So it's very much to be welcomed that Manchester AAM have called a conference which should provide opportunilv for the broadest range of activists to discuss solidarity and plan activities.
The conference, entitled *Connections Southern Africa', is sponsored hy the North West TUC and aimed particularly at YOUL every type organisation.
It has a workshop structure, WILl CISCUSSIOM chosen topics - action in the WOrKD SCe.
Party, SIDOUT youth, women apar• a media campaign for press and television to give time and an space to the views of liberation movements. • an elected working party to organise a labour movement inquiry 3ПTO Ine scandal. conference should condemn the possible use of British troops in Zimbabwe and call trade actions in solidarity Zimbabwean people.
of For details contact: Manchester AAM, Avenue, Manchester 8ND. wellVenue: Abraham Centre, Crumpsall, and ter. Saturday 11 November, 10-6.
SEVERAL thousand people marched through London last Saturday on the demonstration organised by A nartheid Movement.
Contingents away as Aberdeen and Dundee, with the and apart from many student unions there were also banners ITOM several Labour and trades Tintern number of trade unions M20 including engineers, civil Moss Inland Revenue staff, Corby ManchesSICCIWOTACES metal workers, London teachers the reports far Tion, while was very small. and a public Zimbabwe London sheet and East Africa Unfortunately the turn-out Nations flag. from most of the far left, which for so long has kept the flag of flying -in Britain, was extremely disappointing. The Socialist Work- Communist ers Party did not even have a started to contingent on the demonstrat- Nkomo in that of the Marxist Group surely agree!
The This situation is rather serious minine at a time when the Labour government's manoeuvres over themselves reaching climax with the threat to sen southern free the United ference many unions have pledged The responsibilities of the far other left were underlined when the IMG contingent raised slogans in relation to this: a section of ance.
SUUOOTICES chant *Smith out, a slogan with which Dr Owen for one would crucial question conditions ousted, and whether the freedom fighters •will be able lo determine the future leadership of an independent Zimbabwe imperialist interpass and that they participate in implementing without protests KAF, the Swedish section of poses all strike fines and the other aspects of the anti-labour laws. But it would still be an advance it strikers no longe had to face unlimited fines.
Therefore, and because there is a huge working class mobilisation behind the demand, KAF supports and participates in the collection of names.
The Bil and Traktor workers are not the only ones to be The obstacles to such a way out have been the attitude of African states the sporadic guerilla campaign and Namibian working class resistThe five powers represented in Pretona last week woun probably prefer more diplomatic solution but faced with a choice between South acmoctae) have consistently gone for the That being the case, UN decisions and expressions of righteous indignation will achieve nothing. solidarity to kick out the South Africans can threatened with the sack. At the big Volvo factory in Gothenburg there was a short strike a couple of weeks ago, after which the company threatened the immediate sacking of six workers.
But the Volvo workers united behind them. One leaflet said that if the six were sacked, would be every worker's duty to see that the quality of the cars leaving the factory would correspond to the quality of the Volvo management"
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