LANU leader ROBERT MUGABE from trade unionists.
Computers Limited Manchester.
The deal to supply a 297 omputer to the South Africar police, which could be worth more than El milbon, completed early this year. But we only found out ahout the news on 1 August.
ICL 35 dEUs South Africa. As far back 1967 it supplied a computer foi the Banru Reference Bureau in Pretoria, whose monitorine ol black people's movements central to the whole Bancustan Last year its sales leaped by Socialist Chellenge 7 September 1978 page 10 THE SALE of a British computer to help enforce South Africa's notorious pass laws is under attack ANDY BLUNDELL reports from the International plant at West Gorton 68 per cent lo R47 million. This was largely because rougher US goveronient sanctions on the was export of courent to south Africa reduced competition Britain's Labour menr, though, is happy to belp bolster up the apartbeid repitte in this way. Tougher sanctions would hit the profits of its sibes business, Alca's number one trading partner. not as it the Goveroment has controver CL. 11 bas a 25 pe Patriotic all the parties involved in the conflict could soon be held. On what conditions ugree to tuke part?
concerned we will Denotal Britain, which has the respon sibility of country, The other parties can arrend the conference and submit their proposals, SOUL the Front and the Salisbury regime.
We relect attemmes to draw in into the orbit of the interna SELUENICHE We are therefore ready to discuss on the basis of the Anglo-Americun They covisage the dismantling of the Salisbury regime The regime may have been broadened' hut it remains the The trinissers are still in office.
•lhe Altican comnonent.has metely heen ministers already in office Therefore discussions only concern the bolding of a constitutional conference, with the aim of working institutions of an independent Zimbabwe The Western powers should not try to sidestep the basic mrohlem: political cower i the due of the Zimbabwe people cent stake in the company tough the prise Board, Bur we aren't taking this deal lying down. Our first step was to produce a bulletin attacking the deal, for distribution inside the plant channels.
This was General Group Committee of in the TASS white-collar section of the Amalgamated Union of representatives Association Technical and Statfs, including myself. American The bulletin endorsed by Govern- stewards from the ALEW and CRIE clectricians' EETPU.
It points out that.
South that the South African beeds a computer to enlance such as the pass laws uoder which there are 250,000 arrests direct aycar, are designed to maincain a rast pool of African workers THE SMITH regime is wriggling desperately as the Zimbabwe guerrillas close in.
The puppet status of the black "leaders" involved in the internal settlement-Muzorewa, Chirau —was dramatically confirmed last week when it emerged that Smith had been having secret talks with Front leader Joshua Nkomo of the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
would you Patriotic Front.
Great your strugale? decolonising, are objectives: will idea of among the people.
weakened: proposals.
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Korea, without any restrictions. They I we have had good relations / Nationn) Enter- Tiehts.
they aTe throupl LIUa excuses! committed signed by the policeman your job Scientific Orwell's Managerial also shap floor colleagues. union, the . The laws within the next week.
must not go through.
Sithole, and Monde'. must be given the necessary We therefore demand, first, tbat the Smith regime and its poppets gerout; second, that its third. HAC thar they are replaced by the forces of the What is the main objective of pursuing several weaponry.
enemy, to organise the masses, and the holdsot the Dan concentrating bur efforts ou the zones where the enemy are strongest, because Thar's regiotis where they have been inhabined ly six milion 20 or the seven million Zimbabwe our stratery is to destroy the enemy, we cannot avoid attempting to win control Catil now ZAPU tended to support countries of the socialist hoe. and ZANU of Chinu. Will your visit to Cuba alfer this state of BUD It is true that we were largely aided by China, though also by Кшвалів, and Yuposlavia. Since my tripto Vietnam distinct parties The with no trade union or politica.
We ask workers to Imacine that on leaving work at ICL stopped policeman and asked for their You have radios for assisthack of a van. You end up in prison for two moutis and lose *It reads like a soenario from 1984 but this, for black Africans, is the sunny republic of South Africa today whereICL is am employer. This could be happening to your Fab-tube oficials of both invite TASS and ASTMS are now beeting the on Wednesday company, and there will be a mass meeting of the workforce Many But we are adamant: this deal Also kept in the dark, apparently, was the other main Patriotic Front leader, Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union.
What is Mugabe's position on the liberation struggle? The following interview was recently corried out by Rene Lefort of the French daily paper Le But we have never considered the USSR to be our enemy. In aiding ZAPU it aids the people of Zimbahwe. Bur we would LIECIE wider their Our visit to Cuba was a very Bood starting point from which improve oar friendly Lies.
WITHATAA agreed to maintain close links and I hone that this wil lent How Cuba lo furnish material aid to ZANU: E's not men we lack but In certain of your publications you have delined yourselves as Marxist- Leninist-Macist.
but doesn 't contrada what bave i said. Wehase borrowed certain Ideas Irem Manism unification between ZANU and ZANU was boen in 1963 when we wished to lauuch The anned struggle. There was no-one in ZAPU at that time who was as clear as we were on che question of the armed scruggle. We chink that power bes at the ead of a Recently ZAPU has started itseli the context of the armed struggie pur existence for so long as difference between country All blacks in South Africu have to curry u pass like this A STORM has arisca over the offer. decision by Glasgow's Lahour Lord Provest, Duvid Hodge, to the South Africun September, reports CHRIS BAMBERY, of Hodge's party Cily collescure orombed fo oin s picket ontside. And as we went la press if seemed that Hoder would have little hospitailty to ZAPU and ZANU has no tribal reactionary practice to base one's struggle on ethric groupings.
We are trying to destros such ORCHA TEN conscioustess among our cadres, in promo.
unity which can transcend petty tribalist and regionalist laya can unificatios achieved:
We are escotially a comba:
organisation therefore want unire to he born our of the arined strugale ZAPU, on the contrary wants finst to unify the political parties and only then the armics. But in present circumstances it is unthinkable that we bring OuT supporters in a single part Lei usunite our srmes, light the enemy first, and then immediately after are installed in our country we can apply ourselves to unifying our Ewo movemenEs #f sceias, howerer. thut the majority of ZAPU lighters are THE THA par e mar.
You should ask Nkomo that question. concerned. foroes are doing bur hest to overcome the This year is decisive, Tor victory is on the cards inside the Members of de General & Municipal Workens Union vofed not to cook or serve food to the anhassador, and to stop food heing brought into the Chambers. The local government workers union, dions chat no help should be