ERITREA the only such Addis Ababa@ discovered food the doctors have an are performed:
which trucks."
Connell on the Ogaden last year.
commissioned Assab ETHIOPIA Harar ARUSSI BALE SIDAMO whites were behind them firing the big were on heavy The EPLF claims that the offensive is being led by two Soviet generals.
says that one of these is General Petrov, who led the assault Under Petrov are 11 top Soviet officers and more than 1,000 other and non-commisHARARGE This applies however 'progressive' the state• in question.
For example, one of the first acts of the Bolshevik Revolution major reason why it had widespread SUDOULL was recognise the right to determination of the many nations of the Russian empire.
Ethiopian rulers Selassie to Mengistu have trumpeted capitalist class the Derg continued to rely upon mass mobilisations and to move to the left, probably the most radical land reform in Africa But in doing this it did not cease to be a capitalist military regime, as the thousands of murdered working class opponents of the regime are not able to testify.
The most obvious reflection of the class character of the Derg is its policy on the national question.
The Soviet Union and Cuba have had well-publicised differences with the Derg on this issue. But these were more pragmatic than principled. The Soviet Union's interest comes first from Eritrea's long Red Sea coastline. the Kremlin of the dangers of driving the Eritreans into the hands of hostile Arab regimes.
GUILT Cuban caution was also prompted by residual combined argued it out with finally gave way so as not to lose their ally A joint Ethiopian-Cuban munique issued at the time of Fidel and a Castro's visit to Addis Ababa last such September said that the 'Cuban side to also reaffirmed its absolute oppositself- ion to any kind of secession expressed its firm belief that Ethiopia would solve all its problems in line Haile Lenhis principles of Marxism- with the vice versa.
implementing Slightly.
and tragic Realpolitik alone warned Ethiopian 25,000 guilt past Eritrea. They Mengistu, but to fight alone.
COLL Eritres, and Association accompany it. becomes today s rcacuonary This is not nit-picking. For it is the counter-revolutionary nature of the Soviet leaders and the collaboration of the Cubans which have led to the Eritrean tragedy — another emotional word, but not one which is used It is left to revolutionaries to argue Eritrea's case in the Western labour movements. But it is not simply one horror story, case for humanitarian aid.
Despite the enormous Ethiopian gains the Eritrean organisations are not crushed. The EPLF has made an orderly retreat and is returning to its old tactics of rural guerilla warfare. Already it has resumed attacks on the supply lines down the Asmara-Massawa road.
Dan Connell has told Tribune that in EPLF-controlled territory and 15 per cent in areas controlled by the Eritrean Liberation Front. He puts the number of men and women the EPLF has under arms at more than They are prepared to rely solely on their own strength - they have had to in the past. But they should not have *If you want to organise a meeting film, Sawrana, available from either the Association of Eritrean Workers UK, BCM Box 7007, London WC1 or Workers Film Dartmouth Park Road, London NW5, at a hire fee of £18 and with an Eritrean speaker to Socialist Challenge 25 January 1979 page 11
CHE Bayad Kard — What is to be Done? - is the
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