from the although many electors.
essentially rally main parties -Despite these Council).
ZANU(PE). and East House In UNIO will Мигогетя, has prop of the Smith regime.
campaign was only opposition.
support until ZAPU/ZANU was lifted, ZAPU for large-scale guerilla dramatically, aegligible ZAPU/ZANU.
THERE are about 0.25m whites in Zimbabwe and 6.8m blacks. Of the 100 seats in the new parliament 20 are 'white reserved'. The remaining 80 seats will be divided into 8 electoral districts with an estimated 2.8m There is no voters roll, so there will be ample opportunity for electoral fraud by the authorities.
Altbough there are several parties standing in the election, the overmhelming majority of the 80 seats will be divided between the three Patriotic Front) and Mazorewa's UANC (United African National This electoral system means that a black party or coalition must win 51 out of 80 sents to have a majority. The only party capable of tbis is A coalition with ZAPU would certainly result in a large majority -which is why Britain is attempting to deepen the rift between the tiro wings of the liberation movement.
THE COLLABORATORS African National Council (UANC), led by Bishop become the It wa ormed in 1972 as a 'front' for th banned ZAPU/ZANU partles in the against government's Pearce Cormission. It legal focus for VANC commanded considerable the ban imprisoned cadre released in 1975. with Sifth in tze fraudi fellahtersed Muzorews collaborated settlement', support for UANC has and • IS now compared However, it has a ZANU (Patriotic Front), ZAPU (standing as the well-oiled and well beeled apparatas financed by South African money. the rotation of ' Suithin estrench whitt soprem 1979
(In part one of this article we explained that a civil war was inevitable in Afganistan after radical WaTe.
Peoples Democratic Party came to power in April (978.)
THE AID given to the rightist guerillas fighting the reforms steeply increased in 1979. Egypi Saadi Arabiz and Pakistan acted for the United tates. bolstering:
tially revolationary might spark off. ation, combined with the faction le danger of the PDPA being toppled actionary 'Islamic' governrent coming to gi Moścow. decided to commit itself more deeply. • ILOL prepared construction of an imperialist staging post on one of its most sensitive borders a state which might appeal to the aspirations for religious and Islamic minorities in the Soviet Union.
Troops Starting on 24 December, tens of thousands of soviel troops bOHeR HOD Hafizullah Amin, the premier, was liquidated a few days later. Babrak Karmal, the leader of an opposing faction in the PDPA, was appointed in his place. disaster. Its motive was not any desire to expo rt From the beginning the invasion revolution but, on the contrary, to stabilise a Dursued the government that opposition to dynamic thai This sec the - particularly cultural freedom of the aeomanic relabons. I macco countered by the mobilisations of • •][ Union could have including military aid to help Á Russian soldier stands güard over the Kabul highway the Soviet action skifülly. Since arriving in the beforehand, apart from the reintroduction of ocialist advance for decade prolonged stay of Soviet troop:
counter-revolution.
Portuguese:
The contempt attitude of the The retreat of Soviet troops under these circumstances would not be a victory for the elf-determination of the Afgan people. O he contrary, it woul leave the field open fo the establishment of a reactionary regime which would halt the proces of reform, liquidate the tiny left, and set back the prospects for an Counter - revolution The Italian and Spanish Communist parties have fallen in behind their governments and ruling classes in demanding the withdrawal of Soviet troops. And of course these parties in no way call for an independent revolutionary path r the workers and peasants of Afghanist iey argue that the establishment of a righ regime in Kabul would be better than the essentially calling for the victory of the imperialist-backer Other Communist parties — the French an in particular have give uncritical support to the Soviet bureaucracy, in line with their general support for the methods of Stalinism. In the event of workers and peasants who support the April 1978 reforms coming into conflict with the Soviet troops, these parties will have no hesitation in backing imperialists themselves have for the democratic rights of the Afghan people has been made manifest by the European Economic Community. The EEC's first action after condemning the Soviet invasion was to suspend all food aid to Afganistan. This was followed by the advancement of a plan for the neutrali-