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There is no indepenof The new right wing coalition government of Prime Minister. Ecevit won the necessary vote of confidence in the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday 17 January. The voting was 229 to 218.

Ecevit has taken rapid decisions in the field of foreign policy in relation to the Cyprus question.

After a series of talks with Denktash, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, a plan was drawn up and presented to Greek Cypriot leader President Kyprianou at a meeting of all the parties at which UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was also present.

Revision

Ecevit also had a meeting with US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to discuss the revision of the $1.36 million Defence Cooperation Agreement, signed in March 1976 but held up by the US Congress after the Cyprus invasion.

Ecevit's plan for reconvening: the Cyprus talks included constitutional proposals the island for The rift between the Tunisian state trade union" the UGT and the ruling Destour Socialist Party is steadily widening despite the efforts of the union's leadership.

Secretary-general Habib Achour is still attempting to straddle both sides, but this position will soon become painfully impossible.

The bourgeoisie within the DSP is now working to split the union, and salvage its most reliable class-collaborators, as part of a general offensive against union rights.

Within the UGT itself, particularly the youth sections, the calls to break from the Bonapartist regime and built an independent workers' party are becoming more insistent. hi There has been a s iwift reaction from boury çeois politicians to the split engineered in the Congress Party by The Janata coalition government has withdrawn from circulation all currency notes of the highest values. (This move is aimed at freezing the finances of the Gandhi Congress, which is believed to hold vast undeclared reserves in such notes).

Already sections of the Janata and the Chavan-Reddy Congress are discussing the formation of a new political alliance hetween their forces.

Ecevit including the Presidency rotating between the two communities and a small government with an equal number of Ministers from each community as well as some concessions on occupied territory.

Legalise

However, the entire plan is aimed to legalise the partition of the island by the imperialist powers and aims to restore the credits from the United States in order to solve the acute economic crisis which the previous NF coalition in Turkey failed to do.

The plan offers nothing to the Turkish and Greek toilers of Cyprus.

The fight must be continued for the immediate withdrawal of troops from the island and for an independent Cyprus.

The right wing role of Ecevit's government became increasingly clear when, though it blamed fascists for political violence, it also took a series of measures against left wing organisations.

Fascist attacks

This has not decreased, but on the contrary, has increased fascist attacks on the left.

It is quite clear that workers cannot rely on the right wing government to stop these fascist attacks.

The government programme denies the democratic rights of political parties-a denial which Ecevit's election manifesto pledged to reverse.

Only armed workers' militia can fight against and defeat fascism.

Meanwhile secret talks have restarted between the metal workers union and the employers' confederation.

This strike is going to be the first target of Ecevit's government in its plan to head off the struggles of workers in defence of jobs, living standards and democratic rights.

He has the absolute support of the trade union bureaucracy in his attacks on the working class that will help the fascists expand their base among disillusioned workers and the petty bourgeoisie.

The coming period will be decisive. Only the political break from Ecevit's government and the independent mobilisation of the working class can guarantee the rights of workers and stop the threat of a fascist take over in the near future.

The political parties of the working class and the trade unions must break from Ecevit's government and fight to form an alternative government based on the needs of the workers and peasants of GREECE Greek unions have rejected the 15% rise in minimum wages offered by the Greek equivalent of the CBI. The unions' original claim was for a 25% rise on the present level of £4.50 per day for unskilled workers.

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