described as pre-revolutionary. It is in this context that we must see the expulsion of the three members of the left Manifesto tendency from the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party. They were not either adventurist students or "anarchist" young workers. They were the leaders of an important faction in the Italian C.P. and respected throughout the party. Their journal had a circulation of over 150,000 and they were winning a great deal of support amongst the industrial rank and file. They were opposed to class-colaboration with the bourgeois parties and opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia from a revolutionary point of view. Their expulsion could therefore lead to serious convulsions within the Italian party. On this and the general situation in Italy we will be commenting at length in our next number.
DEATH OF A COMRADE Carlos Marighella-"the Che Guevara of Brazil"- was killed on November 4th in a cowardly trap set by the Sao Paulo police.
A month before his 59th birthday the veteran revolutionary was still fighting He died with a Luger in his hand, riddled with machine-gun and revolver fire. of radical Domneicao meeks who group He had agreed to run an escape route for leftists in trouble. But two of them had been taken by the Political and Social Police (DOPS) and betrayed the rendezvous.
Marighella was one of the strongest leaders in the Brazilian movement-in recent months his planning was responsible for the brilliantly executed Elbrick kidnapping and a number of bank raids in Rio and Sao Paulo.
It is sadly ironic that he should be lost in a city at the moment when plans for the rural guerrilla campaign were nearly complete. The regime is so scared of rural guerrillas that teams from the Regular, Federal, Political and Military Police, the Army, the Airforce and the Navy, have been combined into a Green Beretsstyle anti-guerrilla regiment, in anticipation of a rural revolutionary war.
With the loss of Marighella the rebel army leader is now likely to be his second-in-command, Joaquim Camara Ferreira: ex-Sao Paulo State Deputy, exeditor of the C.P. daily "Hoje" (Today), and now committed to Castro/Guevara Marxism, Carlos Lamarca, who last year deserted from the army to found the Armed Revolutionary Vanguard (VAR), has been training well-disciplined small connna mismnla fonhaalaiaian napping and hi-jacking He was nearly 60 a good age to die in battle.
Private First Class R. Tinsiey, of the U.S. Army, aged 22, was recently released by the NLF in South Vietnam which had captured him some months ago. Tinsley told an American news agency: 'I was wounded. They took real good care of me. I'd have to think twice before I fight them again after what they done for me." Another released prisoner, James Strickland, said: "They didn't kill me. They had the opportunity to. I really appreciate them sparing my This not something unique on the part of the NLF; their policy of friendship with rank-and-file American soldiers has been well-established over the years and their treatment of American prisoners reflects the social policies which guide their thoughts. There have been increasing cases of Americans deserting to the NLF and fighting with them against the forces of U.S. capitalism. There are hundreds of others who lacked the political consciousness to turn their guns against the class enemy but who were still affected by the way the NLF was conducting the struggle. When they begin to get home the United States government will begin to feel in concrete terms the effects of the war inside America. And all the present precautions being taken by American marines to ensure that military hardware being shipped out of Vietnam does not carry new diseases or insects to the U.S. or other countries" will not be able to keep out the most dangerous disease of them all -the disease called REVOLUTION.
The Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi has ordered investigations into reports that American nuclear-armed strategic bombers have been patrolling over China and North Korea from Okinawa.
Mr Aichi said he knew nothing of a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo that B-52 bombers, carrying hydrogen bombs, have been on regular missions to China and North Korea from Kadena air base in central Okinawa.
But he has ordered Ministry officials to investigate.
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