[On the evening of 4th September five members…]
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On the evening of 4th September five members of the Argentine Trotskyist group Partide Socialista de les Trabjadores (Socialist Workers Party, sympathising section of the "Unified Secretariat") disappeared on their way to the Petroquimica Sudamericana factory in the region of La Plata.
Their bodies, full of bullet holes and mutilated by torture, were discovered in a car the following morning. Three of their comrades were kidnapped that afternoon as they left local party headquarters: they, too, were found murdered.
Such killings - not to mention kidnappings, beatings and assorted intimidations - are commonplace in Argentina. where bands of fascist thugs roam the streets with the The failure of the Conference between Smith and the African National Council (ANC) at Victoria Falls last month has led to an open split in the ANC.
Some right-wing elements around the old ZAPU leader Joshua Nkome are trying to break the 'united front' and conclude a peace deal more acceptable to Smith, and so betraying the national liberation Nkome has attempted this by deliberately going ahead to hold the ANC conference in Salisbury in the full knowledge that the militant elements around ZANU leader Sithole will not be able to attend for lear of arrest by Smith.
It is not altogether unexpected that such a split would come to the surface at the present time. The original split between ZAPU and ZANU (Zimbabwe African Peoples
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