We repraduce here a report mado Comrade Pablo after his visit to the 2ighting lines on the Algerian—-liorrocan border. Although soemwhat dated, it was writton on the last day of 1961, wo think it of great interest and political significance. It should be compulsory roading for those who lecture on tho F.LN. how to fight imporialism, on a typewriter in a London office,
"T have just finished a journey of several days to the frontier region of Mast Morocco and Algeria, accompanied by ths Labour Party I.P., John Baird, and several Algerian civil and military leadors,
" We sometimes wont within 500 motres of the famous electrified barbed wivo barrier, which the French have erected along hundyvods of kilometres of the frontier. We observed quite closely tho military posts, the fortifications, the searchlizhts which into in tho night along the whole zone in which the ALN, the heroic army of the Algerian fighters, is oporating.
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"Wo saw tho Fronch airernft, patrolling the region, wo heard, during the night, artilory duels, which so often wake up the inhabitants of the small frontier tovm of Oujda and the neighbouring villages, including the thousands of Algerian refuge3s who camp in miserable tonts, in the intense cold of winter, all along the fronticr,.
"very night the AaL.N. lauvhes bold operations of sxbotago against the electrificd barrier, of diversion, of infiltration into Algeria and, once a wosck, a goneral operation cn a front of 300 kilometres.
"The A.L.N. sends, through these operations, contigonts of up to 140 mon, who, once having penetrated into Algeria, broak up into groups of 11 to 24, everyone with special missions and in constant communication with the aim of joining the fighting units of the interior, To tnose units they take armaments, food and moneye
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"We visited schools and oncampments which supply the intropid fighters with clothing, food, medical assistance, etc., which function like big installations bscause nowadays the ALN is a modern organisation. It posssses its own academies and schools for military and political instruction. It possesses its own factorios, hospitals and has considerable and variod armamonts.
"But the A.L.N. is also a rovolutionary army and its motto, written everywhere ise 'Independence is a stago only ust as Pio purely military struggle, Revolution is the goal.'
"This revolutionary army, unbreakably welded to the people, to the peasants and workors of Algeria, recieves constant clarification on the historical and and social sense of its strug.,le, and its perspoctives, by political instructors, who have a decisive judgomont, including matters concorning strictly military oporations. Those political instructors constituto the intollectual and political vanguard of tho revolution, who oriontate it consciously towards a democratic socialist solution,
‘This solution would be greatly facilitated if ths Pronch and Turopsan workers! movoment proves capable of preventing the victory of fascism in France and supplios effoctive assistance to the Alerian revolution, in order to spoed up the attaimiont of independence and to support technically and financially tho immense work of reconstruction aftor sevon years of destructive colonial war.
"The morale of the Algorian fighters is vory high, as also is the morale of tho workers and poasants of tho intcrior who, particularly in the last year, have found again the ardour of the beginning of tho revolution, All are convinced that the hour of victory of tho revolution is approaching and that the secret nozotdations will succeed.
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wo much so that the announcement of the negotiations”"is to be understood to signify that a basic agroomont had alroady beon reached and ai favourable conclusion of the nogotiations is assured, lor two years, tho F.L.N. and A.L.N. hove,ggnsciously worked for a combined military and diplomatic struggle to obtain indepsnee which avuided using the full, and imacnse, human and material forces at heir disposal. They did this in order to safozuard political control over the revolution and to avoid further cnormous dostruction and human sufforing, Dut to this stage s timo limit has boon set, which is drawing to a close. De Gaulle and Fronch imporialism know this,"
tobe concluded in the next issue.