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ment - other sources have claimed it was an orderly and anticipated withdrawal.
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The Israeli pullback to the Awali River means that they still occupy about a quarter of Lebanon. According to the Financial Times, the 6,000 strong Multinational Force made up largely of roughly equal numbers of American, French and Italian troops (there are 101 British 'observers') are only there for symbolic purposes: 'It is not there to fight for President Amin Gemayel's embattled regime...
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is that these troops just what the FT r are not there to have collaborated participated in the shelling; the US troops have been using helicopter gunships too.
Syria hopes to use the current situation to install a pliant regime in Lebanon. This is what it has wanted to do all along. It is doing that by means of supporting the opposition to Gemayel and the apparently militant opposition within Fatah.
It wants to prove to Gemayel that he cannot win without Damascus agreeing and secondly that Syria has sufficient influence within the oppositional parties and militias (as well as the Palestinians) to guarantee the existence of a new, pliant regime.
"The party of the working class in its class structure will be ideologically bound to Marxism, Leninism and to Leninist organisational principles.' By August 16, the Israeli authorities announced they had abolished the licence of A-Sherá, and added they would not renew it.
But under the Israeli occupation a growing sector of the Palestinian masses actively and consistently struggle for national Liberation, and also come to understanding of their class interests. The true revolutionary voice is sure to continue and come out of the depth of that struggle. Demonstrate in supp of the Newham 8: Saturday September assemble 1pm at Plashet Park, London E12.
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