Salute heroic Arab guerrillas

FROM THE inferno of blazing buildings, corpse strewn streets and devastated refugee camps in and around Amman, comes the terse, stirring message of the Palestinian guerrillas:

LUTON dustmen, who claim that they have been locked out, yesterday marched through the town on the fourth day of their dispute. On Monday they refused instructions to do an extra day's work for 5s 6d more and management has not allowed them to work since.

'We fight on until Knifed in the back by the Kremlin's pressure on Syria to withdraw, menaced by the most massive concentration of US fire power the Middle East has ever witnessed, and subjected to the indescribable barbarities of Hussein's Bedouins, the Arab Revolution refuses to be cowed.

In the Royalist capital it'We will not accept any compromise on the claim. The Transport and General seem to be favour of strong action, but I am wary of the other two unions.' London stewards will meet union representatives on Tuesday to discuss the action. Cranemen work to rule on London iy an Industrial correspondent PORT of London Authority cranemen and drivers at London's Royal Group of docks are now working to rule in support of a claim for extra pay.

Earlier in the week, the men had banned fork-lilt trucks completely and reverted to hand trucks only.

Their action is now taking the form of insisting that vehicles meet safety regulations to the letter, refusing to work outside normal shift times and banning weekend working.

The PLA dockers are demanding a £3-a-week increase on the basic rate for victory or death!' self, guerrillas still hold key quarters, though much has been reduced to rubble by the incessant pounding of Hussein's tanks and heavy guns.

They have Poured in over 120,000 shells in the last week.

When, during the last war, the Nazis butchered countless Tews in the death camps of the Third Reich, the imperialist allies feigned horror.

APPROVING

not only imperialism Zionists approvingly Jordan's refugee centres are turned into a Middle Eastern Auschwitz.

This is meaning and purpose of the Rogers "peace Iragi regime, so loudly denounced the deal, and which until a few days ago declared would not guerrillas crushed by Arab reaction, has reportedly offered Hussein the help of the 12,000 Iraqi troops stationed in North Jordan.

According to the Cairo daily 'Al Ahram', Hussein revealed this plan when he told Royalist army leaders that Iraqi troops had been asked to help 'repelling invasion by Syrian tanks'.

The Meir-Dayan regime is also giving military as well as political support to Hussein, dropping food and other suphard-pressed troops in the North.

PRESERVED

And just as desperate to strangle the Arab Revolution, Kremlin yesterday again made clear to western government leaders that it favoured the preservation of the Husregime's authority Jordan, which guarantee the maintenance of between the Arab states and Israel.

The Soviet agency 'Tass' reassured imperialist leaders that necessary steps' are being taken to end the conflict, without the need for any outside intervention from Nixon, who was advised by Kremlin 'caution' present situation.

"Tass' also said the Soviet government was in permanent contact with President Nasser of Egypt, who, throughout the Jordan fighting has thrown his influence the side The reported withdrawal of Syrian-supplied tanks believed by both British and American government leaders to be the result of Kremlin pressure on the Syrian regime, not-as reported retreat from Hussein's army.

Commenting earlier this week on Kremlin's decision to secure a Syrian withdrawal, US State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey docks driving forklift trucks mobile cranes.

Dockers in the Royal Group are already complaining that the Devlin Phase Two agreement is 'being thrown at them' whenever they put in any request.

One particular grievance on which feeling is already building up is over the docking of half an hour's pay for ten minutes lateness.

Yesterday 'Blue' union— National Amalgamated and Stevedores-dockers meeting at West Ham stadium agreed to lift their ban on weekend working.

'The real test of whether that is a meaningful matter will turn on whether or not forces from Syria are withdrawn from Jordan.' When it became clear on Wednesday that Kremlin pressure was having its : intended effect, Tory Foreign Secretary Home met Nixon at the White House to re-examine imperialist strategy in the Middle East.

According to one observer, the Kremlin's refusal to back the guerrillas 'is regarded by both governments as helpful in averting a worse crisis'.

Even the most vocal supporters of Hussein fear his regime is still doomed, despite the territorial gains secured by the Royalists over the last two days.

FEROCIOUS

The resistance in Amman, which is not generally regarded as a stronghold of the guerrillas, is certain to be encountered on an even more ferocious scale should Hussein's forces attempt to take Irbid and the other northern towns by storm.

The guerrillas are not fighting in vain.

The anti-imperialist fighters in Vietnam and the whole of SE Asia will draw new inspiration from the Palestinian revolution.

From now on, they do not fight alone.

The British working class, already engaged in a fight for its very existence against the employers and the Tories, must consciously take its place in the front ranks of the anti-imperialist front, now opened up from Vietnam to Jordan.

treachery Down with Stalinist treachery!

Long live the Arab revolution! - say Leeds foundrymen