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CAMPAIGN for London N16 Bloody government, *Steps towards "nort nalisation" of relations, wl rich under conditions of occupa tion could only mean economic political enslavement of *The 'secrét' parts of the agreement include a ban on any Palestinian presence in Lebanon, military, political, social or cultural.

*The most important part of the agreement, signed between Israel and the US alone, calls first for the Syrian and Palestinian forces to get out of Lebanon and guarantees an even higher level of US military and economic aid to Israel.

This testifies to the fact that in order to establish the rule of the falangist President Gemayel the US is encouraging Israel now to a new full scale war against the Syrian army in Lebanon:

Since the PLO forces retreated from Beirut and since the Israeli army occupied the city and initiated the massacre in the refugee camps, Sabra and Chatila, there has been almost no change in the war situation.

This stalemate not only Further information and membership details from LMCfP, c/o 28 , Cariton Mansions, Holmleigh Road, im""

affilated organ *". Creche tactics to gather all its strength to stand up and defend its last positions in northern and eastern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese forces opposed to Israel and US occupation are beginning to gather and emerge in strength.

Gemayel's signing of the treaty with Israel brought a #ave of strikes and demonStrations and the establishment of a front of all forces opposed to the agrement including parties of the traditional bourgeois leaders, as well as all left and socialist movements.

The opposition criticised the agreement sharply but as a rule stops short of questioning the

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