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own future. That means So we must say unequivocally: THE OWEN/YOUNG proposals offer nothing that is new either to the racist settler regime or to the black nationalists In Zimbabwe. Were it not for the medla coverage carefully orchestrated by the Foreign Office, they would hardly have raised a single eyebrow. The aim of the proposals is 1o wean support away from the armed struggle and If 5mith had decided to play along this could have represented a serious danger. But the settlers' leader is aware that even a tew concessions would weakon his position and he ls therefore going to utilise his recent electoral 'victory to remain The aims of Anglo-American imperialism are fairly atraightforward. They would like to lower the 'colour line' - that is from Rhodesla to South Africa. This entalla a neo-colonial Zimbabwe. Owen, Young and the military consul-designate Fieid Marshal Lord Carver have all sung the praises of Kenyatta's Kenya as a model regimel Such a solution is favoured by all the The Tront line' states, despite nuanced differences, favour a quick settlement because of the economic and political dislocation which the present South Africa wants the Kenyan solution because of the obvious im pact of a protracted liberation war within its own borders. There is littledoubt that the militants of Soweto were greatly encouraged by the victories of the Smith rejects the plan because he belleves he can reach a separate and more beneficlal 'Internal' settlement with & nationalist grouping not involved in the guerilla struggle. The Patriotic Front's main political base is the guerilie army.
solution which seeks marginalisethat army, though it is criticaily weakened by its Britain to carry out its 'colonial The British and Americans wil now attempt to influence Vorster on one hand, and the frontiine states on the other to pressure their respective allles The proposals are a none too subtle attempt to deny the people of Zimbabwe their right to total selt-determination. The presence of a UN Force (remember tha Congol) and 1o nelo a black bourgeolale to take power are obvious indications of this fact. The legal basis of the plan is that Britain still has its responsibilities and the UDi of Smith was illegal. Thus a new We should not forget that Kenya in Its pre-independence period was the scene of numerous brutal massacres by the colonialist forces. One was forcefully reminded of those brutalities when reading about the tortures inflicted on Zimbabwean blacks by Smith's soldiers. Furthermore, the is dominated by multinationel widespread brutality against workers, students and all political opponents of the ROWOVEr well-disposed towards white plantation owners who stayed behind as they and 'gifts' are regularly sent to the The Owen/Young plan Includes the creation of an army which Includes Smith's forturers and the nationalists. Furthermorethe entire judiclary and police force will remain transition. Carver, MES EBIE Commissioner, will have untrammelled control over this apparatus of repression, with accountability to no-one but Wecondemntheseproposalsasawhole. The only solution in Zimbabwe we favour at the present moment is Immediate election of a Constituent Assembly on the basis of one person one vote and the dismantiing of the entire machinery of the white settleretate. Imperialism cannot guarantee this in any form, Imperialism: Hands off Rhodesia: No British Rule In Zimbabwe. British Labour should help the liberation struggle by all means necessary.