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|    Newspaper of the Maoist Internationalist Movement     |
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   APARTHEID REGIME INCREASINGLY DESPERATE
   Despite possession of one of the most efficient repressive 
apparatuses in the world, the colonial capitalist regime of 
South Africa has had to add yet another notch to its 
repression of the Black population--martial law. As we go to 
press, the number of resistance activists arrested without 
charges or contact with lawyers or anyone else reached 891 
after only six days. Police killed at least 15 Blacks since 
martial law started. Security forces have killed over 500 in 
the eleven months since the new refined apartheid 
Constitution sparked a general state of rebellion.
   The assurances that South Africa is reforming for the 
better can be no more clearly exposed to the world. One of 
the best arguments for socialism is that only real socialism 
will control U.S. commercial activity where oppression is the 
beneficient. A real socialist government will pull out all 
investments; end all trade and cultural contacts with South 
Africa and support liberation of one of the last settler 
states.
   
   FRANCE EMBARRASSED ON APARTHEID, FINALLY
   So-called socialist France profits from $1.6 billion of 
investments in apartheid South Africa. With the announcement 
of martial law in South Africa, France could no longer hide 
its role in the Western capitalist bloc. It announced a 
policy of no further investment in South Africa and recalled 
its ambassador.
   Yet, existing investments will not have to be sold and 
France's record level trade with apartheid continues despite 
a supposedly socialist government. The lateness of France's 
actions demonstrate that what exists in France is capitalism 
with the camouflage of socialism.
   
   NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO STOP RUGBY TOUR
   Under pressure to uphold the international boycott of 
South African sports, the New Zealand government acted to 
prevent a rugby team from going to play in South Africa. New 
Zealand has been the scene of huge anti-apartheid 
demonstrations that were met by martial-law like conditions 
and the largest police operations seen on the island.
   Should the New Zealand Rugby team go to apartheid South 
Africa, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, which 
organized the Olympic boycott of South Africa promised pariah 
status to New Zealand athletes.
   
   CONTRAS ARE HIRED MERCENARIES TOO
   The Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries--contras--are not 
just former National Guard members who never gave up the 
civil war. Nor are the anti-Sandinista terrorists 
Nicaraguans. The CIA and private American proto-fascist 
organizations hire Spaniards to fight against the 
revolutionary government of Nicaragua.
   According to the Madrid weekly Mundo Obrero, 500,000 
psetas in cash per month are offered to contra recruits. 
Spanish fascists and Cuban exiles are the favored target 
groups.
   Christian Broadcasting Network, the followers of Rev. Moon 
(Moonies) and the World Medical Relief organization and 
others give the contras over $25 million a year. (Granma, 
7/9/85) The amount allowed to the contras through the U.S. 
government is secret, but a $13 billion counterinsurgency 
bill has been passed by the Congress. All that remains for 
the bill is to decide whether or not the CIA or CIA front 
group (AID for example) will funnel aid At stake is just how 
openly the U.S. wants to affront world public opinion and 
announce its World War III.
   
   AMERICANS FLY HELICOPTERS IN SALVADOR CIVIL WAR; DEBT 
CRISIS BREWING 
   American pilots have had a direct role in supporting the 
Salvadoran army in its civil war with Salvadoran rebels. 
Several missions in June were acknowledged by American 
embassy and military officials. (Le Monde, 7/5/85)
   Meanwhile, outbreaks in Panama followed the announcement 
by the Panamanian regime that it would follow International 
Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity recommendations. (Ibid.) The 
IMF has sparked numerous rebellions across the world by 
forcing a restructuring of U.S. bloc capital by its own 
dictates--usually measures to restrict wages and raise prices 
of essential consumer goods.
   
   MARCOS FOLLOWS SOMOZA'S FOOTSTEPS
   The San Jose Mercury News reported that the Marcos family, 
its friends and government officials own a total of $100 
million in investments in the U.S.. For the most part, 
officials deny the investments.
   Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco offered his resignation, 
but Marcos refused it. Marcos's party does not even believe 
there will be any effect from the scandal:'"The issue has not 
yet crystallized in the provinces.... It may not affect our 
chances at the polls.'" (Christian Science Monitor, 7/22/85, 
12) Marcos has promised an election in 1986 and 1987.
   The investments are controversial because they are held by 
corporate executives and government ministers who supposedly 
should invest in their own country, which is in a financial 
crisis. Instead, the Marcos clique appears to be ready to 
leave the Philippines for the U.S. as the Shah of Iran once 
did. With the increasing success of the Maoist-influenced New 
People's Army guerrillas, he may have to do just that.
   
   CHINA OPENS UP TO TAIWANESE, SOUTH KOREAN INVESTMENTS
   Secret trade with pariah states of Asia and the Mid-East 
has started since the death of Mao and the fall of his 
followers--the Gang of Four. There are even some direct 
investments by Taiwan and S. Korea on the Mainland.
   Indonesia resumed trade ties with China in April. The 
Indonesian government massacred a Maoist insurgency in the 
mid-60s.
   Taiwan's trade, some of which is direct and not through 
Hong Kong, amounts to almost $1 billion a year. South Korea's 
trade with China rose to $345 million last year. (Christian 
Science Monitor, 7/10/85, 7)
   Secretly, China has just started an arms trade with Israel 
also. According to Jane's Defense Weekly, China and Israel 
have a $3 billion deal. (Iran in Resistance, Jan-Feb. 1985, 
11)
   
   CADILLACS ON THE CAPITALIST-ROAD
   With the restoration of capitalism in China has come 
China's first importation of Cadillacs since Liberation in 
1949. Twenty of the $39,000 cars are to be used by the 
leaders of state--i.e. members of the state capitalist class. 
The cost of the car is 115 times the annual salary of a 
Chinese construction worker. (New York Times, 6/29/85, A1)
   
   U.S. BANKS REPORT $1 TRILLION IN 'CONTINGENT LIABILITIES'
   Although they do not show up on balance sheets, 
"contingent liabilities" held by the 15 largest banks are 
alone greater than their assets. Contingent liabilities are 
promises by banks to loan money in case of emergency. Should 
a financial crisis develop, these contingent liabilities may 
add a new twist to the difficulties of American capitalism. 
Till then, the contingent liabilities increase unregulated. 
The banks "earn sizable fees" for their bail-out promises. 
(New York Times, 6/24/85, D1)