develop ment Noveinber SOTA Zimbabwe the three B sore citie: THE article by Steve Potter on th of Zimbabwe solidarity movement (28 June) invited others to contribute their ideas on the way forward for such a movement. l'd like to contribute on the basis of Zimbabwe Solidarity Group in Notting ol which I'm a member and which has been active for six months now.
The planned demonstration on 11 will presumably provide the national focus for the solidarity - bit fle onor no ust he to organise locally to lay the groundwork for a movement with What this requires is:
* Local gromps affiliated to th iergency Campaig Committee which are open to any individual or group willing to suppor demands of ZECC. I may be able to fall the new many be • WAS the • case in Nottingham (though the university Anti-Apartheid branch works closcly liaison local members of ZANU and ZAPU.
following are possible activities for sach & group: fund. raising for the Patriotic Front or for campaign work; raising material aid blankets, medical kits); putting out counter information; and support trade nists in workplaces with actual or trade links with Zitababwe, iation of Tories lift them. article with and h ge is to ti coverage but. I'd like to take op talks about drawing blsick youth into the campaign.
In Nottinghain we've been able to black , revolation.
ies, partly because we've recognised are whites giving support to s struggle, and that our role as hites is to challenge the racist and whites, not to organise black Second, Steve argues that raisin material aid for the Patriotic Eront an irrelevance, compared to the task of building a movement that will tie the hands of our government.
In one sense that's true, but the aren't necessarily in contra We've found that asking people for materials for the refugee and the liberation struggle is a way of starting to talk to them about the The talks about gettin through trade bodies calling on the whole labow movement to implement sanctions. Fine words, but how many thonsands • resolutions has the left, Anti-Apartheid, got trade bodies to absolutely no effect?
portance to de cognise bomens immense difficulty of getting trades unionists direct sanctions, and start a realistic discussion of how il This will involve drawing on the kind of experience built up during the Solidarity Campaign boycotting trade, and also looking at the way Manchester Anti-Apartheid has built links with trade unionists through a speaking lour of factories.
Steve that the Marxist Group conditionally supports the Patriotic Front in its attempts to overthrom colonial domination Agreed! Yet in an article from the Africa in Strugzh Collective on the opposite page : both ZAPU are almost Sourgeois led isit the IMG) and written interested only in national liberation and not socialism.
WALLER (Nottingham Solidarity Group, and member of Big Flame) socialist Challenge 2 Argust 1979 page9