IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Recognise the MPLA!

Red Weekly No. 134, 22 January 1976 · p. 7 of the scan · 275 words

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page 7 of the scan

drawal from Angola is conditional upon guarantees that Angola will not be used as a base for the Namibian freedom fighters. Meanwhile it seems probable that South African backing for UNITA has been given on the understanding that UNITA will place constraints on the Namibian nationalists.

Even before the full-scale South News continues to come in of massive MPLA military victories in Angola. Foiled in their aims at direct military intervention in Angola, the imperialists are now trying a new tack. Following the US's campaign for 'non-intervention' at the OAU summit, Kissinger is now reported to be cooking up a new deal with the Soviet bureaucracy for them to stop supplying weapons to the MPLA.

The anti-working class hypocrites of the Labour Government, who in 1964-70 applauded every single step of the American war in Vietnam, and have raised not a murmur about the CIA millions going to the FLA and UNITA, now add their declarations of supintervention in the domestic affthis also to justify their refusal to recognise the MPLA Government.

is clear. Its affects were tragically civil war. It means demariding port for the great principle of 'nonairs of another country'. They use The reality of 'non-intervention' visible in the 1930s in the Spanish now! that the forces fighting imperialism lose their weapons and supplies while the imperialists manoeuvre to keep their forces armed to the teeth. It is used by the Soviet bureaucracy to justify their sell-outs of those fighting imperialism.

There should be no confusion on the nonsense of 'non-intervention'. Socialists must demand: Full Cuban and Russian military support for the MPLA! Labour recognise the MPLA Government RED WEEKLY

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