The of the Kremlin bureaucracv become a weapon in the reactionaries' hands to be used to counterpose 'socialism to the struggle for national aberation ana aemocranc rights. The bourgeois naand Islamic leaders latch on to this situation in order to build their image the among masses.
Soviet invasion also taclitates the antl Marxist and anti-communist campaign of imperialism which uses it to justify rearmament polcles and its attempts to demobilise mass opposition military expenditure.
allows to claim a legitimacy for its intervenionist poncies the Middle East, Iran and Thus from the point of view of the defence of the well epercussions on tne eve al consciou ness and ,organisation of the world proletariat, the 13 August 1981 Page 8 only be condemned.
rank! resistance' and suffers the Soviet repression? In the man racas whose leaders are most often the traditional chiefs. They have been joined by sectors of the traditional petit-bourgeoiservants and the urban salaKandahar@ AKISTA plebian layers. the students and secondary school cham traditionally drew their forces a ron has position movement emerged The experience of the masses the arakı and Amin government, ine meinoos useo Dy o PDPA and the Soviet advisors, and the Soviet cupation all mean that the ogether th ranks of the DPA all estimations give maximum membership of 5000 - the intervention and the occupation have accentuated the conflicts between the Khalq and Parcham factions.
Increasingly the Soviet forces substitute for the 'phantom' Afghani state apparatus. In July Afghanistan was divided up into 7 military regions - each headed by a Soviet General. The Soviets exercise direct control on the administrative, institu the nationalised state secLOT The Soviet intervention and the occupation have therefore proved be obstacles to the reinforcement of the workers and peasants movement, the emergence of leadership capable of car rying out a social, political and military battle against the reactionarles. Nothing In inis instance tiereions justifies the abandonment of the defence of the right to self-determination when the Soviets have substituted for the PDPA and decide everything themselves. Self Getes
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