•BELGIUM The conservative Belgian government, which is implementing on antirecession plan that includes many antisocial budget cuts as well as threats of wage freezes, has once again limited credits for higher education. These measures involved cutbacks in university personnel and new steps toward capitalist selection and "profitization" of the mass of students. There were strong reactions against this Humblet-De Croo plan (named after the two ministers of public instruction) among both the university personnel and the Students. After a series of limited strikes and demonstrations, a united front was formed between the tradeANGOLA cont'd. from pg. 32. pression. On the other hand, the victory of the Democratic Republic, since it can be achieved only through a very deep mobilization of the masses, would create favorable conditions for the complete elimination of Imperialist domination and for a socialist dynamic of the struggle of the workers and peasants.
UNITA troops The Fourth International chooses the camp of the Angolan Democratic Republic against the holy alliance of imperialists, racists, and indigenous reactionaries. In the civil war the Fourth International stands with the masses who are mobilized to defend the independence that has been won through fifteen years of stubborn struggle, to defend their fundamental interests against all foreign and "national" exploiting classes, for the expropriation of the capitalists and landlords, and for the construction of a new state based on revoTutionary democratic committees, direct expressions of the masses. Such an attitude does nof mean that the Fourth International and African revolutionary Marxists give up their criticisms of the leadership of the MPLA, which they consider to be petty-bourgeois nationalist and not pro- union organizations of higher education and the National Student Front. There were university occupations, notably in Brussels, involving both students and university personnel. A joint national trade-union and student demonstration drew nearly 15,000 people in Brussels on November 21. There has already been a small by-product of this still limited unity in action: On November 27, in response to a call from trade-union delegates, the strike pickets of the employees of the central office of the Glaverbel trust in Brussels (the employees are on strike against layoffs) were joined by many university students. letorian and communist. Alignment in the same camp and commitment to a common struggle are not in contradiction with the battle for political clarification necessary for a victorious outcome of the war and for the construction of a proletarian revolutionary Marxist leadership. Against the holy alliance of imperialists, South African racists, neocolonialists of Zaire and Zambia, and the reactionary leaderships of the FLNA and UNITA! Defend the complete independence of Angola! Defend the Democratic Republic proclaimed by the MPLA! Reject any attempt at Balkanization! Immediate withdrawal of all forces of American and European imperialism, of South African racists, and all neocolonial governments! Organize an international campaign of solidarity! All workers states and all trade-union and political organizations of the proletariat must mobilize on the side of the Angolan fighters by assuring them political solidarIty and material support! Boycott the sending of arms to the reactionary bloc of the FLNA and UNITA! November 23, 1975
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