it would be wrong to do so.
BOyCOEL predictably from leading igures in the tion for Freedom such as Lord DC LESIC an su Frank Layou (of Taylor-Woodrow).
But backing for the idea goes wider: Perhaps it isn't Chappie, the anti-communist of the electricians" BEAUCE union, EETPU, endotsing the call. But figures on the left such as Peter Hain and novelist Alan Silitoe have also taken it up Even Foreign Secresar David Owen has warned th Russians that they should not take it for granted' thai the лушрь wil lase prace ta Moscow if human COLD WAR Now there b no doubt that the majority of those who support boycott Olympics are simply Cold War hypocrites. IE they are. concerned about human rights, why didn't they speak up when the World Cup was held in Atgentina?
dissidents are not hist arrested long sentences in kidnapped and murdered in - every day. with the full security The double Mandards some of these people are truly staggering. A letter From De Taylor, Chapple and others in The Times on 22 August said that athletes shouldn't Moscow because "they would be lending their prestige to an oppressive determination to people living Dover".
Will they now also demand a boycatt of sports events in Britain, whose regime denies self-determination living a lot less than 500 miles from Dover in Northern A BOYCOTT of the 1980 Moscow Olympics is now being openly canvassed. Should soctalists support such a campaign? MARTIN METEYARD argues that A lot of the support for a | Ireland, to be exact.
motive of these Cold Warriors against the Soviet Untion in BUSCH repression at home, labelling all those who struggle for control over their own lives as Fifth Columnists' EFFECT But whar abour those who, like us, campaigned boycott of the World Cup in Dr Argentina, but who now want to extend the tactic to Moscow? Peter Hain (writing in the Daily Telegraph on 9 August) righly points out that rights apposition to participation by white South Africa is a matter af principle, openly blacks in sport, the *will such the advance the rights or not!
What would be the effect of a campuign boycott Moscow Olympics? My feeling is that its impact on the regime would be comparatively little, while its effect elsewhere would be disastrous.
WHITEWASH
are Sports boycotts can be most effective where a regime is trying to consolidate its hold through bloody repression, still Tecis insecure, and hopes to ust of spoct to help overcome this by whitewashing its image internationally.
That was the situation with the World Cap this year, It was Olympics organised INATES Moscow Olympics are hardly the hold the La boycott achieve, though, would be the singling out of the Soviet Union as the number one enemy of humanity, the number threat to human rights. people. The imperialists, who have been responsible for innumerable bloodhaths in every corner STERICI for while that the by the the Krembo would of the plobe, who deny their peoples the basic human right of a job and i decent wage, whose attempt to strangle the infant recolation the USSR actually a campaign.
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created the conditions for the suppression of democracy in they and they alone would benefif from such discussion.
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An But this does not mean that we should stand idly by. We do oppose the repression in chi and the Moscow Olympics are a good opportunity to home in on it.
The most important thing is the conditions of that repres siop: restrictions on freedont of expression, of movement, of The World Cup was not a precedent. -Journalists hostile to the were simply relused ontry. who were allowed in but uttered mitd criticisms were confined to their hotels. KGB TEAM number visitors was drastically limited essence a TV spectacular.
tbe Soviet leaders are thinking the KGB team was sent to Argentina to learn from the organisation of the World Cup, and it appears that they want Article 49 of che aped Olympic Kules so that they spirit of Peace and freedom of move the IS BUTE the yachting team who The recen Baltic Regatta Estonia is bleak.
SLICACE BLESOUTH guards outside our hore all the the town of Tallinn because there were road blocks on every It secms to that our shand he to campaign on these conditions HECTICANE TILLICT endorsing the blanket call for a Against any restrictions on entry and movement; for firitations on reporting: for the right to meet freely with al residents of the Soviet Union. Those should be the slogans we Ally further action should HCCLDSBEREHILE have the chance to assess the TESTS DESCE ACARRISH the • Readers who have different viewpoinis on this question are invited to contrihate to this IWO Argentinian revolndonaries are among 22 pcople of the organisation Convergence am 23 August.
them, Huge Bressano, b a leader of the Argentinian: PST [Socialist Worker Party]. while the other, Rita Esterberg, is a militant in the same organisa.
There is a real dunger that they will meet a swift death if they ure retarned to Argentina.
campaign suved Peruvian leader Hugo Blancu waew ne was orponed to Argentina and won him the LUTE SO BE SEAL OUR ATE choice: no less is required lo Peru miners THE strike by 45,000 Peruvian miners lor the rehiring al militants sacked after previous strikes has reached a crucial stage. The military govertinent has now put seven provinces under a state of emergency and empowered minting companies to dismiss those who do bot return to work Mining acpoints for more than half of Peru's export carmings, estimated to have COst I32.5 million so far. Twere thousan miners and their families have marched on Lima in support of Their demands and are now carping out in the capital.
Meanwhile the left wins parties in the newly electec Constituent Asembly, whose success undoubtedly the tbeir struggle, have organised well as using the Assembly as a triburie to publicise the miners demands Chile miners IN Chile, too, It in miners at the Chuquicumula copper are spearheading challenge to the regime. Denied the right to strike for highes wages, they have organised a hoseolt of the works canteens which has proved so effective SETS DOSTOR DECREEI a state of emergency throughThe arrest of 13 militants hus far load little pro-janta union leaders have heen booed off the stage at mass meetings for not pursuing the miners' demands strongly enough in negotiations. There is now talk of further action starvation dictatorship', which -Mould mean a real crisis for the WELL President Somoza arrest entire population of Nicaragua? That's what people asking now that he's advocating the overthrow of ane bordoment.
After last week's street fightipe, a general strike is now underway to get end of the dictator they call the last of the US Marines left in Nicaragua' US Marines intervened in the country in the 1920s and 1930g to install Somoza's father.
The general strike has the backing of big business, which IS TO SCUTE BRICT LEE TESS upsurge which followed the STACH SESH DEERER ment by the Sandinis: National, Laheratkin Front (PSLN) to win the release of political prisoners, They realise that if they don't distance themselves rapidly from the regime they night well share its fate.
Unfortunately the FLN. despite the impact of its guerilla actions, has so far devoted little attention to the problem of organising tbe masses independently of these tigares. This is the key to finishing off the regime for good.
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