The Oct, 2nd issue of Hoy, Cuban Comminist daily paper, justified Cuba's abstaining from signing the pact, and its effort to maintain friendly relations “with the whole socialist worldsesse"
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Like many other critics of the Ben Bella Government, the Kabylie rebels have been very quict about their precise economic and social programme, They subatitute violence of language against Ben Belle for a programme, They talk a lot about democracy in general and take advantage of the absence of the formal institutions of bourgeois democracy and the concentration of power in a single person, (that this concentration of power is dangerous and a sign of weakness in the revolution we have pointed out before) However, a few indications are available and they indicate that the Kabylie military rebels represent a danger to the aims and aspirations of the revolution,
On Sapt. 29th, the day that the call went out for open armed rebellion a Franch reporter Jean-Francois Steiner happened to be in Tizi-Ouzou, the capital of Kabylie where the leaders of the rebellion staged a mass rally. Steiner claims that he had received a tip in Algiers that something would be up; thus he was the only reporter of the outside press to be present. He reported Ait Ahmed as sayings
“Algoria mist be politically indopendent of France, but the Evian agreeanent mist be respected in both spirit and letter. First of all, because the agreoment is a good one, next because one's word is a sacred thing. It is because Ben Bella perjured himself that we are fighting him. It is because he perjured himself that his regime is bankrupt,
"His dishonesty plunged him into a course from which he has no way out. After having broken the popular enthusiasm following independence, he was obliged, to maintain himself, to resort to demagogy. Thus it was that he betrayed France and his frionds., He could not keep the promises he made so he was condemned to reinforce tho police regimo, (our omphasis)
On the nationalisations undertaken by Ben Bella, Ait Ahmed was reported to have said: "Algeria must carry out the revolution; but the neticnalisations provided for in the Zvian agreement must be the result of frank and valid negotiations with France, “e mist ond the unilateral acts of the present regime in which the "nationalisations," in quotations marks, are nothing bat spoilations,™
Another repellant note, repeatedly sounded in the propaganda of the Cuban counterrevolutionaries, als figures prominently in the "Proclamation" issued by Ait Ahmed and Mohand Ou Bl Hadj:
"The Algerian Comminists know that Algeria is sinking into chaos, They count on disintegration, They are helping Ben Bella only to use him.” (Le Figaro, October 7th.)
Ait Abmed claims that he stunds for socialigm, It is a most question= eble variety as may be gathared from the following declaration:
“Ben Bella's error was to believe he could repeat the October Revolut ion. fut Algeria is not Russia. What he wants, him, is Stalinism, Aa for me, I am for socialism, tut by stages and without ag 78 the country to unemployment." (Paris-presse 1'intransigennt, October 8th),
Mohand Ou E showed his ne with Ferhat Abbas, the former leader of the bourgecis democratic wing of the F.L.N. in the following remark: "ir, Ferhat Abbas, who was prosident of the G.P.R.A. and then pres ident of the National Assembly, is treated like a traitor today because he dared criticise the Constitution," Le Monde, October 8th)