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Title: | A revolutionary working class party declared in Ethiopia |
Author: | Anonymous |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 99-100 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | socialism communist parties |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247508703266 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3997889 |
Abstract: | In September 12, 1974, the popular democratic movement finally brought about the overthrow of the feudal monarch. On that date, however, the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the party bourgeoisie, through a largely officer-dominated military council and riding on the wave of the popular upsurge, seized state power. The junta ('Derg') immediately passed a proclamation that negated all the democratic demands put forward by the proletariat and other democratic forces in the bitter class struggle against the feudobourgeois regime. The anti-working class and anti-democratic character of the junta, disguised through demagogic slogans, has been clearly pointed out by the revolutionary underground papers 'Abiot' (Revolution) and 'Democracia'. These papers are publications of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Party. Its objectives are the creation of a Peoples' Democratic Republic on the basis of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry, and a communist society, respectively. |