NO MANHAS ThE hiM! nSELLANDIHER Miners at three local pits have already A special team of 10 miners from the area WUN THE South Wales miners' conference in May voted to campaign in the area NUM lodges for a day's strike to support the health workers. Last week the lodges agreed to back this call DAI DAVIES, a miner at Penrhiwceiber pit and a member of the South Wales Area Exexplained their decision to Socialist propriate - the most likesupport was brought home forefathers fought for prohospital care. don't want to be served by workers in these hospitals who live on slave wages.
The more politically minded miners who'll be out on the day see this as more than just support for the health workers. health workers are taking on the same government who are attacking us too with pit closures The Kent miners are pproachin the South Vales coal field to suppor them if they strike against the closure of the Snowdon pit.
We recognise that such support and solidarity action for the health workers is a challenge to Tebbit's proposals.
Bombs explode in West Beirut SUBSCRIBE TO SOCIALIST CHALLENGE issues Socialist Challenge SEVEN WEEKS ago in Socialist Challenge we wrote: 'The Israeli army is on massive onslaught against Lebanon. The aim of the invasion will be to smash the Palestinian prediction has come true - with a vengeance.
ly 17 miles from Beirut. launching a campaign of slaughter from the air against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples bombing civilian areas Beirut, hundreds of Israeli tanks have crossed the border into Lebanon.
There can be no doubt about the objective of the Israeli attack — a crushing defeat of the Palestinians and the Le Danese from which they will not be able to recovel But the Israeli invasion tar trom demonstrating the strength and security of the Zionist state reveals its weakness and crisis.
Founded on the expulsion of the majority of the native Palestinians and the subjugation of those Palestinians who remain, the Zionist has always acted in the region as the policeman for world Over exnage and finance of the lne attempt Israel to secure peace with Egypt at the expense of the Palestinians has led to Colloicle failure. The whole peace process initiated by the Camp David accord — signed by Sadat and Begin under chful eye of President Carter - has collapsed as the Palestinians in the territories • occupied by Israe in 1967 have refused play the passive role laid out for them in the Camp David script.
Since middle of March there have been a the verge of a At the time of writing the Israeli army is onThe Israeli airforce is in and serier of determined demonstrations against Israeli occupation in these territories. Tens thousands of young Palestinians nave Taken part in mobilisation which have been met with vicious repression by the Israeli arfifteen Palestinians have been killed and many HOLS wounded.
Israel has reponded to the failure of Camp David by deciding simultaneousto permanently annex the occupied territories and to deal a crushing blow to the Palestinian resistance.
The Golan heights have already been annexed by Israel - an annexation which has been met with a by the Druze Arabs who live there. The resistance to the annexation policy has also included for the first time number of solidarity strikes by Arab workers in Israel itself.
Only about ten per cent of the Palestinians live in Lebanon. But it is the centre military resistance to Israel and the headquarters of the PLO The aim of the Israeli invasion is to take out the military. core nian resistance, demoralising ana demoonising al. the Palestinians who resist expansionist srae policies.
The final aim of the attack will be to push the border twenty thirty miles northwards to give Israel control of the water from the Litani river and more 'secure' border, preventing military incursions By making the choice for vet allotile military adventure to solve its pro blems, the Israeli economy is in chaos, as the world economic recession makes US financial support more difficult. The peoples of the occupied territories are not going to lie down and surrenue Israel is going to eno up with more hostile op ponents to police, more borders to defend, and a population at home which is less and less willing to accept economic deprivation to support a massive multarv machine There is no future for the Jewish people in the Middle East without ac cepting and upholding the national rights of the Palestinian people. Marx's saying that 'a people which oppresses can never itselt be free' has never been more apt.
A socialist solution to the struggle in the Middle East would recognise the to remain - there can be no question of capitulating to anti-semitic racism and imagining that the Jewish people could expelled from the Middle East can there be any just solution which brings peace in the regiol without the destruction of the colonial-settler Zionist the West the memory of the Nazi against the Jewish people creates confusion and sympathy with une const state.
But the real holocaust today is the holocaust be ing vented on the people of Palestine and Lebanon the high explosive bombs smashing into the refugee camps and working class districts in Sidon, Tyre and Beirut. The real holocaust is the wrecked nouse. and smashed bodies which the airforce dishes out without a second thought.
Here and now every socialist worth the name ww concer nationalist leaders Arab who despite their brave words will not finger to help the Palestinians.
And every socaus worth the name will be ir with the heror Palestinian and Lebanese leftist fighters.
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