[AFRICA A new wave of anti-government demonstrations has…]
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AFRICA A new wave of anti-government demonstrations has spread through South Africa's black towns in the last two weeks. Police violently broke up demonstrations near Port Elizabeth after the funeral of Mzukisi Nabhadula another political prisoner who met his death while in police captivity.
CHILE
Dictator Pinochet has called a referendum on January 4 to solicit "popular support" against the condemnation of Chile by the United Nations. But the junta has been publicly divided on this tactic. The Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats have both called on Chileans to vote 'no' if the referendum Tinally takes place.
ITALY
The Andreotti government has proposed compromise austerity measures to Italy's main trade unions in an effort to prevent a one day gêneral strike later this month. In any case Andreotti says he will not resign if the strike takes place. The Communist Party continues to press to be brought into a government, which according to leading CP member Giorgio Napolitano must "shift income away from consumption towards investment" (that is cut wages to help protits). AS last Thursday's 'Morning Star' pointed out, "the Communists and five other parties have propped up" Andreotti's government since August 1976.
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testifies to the continued insecurity of Cuba's counterrevolutionary bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy must be overthrown by the working class under the leadership of a party based on revolutionary