Massacre Spanish Sahara

BY A WORKERS PRESS HASSAN II, reactionary king of Morocco, is pressing his claim to the Spanish Sahara following the massacre of demonstrators there last week.

Spanish troops fired on a crowd in the colony's main town, El Ajun, killing more than ten people. The demonstrators were demanding an end to Spanish occupation.

Morocco has pressed the long-standing claim in earnest since the recent discovery of valuable phosphate deposits in the interior of the country, which lies on the Atlantic coast immediately South of Morocco and North Mauritania, a French-dominated territory.

The interests of the people of Spanish Sahara require more than liberation from Spanish imperialism and unity with Morocco.

The regime of Hassan II is itself one of the most reactionary in N Africa.

The Communist Party is forbidden; last week Ali Yata, leader of the Moroccan Party of Liberation and Socialism finished a ten-month jail sentence imposed for trying to reconstruct a Communist And earlier this year, before the dispute over Spanish Sahara became acrimonious, Hassan's police took delivery of three Moroccan Communists arrested in Spain and handed over, without any legal appeal being allowed, to the embassy in Madrid.

The three faced sentences of death imposed by Moroccan courts in their absence.

jobs least, be a negotiating body— emphasis would be on consultation and communication — 'it is envisaged', said Lowry, 'that the chairman of the corporation (Lord Stokes) would report on the annual financial results to the industrial relation council at about the same time as he reports to the shareholders.' But this has nothing in common with 'opening the books', "industrial democracy' or suchlike.

'RESPONSIBILITY' With the help of the union leaders, who persuaded combine stewards earlier this year to recommend a locally-based 'fact-finding examination of