Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Profits They are dependent on the enormous super profits made in southern Atrica and the vast array minerals strategic (including the capitalist world's money commodity and rock by cheap black rock by cheap black lavour power The British, US, GerFrench, South Illal.
African and other capitalist powers are being forced into maintaining ine system Inrough a lwopronged strategy.
On the one hand, they rely upon the coercive use of their regional DOLICE man - - the South African SLalt (which they ensure_now has much military equipment as the French forces). On the other hand, they use every trick in the book such as: economic ald, leadership, black nationalist shortages their material suppes. as well as the diplomatic spying. bribery and terror operations picked up trom years oi experience in creating neocolonial states all uss Africa to bludgeon SWAPO. the MPLA and their allies into Tactics There are important differences Lactics within the imperialist camp. But the overall strategy remains that OI holding down the African working class and their peasant allies.
At the centre confrontation DI CoCIlL the Namibian revolution the hotpoint Southern and crucial to developments in the whole sub-continent.
While the imperialists, including South Africa realise that they can entertain no 'solution' without the prospect of a straightforward SWAPO intolerable. would African trade routes and finance. Military destabilisation is the only means of trying to drive a wedge between this rear base and the Iberation movement.
South Africa's Muzorewa equivalents Namibia are dependent on a foreign armv. police and civil service, who take orders from Pretoria; and the Namibians have been so brutalv and extensivelv proletarianised that Pretoria has had to rely on openly into its Council uppets into its of VISICI and 'National Assembly', organised through the 'Democratic Turnhalle Alliance' (DTA), as a pseudo 'opposition' to bargain with SWAPO Measure the racists are trying to colonial (army, police ofe. pretenSOns the ideological political on They had to against sympaof conscription the Soand workers' compounds known time But the imGroup' of Britain, da, who directing and and Pretoria while the UN are CA-. asperated their bargain.
Coerce The contradictions surrounding Namibia are now Healey and the TUC are Lubango 200 Miles calling for comprehensive sancuons against South Africa) that imperialist offensive has had to be launched.
The 'coercive" part of the strategy has been extended to the open South African military invasion diplomatic Angola, wole the has been extended by the Contact Grou cadership, now Reaganite to demands for a renegotiathe independence plan for Namibia.
Those in the Western capitals who supported the David Owen-Andy Young allow the Namibians UN-supervised vote to a constituent assembly after withdrawal of the South Aft behind. Reage have been and Thatcher have revived the Kissinger-Haig plan 1976.
SOUTN AFRICA' COLUMNS This involves drawing up the essential elements capitalist Namibian assembly Washingensure that • independent not accomother African block that bian selfatwell.
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