defeat in Vietnam. It was also the leadership of world imperialism that reassumed a threatening posture and stepped up the arms race as a response to a new rise in the colonial revolution, in particular in
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Central America.
A grave setback for
Undoubtedly a lot of the comment by the capitalist government leaders is deworld imperialism signed to disarm opposition to the renewed arms race by giving the impression that the prospects for peace depend on the outcome of Byzantine power strug-
The new flareup of fighting in Lebanon has clearly marked a qualitative gles in the Soviet bureaucratic hierarchy.
turn in the evolution of the relationship of forces on both the local and
In reality, the dismal shuffle in the regional levels. It has been the push that brought down the house of cards
Kremlin testifies to the growing ineffecrepresented by Amin Gemayel's "legal" state.
With the erosion of the last vestiges of the intercommunal "national"
tiveness of the Soviet bureaucracy as such consensus that he enjoyed at the time of his election to the presidency, to control the forces that are challenging the established world order, the mass
Gemayel found himself without any significant Muslim support whatsostruggles against the growing threats of
The "legal" army that the Gemayel regime made its main card and want, against mass unemploywar and was so highly touted by its American and ment, against the hopelessness to which
The great majority of the Muslim officers imperialism condemns the peoples of the soldiers either joined the opposition forces or stood aside from the battle underdeveloped countries.
Gemayel no longer has any support on the ground except his own reactionary communalist party, the Phalangists (Kataeb).
What is more, the peoples of the Soviet Union themselves are not likely to tolerate the rule of this ossified caste for much longer.
They will renew their struggle for democratic, socialist, rational forms of organization that can meet their needs and aspirations. And that will offer an immense aid to the rest of struggling
By comparison with that, the bureaucracy's claims to represent progress and hope are no more than the mockery illustrated by the Byzantine rituals played out in the last weeks in Moscow.
International Viewpoint 27 February 1984 whose "cohesion" instructors, crumbled. underway.
The British and Italian components of the multi-imperialist force backing Gemayel have pulled out of the game. The American troops are retreating, while the US continues to intervene in the form of air and naval bombardment.
Only the left imperialist Mitterrand is still holding tough. He is keeping his troops in for the moment, trying to prove to the bourgeois regimes in the former French colonies and protectorates that the French army is a reliable backup. In fact, Mitterrand is hiding under the cover of his proposal to replace the multi-imperialist force with a UN one. That is, he is striking a new neutralist pose with a shameless opportunism, in order to prepare the way for an "honorable" retreat if necessary.
Whatever the outcome of the battle in progress, world imperialism hs already suffered a grave setback in Lebanon. Its protege, Gemayel, is completely discredited and his state is in a shambles.