Turkey: coup threat grows

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On the same day, a new raid into Mozambique was launched by the Smith-Muzorewa army, with which Tongogara is so accomodatingly willing to work in the near future.

The London conference has already shown. with shocking clarity the murky depths to which Nkomo and Mugabe are prepared to sink in order to advance their self-interest as against the needs of the masses in Zimbabwe. • Censure and cynicism cannot counter such betrayals.

They must be overcome in the historic struggle to build a Trotskyist party in Zimbabwe which can lead the proletariat at the head of its allies to develop and transform the war against the Smith-Muzorewa regime into a revolutionary struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat and the advance of the international socialist revolution. cabinet.

The leaders of the right wing opposition Justice Party are claiming that two more will soon resign, and state that they will bring down Ecevit's minority RPP government after October 14.

That day will see by-elections in five constituencies and the reelection of one third of the Senate, and could prove the final turning point for Ecavit's unstable "democratic" regime, which clings to office in a fragile alliance with army generals and through the operation of martial law restrictions on the labour movement throughout much of the country.

There are now widespread reports that right wing and military leaders are preparing to impose a "transitional regime" based on an amended 1961 constitution. This has long been the demand of the Justice Party.

Ecevit himself described the resignation from his cabinet as a move "planned by dark circles" as part of a bid to impose such a breach in the constitution.

But he claimed his government would survive. In any event, he declared vaguely, "the people will not tolerate such a move by certain ruling cliques' But he refused to answer an interviewer who asked if the RPP would mobilise its mass support against the threat of a fascist takeover.

Instead he stressed the need for what he called a "strong democratic state" to resist the right wing moves. Yet in reality such a "strong state" already exists, and embodies many of the repressive steps against the left demanded by the fascists.

Under these conditions the RPP enters the elections with nothing to offer either the working masses or the Turkish bourgeoisie. parties and sections of the divided Turkish Communist Party are this time running candidates independent of the RPP, they offer little other than vague taik of "defending democracy" and calls on Ecevit to act against the fascists.

Imminent

The danger of a military fascist takeover is imminent. It is vital that the workers' movement make a decisive break from Ecovit and form a united front in the struggle against fascist violence and military repression:

Workers defence squads must be formed. The fight must be not for the presarvation of fake "democrat" • Ecevit, but tor a workers' and peasants' government, which must be driven to carry out the necessary socialist policies to defend the Turkish masses.

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