Intercontinental Press Africa Asia Europe Ocean/a the Americas Vol. 13, No. 7 CD1975 by Intercontinental Press February 24, 1975 Fighting in Cambodia Pentagon Doubles Airlift Operation to Pnompenh LON NOL; Are you ready to die for him? French Army Draftees Fight for Rights 'Irish Republican Socialist Party' Formed 'Officials' Split Over Stalinist Power Play t Troops Out of Ireland,' Say London Marchers Tim Wohlforth Workers League and the International Committee Out to Lick Inflation In This Issue Closing Date: February 17, 1975 Ford WINs Queen BRITAIN Ford WINs Queen 600 Protest Threat to Abortion Law President Ford's canipaign to Whip —by Phyllis Hamilton and Bridget Lux Inflation Now (WIN) never got off "Troops Out of Ireland," Say Marchers the ground in the United States. But Russell Foundation Under Attack Immigrant Worker Wins Victory it seems to have swept the Queen of —by Kevin Thomas England off her feet. The royalclothes- FRANCE Draftees Demand Rights—by F.L. Derry horse asked Parliament on February LOR Holds First Congress 12 to boost her living allowance by SINGAPORE Tan Wah Plow Victim of Frame-up Charges $1 million a year. —by Peter Conrick Inflation, according to the queen, IRELAND "Officials" Split Over Stalinist Power Play—by Gerry Foley has eaten into her annual$2.35 million MOZAMBIQUE Thousands Face Famine budget to such a degree that she can ITALY Reveal Truman Readied Troops In 1948 to no longer make ends meet. The so Block Electoral Victory of CP —by Dick FIdler lution? WIN, obviously. Dock Workers Win Partial Victory Prime Minister Harold Wilson told —by Sharad Jhaverl the House of Commons that the queen CAMBODIA Pentagon Doubles Airlift to Lon Nol needed the dough. In real terms, he —by Peter Green explained, to meet the queen's request BELGIUM Workers Combat Advancing Recession —by Marcel Smet meant no increase at all in her pay ARAB EAST Habash Scores Palestinian "MInlstate" Deal because it would only make up for URUGUAY Jurists Document Repression what inflation had taken away. DOCUMENTS The Workers League and the International Committee—by Tim Wohlforth The new leader of the Conservative Turkish Workers Fight for Own Unions party, Margaret Thatcher, drew cheers Protest by Draftees From the Antilles when she welcomed the queen's plea for The Appeal of the One Hundred help. The royal household, she said, In Defense of the Draguignan Defendants "is our most precious asset." Brazilian Censors' "Forbidden Topics" Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal The Struggle for Kurdish Autonomy party, spoke understandingly of the AROUND THE WORLD FROM OUR READERS queen's plight. "Inflation,"he said, "in BOOKS 265 Chronicle of Current Events evitably hits any head of state in what —by Marilyn Vogt ever system it is operated." DRAWINGS 256 Lon Nol; 260, George Habash; 267; Pyotr Left-wing members of the Labour Yakir; 269, Anatoly Marchenko; 276, Andres Perez—by Copain party responded to Wilson's message EN ESPANOL: with hoots, jeers, and catcalls. William 277 DIscurso de Trotsky en el Funeral de Joffe Hamilton, a Member of Parliament PERU 272 Explosion Popular Sacude Regimen from Scotland, went to such extremes VENEZUELA 275 Respuesta de la Liga Soclallsta a la as to say that he would propose leg Naclonallzaclon del HIerro 278 Presos Soclallstas islation to "nationalize the Queen." ARGENTINA That he would actually do anything that radical was doubted. It was just his way of talking. Buckingham Palace reported thatthe royal staff at the end of 1974 consisted of 463 hands. Among these are ladies Intercontinental Press, P.O. 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Black, and OS well OS your new address, and, if possible, on range from $120 million to $240 mil women's liberotion movements. address label from a recent issue. lion. □ Signed articles represent the views of the authors. Copyright © 1975 by Intercontinental Press Intercontinental Press Broad Protest Movement Started by a Handful French Army Draftees Demand Democratic Rights By F. L. Derry Paris democratic rights that are the mark of up affair is Mr. Alain Krivine. ," "If the army was not affected by military life in France. claimed the conservative daily Le Fi the events of 1968," Francis Cornu A broad and impressive movement garo. "His program for national de said in the January 7 Le Monde, "it in defense of the "200" stalled the gov fense can be summed up in these few was only a brief respite. The young ernment's retaliatory measures for words: The bourgeois army must be draftees of 1974 have lived the heri more than two months. It was only destroyed. The Draguignan defendants tage of 1968 in the high schools, at in November that the government felt were the first three mines planted by their places of work, and, having ob confident enough to arrest the three his organization to set off an explo tained the right to vote, i are full citi soldiers. The arrests touched off one sion in the ranks." zens. They no longer accept having of the broadest political defense efforts But the response of the soldiers them their rights and civil liberties tempo in recent French history. It was selves was somewhat more dramatic: rarily suspended, if only for twelve a movement that grew, at long last, Within days a "second Draguignan" months. In their view, military regula to include many locals of the CFDT,2 took place. On January 13, several tions and discipline are all the more the CGT,3 and the FEN.4 It received hundred French soldiers (the military intolerable since the principles and tra backing even from the PCF5 and PS.6 officials say 150; the Gomitd de De dition being pressed on them seem out The extent and seriousness of this de fense des Appel6s says more than 300) moded and irrelevant: Why is there fense were registered emphatically in stationed at Karlsruhe in Germany a need for military service? What kind the verdict: Taurus was acquitted and staged a similar demonstration, hold of defense? . Forced conscription Pelletier and Ravet received one-year ing a general assembly in the morning has been abolished in a number of sentences, mostly suspended, and they and then, joined by other soldiers, foreign countries, and its retention in have already been released. taking to the streets in a peaceful pro France has for a long time been the "The trial has demonstrated what a test for more than an hour before re object of discussion inside the mili farce the military courts are," was the turning to base. So far, no arrests tary high command." response of the Comity de Defense des have heen announced. Nearly 275,000 soldiers —half of Appel^s (Committee for the Defense The three central demands of the the French armed forces—are draft of Draftees). "They must be abolished, Karlsruhe action involved free trans ees, and the protest movement that along with the military's security portation to allow soldiers on leave has been spreading rapidly through branch." to visit their families in France, an their ranks has aroused fear among The January 10 Z,e Monde reported increase in the number of leaves grant both military officers and government the reaction of the Ligue Communiste ed, and inclusion of soldiers under officials. Neither the carrot nor the R^volutionnaire, the French Trotsky- provisions of the minimum-wage law. stick, neither appeasement nor repres ist organization that has helped spear Underlying the demands, however, sion, seem able to contain the growing head the defense campaign: "The de was a questioning by the young draft protest, which was recently focused on termination and courage shown by the ees of the French army's right to sta a military courtroom in Marseilles. soldiers of Draguignan and the un tion its troops outside of French bor On trial January 7 and 8 were three precedented mobilization of the entire ders. young draftees—26-year-old Robert workers movement have demonstrated "For several weeks now," Le Monde Pelletier, 21-year-old Alex Taurus, that it is possible to block the plans pointed out January 14, "the solidar and 20-year-old Serge Ravet.