NOT WHITE RACISTS! tory of the guerilla fighters in Angola and Mozambique.
For Kissinger and Callaghan, *majority rule in two years appears the best way to block the black freedom fight. Vorster too fears the spread of the armed struggle to South Africa. and like Kissinger is prepared to ditch the Smith regime.
Despite Callaghan's fine words condemning the racists in southern Africa, he turns a blind eye to the continuing flow of arms and investment. NATO still supplies Vorster with arms, while British firms such as Rolls Royce sells licences and patents to the apartheid regime.
Nor are they alone. There are 360 American and 500 British firms with investment in South Africa. It is with them that the concern of Kissinger and Callaghan lies.
The hypocrisy of the Labour Government sunk to yet greater depths this week. British Petroleum, in which the Government has a 68 per cent stake, announced that it is planning to invest a further £250 million in South Africa.
At a time when the apartheid state's economy is in deep crisis, BP's chairman in South Africa went out of his way to assert their faith in the country's stability - 'and we are laying down hard cash to prove the price of uranium from Namibia. The price for Britain is 13 the TUC Congress dollars a pound, while world market price CIS 22.50 dollars. It is not surprising that the price is cheap - the subsistence wages paid by British firms such as Rio Tinto Zinc average less than t20 per month.
VORSTER "We will use all our Influence to bring about raclal equality in South Africa."
In the last two weeks both mmittee have called for a ban on new investment in South Australian unions, who banned all air and sea trade with South arming the freedom fighters. Africa during July.
MILITANT Such a move would greatly and the strengthen the hand of the Labour Party International Co- black resistance to apartheid and cut across the manoeuvres of Kissinger and Callaghan in Africa. Now they must be for- Zimbabwe. The Labour Governced to follow the lead of the ment shouldn't be 'negotiating' with the racists, it should be
RED WEEKLY IS PLEASED TO PRINT THREE MORE LETTERS ON THE ISSUES RAISED BY THE 1 feel I must correct an error in otherwise incisively accurate report of thr London-Brighton Right to Work march. ASO. some i Turiner comments march and the lessons we can draw from it.
In the article it was alleged that Jimmy Mccalum. ne socialist worker candidate for Walsall North, mildly assaulted Bristol comrade by "grabbing and twisting ns tincer. i was ine victim or mis. and while it was acknowledged that no injury RECENT RIGHT TO WORK MARCH TO THE BRIGHTON TUC resules Tom ine ncicene neel inaran allegation of physical violence inside the workers movement is a serious matter. | would Ineretore ike straight.
After the Saturday night march delegate meetine. in waich was une oniy oerson of about 30 who spoke against IS's conception of 'military organisation' of the march, vimmy movanuum approached and stoned haranguing me for daring to voice ideas he coule notecree witn ensuing heated argument, he grabbed hold of my finger. While his attitude might set ine recore easiy nave been described as patronising, arrogant and thoroughly violence whatsoever took place.
A more significant and serious episode took place later in the march, after the written, unachineo me points i made After expressly forbidding meetings of and during the sectarian, porters' meeting, allowed on the march. which dramatically debate view HOSI 'political fractions' on the march, and preventing the Woman's Right to Work' make its contingent from holding a meeting, the Is held their own "Socialist Worker Supexcluding not only the IMG but even an IS comrade who voted ir favour of women's and gay banners being At this meeting the leading organisers of the march spoke food, the same people who had earlier prohibited such meetings from taking place. After the meeting, IS registration forms were nanded out like content to ine aucience which This was the most garish example of the As a heterosexual (fairy)
International Socialist (completely), I don't know if I am 'leading enough to qualify for Red Weekly's Great Right to Work Marct Controversy. But as a supporter of the IS Gay Group the Right to Work Campaign and or unity on ta revorutionar: would like to suggest that the imo serror: on the Brighton march have harmed all Like many other Right to Work Campaign supporters who have been soldiering on to the open hostility of the trade unior leadership and the sneers of the rest of the revolutionary left, 1 was heartened wher Red Weekly announced its support for the •Brighton march. Better late than never, we thought, without realising that the opera tion was designed not to swell the march but to attack and 'expose' IS It's a pretty devastating comment on the of IMG that your field intervention is no longer the real world, not even the amular melos or tne Labour ran ward, but has shrunk to simply entering other organisations' marches. But it be comes poittically •tracle wien you CUTE cynically make use of the issue or thes Gay Group to manipulat - rather unsuccessfully it transpires - the Right to Work march to Brighton.
I don't think it's any great secret that quite big there have over the years been differences in emphasis within IS on the gay issue (the current Gay Left gives a resume b ex-IS member), although this year's IS Conference after alone has taken up a new, and in my stronger position. But to try and stir in a disoute oerween me o ady aroup ans the Secretary of the Right to Work Cam. paign demonstrates not a concern for homosexuas in tions but the reverse, a cynical use of revolutionary them, yet again, as political footballs I don't see eye-to-eye with the Right to Work Secretary over the general question of the gay and women's banners because I think the Right to Work Campaign needs to make a special point of involving people who have sotar oeen orten repellee anc ignored by the official movement. But I certainly respect John Deason's views on now to organise a maron - ne does after all stand to spend several years in jail after the Staples Corner attack.
Coordinated and tight organisation i essential, at least on the middle stages of the march, and the march has the right to own rules about banners ane march order in the light of this. It's not a picnic to Aldermaston. I would certainly respect Red Weekly's views on the matter more if you managed to muster as much.
43 arrested marchers who face the courts as you do about the the tents ine GIscussIons and everything you can find to gripe about on the road to Brightor For tinally it is inis immense patronage unpleasant about Red Weekly's reporting. For some reason you