IT HAS GONE almost unnoticed that Andrew Young's resignation as US ambassador to the UN came just after major tribute to his diplomacy the Tories' adoption of proposals on Zimbabwe which are almost identical to those previously worked radical' Andy and Labour Foreign Secretary David Owen.
Thatcher's conversion from original approach towards recognition of the Muzorewa mystery. Both the Foreign Office and Commonwealth leaders pointed out that such a l policy backing a no-win war against Patriotic Front, military commitment eventual prospect of political defeat.
It just wasn't on. Hence her amazing The six-point plan agreed at the Commonweaith conference - including all all-party London, new elections, and a new constitution - has the same objective as the Owen-Young plan: to split the Patriotic Front and draw a section of rit into a settlement. In this way Britain hopes to prepare for the establishZimbabwe and the crushing of those in the Patriotic Front continue the struggle Let's make some Both plans propose free supervision.
BELOW we print the bulk statement issued on 15 August by the United Secretariat of the International on the basis of reports from its observers in Nicaragua. ON I January 1959, the Batista dictatorship was swept away by the military offensive of the Rebel Army and the mobilisation of the Cuban masses led by the July 26 Movement. On 19 July 1979, the bloody Somoza regime in Nicaragua, maintained by American imperialism for mole than forty overthrown by a massive nationwide popular insurrection that capped a co-ordinated offensive by the rebel armed förces of the National Liberation Front (FSLN).
The popular insurrection led not. only to the overthrow dictatorship but to the dismantlement of the old regime. The mobilisation of the masses in popular committees, as well as the revolutionary already taken in the short time since the overthrow of the hated regime, indicate the proletarian and plebeian dynamic of the process unfolding.
The toilers of the entire world could not have hoped for a more magnificent celebration iwentieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution! The road has been opened that can lead to the victory of the second socialist revolution of the Americas.
But will be everything possible to try to prevent the toiling masses of Nicaragua from moving forward on this road. With the same cold-blooded brutality which they propped up Somoza to the bitter end, the imperialists are now bringing into play economic. and military resources to try to stop the revolutionary upsurge. There is no more urgent task for the workers movement than to mobilise in opposition to them.
Nicaragua has been devastated by the civil war. In his ruthless attempt to maintain power, Somoza ordered the bombing of neighbourhoods factories. He plundered the monetary resources of the country.
More than 1 million people are in need of food. More than 300 tons of food are required per day. thousands of refugees are seeking to return to the country, and will have to totally disrupted by the months of civil • cared tor. Agriculture has war. investments blocked. Hundreds of stoppea production.
Lodetend the revolution and solve this crisis is an enormous task.
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Sandinista now of the doing the capacity elements diplomatic, Latin America as FSLN leadership economic BOUCILY Ilcuessal y and Tens of those that Somoza's Honduras and were currently preparing factories wealth or UN supervision. The way is therefore opened for a military force to be sent into Zimbabwe; for UN or used against sections of the nationalist movement imposed Like the Owen-Young plan, the proposes to reserve a seats the whites. Young's suggestion was 20 per cent of the seats office.
(for 4 per cent of the population), and unlikely less gener baressing the power envisaged by Owen and Young - is the most reactionary section of the Masaya, 2 August 1979: Sandanista Imperialism's goal is to try to weight. and decisionof the bourgeois the . Junta LaTe Government of National Reconstruction' and other points of support for the bourgeoisie. It is trying to utilise the European social-democrats and some of the bourgeois democrats intermediaries for to renounce the inroads on capitalist LU satisfy the elementary needsof the masses, and to stop the arming and mobilisation of the masses, in return for economic aid.
But imperialism depends aboye all end on its own military striking force and closely controls. demonstrated this by organising the well-armed units National Guard into El Salvador. It is Ior a DossIdic military intervention along the lines of Clatemala in 1954, the Bay of Pigs in: Ciba in 1961, or Santo Domingo in population in the new state. Just to make sure, the British constitutional proposals also provide two-chamber indirectly elected senate to act as a block on any radical change.
Both plans propose to protect thie independence of the judiciary. Loosely translated, this means that Smith's judges who have industriously imprisoned and hanged the freedom fighters — will remain in aspect of Thatcher's constitutional - again the setting up of an 'independent' i- Pancazán — performs at Following the Cuban outlined by the Second Declaration of Havana, the revolution, the way Nicaraguan toilers to consolidate their victory.
In order to resist the pressures of to assert its complete independence of the imperialists, to press forward the agrarian reform, to expropriate all imperialist property and the big holdings of the national bourgeoisie, to assure control by the workers over industry and domestic and foreign trade these things the Cuban revolution had to break with the bourgeoisie, put an to coalition installed in 1959, and set out on the course charted by the new workers and peasants government based on armed and mobilised masses organised by the July 26 Movement. In this way the Cubans were able to carry the revolution through to the endthe expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of a workers The road to socialist revolution in Public Service Commission. Effectively this means that the existing civil service structures would stay intact, an with a few blacks brought into senior positions for cosmetic purposes.
Owen and Young proposed the up Development Fund' to economy - in other words, to bribe white experts: to compensate them for their losses Thatcher's plan proposes a £600m 'Commonwealth Fund'.
In fact Thatcher has out-Younged Young through her success in winning the collaboration of the neo-colonia road Nicaragua is mined with obstacles.
Imperialist pressures and attacks will oblige the FSLN manoeuvre. The difficulties created by the lack of food and goods of all kinds will compel this leadership to try to gain time. these overcome, as the example of Cuba has shown, if the tremendous power and energy of the masses is organised. The example showed the close relationship between over the upsurge and mobilisation of the - to dc exploited and oppressed classes, the development of according to the rhythms imposed by the revolution, and the evolution of consciousness of the leadership of the mass movement itself. This will also be the the factor that determines the future of and the Nicaraguan revolution The Fourth International calls on the mass parties and organisations of the workers movement to build the broadest possible united exclusionary strugale of the Nicaraguan people and undertake London last week, Zimbabwe London revive the stay оп, OI to send British advisers to Resettlement next week. rally honouring those who were killed in the struggle against Somoza.
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Cuban revolution their consciousness Cuba Italy and spain рбер, 10 weeks. and non. made out to in support of the NI 2XP. "front line states'. Nyerere, Kaunda and other champions of the 'struggk against racism' agreed at Lusaka that the British government. was respon sible for a settlement, that the should include guards for minorities (i.e. the whites), that the British government could supervise the elections (i.e. intervene militarily if it wants to), and that the sanctions was a major objective (i.e. they will keep quiet if removes •weakens At the London conference on September the Tories will have the collaboration of the front line states in attempting to dictate such a sell-out to the Zimbabwean people. This must be rejected. We defend as a principle the right of the Zimbabwean people to decide their own future. And Many struggles that they against and At a meeting of the Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee in official represen tatives of both ZANU and ZAPU spoke strongly in favour of a picket of conference to solidarity with the struggle against Muzorewa and oppose ELY LEGIED For UN troops Zimbabwe. was agreed and details will be announced So let's greet Thatcher's conference with a massive picket that says "Hands - off Zimbabwe'. We'd do it for you too, Andy, if you were still around the fighters of the FSLN, whose courage has become a most precious heritage of the world proletariat Immediate aid to Nicaragua! Imperialist hands off!
No threats againsi Cuba! with the Nicaraguan THE latest issue of the weekly Inter.
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