Albania: Stalinists send back Greek exiles

BAYONETS BULLETS' India under pressure to join 'nuclear club' THE ESCALATION of the war in SE Asia and the launching of China's first satellite earlier this month now demands that US imperialism step up the preparations for aggression against the Chinese People's Republic.

The Indian government is coming under increasing pressure to make atomic weapons and has already decided to examine the cost of an atomic arms programme.

A two-day meeting of politicians and defence experts last week-end in New nously, reat india must join Delhi agreed, : the 'nuclear club'.

Dr D. Nag Chaudhuri, a nuclear physicist and member of the Government Planning Commission, told the meeting that producing Stalinist regimes of E Europe continues to develop even to the point of returning" Greek exiles!

In a press conference last Sunday Greek Foreign Minister Mr Pipinelis announced that the junta's pro-Stalinist policy in E Europe had won a favourable response from many other Balkan countries'.

(All the other Balkan states — Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Rumania — are ruled by the Stalinist bureaucracy, the first three having common frontier with Greece.)

Cynical The greatest and most cynical betrayal of all has been committed by the Albanian regime of Enver Hoxha.

This regime has already emulated the • Kremlin by signing a trade deal with the junta.

Now, according to Mr Pipinelis, it is showing its 'understanding' in a more direct way by returningon its own initiative-all refugees from Greece who have fled to Albania for political asylum.

This treachery ranks with Stalin's decision to hand over anti-Nazi refugees to Hitler following the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August 1939.

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The scale may not be so great, but the principle of class solidarity and internationalism is exactly the same.

The Albanian regime, of course, prides itself on its opposition to 'modern rea nuclear explosion was well within the resources and expertise of India': Atomic Energy Department Economic experts estimate that India could acquire an atomic arsenal at a cost of £1,800 million over the next ten years.

Even without the 'escalation' that the cost of such a programme would undergo, this represents over half a per cent of India's average national income each year and would mean further chaos for the country's already crisis-ridden economy.

The production of atomic weapons for use against China is the reality behind the pledges by the "advanced' imperialist powers to donate one per cent of their gross national incomes to the underdeveloped countries. from Peking, visionism and, taking its lead the Soviet leadership for subservience to imperialism.

But even Kosygin and Brezhnev have not yet begun to deport exiled Greek communists back to Athens.

British supporters of 'Maoism' will be hard put to find a quotation from . their 'Red Book' justifying this act of class collaboration.

Nevertheless, the Peking regime has also established trade relations with the junta, and for good measure has three-man team currently in Madrid • negotiating a similar deal with Franco.

Singled out

Pipinelis singled out Bulgaria for special praise.

He noted a 'real improvement' in relations between the two governments, adding that it could neither undermine Brazilian guerrillas strike back BY A CORRESPOI ssure Already, France, Japan, Germany and Britain, together with the United States and the Soviet Union, have been responsible for providing the Indian government with rocket launch facilities under the auspices of the United Nations.

It is now likely that the Indian government will soon agree to give the go-ahead to produce nuclear arms and drive another nail into the coffin of the much-vaunted non-proliferation treaty.

The Stalinist policy of 'peaceful coexistence' out of which emerged not only this treaty, but also the current SALT talks in Vienna, are now allowing imperialism breathing siese tanse are its inese Chinese workers' state.

In the furtherance of this growing junta-Bulgarian harmony, Mr Bashev, Bulgarian Foreign Minister, visited Athens last Friday for talks with his Greek opposite number.

They issued a joint communiqué affirming that the differences in social systems should not hinder 'neighbourly relations' or their development 'in conformity with the principles of mutual respect and non-interference in internal affairs'.

'Comforting'

It is no doubt comforting for the thousands of Greek communists in the junta's prisons to know that their torturers and captors uphold Stalinist principles of of peaceful co-existence and non-interference.

'Mutual respect' between the colonels and the Bulgarian Stalinists-and more tortures and persecutions toI those who fight the CIA-backed junta.

Stalinism remains Stalinism, whether it be the Moscow, Sofia or Peking variety. THE MANHUNT launched by the Brazilian dictatorship against guerrilla forces South of Sao Paolo (reported in last Thursday's Workers Press), in which thousands of troops with helicopters and incendiary, bombs are engaged, is meeting with effective resistance.

After a period of retreat a force of liberation fighters ambushed government troops last.. Saturday, wounding six and taking two soldiers and a lieutenant prisoner.

Soldiers involved in clash say that the guerrillas were led by Carlos Lamarca, commander of the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard (VPR), who deserted from the Army last year, taking with him several other soldiers and a lorry-load of weapons.

For the first time in Brazil the guerrillas have opposed the regime as an organized military force.

Their ability to do so, using weapons supplies surviving a prolonged offensive by much larger government forces in the area, is the sign not only of their own courand determination, but of the widespread opposition to the brutal, anti-communist rulers of Brazil.

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