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Neto expropriation and assured them they would be able to repatriate their profits. With Cubans in all the key advisory posts in Angola there is no doubt that this extension of Neto's previous efforts at compromise with imperialism has the approval of his protector, Fidel Castro.

Far from using its position in Africa to support socialist revolution, the Cuban leadership is assisting the stabilisation of capitalism. in a continent where the capitalist system has been subjected to mounting threats from the upsurge of the masses. Castro's government plays in Angola an essential part in the policies of Soviet Stalinism as a whole, aimed at arriving at a "balance' and political partition of Africa with the imperialist states. was one of the slogans of a demonstration of supporters of mutinying members of the armed police in the Basque city of Bilbao ten days ago.

Following the killing of two more of their members, supposedly by the Basque nationalist group, ETA, several hundred armed police staged a sit-in at police headquarters demanding more repression.

At the funeral of the policemen they physically threatened the Civil Governand the Inspector General of Police, who were forced to escape in disguise through a back entrance of the building where the funeral took place.

Onlookers were threatened. Police with loaded revolvers menaced journalists.

These are the latest in a series of events which show the pressures from within the Francoist repressive apparatus for a return to the Franco years.

In July armed police went on a rampage of violence, arson and looting in the border town of Renteria.

Such incidents are especially marked in Euskadi (the Basque provinces) because of the mounting struggles of ETA and because of the imminence of the referendum on the 'constitution" which denies the national rights for which the people of Euskadi have fought for years.

Embarrassing

ETA's campaign against the police, therefore, has a good deal of popular support which is deeply embarassing to the right wing bourgeois Basque Nationalist Party and to the Socialist and Communist Parties which profess to support Basque national rights

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