will be deemed illegal merchandise if South your support of our struggle for the right to work. A settlement has been reached and country. Though few governments, if any, contribution to the overall struggle for the right to work and in some way encouraged An appeal for worldwide solidarity with the liberation struggle of the Namibian peuple has been made in London by Solomon Mifima, Secretary of Labour of the South West MICHAEL TOMLINSON (IFL 'We hope' Mifima told Red Weekly, 'that the British workers can assist us by refusing to unload goods from Namibia'.
Namibia has been a colony since 1884 when the country was occupied by German Following Germany's defeat in the First World War at the hands of its imperialist rivals, Namibia was placed under a 'mandate' of the League of Nations and became a South African colony. The South African government has consistently refused to accept the demands of the Namibian people for independence despite a ruling by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 terminating South Africa's mandate.
The imperialists have huge interests in maintaining their domination of Hamibia. Says Mifima: "In mineral resources, we have copper, diamonds, uranThe British company, Rio Tinto Zinc are mining uranium in our country and African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO). are not in the hands of the Namibian merely because of their labour power tapped oil reserves.
ressed in Namibia. Hundreds of SWAPO unions are illegal. were shot dead by South African police African workers' slum in the capital of Mifima explained, 'had a rumour that the strike. They surrounded the Compound area in the morning and shooting started Africa still refuses to withdraw from the people. Most of the land in the rich part of the country is occupied by the settlers.
Africans are allowed to live in these areas Namibia is also considered to be rich in unDemocratic rights are ruthlessly suppmilitants are in jail. Strikes are banned and Recently five workers International.
and troops in the Katatura Compound, an Windhoek. The South African authorities, workers in Katatura were planning to go on The United Nations has voted that all Dear Red Weekly, goods exported from Namibia after 31 May • socialisin, inus arter me birminenam , bombings Socialist Worker chose as its main emphasis "Stop the Bombings, echoing the sentiments of the bourgeois press; thus on the issue of women's libera- i tion the latest agenda for the IS 'Rank and • File' women's conference omits any • mention of abortion, placing IS to the right or the women ts recen issue of Socialist Worker described , Cambodia under Prince Sihanouk as 'a happy-go-lucky land', a political judgement well to the right of Amnesty Growing trom tnis lack of politica education both to the working class and to its own members there arose the necessty for pureducratic repression. Any group that avoids Marxist propaganda socialism.
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TED HECKE not been discussed. Formosa. attitude to that? Today everybody talks about socialism when they talk about Portugal. Some nationalisations have occurred but up to now no foreign interests have been touched and the real problem of compensation has In our country the multi-national firms die nor very representauve ortne witoe We have been the victims of a different kind of colonisation from the rest of Europe. The big trusts pillaged the raw materials, then they exported manufactured products, and the only thing left to us were very low wages for the working class. Even the surplus value was exported, Just uke m These big firms like Champalimaud have already been affected. As far as the mauonarsauon or lores uns is con cerned, we are proceeding to bilateral negotiations. As far as Portuguse nationalised firms are concerned we will reimburse some money, but within a long term perspectíve.... We are in no hurry In many factories the workers are demanding workers control and raising the question of the management of the factories. What is your Workers control is something absolutely fundamental for us. But at the present time we think that the task of the workers should be control, rather than the management. They control employment, line-speed, etc. For us this is already the beginning or sociansm. but up to now we still don't know which type of socialism lead to bankruptcy. As far as nationalisa nons are concerned. we will normultipl these measures for a long time, we do not have enough capable cadres. In three or four years the workers will be able to run their factories. exceptions, this is not possible Do you think that it is possible to construct socialism while there is a bourgeois party like the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) in the No, but we hope for its evolution. There are inside both the PPD and SP some advanced cadres, as opposed to its backward social base, and these are the people to back. At the level of government the continuation of the coalition will depend on the election results. If we have a socialist coalition with more than 50% ol the votes, then we will have no more problems. In any case we have taken precautions and the Revolutionary Counci will always have the right of dissolution.
We could take the power, but we prefer mat tne pardes play tner part and that socialism continues at a rank and file level. But this depends largely on the evolution of the SP. In this country. simple anti-communism has always been exploited. But for us the CP has always been loyal and never posed any problems Why hasn't China recognised The People's Republic of China has pragmatic international politics, bearing no relation to its ideology. We have no problems with it over Macao, and if it has not recognised Portugal it is only because it wants to differentitate itself from the
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could not survive if it allowed serious CROSFIELD'S JOINT SHOP STEWARDS COMMITTEE
May I on behalf of the Crosfield's Joint Shpp Stewards Committee thank you for • the official appeal is closed as from 15 May 1975. We feel we have made a significant