FEW sights have been more sickening in the last week than that of the Tories attacking the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan while dismissing murder of Patriotic Front guerillas by the Rhodesian army as 'inevitable'.
Lord Soames, the Governor in Salisbury, is more and more blatantly exercising his powers in favour of what the Tories have been aiming for all along: a victory for white stooge Bishop Muzorews.
It must be the strangest 'ceasefire' of all time. One side, Front guerillas, are camps, poweriess Meanwhile their opponents, forces of the white dominated regime (backed up by the South Africans), have complete freedom of action including the right to murder guerillas in cold blood.
We stress: in cold blood. The seven guerillas killed near Lupane last Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates refused to lay down their arms. for that they where they stood.
Not one of the Patriotic Front's opponents has been askedto lay down tbeir The "raxiliaries' a polité, name Muzorewa's army terrorising black areas formerly under the control of the Patriotic Front.
As for the Rhodesian army, the Financial Times reported last that there are 45 two-man teams to monitor what is believed to be over 100 company bases...the monitoring Britain:
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Friday never fired a shot. They simply C' It has little or nothing to do with And gunned down Soviet Int mence government's for but in devastating effect.
That is why week of Zimbabwe!
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Then there's the little matter of This island WAS * historically part of Mauritius until Britain (under a Labour government). said that the country couldn't have its independence unless it gave up Diego Garcia. Now the island has become the main US naval base in the area the staging post for Carter's war drive against the Iranian revolution.
Because that's what it's all about.
Afghanistan, which has been under for scares the pants off Carter and the Tories is the outbreak of revolutions such as that in Iran which threaten the whole imperialist system of domingtion - or the one which could break Zimbabwe equally •Tories war drive! British troops out WaT goes on in Our Fund Drive OUR 'Fiver to fight the Tories' fund got off to a flying start this week with supporters sending in a fiver. The first two were from Dick Hall (NUM) and Gill Butler (NAC mittee). Close behind came a further E5 from the Avenge Scrooge Front • and from Hackney IMG. That brings the fund drive total after only two weeks to -£355.54;
• But as the Tories tighten screws throw their lot imperialism's cold war campaign on Algialistan, and murder of Zimbabwean fighters, spare a thought for our fund • appeal. Your fiver will go straight into the Tories. unlucky for M. Mulvihill R. Hurcombe steering com- R. Hall D, Power comrades in Teesside SC G. Butler A. Herring AHN the C. Robinson behind American R. & A. Spalding C. Hewitt supervise freedom P. H. Wilson Week's total 328/9 Upper St, London N1. Printed by East End [offset] Lid. PO Box 82, London E2. the front line in the struggle against Our thanks this week to:
75.00 5.00 .00 3.50 :.00 Hackney IMG fivers 35.00 2.00 .50 5.00 Avenge Scrooge Front 5.00 23.00 £142.50 CUMULATIVETOTAL £355.54