Socialist The United further wormanen conBM-C the possibility of a CommunisH resolution on Olaf. Single more post tree. THE elections in Sri Lanka have completed the process of political change which has been taking conriWith the tal of Mrs Bandaranaike nove of the politi Emergency who SurVIVed the explosions which shook Southi Asia in 1970-71 remains All shared similar characteris tics: they called themseives 'soc utilised an antiinere denounced as lets by were denounced as 'leftists their right-wing opponents. Thu their displacement has seen not the rise of new Marxist parties, bat the re-assertion of the politi cal power of the more traditional EMBARASSING National Party (UNP) of J.R. Jayawardene has won an astounding victory. HE immediate stated that his "embarrassingly intee merall malont excluder 'national government'- The Bandaranaike party has retained only 5 seats No. 11 (new series) inc ludes articles on Euro Spain, South Africa, Pakistan and energy and capitalist There are still copies of the leat lasua containing Soolallat Domacracy and the Dictcoples 30р plus 10p påp from: lepreNI 2XP. Five copies or and the nationalist Tamil United From has replaced it as the main opposition party:
The ex-Trotskyist LSSP has finally been accorded its just deserts as has the Commanist Party, Both parties supported the and defended the bruta, repression of the far let JVP. Both have been wiped out electorally The electoral defeat is bound to open and it is not impossible that centrist currents wirbin the party might prepare a split.
UNCLE -NEPHEW PARTY The UNP (known in Sri Lanka as the Docle-Nephew Party) is committed to free COUCH LEE Friendship with the USA and a whole garnut af social policies. Its election demaEnamel; attacking Bandaranaike's appalling record oa civil liberties, must now be used against it to demand the and unconditional release of Rohana Wijeweera, Lionel Bopage and other impri soned leaders of the JVP, (We will be carrying a more detailed analysis in future issues).
inprecor Eurocommunists and the Kremlin Face New Times From Moming Star 23 July.
SOUTH AFRICA: Brigadie Jan Visser, cbe Soweta polic hief, left London in a hurr demonstrators had occupied his hotel room. In the room they discovered a tary entry which indicated that he intend ed to study riot control lech niques in Treland and Holland well as visiting Scotlan Yard. The go-berween for thes Visits was to he Patrick Weich man, the London security chief of the ARio-Amercan Corcoration is a formber Chilean Police Chief 9 wanted to see the decadence -EW I RAVE DOAT DEL ALISSLET apor the a red to hippy colony. In the North of Ireland he wanted to 'study a conflict situation.
FRANCE: Workers at the oc cupied Lip watch Taclory In Besancon have folled an cempe to cur the : gas main into the tactory, There bas beer consistect saborage of produc including the theft of 100,000 watch movements last week, apparently sanctioned by the authorities.
SPAIN: Almost unnoticed demonstrations in Spain's jsils were the prison sentences on SVE DOLL JOC MILE DRIL demonstration last December,
organisation's patron saint.
Italian far left. it seems that PAUP leader Lucio Magri has taken to heart TCHAIHCAI TOr mula of the Great Helmsman. On 27 February he decided to set in motion a soltin his party' Central Committee by virtually expelling a minority group with no appo, a spis mal was tadfied without consulting the membership.
This says a great deal about the leadership's methods, which were confirmed by the publication of thc Document of 62' thar Ser ray bet ie publicatio •Without destruction, there can be no construction. This quotation from Mao Tse-tung hangs in the place of honour on the wall of the Rome headquarters of the PdUP (Party of Proletarian Unity), under a full-length portrait of the ANNA LIBERA continues her series on the crisis of the constituted the political basis for the split. Tils document Committee and 30 members of the Central Committee of Avanguardia Operaia (Workers Vanwithout informing the rest of the two organisations.
In fact tbe split took place along the lines of the two components tbat came together form the PdUP in February 1976 the old Manifesto which had come Communist Party (PCD) chl-Biton onE (Italian Socialist Party of Proletanan Emits)
represents the the working class as a including ils vanguard: il conrains the seeds HOLSET CAILY revolutionaries is to serve as an wals external pole of attraction to aid in the developient of the pany' SWERT WIR S WHI COd programme of Il Manifesto, and io win the party as a whole to the TEana Dr sac c wing RHYTHM The polst is to work towands a reconstitation of the werkers moveren:
3,400,000 leet march to the rbythe PUP's leaders, puts it.
TOC TOE BILE This allernative must be SSCH InDrOEI point for union left, and it muse be built by uiting The Foa wi rentiare itsel quest ot powera The Party's into stewards in the podium.
missoitrecisceris. ederation). ample the anion leadership.
Io the old PSIUP historic revolu 50 the task of programme Used an sary to build an ECHEN or to 'make the PCT's left, LUTE S Rossanda, anolier of Sed by Antonie PSIUP.
Jornt, conLESLEYL the trade parasitic reflection does nor diffroi Magri's gradualist strategy for the con SERA -lack of homo bas led to a lack of uniformity in coe ai us Tounamg congres ies practice. Rossana Rossanda, speaking of the PaUp's interLa niceting ol stop Kome, described this way: "There was one Ene al Panther one in the hall, and still a tlird one on th At thie podium were the PaUP anion leaders who defend tbe line DF ioc amon barcaucracy secretary of the FLM (metalworkers union) and Gio vanhi, secretary of the CGIL PCI-dominated union Giovanni, for esvoted to unnrove thi ecent decree to undermine thi system of automatic pay tises "so as not to disrune the un ty o.
Thali were the union CNOTE uTO AE TUS TH ULCe differences: with the orientation of the leaderstips. On the buses arriving from the Milan indes trial areas were the shop stewards who wanted to express the opposition of the working class van guard sectors to the austerity in the context of the PCl upport for the austerity palic bese differences could only in rensify, For Maçri the linie of retorsing the PCI is more valid Io view of the bankrupecy of going to deepen, strengiaening the chances of winning it over to making a left turn. Therefore it i imporant oot lo do anything thar might injure this prospect. lt b necessaty for the PCI and Social ist Party lo present an emergency Dreams Wich te le win Christian masimalis. In his repor co the Central Committee mee ng where the split took plac Magri argued that It was nece orpanisation *capable of proposing and imunity of the entire and of pushing the tradi tional organisations to make a 'Ir, on the other hand, a force ar a grouping of forees forms ti he left of the PCI which secks ti xpress ilself by riding the wave of anger and protest in a direc using them outside any strategic context as a weapor gainst the "political cadre" an thus opening up a frontal breach inside the workers movenscat, a maximalist force acting as the more being and guilty spain, conscience of social extremism such a force would nor only be inadequate in relation to present taskc, hut in the name af the most just causes, could act as an ohjective nily of the class enery. PAISLENOS TOD SILOSHE BEKE WOISCE iaea One would be at ainte ітраст Beringder of the PCl arsagril" WORTEI SPLINTER The fact that only 400 Avan guardia Operaia members split ir support of the Document of 62 eans that the Magri splinter of is more will thus be preserve mainly as a current of opinion.
Tu dally paper is fairly well SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 20 July 1977 p.12 distribuled (selling 30,000 copies) and widely read b mbemhers of the traditional let organisations and trade union In the aftermath of the split the PCF's attitude towards it chane od instantly: favourable article and so oit It is clear that, in the context o the diffieul phase the PC going through, and the questions hate y or eo il be td heyand this.
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