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A must for anti-apartheid (continued from page 1: “Philippines: How long the honeymoon?”) prices, she could only express a strong wish that businesses pass savings along to consumers.

"We don't know if Cory will participate in land reform," Miguel Caliwag, president of the central Luzon Farmers Alliance, told the Washington Post. Other rural workers pointed out that Aquino's family owns large sugar tracts in the area. "I'm not against Cory," said one farmworker, "But I want to see if she'll help the poor."

"We don't want to be seen as favoring the capitalist and neglecting the farmer, the poor," insists newly appointed Finance Minister Jaime Ongpin, a former president of the Benguet Mining Corp. Ongpin bases his agriculture policy on hopes that the United States and Japan will provide funds to private investors for long-term development projects.

But continued economic dependence on the United States will whittle away the high expectations that many people have for the new government. The country is already staggering under a drastic program of reduced social services, which Marcos imposed to pay back the country's $26 billion debt to the foreign banks.

Minister of Agriculture Ramon Mitra admits that the new regime "will enjoy a honeymoon, maybe another six months.

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A DOCIALIST ACTION PAMPHLET To order Army St., Rm 94110 wri But within that time we'll have to deliver or else people will be out on the streets again" (San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 1986).

Communists urged to surrender President Aquino has stated her willingness to undertake a new military campaign against the Communist-led New People's Army (NPA) if the rebels refuse to surrender their arms. On March 19, military commanders in Luzon announced that they had abandoned their cease-fire with the rebels. They ordered "search and destroy" missions in five provinces.

A few scattered units among the rebel forces have turned in their arms to the government in response to promises of amnesty. Communist Party (CPP) and NPA leaders state they are prepared to negotiate a cease-fire "on a nationwide scale." But they emphasize they will not surrender their weapons.

CPP leader Andreas del Fierro stressed in an interview in The New York Times that "the social realities which necessitated the call for armed revolution are still intact." The NPA controls about 20 percent of the Philippines, mainly in the countryside. It has gained support in the slums of the cities as well.

But guerrilla warfare can hardly attract the active participation of the masses of urban workers. A resumption of guerrilla warfare as the axis of CPP and NPA strategy would activists!

This timely pamphlet discusses the on-going struggle in South Africa from a revolutionary Marxist perspective. The program of the South African Communist Party and other political organizations, the role of rural workers, and the recent development of COSATU, the new union federation, are analyzed in detail.

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