Sadat's treachery meets failure
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Steel union boss Sirs jobs, and for the nationalisation of the whole industry, together with related sectors and the banks, under workers' management.
Such a policy means breaking the anti-socialist Lib-Lab coalition, and the removal of the reactionary leadership within the steel unions and the TUC.
If such a fight is not taken up, then the present 25,000 threatened redundancies will be simply the opening shot of a long drawn out war on jobs throughout the steel industry.
The utterly predatory nature of the Zionist state of Israel was clearly indicated in the breakdown of the Egypt-Israel talks during last week.
The 'peace initiative' taken by President Sadat just two months ago was designed in the first place to draw attention away from the social crisis in Egypt itself.
Sadat then hoped by the use of his frienship with the US to at least stop the occupation of his own country and to obtain at least some status for a tiny puppet state for the Palestinians.
In return for this, Sadat has been offering "secure boundaries" to the Zionists, and possibly international guarantees against further efforts to undermine the Zionist state.
Pressure He hoped that he a ›uld use imperialist pressure • to isolate the Palestinians and secure the agreement of the different Arab states in the area.
These hopes have foundered because the Zionist settlers are not seriously interested in being recognised by their neighbours, and do not intend to make the slightest territorial concessions.
They are prepared to resist even strong pressure from the Americans in order to retain their racially exclusive state.
A series of statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Begin during last week, on one occasion during a dinner for the Egyptian Foreign Minister, clearly revealed the utterly reactionary character of Zionism.
Granted by God
The state of Israel had existed, according to Begin, for 3,700 years, and this "had been granted by God to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob"
State power with credentials like these hardly needs serious justification for its predatory activities.
The Zionists genuinely cannot understand how the Egyptians, or for that matter the Jordanians, can deny Israel's right to hold settlements on their territories.
Even the Times of 20 January was driven to observe that:
"Mr Begin shows that he