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Fourteen members of the HKS (Socialist orkers Party) face the death sentence or li imprisonment. Send telegrams demanding their release to: The Iranian Embassy, 16, Sports lovers, many American workers and sections of the US capitalist class will no doubt unite in rejoicing at President Carter's decision to continue jogging after his collapse last week.

Sports lovers will cheer Carter's courage; workers will see the possibility of getting shot of a President who has unleashed 13% inflation and mounting recession in tandem with wage controls; and many top US employers would doubt welcome a conveniently tragic and sudden exit from the scene by Carter well in advance of the embarassing proceedings of ditching him as the Demo. cratic Party's presidential candidate next year.

Because one thing is certain with popularity figures now well below even Nixon and the most hated of previous US Presidents, and with absolutely nothing to offer, Carter it he survives his exertions is locked on course for electoral disaster.

Meanwhile in the wings, limbering up for the running in 1980, is the bourgeoisie's only real hope of a President capable of placating a militant working class and at the same time serving the interests of crisis-ridden US capitalism-Senator Edward Kennedy.

Kennedy's skilfully shaped 'radical' image and the myth. ology of his dead brothers are prime assets in his present preparation: but crucial is the opportunist relationship towards him shown by the bureaucratic leadership of the US labour movement, who remain almost without exception tied to the coat tails of the capitalist Democratic Party.

Pay deal

A sign of this collaboration was given by the eleventh hour pay deal tentatively struck last week between autoworkers' leaders and General Motors management-which, if endorsed, will be the model for contracts throughout the US auto industry.

Though no details of the deal have yet been released, it was clearly in the interests of both the Democratic Party and car industry bosses that a major pay strike should be avoided at all costs at this critical point of time. & It remains to be seen if US auto workers will go along with this obliging attitude on the part of their union leaders, or follow the, example of miners last year, and throw out the proposed settlement. "kith and kin' to take the wider imperialist view, and not plunge the whole of southern Africa even deeper into the cauldron of instability by concentrating on their own narrow interests.

Troubles

At the same time, Muzorewa is encountering troubles in his delegation from the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole.

Sithole has been at pains to distance himself from the official leaders of the delegation, without cutting himself off irrevocably.

Such manoeuvring is characteristic of all these parasitic opportunists.

One massacre more of less makes little difference to the progress of these unprine pled ey hange into Into Mozambique by the SmithMuzorewa forces underlined the reality of the struggle as the constitutional conference opened.

The combination of guerrillaism with diplomatic bargaining cannot bring a solution to the demands of the masses of Zimbabwe.

Bankrupt

Such bankrupt can at best result in a bankrupt parliamentary democracy.

The struggle in Zimbabwe is not to determine how many seats the White racists should be granted in a parliament, but to determine the future of socialist revolution in the whole of southern Africa, against the attacks of the imperialists and their settlers, and the betrayals of .. petty bourgeois nationalism. Prince's Gate, London SW7 socialists! not only thrown the Morales regime onto the defensive but also revitalised the militancy of the Peruvian working class which over the last two years has come out on several general strikes and shown utmost resistance to the Revolutionary' military regime.

The overriding issue now is that of political leadership of the mass movement-a major challenge for Trotskyists who, as in Bolivia, have a significant popular base on which to build and fight for a revolutionary programme.

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