Sheik Mujib in talks with Heath

IF THE people agree links with all counti Sheikh Mujibur Rahn Saturday.

He said: 'I have nothing agairst the people of Pakistan. Of course Yahya Khan was bad, but 1 have nothing against them.' Speaking at London's plush Claridge's Hotel, the Awami League leader said 'the talks between myself and Pakistan m.icident Bhutto were connected with an appeal to me to find some possible links between 'us:

'But I told him I could say nothing about this until I returned to my people.' He added: I wish Mr continue in that position, will The two bourgeois leaders realize the necessity of mutual co-operation if their warshattered economies are to be revived.

STRANGE WORDS Behind Rahman's strange words of friendship for country which butchered millions of Bengalis is the knowledge that without rapid social and economic progress the bourgeoisie of both countries could be swept aside.

Right from the start Rahman has warned that he was the only man who could save E Bengal from communism.

In Pakistan as well as Bangla Desh it is a race against time.

At his first public appearance since his release, Rahman brushed aside any suggestion that there should be new elections in Bangla Desh.

•The Awami League represents the bourgeoisie almost to a man and Rahman is not prepared to let anything stand in the way of consolidating its grip on the new republic.

GIVEN LIVES

Disarming the guerrillas and restoring law and order requires immediate gestures to Bengali workers peasants, who have given their lives in millions to be free of the yoke of exploitation and poverty.

Significantly, and without waiting for Rahman's return to Dacca, the Bangla Desh government announced on Saturday that they intended to 'nationalize' banking, insurance and foreign trade.

By concentrating scarce development funds into government hands, the Awami League obviously hopes to build quickly the climate in which capitalism can flourish unthreatened by popular But the world recession plus the gigantic task of postwar reconstruction will make their efforts more than difficult.

Rahman told reporters at the weekend that Bangla Desh was 'unchallengeable reality, a and said she would apply immediately for admission to the United Nations.

On Saturday night he went to 10 Downing Street to thank Tory leader Edward Heath for helping to save his life when he was waiting in a Pakistani condemned cell tc be hanged.

He claimed he had no say in being flown from Pakistan to London instead of immediately to Dacca. BanglaDesh will have including Pakistan, n said in London on But UK Awami League officials said the Bengali leader had deliberately come to London to hear from UK leaders which way the political wind was blowing before flying home early yesterday morning.

Car pay "causes chaos PAY BATTLES in the car industry continue this week with over 13,000 Scottish, Merseyside and Midlands workers laid-off.

The new wave of militancy is affecting production Chrysler's Linwood works in Renfrewshire. There 6,500 workers walked out and amazed the combine's managing director Gilbert Hunt by rejecting a £3 no-strings pay offer.

Also in Scotland, produc tion at British-Leyland's truck and tractor plant came to a standstill when 3,500 shopfloor workers carried out their threat to strike on Friday night after the firm E8-a-week pay rise Triumph's turned down demands for an Deliveries new Dolomite car-only announced on Thursday-will be further hit by a dispute at the body works at Speke, Liverpool.

Press-shop workers there have been laid off indefinitely after a stoppage of about 900 workers in the body-assembly section parleys fascism YUGOSLAV government leaders have been holding joint talks on economic development with the representatives of Spain, Greece, Turkey and Portugal.

These four countries are ruled by the most right-wing dictatorships in the Mediterranean area.

Spain is fascist, Greece and luikey. are under military dictatorship and Portugal is ruled by the corporatist regime of Marcello Caetano.

Yugoslavia, on the other hand, professes to be a socialist state.

President Tito's representatives met the delegations of the four right-wing dictatorships at the Lisbon gathering of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Yugoslavia is represented at the OECD by an observer.

The meeting was revealed at the weekend by Caetano's Secretary of State for Industry, Rogerio Martins, in a radio and television speech outlining the Portuguese government's plans for industrial developMartins said the four OECD nations and Yugoslavia had agreed that Portugal should concentrate on building up its chemical industry as the basis for textile and other developments.

These moves further endanger the conquests of the Yugoslay revolution and betray the persecuted communists and trade unionists of Spain, Greece, Portugal and Turkey.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS