WORLD NEWS

SOUTH KOREA-U.S. HOLD ‘WAR GAMES’
SEOUL — Richard Holbrook, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs told a news conference here April 11 that
the U.S. and South Korea are not even going to discuss U.S. troop
Withdrawal for some time. This announcement came as the biggest
joint ‘‘war games’’ in over a decade were taking place with South
Korean units and U.S. marines flown in from Okinawa taking part. A

_ four-member U.S. Congressional group was also in South Korea to

observe the ‘‘games’’.

ROSALYN CARTER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO CHILE

SANTIAGO — A story in the right-wing Chilean newspaper La
Tercera Hora that Rosalyn Carter, wife of the U.S. president, has
accepted an invitation to visit Chile was confirmed last week by the
White House press office. ;

Mrs. Carter will attend a so-called “‘summit meeting of First Ladies
of the continent’, an idea dreamed up by Sra. Lucia Hiriart de
Pinochet at a recent reception for wives of delegates attending the
Seventh Assembly of the Latin American Association of Development
Institutions. Rosalyn Carter’s acceptance is seen as strong backing for
the fascist junta by the White House.

GDR AND SPAIN RE-ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC TIES

BERLIN (ADN) — The German Democratic Republic and Spain
have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations as of April 4, 1977. The
two states will re-open their embassies in Berlin and Madrid respec-
tively and shortly exchange ambassadors. Diplomatic relations bet-
ween the GDR and Spain are based on the Vienna Convention of April
18, 1961. They will develop their relations in line with the United
Nations Charter and the Final Act of the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe. :

CHINA COMPLIMENTS MARGARET THATCHER
PEKING — British Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher,

in China for talks with Chinese leaders, was commended by senior

vice-premier Li Hsien-nein as one of the European leaders “‘who speak
out against East-West detente’. Speaking at a farewell banquet, the
vice-premier called Thatcher’s views ‘*commendable’’.

- GENERAL STRIKES CONTINUE IN PAKISTAN
LAHORE — The opposition Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) has
called for a fourth general strike April 22 in protest against election-
rigging by Prime Minister Ali Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party.in the
general balloting March 7. Since that time, riots, strikes and killings
have threatened to topple the PPP regime. More than 180 people have

~-died in street fighting and flights by Pakistan International Airlines have

been cancelled due to a strike by pilots.

IRISH PRISONERS CONTINUE HUNGER STRIKE
DUBLIN — Fifteen prisoners are continuing their hunger strike,
now in its seventh week, in protest against prison conditions. The
government has continued to refuse to set up a parliamentary inquiry
into conditions: despite widespread protests by prisoners and their

families. In Northern Ireland prisoners in a Belfast jail have begun a
48-hour hunger strike in support of their Dublin comrades.

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Is the symbol representing the electoral list of the Left Front 0 e

lrish Communists criticize
changed position of Sinn Fein

DUBLIN (Irish Worker’s
Voice Press Agency), =g In
January the Irish Republican or-
ganization, Sinn Fein, changed its
name to ‘‘Sinn Fein — The
Workers’: Party.”> At the same
time it published a programmatic
publication, ‘‘The Irish Industrial
Revolution’ which it presented
as a study of the political
economy and history of Ireland
‘written from the standpoint of
scientific socialism.”

The ‘‘Irish Socialist’’, a
monthly. organ of the Communist
Party of Ireland, in its issues of
March and April carried a very
critical review of the Sinn Fein
publication describing it as ‘‘a
caricature of Irish history re-
miniscent of the efforts of various
Two Nations ideologists and im-
perialist apologists, and totally in
contradiction to Republicanism’”’
(the historical concept of Irish na-
tional unity and independence).

The main theme of this revised
version of Irish history, writes the
organ of the Communist Party, is
that all the fundamental problems
facing the Irish people — parti-
tion, emigration, unemployment,
monopoly capitalism — were his-
torically the responsibility of the
‘‘Southern’’ (Irish) bourgeoise,
and the Communist paper says,
‘there is no mention of British
imperialism or the effect of British
domination over our country, ex-
cept one reference in inverted
commas where it is stated that th-
ose who emigrated in the Fifties
knew that ‘‘guilty men were not
‘British Imperialists’.”’ The
critique goes on to say that **Sinn

. -Fein’s new view of Irish history:

has nothing in common with Con-
nolly’s2 revolutionary attack on
British imperialism and that the
end result of the ‘‘Irish Industrial
Revolution’’ is that every funda-
mental of the (Irish) Republican
position is challenged.”

