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history of the struggle of the Eritrean people for selfimperialist powers and a succession of repressive regimes Popular uprisings De Gaulle sent in troops to preserve the corrupt and brutal dictatorship of President Toumbalbaye against popular uprisings and threats from the military. After a brief display of pique when this regime was toppled by a military coup, the French government has given its assistance to the dictatorship of new Malloum.

Without this vital aid, the military dictatorship would David Whitfield traces thr determination against both The Eritrean revolution is now facing the greatest threat in its long history of fierce and heroic struggles.

The repressive military junta of Ethiopia is massing its armies in the border' territories to launch an onslaught of annihilation against the Eritrean war of liberation.

The Derg has fabricated historical evidence to justify its claims to the Eritrean nation.

But it is certainly true that these brutal dictators are not the first to seek enlonial rule over the coastBRAZIL'S FIRST strike. for 10 years, which four weeks ago spread like wildfire through the automobile industry in Sao Paolo, has ended, but not before giving an electric shock to the dictatorship.

The strikes on the whole ended in at least partial victories with most employers granting wage increases or at least agreeing to consider them.

Though the regime declared the strikes illegal, it did not dare in Ethiopia. Part One.

Ethiopia and the Red Sea.

The state of Ethiopia itself was formed only in the late nineteenth century.

As feudal and tribal wars racked the region in a process of violent unitication, the colonial expansion of the European powers stretched into the "Horn of Africa The Italian, French and British imperialists seized the coastal areas and divided them amongst themselves.

But the armies of the feudal: Emperor Menelik who now controlled most of the interior) inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Italian army in 1896. His -11 menad act against them directly.

And the officially supported Presidential candidate General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, head of the security police, was forced to declare himself in favour of a change in the law to permit collective bargaining.

The success of the strike, however, looks likely to spark off further working class actions which will far outpace any "reforms" which the militarybacked regime is willing to consider.

continue its barbaric tence.

The borders of the imperialist colonies form the basis of the present-day states in the region.

Somalia unites the former Italian and British territories, while the French enclave of Djibouti has now become the Republic of the Afars and the Issars.

Eritrea was a separate colony of the Italian bourgeoisie. Five years of resistance had ended with defeat in 1889.

It was from here that the armies of Mussolini's fascist state invaded Ethiopia in 1935.

Haile Selassie-the ruthETH KENYA NAIROBI strength of British imperialism, and it was British troops and bombers which savagely repressed the most serious of the many uprisings, in Tigrai in 1943 and in the Ogaden in the same year. But Eritrea was ruled directly as a British colony. Imperialism was not willing 250m Greater Somalia to delegate the patrolling of the strategically vital Red Sea coast, even to so servile a client as Haile Selassie, and still had the power to enforce its naked rule.

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