Covers are helf, paying to mribute to the FlY role in organising solidarity action around his cave. comrades before the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC). revolutionary gratitude.
of China.
Long live the World Socialist Revolution!
Rohana Wijeweera James Miyangoda Lionel Bapege We have learnt that the Comrades of the Fourth International, at their tenth world congress held in the beginning of this year, have passed a resolution expressing their solidarity with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front) of Sri Lanka and the members of the JVP imprisoned by the Sirima Bandaranake regime. Furthermore, we came to know through the literature of the Fourth International that the comrades of the Fourth International are engaged in building up a world-wide agitation to compel the capitalist and reactionary rulers of the countries such as Chile, India, Pakistan, Ireland, Sri Lanka, etc., to release all the political prisoners imprisoned and detained by them, unconditionally.
We think that, at this moment, our revolutionary gratitude should be extended to the Fourth International for its solidarity expressed with us.
It is essential to mention here the assistance given to us by Comrade Bela Tampoe (the General Secretary of the Ceylon Mercantile Union and the Revolutionary Marxist Party of Sri Lankal by defending several At a time when we were attacked by the capitalist regime of Sri Lanka -supported not only by the American and British imperialists, but also by the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies and by the so-called leftists in this country including the ex- Trotskyites of the LSSP and the various varieties of Stalinism-Comrade Bala came forward to defend the JVP politically and its comrades legally, although we had political differences. The task performed by Comrade Bala by defending our comrades charged before the CJC and by exposing the brutal repression of the capitalist state and the reactionary nature of the CJC Act, before and outside of the C/C, will be remembered by the younger revolutionary generations with It is our revolutionary wish to see the complete success of the movement that is being carried out by the Fourth International in order to get all the revolutionaries released who are imprisoned by the rulers whether they are of capitalist countries as in Chile and India or of degenerated bureaucratic countries as in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic THE TUC'S POLICY of collaboration with the racist South African regime received another boost last week with the announcement that they would he donating C11,000 to the Urban Training Project" in Johannesburg. This comes on top of a similar donation to the Institute of Industrial Education (HE) in Durban, The TUC defends chese donations on the grounds that they are helping 'black trade unionism. But, as their critics point out, these projects are conducted under strict supervision by the Government, and simply serve as a means of tarting up that vicious regime.
The TUCk policy is in contradiction with the guide lanes laid down,by the Internamonal Trade Union CooTerence Against Apartheid, which met in Geneva in 1973 under the sponsorship of the International Labour Organisation. This conference unanimously adopred s stand calling for a total boycott of the reghne. They urged sapport for black workers through their authentic trade ton and pobtical orlansations none of which have any thing to do with the schemes being subsidised by the TUC Instead of endorsing this policy and taking up the conference call to 'estabUsE national trade voion committees against apartheid and the racist and colonial regimes, the TUC sent its own committee of enquiry to South Africa, beaded by left bureaucrat Jack Janes It was on the basis of this committee's no concenda tiens that the present callahorationist poticy wasadopted. against blacks with ricism.
Meanwhile students at Ruskin College Oxford are threatening to take anilitant action geer their College's licks with the Institution of Industrial Education, and with the Club and Institute Union, which refuses to expel the racist Preston Dockers Club, who have a colour bar James Best Last Tuesday (11 Fehruary) a moeting of the Ruskin Student Associztion heard 1 TepDTE Trom Their tentesentaLives on the presented the Student Associztion's re port on the lE to the Concittee students woe to that they nad met with determined refusal by the Colieg Authorities to broak the link.
solution demanding that the Club and Institute Unien representative on the Loller Herain his costion on the Preston Dockers Chib affair, (The CIU Rate Relations Haard found thet it hail beea practicing racial discriminationd The CL representative must cupesten nu organisation's excuses for its complicity demonstration ottside the next EC meating against the lIE tink, and to demand from the EC. The resolution warned the CIl representative to witheram would lead to militant action.
STOCKPORT And in Stockport plans are going ahead to protest against Hawker Siddelev s ameemeat to bull a power statior Tor the South African regime in the occupied territory of Namibia ('South West Africa"), much of the work for which will be done in the Stockport Mirlees Blackstone lactory.
Despite Foreign Secretary Callaghan's description of the South African cocu pation of Nambia as 'unlawtul", Hawker Siddeley informed the Namibin Supnote Commince that in view or the complex political and legal matters conceroed.the advice of the Department of Trade and Industry was obtained and it has been conlirmed that the companies concerned are in order in proceeding with this con on Friday to take this matter up. In nddition to representatives of the local a representative of the Namibian Liberation group, SWAPO, who will be cal The or toe Merles Becastne worker to hlck the job, and by a member of the Government-Joan Lestor, Junior Secrelary at the Foreig Office.
The meeting will take place at 8pm on 21 February, in the Our Lady Social Centre, Flint St. (ncar Grock St.), Shaw Heath, Stockport. (For further details on the campaign against the contract in Stockport contact Jan Cosgrave, tel. 061-427-3952)
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