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bosses their ca's whipping,' said a somewhat confused Muhamn ad All last week. I'm not here to push nothing to nobody? Ali, the USA's special envoy in Africa, evidently found his new role of boosting Carter's Cold War politics too hot to handle. He had come a long way from the days when he publicly opposed imperialism's Vietnam and refused to enlist in the Not all of Washington's diplomatic manoeuvres to marshal the capitalist world behind its war threats against the Soviet Union have ended in Despite Carter's failure to get unanimous response in favour of his call for a boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow, the hawks of the Western alliance have succeeded in avoiding a serious split in their ranks. They have pui together a package of military and economic measures which increases the pressures towards world war.
The joint declaration by Schmidt of West Germany and Giscard of France followed the Islamic conference in sharply rebuking Moscow for its infervention in Afghanistan. The joint declaration is an ultimatum to the Soviet Union, and calls for the blocking of all progress in detente - including the SALT Il talks and the European Security Conference due to be held later this year — until the Russians withdraw from Afghanistan. honour their engagements.' more aggressive glebal policy.
national workers movement.
need to defend, the working class.
A stage two plan has already been discussed by Schmidt and Giscard for a combined military response in the event of further Soviet "expansionism'. It is clear that both Paris and Bonn have sought American collaboration from the beginning and have subsequently 'reaffirmed their loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance and their determination to These developments have been combined with moves towards economic sanctions in the form of a blockade of the Soviet Union, but not without considerable opposition. Most significantly the escalation of military preparations by the Western powers has been combined with an ideological offensive aimed at preparing public epinion for a The success of President Carter and Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, in closing the ranks of European capitalism behind the American Alliance and US policy, is a setback for the interFirst, it represents a threat to the existence of the Soviet Union, and the advances made by the revolution - advances and gains which socialists despite the policies of the bureaucratic elite which has usurped power from Secondly, and more immediately, it is a threat to the revolutionary struggles of the people of the yoke of imperialist domination.
establishment by forces endanger Nicaragua and Iran, not to mention Cuba.
focus attention on 'the enemy within' perialist centres themselves.
ing of the imperialist military alliances siting of which has been agreed by government.
allies. Third World and their attempts to throw off the The 15 billion dollar rise in the US defence budget; the reintroduction of the draft, and the Washington of special strike the unfolding revolutions in Thirdly, the developing cold war atmosphere will undoubtedly allow Western governments to - the left, and the organised workers' movement in the imIt would be fatal for the working class not to forcibly oppose this escalation in the cold war, for we live in an epoch of war and revolution. The workers' movement must be vigilant and prepared to take any action necessary to halt the strengthenThe most immediate requirement is for a campaign for Britain's withdrawal from NATO and against the introduction of the Cruise Missiles, the the Tory Opposition to the boycott of the Olympic Games needs to be combined with a refusal by the trade union movement to participate in any move towards a trade blockade of the Soviet Union or its