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son (leader of the radical Progressive Party of the small farmers) has proposed a series of anti-working class measures to drag Icelandic capitalism out of its economic mire.
Centrally the Progressive Party is arguing for huge cuts in the threshold payments at present made to workers.
The importance of these payments is obvious from the figures. Inflation in 1978 ran at 47%-well up to the record of recent years.
Johanneson's proposals have been supported by the Social Democrats within the three party coalition. But the People's Alliance have threatened to withdraw from the coalition and bring down the government if the Prime Minister tries to go ahead with his plans.
Formed partial conflict with the Kremlin out of the wreck of the Communist Party, the People's Alliance is no more revolutionary and no less Stalinist than the more familiar strains of Eurocommunism in Italy, France or Spain.
Thus behind their fighting words lies the undoubted determination of Iceland's workers to resist attacks from the coalition designed to make them pay for the economic crisis of the capitalist class.
in The tremors from the revolution in iran have spread through the whole already shaken the security of another tyranny.
Iranian troops have now been withdrawn from Oman where they fought in Dhofar, alongside British imperialist forces against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman.
The Shah had sent troops there in his role as imperialism's policeman of the Gulf, to prop up the corrupt and dictatorial state of Sultan Cabus.
Now President Sadat of Egypt has sent in forces . to replace the Shah's army. His rapid move is probably the sharpest example to date of Sadat's determination to operate as a client state of US imperialism in the area.
The speed of his action been forced by the fear that workers and peasants of Uman will be inspired by the Iranian revolution to rise up once more against their own oppressor.
Although only 200 troops are involved at this stage, Sadat has clearly staked his claim to take over where the Shah failed as imperialism's local policeman.
In the process he has provided the masses of the Middle East with another stark example of the true political character of bourgeois Arab nationalism.
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world, and in Oman, across the Persian Gulf, they have