A THREE-WAY civil war is raging in Chad after the failure of an attempt to bring a former leader of the liberation movement into the military government.
Last year France, the former COlOnISI power, sent paratroopers to shore government of General loum against the guerillas of FROLINAT. They Malloum from certain overthrow but demanded in return a facead of democracy. This was achieved by the appointment of former FROLINAT leader Habre aS minister.
But the manoeuvre has not worked. Long standing differbetween Habre Malloum nave open conflict, with a section of the army supporting each of them and FROLINAT, itself deeply divided, also taking part in the fighting.
Chilean excluded NELSON Gutierrez, a leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) of Chile, has been refused entry Britain to visit his wife and daughter.
Gutierrez arrived in London from Rome on 6 February. At Immigration he was treated abusively and forcibly searched, despite his protests that this was against international law. The authorities would admit him, despite the fact that he had valid travel documents.
When eventually he asked to go to Paris the request was refused on the grounds that his travel document from Sweden, where he has refugee status, was invalid. This was untrue.
Finally, he was told that he could only go to Rome as the Italian authorities had already admitted him. But when he arrived In Rome he identified as having deported and held until it was established that this untrue.
Indochina INDOCHINA: Socialist Challenge International Forum with speaker John Ross. March, 7.30pm, Friends Meet ing House, Euston Road, London NW1.
Joe Hansen JOSEPH HANSEN died in New York on 18 January. publishing fund has been set up by Reba Hansen and Intercontinental Press contributing editors — Pierre Frank, Ernest Mandel and George Novack -in order to publish some of Hansen's writings.
The aim is to raise $20,000 by 31 March. 58,000 was raised at the memorial meeting in New York on 28 January.
Sponsors for the include: Robert Alexander, Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburp. Hugh Blanco, Marguerite Bonnet, Pierre Broue, Coates, Tamara Deutscher, Quintin Hoare, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Louis Sinclair. Ernie Tate. Waters, Harry Wicks, Mary-Alice Evelyn Reed, Joyce Meissenheimer, Nahuel Moreno, Babak Zahrie, and Vsvelod Volkov (Trotsky's grandson).
The convenors of the British Fund — Tariq Ali and Connie Harris - have announced that contributions should be sent to the Joseph Hansen Publication Fund. 23 Lambeth Towers, Kenndington Road, Lendon SEIL.
Socialist Challenge 8 March 1979 page 10 and the light of Iranian events.
WHATisan Islamic Republic' projected by Given. of course. to course of the class struggle will be the determining factor and not the doctrine itself, can you explain descriptive point of view. The press has made a big deal of strip certain rules governing adultery...
In a certain sense, there's nothing more to say what's been written in bourgeois press. really a system of Islamic laws.
Rather, what exists is a small number of That's why when you want to show what being a Muslim means, you're forced to turn towards the most spectacular precepts which happen to be the most archaic.
Few things are to be found in been was the Koran. Yet, had a whole community was organise (in contrast to Christ's small cohort of disciples). He did lay down certain laws for the society in which he lived.
These were laws governing inheritance which that women could only get half legacy, laws prohibited eating of certain oods and condemnation forms of lending interest.
There's nothing else in the Koran except a rather obscure verse where Mohammed seems to advise his wives to dress *decently' and to cover up their heads, and stipulation that perpetrators or une fornication should be flogged on the condition that witnesses testify to the fact with complete anatomical precision!
here's STIO question stoning in the Koran. It was the Caliph Omar later in the 7th century who claimed to have 'remembered' that a passage in ic now book provided To toning; he probably borrowe the practice from the Jewish fund Holy Book, the Torah.
Can you explain the prominent Ken place taken by religious forces today in Iran?
It's based on what happened in the past. Unlike in Europe, religion has under the weight of two or three centuries of anti-clerical propaganda.
Basically, that's there wasn't revolution and consequently no revolt against a Church which embodies the social structure of old: feudalism and monarchism.
For the mass of the people, secular tendencies are those of a IN this interview with the French weekly Rouge, from which we print extracts, MAXIME RODINSON, the well-known Marxist authority on the Muslim world, talks about the relation between Islam and politics in ruling class, imperialism and capitalism. It is the Europeanised rich who are not religious. It is the 'poor' Khomeini? who keep the faith.
that the To this mistrust of the Soviet Union because of what happened in 1945-50. The Soviet troops had purely invaded the north of Iran. They protected the Tudeh Party and helped to create autonomous republics around the Caspian sea.
But in 1950, they withdrew from Azerbaijan partisans to be taken. than mistrust is further explained by the the disappointment There isn't by the evolution of the Soviet model'.
prescriptions. Are there any tendencies within Islam that favour modernisation'?
can also There have "radical"
Islam which have been at the Mohammed service of revolts or revoluto tions. But most often there was disillusionment: it was a case of 'permanent revolution betrayed' once!
A minority wing provided radical kind emerged out of the revolution of 1905-11. There's which no doubt another such current emerging today, though the of information we have about this for is too imprecise for me to discuss further.
Can you explain particular about the tendency within Islam and its linked to must be added leaving the This produced