During the Referendum on Ire-
land joining the European Com-
mon Market, Sinn Fein was as-
sociated with the Communist Par-
ty, Irish Labour Party and the

Trish Congress of Trade Unions,

in opposition to Irish member-
ship. As late as September, 1976 it
reiterated its opposition tothe
E.E.C. (European Economic
Community) but in its latest prog-
rammatic publication it makes but
a passing reference to such, dec-

_laring that: ‘‘We do not envisage

withdrawal from the E.E.C.”
Early last year Sinn Fein, the
Communist Party of Ireland and
the Left Liason Committee of the
Irish Labour Party allied them-
selves on a joint programme,
‘‘The Left. Alternative.’ The

Communist Party says that the

Michael O'Riordan, general sec-

Section of the Dublin army dressed In riot gear. The army Is so small
that it is mainly used for internal repression.

new policies being advanced by
Sinn Fein are in violation of ** The
Left Alternative’, and it ends its
critical review by stating that:
‘‘The Irish people have a right to
know whether or not Sinn Fein
favors E.E.C. membership,
whether or not they still favor na-
tional reunification, whether or
not we have meaningful indepen-
dence in the South (Republic of
Ireland). For the revolutionary
thrust of Irish history, the essence
of Republicanism is the struggle
to break the link with Britain.
This is where Connolly stood,
where Republicanism has always
stood, and where, we hope, Sinn
Fein still stands despite the er-
roneous views of their docu-
ment.”

1 The ‘‘Two Nations’’ theory, orig-
inally formulated by pro-British

right wing Unionists in Northern
Ireland, is that British imperialism
is not to blame for the violence in
Ireland, and that such is attributa-
ble to the existence of two nations
in Ireland, a Protestant and a
Catholic one (North and South).
The theory says that demands for
the unity and independence of the
whole island are imperialist (sic)
claims of the Southern nation over
the Northern one.

2 James Connolly, first Irish
Marxist and author of the classic
‘Labour in Irish history’? was a
strong opponent of the partition of
Ireland and advocate of the unity
of the Irish Labour Movement and
the National Independent Move-
ment. He was executed by the
British imperialists for his leader-
ship in the Irish Rebellion of 1916.

Radio Havana freedom’s
voice to Latin America

HAVANA — Ina new publica-
tion, Cuba has provided some in-
teresting facts on the history of its
short-wave broadcasting station,
Radio Havana.

Its first trial broadcasts were
made at the time of the stepped-
up U.S. provocations against
Cuba in February"1961, the pre-
lude three months later, to the
Bay of Pigs invasion. The statior.
confronted the attacks being
made against the new socialist
state and warned of the prepara-
tions for invasion.

Radio Havana grew out of the
first people’s radio station, Radio
Rebelde, organized in 1958 in the
Sierra Maestra by the Rebel Ar-

my. It worked under difficult -

conditions to break through the
Batista censorship, tell the truth
about the battles taking place, in-
form the Cuban people of the vic-
tories being won.

On January 1, 1959, Radio Re-
belde broadcast instructions to
the people and Fidel Castro spoke
during the first difficult moments
after the triumph of the Revolu-
tion when the media was still in
the hands of the enemy.

On April 15, 1961 Radio

Havana reported the attacks on ~
. three Cuban airports, aimed at

destroying the few combat planes
and facilitate the pending invasion
which was to come 48 hours later
at Playa Larga and Playa Giron.

On Sunday, April 16, during the
funeral for the victims of the air-

- port bombings, Castro spoke to

the world over Radio Havane and
declared the socialist nature of the
Cuban Revolution. He _ said,
‘‘What the imperialists cannot
pardon us foris that we are here..
. for the dignity, the integrity, the
courage, the ideological stead-
fastness, the spirit of sacrifice and
the revolutionary spirit of the Cu-
ban people.

‘*That is what they cannot par-
don us for: that we are here under
their very nose, and that we have
made a socialist revolution under

’ the very nose of the United States.

On April 17, 1961 the world
learned over Radio Havana that
mercenaries organized, financed
and directed by the USA had
landed on Cuban territory. They
learmed of the resistance, the de-
feat of the invasion and of the sol-
idarity reaching revolutionary
Cuba from around the world. —

On May 1, 1961, the day on
which the Cuban people celeb-
rated their victory at Playa Giron,
Radio Havana Cuba was officially
inaugurated.

Although Spanish was the only
language at first, broadcast were
soon going out in English,
French, Portuguese, Arabic,
Guarani, Quechua and Creole.
The effects were soon felt.

Nicaraguan dictator Somoza
complained during a visit to Ven-
ezuela in 1963: “I hear Radio
Havana in my home as if it were
installed in Managua.” —

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