Judith Hart, Labour left' MP, Is 'as near a pacifist as one can be', But southern African 'convention of war"
means querilla wantare and tnererore - well, here she could call for arms to me iDeration movemenis or on britisn workers to take incustria action in soridarity with black workers in southern Atrica. But no, she bleats:
we (Britain) must not indulge in hypocrisy...' Sorry Judith, your performance last Wednesdav at Friends Meetina House was good but not convincing. nat is going on in soutnern Atrica is not a tot ally new concept of warfare alien to every ting vestern detence programmes are about You recall wartime exploits by British 'heroes' in Yugoslavia, we recall the sustained guerilla struggles against British in the Arab east (especially in Oman), ano on our own doorsteo in reland The principle of armed struggle by an oppressed nation for national liberation is too much for you to swallow, so you argue that southern Africa is a 'special case - but it is not!
Nor are une dean sentences announced last wednesday by soutn Atrica or Namibians Aaron Muchimba, SWAPO National Groaniser and hendrik snik ongo. Not to campaign for their release would be a disgrace to the working class have already passed over the murder of * * * organised by IMG Student Commission MONDAY 24 MAY Lunchtime (1pm): North London Poly, Ladbroke House, Highbury Grove. Evening (7.30pm): Essex University -Lecture neatre os TUESDAY 25 MAY Lunchtime (1.30pm): Bath University Evening (7.30pm): Cardiff College of Art THURSDAY 27 MAY Evening (7.30pm): Bristol University FRIDAY 28 MAY Lunchtime (1pm): Sussex University Evening (8pm): Canterbury University If you want to organise a meetina or southern Africa in your college, contact IMG Student Commission. 97 Caledonian noad. concon winter 0209020.
cimoaDwe its orive tor orons at tne expense ou LIZ WARDLE * ATED dozens of nationalists in Smith's prisons in the interests of negotiations to impose a bourgeois neo-colonial state in.
The possibility of achieving this via the "peaceful' road is now remote, but a break with this strategy on a prin cipled basis would be social democratic suicide. So suddenly we have totally new situations' and 'special cases'. But patching-up will solve nothing. What is needed is a campaign in solidarity with the liberation struggles still unfolding in southern Africa, to educate the British working class in its responsibilities towards the struggle against a common oppressor: international capitalism and workers living standards everywhere.
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Speaking tour on SOUTHERN AFRICA