Ghanaians from Nigeria has once more focussK.
Only months ALOE Ghana, expulsions to the intragedy, CHES move by Nigeria's President Shagari an election diverting his neocolonial economy.
given an the extended the deadline for profesThe timing of this action coincides with further threats invasion by mercenaries, funded by exiles in western countries, and attempts to frame the Ghanaian GUYSLICEL with the murder of three judges last June.
Whilst these invasion threats and destabilising acts are resisted ruthlessly by the Ghanaian masses, they have represented debilitating. obstacle to mass mobilisations and the reorganisation of the economy, two important essentials in placing Ghana on a socialist path. evelopments in has recently returned the The Rawlings coup in December 1981 was from within the army. But the progressive of the Provisional National Council (PNDC) has sharpened class contradictions between the urban workers and those within the capitalist class most closely tied to imperialism and the higher ranks of the petit bourgeoisie. It has also initiated the retreat of the bourgeois state apparatus. Corrupt Examples of this are the breakdown of the normal command structure in the army, the removal of the corrupt TUC leadership and the take over of a textile printing factory.
The includes some bourgeois elements, but its support rests mainly with ordinary workers and it is championed by growing but divided left.
There are essentially seperate left-wing organisations in Ghana, the two most prominent being PEne June Fourth Movement (JFM) and the Democratic Movement (NDM).
The JFM was Jerry Rawling's original political base and it has greater support nationally and at a grass roots eve than the NDM. The NDM has its origins in the radical intellectuals of the universities.
The difficulties and contradictions that face and the Ghanaian revolution have Ghanaians attacked on the border between Benin and Togo their roots in the struggle between bureaucracy of the neoPeoples' Worker's Defence ComBELECE organisations.
One clear example is the struggle the Workers' Defence Committees (WDC) in the civil service against top officials. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the WDC forward a plan "DUL recall the top brass of the diplomatic service and to reorganise this service on a political basis.
This was successfully resisica by une upper crus of the bureaucracy. Such struggles can also be observed within the armed forces, police and other insuluuons or tae state The tactics of imperialist forces appears to be one of wait and see. Where possible they apply discreet pressure on the PNDC to divert the progressive struggle into reforming the neo-colonial This enables international capital to continue its more profitable role of domination and exploitaHence the Interna devaluation coupled with freer trade and CULT PIL public expenditure.
This has been firmly tejected instead the PNDC has put forward a programme for economic recovery which includes a government ownership of retail banking, the setting up of a net work of 'People's Shops largely under the control of local PDC's and the reduchon of Ghana's Bi-monthly theoretical and discussion Journal published by supporters of the Fourth International in Britain.
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However the agrarian question has not yet been tackled and the traditional chiefs who have tyrannically controlled the land continue to do so. Taking this problem up has not been helped by the recent appointment of one such chiet to the PNDC.
million will on the PNDC.
tees paramount importance will Britain must the mediately unconditionally a large This ана т0I term of the conomy tion. 3X216069335210880 that have sept rations demonstrations the past weeks December the Christian Democrat government adopted number or measures in cluding tax increases and price BISC electricity and transport. This led to standards.
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Socialist Challenge 18 February 1983 page 10 Ghana.