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Every day the pattern grows clearer. On Friday, August 14, the attack on Jordan by Israeli bombers. On Monday, the election of a new right-wing president in Lebanon and renewed Israeli attacks on guerrilla bases in that country.

On Tuesday, reports from Cairo that every day members of the Palestinian liberation movement are being arrested and" deported from Egypt.

And finally yesterday's Heratt Tribune', whose Mos CoWn correspoteent writes:

private discussions, Soviet authorities are urging US officials to bring all possible pressure on Israel to comply with the full withdrawal demand, promising in return that they will "deliver" Egyptian pledges on Israeli security? (Our emphasis.) 'Delivering Egyption pledges' means only one thing— crushing the Arab revolution on behalf of imperialism and the Arab bourgeoisie and betraying Palestine to the Zionists.

The same writer adds, with good reason:

In recent days Soviet propaganda has shown some softness toward the US position in the Middle East. .

Kremlin

The Kremlin has always supported the ghetto state of Israel-carved out of Palestinian territory by terror, pillage and wholesale eviction of the Arab population.

And so has the British Communist Party leadership.

Writing in his 1967 pamphlet "The Middle East', Stalinist Bert Ramelson not only upheld the UN resolution of 1947 creating the Zionist state of Israel, but even went so far as to defend some of the annexations made after the June 1967 war:

'Nineteen years have passed and changes in boundaries may be advisable.

'Such changes may be matter for negotiation. But what is not negotiable is thé principle of the Arabs' right to parts of what Israel has seized by force! (Our emphasis.)

This is open justification of imperialist conquest.

From this position flows everything that the Stalinsts have done and said ol the Middle East since 1967 Today they are silent on the persecution of Palestinian guerrillas by Nasser and Hussein, becausé tomorrow they will support armed counterrevolutionary actions against those continuing the fight to liberate Palestine from Ramelson's Zionist friends.

The game is up for the ...In where workers 'and peasants are fighting for national liberation and socialism, the Kremlin bureaucracy is out in front preparing the most cynical betrayals.

In Ulster, the Stalinists refuse to call for the withdrawal of British troops. Instead they appeal to Tory • leader Heath to introduce a 'Bill of Rights' guaranteeing the 'civil rights' of the Catholics.

Never was their grovelling before imperialism and its machinery of repression so blatant as today.

At last May's conference of western European Communist Parties, attended by Gollan for the British CP, a resolution was adopted calling for 'political, moral, and material support for the Indo-Chinese peoples in their heroic struggle Israeli arrest raises ONE OF the two Algerians taken from a BOAC airliner by Israeli authorities last Friday may be released within the next day or so, it was reported from Tel Aviv yesterday.

But the other detainee, Major Khatib Djelloul, could be held indefinitely following reports that he was at one time head of Algeria's secret police.

The Israelis are acting on information forwarded by Alexander Ross of London, who was arrested while working as an adviser to the Algerian Transport Ministry, and spent four years in an Algiers prison on a charge of ckers meet today on Phase Two employers. We are selling our Tule book and our past struggles for £36 15s a week?

Much more

The proposals certainly do this and much more.

In addition to shift working, 'there shall be full mobil ity within any working period within and between categories'.

The proposals also state:

"The terms and conditions in this agreement require employees to achieve a satisfactory level of ouput'-a catch-all clause which the employers will push as far as they can.

A threat of labour-force against US imperialist aggression'.

But the Soviet government, far from lending 'political, moral and material' support to the Cambodian people against Nixon's invasion and his puppet regime in Phnom Penh, actually recognizes the stooge Lon Nol, placed in power by a CIA coup last March!

In Indo-China, as in the Middle East, Stalinism is the main hope of the imperialists their war on the semi-colonial peoples.

Both the Kremlin and Nixon hope shatthese istional liberation struggles can be beaten back and smashed; before the massive battalions of workers in the advanced capitalist countries can be mobilized.

Only this explains the astonishing speed with which the Nasser-Rogers deal was forced through.

Divide

Divide and defeat is the Stalinist and imperialist blueprint today, and it applies as much to world struggles as it does to workers in individual factories, unions and industries.

Against this counter-revolutionary strategy there is only one reply-the building of revolutionary leadership on a programme of international struggle for socialism.

This is the task that faces the peoples of the Middle East and Indo-China. It is ours too. Ben Bella case spying for the Israeli governRoss' wife said on Tuesday that Djelloul was well-known in Algiers as a member of the Revolutionary Council and one of Boumedienne's righthand men.

'But very few people know that he is head of the secret Hostage Despite strong British government pressure to release the two men, it is believed that Israeli Defence Minister Moishe Dayan is considering using the Algerian official as a hostage for Israeli prisonersof-war in Arab countries. decimation is spelt out in the proposed 'review on manning to determine minimum manning and flexibility..?

Vague provisions that the agreement can be 'reviewed' after 12 months are simply to lull opposition. The sort of review the employers have in mind will be more sackings and speed-up and not any reversal of this trend.

Dockers must not be taken in by the bait of a £36 15s wage.

There must be a solid 'No' to Devlin Phase Two. you to keep up this campaign. We still need £735 6s 6d to reach our target by August 31.

Help us change this position by sending your donations immediately to :

Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

Liverpool

LUCAS'S CAV and Industrial Equipment plants on Merseyside were closed yesterday after lay-offs as the strike of maintenance engineers for a £5-a-week incerase entered its second week.

The management of both factories has refused to move from an offer amounting to 30s and they face the possibility of a strike of workers at the Lucas Gas Turbine factory over a £4 claim.

Yugoslav miners strike THIRTEEN THOUSAND miners in the coalfield near Kreka-Banovici, in the Bosnia region of Yugoslavia, started a three-day strike this week against delays by the railways in removing the coal.

For a month, output has been • held down normal level because of...a shortage of rolling stock.

The decision to strike was taken at a meeting on Monday, in defiance of Dragutin Kosovac, head of the Bosnia-Herzegovina state government, who was present.

ARREARS

The miners are demanding that the Yugoslav Sonars mentor ide 20m to cover arrears of pay.

Their action lays fairly and squarely on the shoulders of the Tito bureaucracy shore responsibility for Tact Senions me hat pag gross tions of the economy.

Algeria's Boumedienne régime, which has always collaborated closely with French imperialism, also has its prisoners held without charges or trial.

Since Ahmed Ben Bella was deposed by a military coup nve years ago, nothing has been seen or heard of him apart from reports of letters written to his close relatives.

Fear of his impending land reform drove the clique around Boumedienne to arrest Ben Bella and crack down on all left-wing opposition to their rule.

Today, even those who served Ben Bella as his cabinet advisers-notably the renegade Trotskyists Raptis ('Pablo'), Harbis and Luftfulla, have nothing to say on the question of his release.

While it is every socialist's duty to call for the release of Djelloul, even more serious is the case of Ben Bella, who ironically was arrested by security forces under the direction of Djelloul himself.

Without in any way supporting his middle-class nationalism, we demand that Ben Bella be released and all bans lifted on socialist groups and parties in Algeria.

The struggle against repressions by the Arab bourgeoisie is essential for victory over imperialism and Zionism.

Rover lay-offs SIX HUNDRED workers were laid off at the Rover car plant in Solihull, Birmingham, yesterday following a walkout over a wage claim by nine men. at the Acocks Green engine factory. Trotsky Memorial Lectures "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism'