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NOW Wild Bahrain Dear Comrades, After last week's ordeal suffered by myself and my companions at Rome airport I am writing to draw your attention to the way that we animalsincluding endangered speciesare suffering the consequences of the crisis of proletarian It was bad enough earlier this year when the British Labour 'lefts' capitulated miserably to Callaghan and allowed him to drop a promise of an animal welfare bill from the Manifesto-thus paving the way for electoral defeat.

But then we suffered the result of the refusal. of the reformist and Stalinist rade union bureaucracies in the apitalist countries to black rade with South Africa-as we were bundled aboard a British aircraft to be shipped to Italy.

The governmental crisis-an outcome of the class collaborationist line of the mass italian Communist Party in their reactionary "historic compromise" with the Christian Democratswas clearly a major factor in the airport fiasco.

And we should note that the Stalinist leaders lifted not a finger to defend our interestsindeed they characteristically sided with the repressive forces of the State when two of us momentarily broke loose land would easily have eluded the police if one had not broken a leg and the other had rather rusty Italian).

Now after these betrayals find ourielves dumped in stronghold of feudal reaction where the Emir plainly feels a kindred spirit with us endangered species.

Bahrain would be boring enough, even without the compulsory evening showings of Vanessa Redgrave films. But to make matters worse, there is now talk of a state visit by Gerry Healy and other leaders of the British so-called Workers Revolutionary Party.

Need it be said that, having thus seen the reformist, Stalinist and even fake Trotskyist' leaders exposed in practice, ' wish to endorse your struggle to build a revolutionary party and for the reconstruction of the Fourth International?

Yours in sisterhood, Ann. T. Lope

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able to remain competitive only by constant devaluation of their currencies.

This fact led in 1971 to an international monetary crisis which has brought eight years of continuous monetary chaos.

Yet another sharp realignment of currencies took place