Secretary, ( Committee • IN THE last few weeke Zimbabwe has once again come to dominate the news media. Commentators and pundits who have managed to ignore the developing situation there have suddenly rediscovered Emergency Campaign Committee (ZECC) was formed in June 1979 to try to bring together & wide range of campaigning groups and parties so as to ensure that the demands and rights of Zimbabwe people do not unheard at the present time The original impetus for the formation of ZECC was the likelihood that the new Tor: government was on the point of breaking UN sanctions and recognising the illegal Muzorewa The committee decided to organise a series of actions over September and Öctober leading up to a mass mobilisation of people for November. This remains a major focus of our national demonstration activities, and 11 November remains a day that should be set aside for solidarity Zimbabwe.
Opportunity The outcome of the Lusaka wealth Lancaster House talks, obviously meant that we needed to re-orient our actions to take account of the presence in London of both our friends and enemies. ZECC has organised a series of pickets at Lancaster House and the Carlton Towers Hotel (where both Smith and Muzorewe were staying), and two mass rallies in central London at which the leadership of the Patriotic Front had the opportunity to speak Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign The Zimbabwe go entirely Sunday work on leading to the current directly ZECC — organised picket of the Lancaster House conference the people negotiations and the political stance of the PF, The first rally was attended by over 600 people and the second by nearly 2,000 — an impressive turn-out of support and solidarity.
But all that is in the past. The future is what is of importance and I make no apology for asking all Socialist Challenge readers to note Profit shares* in manufacturing ~ WANTED WANTED FOR the Saturday MURDER 1ABVE the following dates for action.
will be a Mass Leafleting Day around the country in as many towns, cities and villages as possible. Keep your eyes open for your own local ZECC groups. If none exist it should be your job to help set them up in your area. Contact the Anti-Apartheid Movement office (tel. 01-580 5311) for detalls.
From James Carroll feature was the presence unaffiliated youth. organised from London, Nottingham, Anti-Apartheid on 01-580 5311.
IT'S BACK!
Belt 'n' Braces 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' "Simply brilliant' — Tariq Ali From 15 Oct, bookings 01-267 6722 Party and wageless reductions Revolutionary Communist Tendency PUBLICMEETING 'Imperialism in Africa anti-imperialist struggle to Britain Japanese Speaker: Frank Richards Friday 19 October, 7.30pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WCI (Holborn tube)
might goes and Student Week colleges and towhs.
student unions.
Activity
Over the same combining have speakers for local meetings.
have the maximum I have deliberately ways of integrating our work people of them immediately.
situation. Tackle the Barbarians!
ABOUT 350 people took part in the first demonstration against the South Seven people inside the ground who tried to stage a more dramatic protest were quickly arrested and hauled before a special court, where they were bound over for two years in sums ranging between £500 and £600.
MARTIN METEYARD adds: Flour bombs greeted the Barbarians when they arrived in Edinburgh on Monday. joined a picket outside the North British Hotel in Princess Street. Daily pickets will be mounted there until the Barbarians leave on Sunday for their match al Hawick. This starts at 3pm and a large demonstration is expected. march a moventry next Wednesday, 17 October. Coaches have already been demonstration, York, Salford, Norwich, Wolverhampton.
Sheffield, Hull, Bradford, Manchester, Oxford and Cambridge. The assembly point is Lancaster Poly in Prior Street at 12 noon. For further details phone TERNATIONAL — extend the NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION "Ten years of the Irish War; five years of the Prevention of Terrorism Act' Saturday 24 November, assemble 2pm Kennington Park (Oval tube). March to Brixton Prison.
Troops out now!
Smash the PIA. _ POW status for Irish anti-imperialist prisoners!
Self-determination for the Irish people!
Mobilisation meetings: Tuesday 23 October; Monday 12 November. Both 7.30pm, Club Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (Holborn tube). Contact: 24 No Mobilisation Commitee, BM RCT, London WIX Organised by Revolutionary Communist Tendency. For further Over the last two weeks of October and the beginning of November there will be a Youth of Action. organised by ABCC and Was armed.
- can be believe that it is essential that local youth are involved, not just the usual constituency of time, and doubt with the former where this appropriate, a co-ordinated speaking tour by senior members of the Patriotic Front is being organised. Contact either the AAM office or the London offices of the PF if you want to Sunday 11 November is the date of the national mobilisation towards which all thi work is being geared, and at which we must After that action ZECC will consider both its own future and further plans for activity on Zimbabwe.
made this article. a strictly practical one, although I have strong views about the sort of solidarity work that should be pursued in the future — especially by an increasing concentration on shop floor level work in the trade union field and by finding on racism in southern Africa with racism in British society.
However, now is the time for action. The Zimbabwe will not thank us for allowing sober debate on the forms of solidarity work to inhibit us from giving practical belp to That means mobilising people for the activities of ZECC, especially 11 November, and ensuring that a huge segment of public opinion is brought to bear on the current of a number of trade unionists and numerous At short notice over 50 antl-racists Loughborough, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, THEORETICAL JOURNAL OF THE The enigma of workers' control PERRY ANDERSON Theses on English class society Britain and Russia SPERAT PROTHAR, MOAN SINT.
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African Barbarians rugby team in Exeter on 3 October. A march through the city centre was followed by a picket of the rugby ground, and a heartening