Ecevit moves right

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Bulent Ecevit's government in Turkey hung onto office last week only by. moving even further to the right.

One third of the Turkish population have been living. under martial law since last December.

There is now a strong possibility that more provinces will be brought under martial law as Ecevit, obviously not unwillingly, acceded to the demands of six of the: 11 right wing ex-Justice Party MPs (on whom his majority rests) to crack down even further on "extremists" and Kurdish nationalists, and to adopt even more pro-capitalist policies.

The episode, however, illustrates the extreme instability of • Ecevit's Already a semi-military regime, it is now more than ever in danger of being replaced by a full-scale military dictatorship.

This tendency may be accelerated if reports of an imminent Kurdish rebellion, stimulated by the mobilisations of the Kurdish masses in Iran, turn out to be well-founded.

It is more urgent than ever for Turkish • and Kurdish workers to break from Ecevit and the counter-revolutionary Republican Peoples Party currently supported by the trade union • bureaucracy and the Stalinists and build instead their own class organisations of self defence and political independence. Nigerian and Sudanese governments seemed to have puiled off a diplomatic triumph in settling the disputes within the turmoil of their mutual neighbour.

But amid all the present strife, they can scarcely have much time to spare for selfcongratulation.

But if these pro-imperialist plans have come to grief, the situation in Chad today offers no gains for the workers and peasants.

CHAD Miles 400 Libya Aouzou TIBESTİ Niger Faya•Largoau CHAD Biltina ERNE Djedaar @Abéche Ati * Sudan • Nigeria N'DJAMENA Gentral Gameroes African Republic Km 800