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Mobutu embraces French President Giscard Workers march through the Renault factory at Flins certain amount of military and financial aid to national liberation struggles-while ensuring, as in the case of the Patriotic Front guerrillas in Zimbabwe-that such assistance not on sufficient a scale to enable a serious all-out struggle to take place.

W'harever their motives in doing so. insofar as the Stalinists give material support to these liberation struggles they are objectiveIs helping to resien impertheir Pureaucratic methods and the inadequacy of their support.

Stalinism within the workers movement internationally retains its character as the most conscious counterrevolutionary force, which must be combatted politically at each point.

This is why in those areas where diplomatic manoeuvres by the Kremlin mean that they provide open or tacit support to reactionary regimes (as in Ethiopia), such actions must be condemned by the whole workers' movement.

No decision Despite the ferocity of :: ati-Comany conscious decision nas been made to go for a confrontation with the workers' states. • Indeed there remains considerable division among Onl clearly within the imperialists themselves as how best to cling on to control in Africa.

• The echo of the humiliating defeat of US imperialism in Vietnam, and the consequent inability to send US troops to fight the MPLA in Angola still rings in the ears of many bourgeois leaders.

Even now in Chad beleagured French troops are suffering. heavy losses at, the hands of the lightly armed FROLINAT forces, while in the Sahara Polisario guerrillas continue to hold the Morrocan and Mauritanian armies at bay.

Collaboration With this in mind those like Callaghan who seek to attack the working class through class collaboration rather than class confrontation, have been urging a more subtle approachthrough massive "aid" programmes to l provide economic rather than overt military backing to dictators like Mobutu.

That leaders of the British Labour Party should be actively assisting to plot new moves to repress the African masses highlights the political problems and tasks faced by the working class in the imperialist nations- particularly those in Europe.

The international obligation of the European workers movement is to take action to stop these moves dead in their tracks.

Yet not workers' party has even talked of such action. French and Belgian troops 13=05 momen ganning Belated protest By the French CP_ stung by feeling their own movement -has belatedly called a protest demonstration against "Giscardian intervention" in Africa.

We must support demonstrations whilst showing how the CP leadership is making sure action is limited only to protest.

Strike The French Communist Party controls the major CGT trade union confederation: it is within its power to call strike action to force the withdrawal of French troops.

But, sooner than give any lead to independent working class action these Stalinists confine themselves to vague gestures.

In Britain too the labour movement can and must be mobilised to protect the world working class from a further attack at the hands of our "Labour" politicians.

The fight must be taken up at once:

*Remove the pro-imperialist Callaghan-Healey *Withdraw Britain from NATO and all alliances with imperialist forces.

*Withdraw all British troops from Ireland and other countries.

*The trade unions must black all supplies and arms shipments to these imperialist armies.

*Unconditional defence of the workers states against imperialist attack.

*For strike action against intervention by NATO and its stooges in Africa.

* Build Trotskyist parties in every country to combat Stalinism and reformism!

*Full labour movement support to those engaged in anti-imperialist struggles in Africa. injunctions to force out occupying strikers.

The attitude of Stalinist union leaders has been consciously to refrain from giving the call for all-out strike action while remaining ready to move in and head off the struggles should they develop.

The Communist Party daily l'Humanite, last week carried generally sympathetic interviews with strikers at Flins and Cleon, describing workers erecting tents on the grass of the factory and bringing in televisions to watch the World Cup during the occupation.

These struggles could give a lead to other sections of French workers who face a sharp new upward move in consumer prices as a result of government policies.

A concerted struggle on wages would force the newly re-elected government under Prime Minister Barre to act in defence of its incomes policy if it is to succeed in forcing the French• working class to shoulder the burden of the crisis of French capitalism.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesdar: 7 June, 1978 passed at the UGT's first legal congress since 1932 ""reaffirms" that the 90-year-old trade union federation, whose history and present are closely bound up with the Socialist Party (PSOE), is "of the working class, revolutionary, autonomous, free, democratic, unitary, internationalist and in support of worOn the spot report from Enrique Alvares