New shots in S. African wal
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OF SOLIDARITY
New pamphlet from the Socialist Forum for Southern Africa Solidarity, 90p plus 20p postage. available via Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8 8PL. IN A renewed escalation of the undeclared war raging in Southern Africa, South African. commandos last week raided a UN refugee camp in Lesotho, slaughtering men, women, children, and a handful of miliants of the African National Congress.
The raid took place only a mile from the Lesotho capiral. Maseru. But the piles of corpses left by the apartheid butchers are not the only recent victims of South African aggression.
In Mozambique, border raids and harassment of the Frelimo regime by South African troops has been coupled with the activity of Pretoria-backed right wing guerillas of the so-called •Mozambique National Resistance', which last week blew up a fuel depot port of Beira.
In Namibia, too, a huge South African occupying army of 100,000 troops maintains a continuing war against the SWAPO liberation forces, and has established permanent camps across the border with Angola.
The apartheid rulers have for years been supplying arms, cash and military support to Jonas Savimbi's reactionary UNITA guerillas in their struggle to overthrow Angola's petty bourgeois nationalist MPLA government.
The outcome has been growing economic disruprion and military struggle as Angolan troops, supported by an augmented detachment of 20,000 Cuban soldiers, fight invaders.
Picked But both President Reagan and the British government have predictably sided with the South African state in its vicious attempts to reverse the gains made by the black masses of Southern Africa since the mid 1970s and install pitable stooge governments in the neighbouring states.
In the aftermath of the Lesothn raid, Britain voted last Friday at the UN against a series of resolutions condemning the South African aggression, while Reagan has tacitly welcomed Pretoria's obstinate demands for the removal of Cuban troops from Angola. A QUESTION Independent Trade Unions 90p Bob Fine Lawrence Welch
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