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Organization (OST), Senegal section of the Fourth International, who are now running a joint campaign with And-Jeff in support of their candidate, Landing Savane.
In a joint declaration the two organizations called for a "left alternative" • Going beyond the ups and downs of the elections, they spell out that: "This unity must last past the elections with all the components of the revolutionary movement, so that we can struggle together hand in hand against the attacks of the state and of imperialism, and discuss together the ways and means of building a revolutionary party".
### Withdrawal of French troops from Senegal
Their campaign will be organized around a platform entitled "Serving the People". This document takes a position for the withdrawal of French troops from Senegal, annulling present agreements for military cooperation and for pulling out Senegalese forces stationed in neighbouring Gambia. It also calls for agrarian reform, cancelling the external debt and for the independence of the workers' movement.
And-Jeff and the OST anticipate the for-
İNTERNATIENAL MARXIST REVIEW Vol. 2. No. 4 Finter 1947 c2.s8-s5 The significance of Gorbachov Ernest Mandel mation of local support committees. Although most far-left organizations have opted for supporting a "democratic" candidate or have simply been paralyzed, the
And-Jeff/OST initiative appears as a new step forward. Indeed, it is the first time in a country like Senegal that two movements of such differing political formation have sought to collaborate.
It is also the first time that an alliance of this sort has not just limited itself to formal protests, but proposed to continue to organize and reflect on the possibilities for building a revolutionary party. *
Assault on Nicaragua
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MIDDLE EAST T HE LIST of Palestinian activists to be deported was finally announced on January 3 by a spokesperson for the Israeli defence minister, Itzhak Rabin. Apparently as a result of secret talks between Tel Aviv and Washington, the list, which was supposed to include a hundred people, affected "only nine activists" that the Zionist government had decided to drive from their homes, cut off from their families and friends and exile from their homeland. It cannot be repeated often enough that such deportations are not only a crime forbidden by the Geneva Convention; they are a barbarous act practiced by no regime in the world, no mat-