The main forces in Lebanon ty of the Maronite Christians founded in the 1930s

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force among the Maronites.

Muslims.

Murabitun.

defunct Lebanese Kataeb (Phalange) Party. Extreme right wing parby Pierre Gerayel. Centred on Bikfaya, ancestral home of the Gemayel family. Phalange organises the Lebanese Forces, the Maronite militia which works closely with the army. Pierre's son Bashir, a leader of the Lebanese Forces, was put in power b the Israelis. Following his assassination his brother Amin took over as President. By far the largest Amal. The Shi'ite militia headed by Nahib Berri Recent arrival, on the Lebanese scene: Amal has become the dominant force among the Shi'ite Progressive Socialist Party (PSP). Part of the Druze community, mainly localted in the Chouf mountains. Politically the PSP is a bourgeois nationalist movement, despite its name. Led bs Walid Jumblatt, son of assassinated Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt. Lebanese affiliate of the Socialist 'Nasserist' Arab nationalist more. ment, mainly of Sunni Muslims, strong in West Beirut. One of the main organisations of the nowNational Movement which fought the Phalangists in the '75-'76 civil war.

•Socialist Action 17 February 1984.

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Socialist Action 17 February 1984 first lterature Chesterfield week of official Max Payne.

So far the Alliance is campaign, with that coliccl trates on attacking Tony Benn. And Payne made a bad showing at the allparty debate organised by CND last Friday. AS THE CHESTERFIELD by-election enters its campaigning, Newsnight shows Labour in the lead with 42 per cent support. This is the same percentage that brought the Tories victory in last year's general election.

But victory is by no means certain for Tony Benn and the Labour Party, when the same poll shows the combined anti-Labour vote is 58 per cent. There is still time for the Tory vote to collapse and the anti-Labour vote to rally round the Liberal candidate conferences with Benn for the whole of the campaign. As election proceeds it will be increasingly difficult to ig nore the fact that Labour's candidate is a national and controversial figure.

There is a danger Tony BBC's will give fortunes.

Most Tony the other open the flood the byback in Westminster. This much needed fillip to the left's flagging important, would shift the balance of ting party policies such as unilateral nuclear disarmament against corrosion by the party right and centre. Should Benn not win, on hand, this will • gates of reaction in the form of a progressive policies and the leadership by Labour's hard right.

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