TROOPS OUT NOW! | IMGpapers 1980

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DURING the last week 'defence' forces have been following up their invasion of Angola with widespread air attacks.

forced into conflict with the Angolan forces, the main aim of the South African attack is clearly to flatten the towns and disperse and terrorise the population of southern Angola. As we reported last week, towns as far away from the Namibian border as Porto Alexandre (250 miles), Cahama (160 miles) and Tchibemba (250 miles) have been bombed. The South Africans are hitting everyone and everything that moves.

The pretence that the South Africans are engagAn in a 'hot pursuit' of SWAPO guerrillas fighting in Namibia is so transparent that no one seriousv believes it. In reality the South Africans are trying to create a massive 'butter zone' in a devastated and de-militarised southern Angola, making it easier to ColOI Nallibidil colony. SWAPO this represents politically is obvious. The south Africans nave ae cided to abandon even the going along with the attempts of the Western nations to negotiate "sellement Namibia.

More and more thev have come to realise that no serious senemen ca be made which does eventually put the nationalist movement SWAPO power. waste w strategy is worked out, the South Africans will bloody butchery to defend their possession of Namibia, which is legally a UN •roteclulalc For South Africa and all ine Western powers which give them overt or covert support, the neca lo keep a firm grip on Nami vital Ola strategic interests. The super-exploited black workers of Namibia provide a huge proportion of West's gold supplies and a host of other minerals, including diamonds. Reich Western capitalism is not about to give up those resources to a nationalist The South African reich has been encouraged to carry out its murderous work in soutnern Angola the attitude of the Reagan administration, which has given and a nod to the South ROl evel bothered with a ritual or South African While the South African army has been More ever, the SHOVe Cul needs to be mobilised in solidarity with the struggle in Namibia and against the cold warriors White House allu Pentagon.

Struggle in Namibia - see London NT