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Are the Zionists getting ready to take S. Lebanon?

Bazargan A column of tanks from Khomeini's army rolled into Sanandaj, centre of the Kurdish people in Iran, as the preparations for Khomeini's "Constituent Assembly" reached their final stage.

The entire population marched out of the town of Marivan in protest at the authoritarián rule and national opression imposed by central government and its agents in the armed forces and "revolutionary" committees.

They were joined by 7,000 more Kurds from Sanandaj, before a contingent of 5,000 marched back to Marivan on Wednesday demanding 'Death to the Government"

Capitulators At present, however, the leaders of this movement seem to have capitulated to the tanks and threats of Khomeini and Bazargan.

In negotiations, they have agreed that all internal and border security is to be left to the central government. But Khomeini will not stop the attacks until the Kurdish movement along with those of the Arab and other national minorities have been finally suppressed.

Such violent repression and intimidation expose the real character of the elections called by Khomeini and Bazargan.

Next week's Socialist Press will carry a fuil report of these Amid all the imperialist crocodile tears about the refugees from Vietnam, scarcely any notice has been paid by the leaders of imperialists to the daily exodus of tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese from the southern area of Lebanon, under vicous daily attack from Zionist forces in the area and their fascist supporters.

Since the Israelis withdrew their main forces after their invasion, they have relied on puppet fascist leaders Saad Haddat who has proclaimed an independent Free Lebanon' whose main function is to terrorise and bombard with Israeli-supplied weaponry any Lebanese or Palestinians found outside the few villages he UN forces This racist, ultra-right wing individual, who provides a fitting ally for the Zionists, speaks to the press only with israeli representatives present and harasses the pathetically irrelevant UN "peace-keeping" forces in line with the general military aims of the Zionists.

As each day goes by the Zionists themselves take an increasing role in terrorising the inhabitants of the area.

They send in wave after wave of bombers, usually against Palestinian refugee camps, though now sometimes against UN or: even Syrian military encampments.

Such bombardments have begun to grow more intense.

In April Zeef Schift, military correspondent of Israel's major daily paper Ha'aretz wrote after In the face: of severe shortages of food and supplies, continued resistance from groups of National Guardsmen and a real threat of invasion from Honduras, the Nicaraguan 'Government of National Reconstruction' has begun to implement policies which reveal its growing confidence in moving against deepening the anti-imperialist struggle.

the Israelıs killed four people in a seaside resort that their policy had changed from retaliation against Palestinian guerrillas to 'attack anytime, anyplace' On Sunday July 29 the Zionists bombed large groups of Lebanese ' holidaymakers travelling in cars on a well-known holiday route for a weekend by the sea. 16 were killed and 65 injured.

On Thursday night, Auyust 2, the Zionists sent two groups of commandoes past the UN forces to raid two camps alleged to include Palestinian guerrillas, One of the raid leaders boasted: "We wiped everybody out"

Killed

PLO sources said three of their members were killed and many civilians were hit in heavy offshore bombardment.

Such actions' as these have driven even the mild mannered New Statesman of 3. August into Yet what is the reason for this clearly accurate view:

"The Israelis in fact seem to have the same attitude South Lebanon? towards the Arabs of South One reason being offered They have shown a amount of flair in this.

First, millionaire industrialist Alfonso Robelo, a member of the Junta, was packed off to Cuba where, with Castro's beaming approval, he declared that Nicaragua would not become "another Cuba" but "another Nicaragua"

Loan He then -flew on to Caracas where he 'negotiated' a loan of $20 millions-to be paid off at 10½% interest within : six months.

Robelo completed his week's work by declaring the nationalisation of domestically-owned banks.

As in Iran, this measure is solely intended to relieve the burden of sustaining a thoroughZionist bomb damage in South In seeking to appease Arab direction of recognising the national rights of the

Lebanon

Palestinians.

This is clearly explanation.

However, just as the capitalist system develops through the accumulation of capital which intensifies its crisis, so the Zionists can only maintain themselves by the accumulation of territory.

Having neutralised the Egyptians, they hope to weaken the Syrians also by 'taking over effective control of South Lebanon, probably by a further invasion and certainly by attempting to establish further the power of their fascist allies.

The puppet strings that extend from Washington to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are somewhat twisted now.

The puppeteers have lost some of their strength, and have less capacity for direct control over the action of their agents.

The Zionist regime is reacting to its galloping inflation and economic crisis at home by the only method it :knowsusing their enormous firepower to terrorise, drive out and murder new generations of the Arab population of the area.

Though the Zionists can be relied upon to make more enemies by the minute, the struggle for the destruction of their rule must be intensified.

The interests of the Jewish workers of Palestine are in no way served by the rapacious, colonialist Zionist regime.

The campaign must be stepped up both in the Middle East and internationally for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from all areas inhabited by Palestinians and other Arabs as a step to the destruction of the Zionist army and its state.

*Next week Socialist Press will be carrying an interview with a Palestinian Trotskyist.

It certainly doesn't indicate that these men are committed to accelerating mass mobilisation and the independent organisation of the working class for the overthrow of capitalism in The regime they have joined is manoeuvring with considerable speed to cut off these possibilities in the name of 'reform', 'national reconstruction' and 'peace'.

This is a direct result of the popular frontist politics of the FSLN which has based itself on an alliance of workers and 'progressive' capitalists.

This line has obviously now extended beyond the Tercerista group to the leaders of the more radical currents of the FSLN.

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