On their knees!
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ment nOw ssing send holy Scene: Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, Friday The Te Deum is being sung in the presence of His Holiness Pope John-Paul II.
Among the honoured guests at this glittering occasion dedicated to obscurantism and superstition are the leaders of the ruling class of France.
And also four specially invited guests: Maxime Gremetz (MP for the Somme), Lucien Villa (a Paris MP), along with Guy Schmans and Danielle Bidard (both Senators).
These four had graciously thanked the Archbishop of Paris for his invitation:
•We are particularly touched by this invitation" , they wrote, "given the exceptional nature of the visit of Pope John-Paul to Who are these four? Not prominent Christians, or intellectuals, OI artists-but politicians.
And of what Party? Not the Gaullists, nor the Giscardians, or even the Socialist Party.
All of them are leading members of the French Communist Party!
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We reprint below for the information of our readers the greater part of an article translated from the April 1 edition of Politica Obrera, publication of the Politica Obrera group of Argentina-a section of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency.
Much of the article presents an analysis and an approach similar to that of the Workers Socialist League and the Trotskyist InterBut we would stress two important differences: the WSL and the TILC, white not calling for a withdrawal of the Soviet troopswhich we consider would create opportunities for imperialist intervention into Afghanistan-do condemn the Kremlin invasion, as an action that advances neither the revolutionary struggles of the masses nor the long term defence of the USSR. We do not agree with PO that such a condemnation is necessarily "pro-imperialist".
And the WSL and TILC have spelled out a number of basic elements of programme which we see as essential for the mobilisation of the Afghan masses in the fight for an independent, socialist Afghanistan based on the power of workers' and peasants' soviets. national Liaison Committee.