No criticism of Sudan regime Stalinists cover for repression of Arab masses

ADMIT ITIAT IN NAANAIN round-un of so-called 'saboteur elements'.

Thirteen army officers suspected of communist views have been sacked from their posts and three members of the regime's ruling Revolutionary Council dismissed.

All three were known to be close sympathizers, if not members, of Sudan's Despite its pretensions to 'socialism', the regime's first edict when it came to power in May 1969 made striking a capital offence !

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Leaning for mass support on the Communist Party (still officially illegal under the new government) Nimeiry took five of al members into his ruling council.

Diplomatic and economic links with the Soviet and other Stalinist bureaucracies were stepped up, as was political collaboration with the Nasser regime to the North. ' Then in October 1969, the regime swung sharply to the right. • Military control over the government, which had previously been shared with 'civilian' elements, was tightened.

Al-Nimeiry replaced Abu Bakr Awadallah, who had favoured collaboration with the Communist Party, as Prime Minister.

There were menacing rumblings from the extreme Moslem right wing against communist influence over the government.

The Workers Press warned at that time (October 31, 1969):

"The military leaders are sharpening their knives for 1P, Labour's Shadow es the Tories should be to 'look around'.

FROM JACK GALE would have been a catastrophe in the shape of a It almost happened, strike.

But Foot knows who his friends are. He knows who he can rely on.

His gratitude goes out to the right wing and Stalinist union officials who allowed the industry to be decimated by pit closures and watched miners' wages become almost the lowest in the land:

'The coal industry has carried through one of the most awkward but remarkable transformations in modern industrial history.

It is a painful process for a great industry and a great trade union to cooperate in reducing the scale of the industry.

'It could never have been done without superhuman restraint and patience on the part of the miners.' The miners are now reapa blood-bath of workers communists.

Unheeded

This dangerous development went unheeded both the Kremlin and the British Communist Party, whose publications continue to this the Sudanese dare militane regime. Comment, the CP weekly, as recently October and 10, featured a two-par Sudanese Minister Southern Affairs, J. U. Garang ! writer is helping to jail test secretary - general of the Sudanese CP Even with its long training in the art of betrayal, British Stalinism can hardly sink to lower lepths of treachery than this.

The veteran British Stalinist Idris Cox recently visited Sudan with a delegation of five Labour MPs.

in the WritinMorning Star his return, he stated in an article entitled "This Government Backs the Unions':

It was not until the revolution of May 25, 1969, that thẹy trade unions] full freedom death penalty Federation The Sudanese theregimes by Sudan ast arosen the remind or in scan fee is the backend to is preparing for new offennot against the Zionists, but the Arab workers No satisfaction from tenants' GLC lobby N UP FICHT TENANTS and trade unionists who had travelled from all parts of London to lobby their councillors over the proposed rent increases and sale of council houses, received no satisfactory assurance when they met them at County Hall Councillor Clack of Harrow said that the GLC intended to apply the principle of 'fair rents' to the public sector, that it intended to end the 'privileged position' of council tenants and ever maintained that interest rates had no effect on rents!

homeless ROME police brutally attacked homeless Sicilian peasants and drove them out of a makeshift encampment next to the entrance of the Italian chamber of Deputies.

The peasants were demanding the reconstruction of their homes which were destroyed by an earthquake in the Valle de Belice region.

Over 100,000 people there have been homeless since the beginning of 1968, living in corrugated-iron shanties from their home villages.

The government passed law at the time to rebuild houses for the earthquake victims. But nothing has been done.

Police with truncheons attacked the peasants on Tuesday afternoon, after they had camped for a week outside the parliament buildings.

On the same day the parliament discussed a draft Bill to exempt local youth from military service so they could rebuild their homes.