Guerrillas face serious set-back

BETRAYED by Stalinism, butchered in their thousands by Hussein's Bedouins, and menaced throughout by massive US intervention, the Arab guerrillas have suffered a serious reverse.

Commando leader Yassir safat's decision yesterday to sign a cease-fire agree:" ment with the Jordanian royalists was above all brought about by the military pressure of the American war-machine.

Even though not a single US soldier or marine has so DATA strikers back ATUA conference ROLLS - ROYCE draughtsmen, who themselves have been locked out of the firm's Coventry plant since July, have backed the All Trades Unions Alliance Pilkington's conference on October 3 by deciding to send a delegation.

Support for the conference has also come from Deptford Scientific Workers' branch which has voted to support the Pilkington conference and elected two THE , CAMPAIGN for the reinstatement of the sacked Pilkington's glassworkers at St Helens has been joined by Sheffield No 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators which has passed a resolution calling on the National Federation of Construction Unions and its affiliated bodies to support the national blacking of Pilkington glass.

The branch felt that this action was necessary to the fight against the Tory government's proposed anti-trade-union laws.

Jack Grasby, secretary of South Shields Trades Council, told workers Press:

It's quite obvious from yesterday's unemployment figures the struggle of workers on Tyneside is the same as those in St Helens and the Merseyside for the basic right to work, the right to organize and the right to strike.

"The October 3 conference deserves every support?

ALI. TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE "aGA Nixon's massive concentration of forces in the E Mediterranean has set the pace for Hussein's pogrom . of the Palestinians.

The imperialists hoped from the beginning that Hussein would crush the guerrillas without an open armed intervention from either the United States or Israel.

WITHDREW

Their hopes were based on the fact that Syrian regime, responding to the pressure of Moscow, withdrew its armoured forcès from North Jordan after inflicting severe defeats on the royalists.

A desert war cannot be fought without armour. The Stalinist-inspired Syrian withdrawal was therefore decisive eaving the guerrillas exposec o the full fury of Hussein's tanks and planes.

So the Royalists, emboldened by the knowledge that the Kremlin was strenuously opposing any Syrian backing for the guerrillas in the North, did their bloody, murderous best to carry out Nixon's strategy.

the Palestinians, alestinians courage of Royalist massacres in the refugee camps, are now beginning to take their toll even in the ranks of Hussein's government.

Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud's resignation and call for a new Civilian national government that would work for Jordan's national unity' is only the visible tip of the iceberg.

ALIENATED

A Palestinian by Daoud reflects the fear many government supporters that the Realised he perman nently alienated bittered not only the Palestinians, but millions of Arabs throughout the Middle East.

They sense that whatever the tactical military gains Hussein may secure in: the next days or weeks, the Palestinian uprising has inspired millions Arabs in the Middle East to renew their struggle against imperialism. that scene have promile can be done, while Hussein has equally clearly