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Amdemichael Kahsi made it Malcolm Holmes is also charged clear to his London press con- with conspiracy to murder). ference that the EPLF was It already stands however as quite prepared to negotiate with an indictment of all capitalist only on the basis of the recog- tary system inwhich they Eritrea. A workers government victim of Stalinist-backed napalm bombing The latest offensive by the reactionary Ethiopian military regime against the Eritrean national liberation struggle began on 18 November and was briefly reported in the last issue of Socialist Press.

This offensive, as Amdemichael Kahsai of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front told a London press conference last week, is aimed at destroying the crops of the Eritreans during the current harvest season.

It also includes large contingents of Cubans, mainly working heavy artillery, and of Russian advisers behind the front line.

The use of phosphorous bombs, napalm and other antipersonnel devices have already been reported.

The main claim during the first week of the fighting from the Ethiopian government has been the capture of the road from Eritrea's capital to the seaport of Massawa, a entirely controlled by the ation forces since 1975.

the Ethiopian government but nition of the independence of fester.

Disgusting role Drawing attention to the disgusting role of the Cubans and Russians, Amdemichael Kahsi said that the South Yemenis, who had previously helped the Ethiopians, had now withdrawn this support and criticised their previous position. He called on the Russians and Cubans to do the same.

It is to be hoped that this call will be taken up throughout the international workers movement. method of subduing the working class-by Tair means or malains alone foul.

Just as the Watergate revelations were turned by the media and US politicians into an indictment of one man, so the Thorpe case is being focussed on road one party and one or two liber- politicians the former deputy treasurer of the Liberals politicians and the Parliamenwould replace the paraphernalia of Parliamentary "democracy" -which in any event is no more than a thin disguise for rule by the employing class-with the direct and open democracy of a system of workers' councils, with elected representatives paid the average workers' wage, and subject to recall at any time.

It is only through building a revolutionary party which starts from the need to take the working class to power that the working class can sweep aside the sewer politics, business dealing and the whole Parlia mentary facade.

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