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territory by Rhodesian troops are obvious signs of desperation.

Smith's racists are out for a pre-emptive kill before the burden of the war becomes unbearable.

But already there are signs that white Rhodesia is running out of the human and economic resources for the fight. Last week the Army chief publicly lamented the failure of national (i.e. white) morale.

For many months now the support for the liberation struggle and add urban unrest to the regime's already desperate problems in some of the rural areas.

This tension is undoubtedly the reason behind hundreds of arrests of blacks (most of them reportedly of supporters of Joshua Nkomo) in the urban areas over the last two weeks.

A further knell of doom of the racists came from Peking where Robert Mugabe (joint leader with Nkomo of the "Patriotic Front") West German police attack demonstrators.

PERU

The huge price increases and economic measures just announced by the right wing military dictatorship (supported with qualifications by the Peruvian Communist Party) have provoked a wave of militant demonstrations. These have been especially concentrated in the southern cities of Cusco, Purio and Arequipa. Some demonstrators were reported killed and many injured in armed police attacks. Hundreds of arrests have also taken place in the capital, Lima.

The main unions and the BarreGiscard government are attempting to defuse the growing anger of workers against the fall in their standards of living through new wage negotiations in the public sector. At the same time recent economic news confirms the worsening of the crisis of French capitalism. Unemployment has risen sharply to over one million and industrial production has been stagnant for the last year.

ITALY

The Communist Party leadership has reached an agreement on a programme of austerity measures with the minority right wing Christian Democratic government of Andreotti. In their customary treacherous language of class collaboration the CP leader said there were "no winners or losers" in the negotiations; "the whole country has won". The agreement was, they said, a first step towards "democratic unity"

INDIA

The new Communist Party (Marxist) government of the state of West Bengal has reportedly released all politcal prisoners in the state including the Naxalites (Maoists). The CP(M) allies of the reactionary Janata party, government has still not fulfilled its pre-election promise to grant amnesty to political prisoners.

collapse of its predecessor.

Moreover, a movement to force troops out of Ireland cannot confine itself to just that one issue.

It is utopian in the extreme to think that the British working class will be mobilised against imperialism simply on the basis of continued oppression of Ireland.

Only a socialist programme capable of relating to all working class needs will be capable of effecting such a mobilisation.

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