Mpla Victory Near in Angola

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you will berknown by. On arriving at Cardin, call at the Labove address, where you can get information and Blackleg assistance.

RICHARD BELL, General SecratarV.

A poster from the Taff Vale Strike.

Washington echoed to the rattle of dominoes last week as one US capitalist politician after another ate their words on Angola. For the second time in less than a year the spokesmen of the most powerful imperialist state on earth were driven to a concession of defeat and ramshackle attempts to rally support beneath the tattered banner of Never again!' Leading the pack was Secretary of State Kissinger. In terms which unmistakeably recalled President Ford's speeches after US imperialism was driven out of Indochina in April last year, he declared in San Francisco on February 3rd;

The administration has the duty to make it clear to the USSR and Cuba that Angola cannot become a precedent and that this type of action will not be tolerated in the future.

The following day, (speaking thy oming) this frying shermon ITOm Laramie, reaction admitted "It is perhaps too late to do anything about Angola.

Kissinger was soon followed by key figures in Ford's administration and in Congress. By Friday February 6th, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa William Schaufele admitted that the military situation in Angola meant the MPLA would almost certainly prevail.

And Democratic Senator Dick Clark, chairman of the Senate sub-committee for African affairs, called for a new US policy toward Southern Africa.

"We must not make the same mistakes again, " he said, adding "As Communist forces continue their resistance we must take a long look at our relations with them."

The events unfolding in Angola are a gain for the colonial peoples and the working class everywhere. Far from being the last, tact retreat of American imperial they give a world-wide impetu: the offensive and confidence the world's working class.

At the same time they give lie to the treacherous internati al 'programme' of the Stali While Brezhnev was t preparing the Helsinki 'dete last year, with its pledges 'peaceful coexistence' , the ruling class was preparing to into the place vacated Portuguese imperialism in Ang And every victory, every of territory gained by the M has had to be won arms in h against the CIA-backed financed, mercenary-staffed fc of the FNLA and UNITA. fact that 'peaceful coexistenc a fiction was sharply underl by FNLA President Ho Roberto at the end of last wee Continued on page 2

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SERIA ONAL DEVIS movement is not, and cannot be, a Church, nor a centralised organisation submitting each party to binding decrees, to a uniform law. And the leadership of the Spanish CP, in their turn, duly greetea tne dropping of 'the dictatorship of the proletariat' as a correct and weicome move.