* NATIONAL RALLYAND DEMONSTRATIO IS CONFERENCE Cent over the last ten Lowards our special anniversary appeal. (You can do one without the other, of Please return 1o: NAC, Wesley House, 70 Great Queens Street, London WC2B SAX the London Labour Party committee (London Women) put on Here we go,a benefit concert for the miners.
The show was a huge success. Tickets were sok OHHI a week berore. £8000 was raised for Women Against Pit Closures.
They will be putting or another concert at the Pic cadilly Theatre, March to mark both one year of the strike and Day.
It will be called Here We Go..Again! and will Tenane Peggy Seeger, Frank Chickens, the Wandsworth Warmers Shakisha dancers, Maggie Steed, Brig Keenan, Maria Tolly and Unique Patrol.
Ay termene trom the many womel mining areas, as well as in. ternational delegations theo Women Against fil Women Against Closures event fielvious day in ChesterTickets will again be only tS (t2 concessions) but the audience is asker prepared for Lo conne bumper collection, and to bring new children's shoes and gift vouchers from na. tional stores (eg Boots, Marks and Spencer, Op).
• Leaflets and posters are available from Janice Muir, London Walworth koad Londor SE17 (phone: 01703 6511). Fo more information about the benefit contact Rachel Lever on 01-278 1341 o1 01-251 1773
SI WEEk saw the rieth anniversary of the eat conference of Yalta.
• February 1945 Roosevelt, hurchill and Stalin met to ry to determine the shape of Europe after the defeat of Hitler.
According to the accounts which have appeared in the press commemorating the event, Yalta was where an agreement on the post-war division of the world was arrived at. According to the right wing Roosevelt and Churchill 'betrayed' Eastern zurope and delivered it into •I wrote out on a half sheet of paper:
Rumania: Russia 90 per cent — the other 10 per cent.
Greece: Great Britain 90 per cent (in accord with USA) — Russia Yugoslavia: 50 per cent — 50 per cent.
Hungary: 50 per cent - 50 per cent.
Bulgaria: Russia 75 per cent -the others 25 per cent.
I pushed this across to Stalin, who had by then heard the translation. There was a slight pause. Then he took his blue pencil and made a large tick upon it, and passed it back to us. It was all done in no more time than it takes to set down.' THIS WAS how Winston described his meeting with Stalin in Moscow prepared the ference of Yalta in February 1945. The percentages' referred to the degrees of political influence to be exercised after the second world war in the countries of Eastern Europe by the United States, Britain, and their allies on the one side, and the USSR on the other.
Even Churchill appears to been shocked at the ease of the whole operation and added to his Soviet host: Might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we had disposed of these issues, so fateful to millions of people, in such an off-hand manner? Let burn the paper. said Stalin.
Churchill never had any reason to tional authority troops Churchill national 1944 which way for the great conparatus. have "No, you keep it", place. the hands of Stalin. For those who believe in the myth of the two 'superpowers' Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were readily able to agree on a sinister division of Europe.
Yalta supposedly shows that there is no basic contradiction between the USSR and the powers of Western Europe and the United States.
But what really happened at that conference in the Crimea 40 years ago? JOHN ROSS looks at the reality behind the myths.
Turin, Milan, Verona, Padua and the whole region of Venice before the allied troops arrived. The partisans saved the industrial installations and communication which the were preparing to destroy, took tens of thousands of prisoners, and succeeded in capturing considerable quantities of "everywnere ine partisans set up naliberation committees as the executed leaders of Italian fascism days, until the arrival of the allied and authorities, liberation committees whole political, social life of northern Italy.
Longo also described what happened as the American and British armies began to arrive in 'When the allied authorities reached the north with their troops, they began to remove from important posts the men of the resistance appointed by the liberation committees, replaced them with officials from the old (fascist) administrative apparatus.
And the Rome government, as soon as the allies handed over to it control of the whole country, speedily replaced all the people appointed to responsible positions by national liberation committees with alleged "specialists", ie officials of the old administrative apThe partisan detachments disarmed by the allied armies and finally the National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy was itself dissolved.
Throughout this entire Soviet representative on the allied consultative commission for Italy made not one single protest at what was taking lines Germans the main For 10 the national directed the and economic Italy: welc process YA
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