Atrocity N Vienna
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crisis. Inflation is soaring -currently at least 15%, with the basic essentials on which workers rely going up by much more: food by well over 257, rents in some regions by the same, transport set for a 35% rise.
Widespread angel of this is fairy the workers. The demand for a genuine living wage is becoming more and more widespread. Often this means a doubling, tripling, even quadrupling of existing wages - a demand which capitalism can never concede.
Faced with the growing strength and level of workers action, forced to attack workers to maintain their protits, the capitalists have no option but to lash out at the working class. They are On Saturday 29 August a Viennese synagogue was attacked by two Arabs with hand grenades and guns.
200 worshippers attending a Barmitzvah celebration were inside at the time. Two people died.
A woman, Ulrike Kohut, was killed trying to protect a friend's child. Two policemen and one of the attackers were also injured.
The injured attacker was thought to be a student at the University of Vienna and a member of Al Assita, a pro-Syrian breakaway grouping from the PLO.
The PLO has otficially denied any responsibility for this attack which is in fact the second in Vienna in the last month.
In a previous attack, a bomb exploded in a garden adjoining the Israeli embassy.
Whether the central PLO leadership knew about this attack or not, the fact remains that grenade attacks against unarmed civilians cannot in any way aid the cause of the Palestinian people against Zionism. Israeli army rolling occupied land
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