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RHODESIAN troops villagers Zimbabwe since nationalist STOL COWI Rhodesia viscount airliner on 12 February.
*Initial retaliation Viscount crash', the Guardian reported on 18 February, taking place inside the country in an area heavily populated and controlled by guerillas.' Helicopter-borne Rhodesian commandos of the notorious Special Air Services have been combing the Vuti area in what appears to be a deliberate and tactic to drive every African from the region'.
The SAS, the Guardian said, are in a 'merciless mood' and black civilian deaths can only be high Another Air Rhodesia plane was hit by guerilla fire on 15 February. These incidents highlight the growing success of the nationalist forces.
The guerillas have sunk deep roots all over the countryside and have now moved into the cities in considerable numbers. On February, freedom fighters attacked an industrial zone of Salisbury, VICTIMS of a Rhodesian raid into Mozambique 11am-4pm London School of Houghton Street, information Charlotte Street, Tel: 01-580 capital's main power station, only two miles from the city have centre.
The regime's own officials admit that there are now over 12. 000 guedition in the country thousands of recruits in bases in Mozambique and Zambia.
The imperialist powers are increasingly scared "is white settler regime will simply collapse if a transfer to some form of neo-colonial rule is not rapidly negotiated between the Smith government Patriotic Front, mands the allegiance of most of the liberation fighters.
The and governments know that the 20 April "internal elections will fail to head off the growing black revolt.
The white minority is to retain 28 per cent of the cabinet seats after the poll, the rest being shared out discredited black have joined the government since the 'internal March. settlement' Was signed The white-run army, police and bureaucracy remain intact after transition to Smith-style 'Majority rule ana mere are until the constitutional provisions barring the take-over of farms, mines and factories from their white capitalist owners.
The elections themselves can only be a farce - if the Smith tens regime actually • holding them. 85 per cent of the country is now under martial law, with special military courts that the empowered to death sentences against which there is no appeal.
In much especially most of the 'tribal and the trust lands', which com- have dislodged the very few blacks are likely to US vote at all.
Elsewhere, intimidation settlement"
private armies of the black marily those led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole), may force some Africans to turn up at the groups that polling stations.
Smith The disintegration of white power would masses to fight for well as national jeopardising the will plans for 'black' neo-colonial the rule under which interests were preserved.
The black agricultural proleLalal. which attempted to seize the 4,000 huge white capitalist farms tha occupy half the arable land, certainly start to do so. And the urban proletariat, one of the largest in Africa (besides that in South Africa itself would be spurred forward to fight for its own class interests.
This is what the British and American determined at all costs to avoid.
Delay breeds danger, Owen, the Foreign said in London on 23 January referring the refusal of the whites to come to •Delay has allowed communist ideologies in many countries to flourish. emerges as the real threat'.
Minority rule cannot survive, Owen said.
way it is ended.' impact succeeds Africa.
hand down speech. country, the investment in South effectively which, settlers" army, £5,000 by or of Germany. and the South Africa groups masses bring the Rev likely under the spur on TOTCE A liberation, imperialists role, imperialist Line serious country's would almost in Britain.
the Zimbabwe ference being how long it survives and in what The biggest threat of all te the imperialists is the potential impending victories of the Zimbabwean masses on blacks in South This is where the imperialists' interests are really "Let us be open and frank', Owen said in his 23 January do remain vulnerable because of certain key minerals and a huge UK Africa including investment, is of the order of million, probably double that of the United States The British government is so alarmed at what may happen in it the black down the Rhodesian regime by force that it already has contingency plans to send out British troops, most United Nations 'peacekeeping British military force would not play any progressive the official propaganda. Its sole purpose would be to oversee a transition to a neo-colonial government.
danger that British imperialism will directly intervene in Zimbabwe in the not-so-distant future empha sises the urgency of building a powerful solidarity movement A key step to doing this wil Action Conheld by the Anti-Apartheid Movement ir The conference is supported by the National Union of Students, Marxist Group, the Communist Party, SIX students at the London School of Economics have gone without food for nearly two weeks in protest at the college's refusal to sell its South African investments. The college's director, Ralf Dahrendorf, is displaying immense fortitude in not giving in to this 'moral blackmail', but holding on t the £311,000 worth of investments. A