Iral to began to emerge.
things in common. character, ostensibly the and that they are front of British state are not negotiable.
House catchphrases. socialism troops, despite hosses their WHEN the troops went into Britain's oldest colony in August 1969 it was as peacekeepers — or so the world was told. It only took a few months for the Zimbabwe is not Ireland but it does have a few The troops who fly out to African CUlU going to keep iwo warring factions white settlers, irrationally understandably fighting to defend their privileges, and the Marxist terrorists, fanatically devoted to the subversive idea of one person, one vote.
Zimbabwe and Ireland also have in common 'non-political' issues questions on which both major parties will have an identical line because, of course, the interests of the And it is those interests which lie behind the despatch of British troops, not "peace' or 'legality" or 'majority rule' or any of the other Lancaster We will continue to refer to them as British official are judiciary, and civil service people.
bipartisan was denounced by everyone Communist Party, Labour MPs fraud.
terms is a grave of "Commonwealth Monitoring Force'. Of the five | with Ireland: the problem will not go away. British i nations sending troops, the two black ones, Fiji and Kenya, are only providing about 60 between them. The bulk are from Britain and the rest from the ' kith and kin' in Australia and New Zealand.
The troops are going to police a settlement which is unjust and racist. We will not labour the point, since we have spent many weeks pointing out that 20 per cent white MPs and a white army, do not precisely correspond to the best interests of the Zimbabwean We would simply draw attention to the virtually identical terms of lan Smith's 'internal settlement' which brought Bishop Muzorewa to power. That Patriotic Front, as a racist For the Patriotic Front now to accept such setback tor the people of Zimbabwe, and one imposed by the brutat excesses of the white regime as well as by the political shortcomings of the Patriotic Front leadership.
But Zimbabwe has another thing in common continue right of governor, Lord Soames, and his team.
inspiring since internationalist position the . largest possible campaign Zimbabwean self-determination.
Hands Off Zimbabwe!
Troops Out Now! | troops are being dropped into a situation from which they will not easily disengage. As long as there is substantial opposition to the settlement, as long as the Patriotic Front keeps its guns — and as long as the white forces try to doublecross them, as they surely will — the Zimbabwean struggle will In that context our task is clear. It is not simply to quibble about this or that loophole in the Lancaster House accords, but to question the very Britain to impose its solution on Zimbabwe. Most practically thai means the demand that British and Commonwealth troops be immediately withdrawn, along with the British The example of Ireland is not allogether an those who take an are still only a tiny minority within the British labour movement. That is why we must seize the opportunity now to build in defence of to continue the pressure for strikes,