vince; another new front was created.
By then the war was spreading like a prairie fire in the southern areas; and at the same time demoralisation was further increasing among the Portuguese troops. This was the backdrop to the Lusaka talks in September 1974 at which independence was finally agreed. Revolutionary nationalism had scored a victory on the very doorsteps of the reationary white regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia.
REGROUPMENT
Frelimo was formed in 1962 through the regroupment of various nationalist groupings. The savage massacre of Mueda in 1960, which claimed 500 lives, and the repression of a peasant prising in 1962 had dispelled pacifist illusions; Frelimo was therefore empirically oriented towards armed struggle. But the strong influence of the struggles in the French and British colonies and Frelimo's own diverse currents and lack of political past made it difficult to theorise the revolutionary process of the struggle. The content, strategy and historical perspective of the struggle were searcely spelled out. Frelimo instead claimed openly to be a multi-class organisation, with a fluid and deliberately imprecise position on the social goals of the struggle.
Altor drowina ronidu in tho haw-hawn neaninana ne Anl. The National and Local Government Officers Association's national negotiators are recommending acceptance of a 25 per cent offer from the employers in re- to £7,407 ply to their claim for £10 plus 15 per cent.
The employers' offer is just a 4.3 per cent increase on their last offer - virtually identical to the increase in the Retail Price Index in May. If the deal is accepted by the local government delegate group meeting on 27 June, it will mean massive cuts in the living standards of local government workers, especially the lower paid grades.
The lowest paid local government officer. — at present receiving £1,119 a year, Contract Mark 2 pay policy including £127 threshold pay will gei £1,215 a year, a grand increase in new money of lust under 10 per cent. This ie well under f a week However the highest paid will be receiving new money increases of more than 20 per cent, taking their annual salaries from £6,198 Delegates at the last local government delegate group meeting very wisely decided, against the advice of the union leadership, to recall the negotiators so that any offer could be voted on by the group meeting. A successful campaign to get the offer rejected, in favour of the full claim and the total strike action necessary to get it, would defend living standards and prevent the Labour Government notening up ae least one relative victory in its fight for a tougher Social Militants in NALGO must also explain the importance of linking the pay fight with the fight to defend the social services against cuts in public expenditure Andrew Rennett
red weekly 26 june 1975 ; engineers/tribune