PRESTON Trades Council is stepping up its efforts to stop the illegal shipment of uranium from Namibia.
The Nuclear Springfields near Preston is the destination of large amounts of uranium from the Rio Tinto Zinc mine in Rossing, Namibia.
Formerly called "South Namibia is formally under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, but it has been illegally occupied by South Africa for many years.
Since 1966 the UN has passed resolutions firms culprits Fuels plant at West Africa' transport calling on member states to boycott trade with Namibia. Tois is also he position of SWAPO, exploiting natural South West Africa Peoples Organisation.
The British government is one of the main breaking the quantities of uranium, which could easily be obtained from Canada, are purchased by British Nuclear Fuels from RTZ at Rossing.
It is transported by South African Airways from Namibia to Paris, and is then brought to Britain by lorries belonging to the Morcambe firm, Edmundsen's. shipment is by British Nuclear Fuels' own transport.
The campaign against the use of uranium resources campaign boycott. Large of Trades Councils.
just as Further movement representative from the Rossing mine was launched in 1978 at an Anti-Apartheid conference in Manchester called by the North-west TUC. Since then the developed Trades Council and the Lancashire Association The campaign has been strengthened by the revelations in a recent World in Action TV programme, including its exposure of the role of Tony Benn in confirming the RTZ contract.
week Trades organised a meeting attended by many labour organisations Which the SWAPO, following proposals were adopted:
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Council labour movement has contract is terminated. sed * to expand the campaign by aiming to in * to organise mass leafletting of workers at British Nuclear Fuels and other trade unionists explaining the conditions of Namibian workers and the significance of the Rossing contract;
campaign to boycott Edmundsen's, the firm which transports the * to take the campaign into the Labour The Rossing contract is a major economic boost to South Africa's grip on Namibia. The ensure that the liberation without breaking with capitalism has led it into a dangerous attempt to forge links with the pro-capitalist, collaborationist Bantustan leader, Gatsha Buthelezi.
The pamphlet also argues against the idea, promoted by the ANC leaders, , that guerilla warfare is in itself a strategy for the South African revolution. 'We have stood for the need to arm the mass movement of the oppressed led by the organiworkers, against of the employers. Every black worker that the struggle South Africa cannot achieve victory without arms. 'But the working class must be organised and mobilised in their hundreds of thousands, under a clear revolutionary programme and leadership, before the task of armed insurrection placed on the order of the day.' Unions The authors outline practical strategy towards these objectives revolutionary workers inside South Africa.
They explain the need to build a fight against the South African government's plan to contain the workers' upsurge by imp osing new state controls and by dividing migrant urban-based workers.
They point out the tremendpositive impact of the