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ZIMBABWE NEWS Zimbabwe Nde Yedu,, We Are Our Own Liberators: Izimbabwe Nge Yethu T:=:0:5n VOL. 3, To. 20 OCIBER. 26,1968 REAL E I LY UliASE The unmasking of it4a tonal iniri a±+9jm as the real eneri of the people of Zimbabwe required Harold '1Iilson, U. D'I., the Tiger and Fearles Talks and their results, to accoplish * Although we had repeatedly preached 14he viw;t that equalling about the lack of bourgeois/Cristian morality in the conduct of the imperialist enemy only succeeded in confusing the issues* most of our people'-dtill remained unconvinced. They would not look be dnd thevisible white settler enemy to see that the deadliest of .. ords any one could ever dare to draw against us were in the hands of Harry Oppenheimer's friends in Wall Street, the City of London and other speculators of stollen viealth in the 'West. 6Nnethelpqs, the positive good accomplished by the ie~ a at is that among a sizable number oe ihe old colonial habit of looking at people's wars wilta-cikita goggles is now dead. Instead# people are now ,beginning to talk deridingly in terms of "gold mines# tobacco thieves, capitalist shares and dividend." This is revolutionary progress IThe grass-roots now have their eyes wide-open; they now understand the whys of oppression and the hovis of liberation and they know the difference between real oppressors and their agents4 In Zimbabwe* the white settlers are now in the process of getting ready for their new role of neo-colonial agents while international imperialism prepares itself for the task of governing by proxy. Joseph Palmer, the American Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, last week paid a visit to South Africa where he met Vo;-ster. (continued on page 2) ed and pl;h1ld by& Zimbabwe African Notional Union. PQ Box 2331, Lusako, .

ZIMBABWE. KEWS, OCTOBER 26,1968 Page 2 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Palmer, a representative of the world's greatest master in neo-colonial politics, has much to offer Britain and her Rhodesian and South African agents in the form of advice, dollars and military hardware. It is noteworthy the talks between Vorster and Palmer took place hardly a week after the Wilson-Smith deal at Gibraltar and at a time when it was being openly admitted in diplomatic circles that part of the secret Anglo-Rhodesian Deal envisages the granting by Britain of military aid to . Such aid would take the shape of both weapons and men. All that is needed now is for Salisbury to announce its public acceptance of the Gibraltar terms and London will give her both "independence and the indispensable military umbrella which she has been getting from South Africa. George Thomson, the British Minister in charge of Rhodesian affairs, is scheduled to go to Rhodesia within the next few days to work out the details of such British aid and to brief Salisbury on the firm pledge the Yankees have given to help defend Rhodesia and South Africa in the event of "communist aggression.. A South African journalist from the "Sunday Tribune" recently took the trouble to fly to Lusaka only to ask us the following question: " Do you think you have any chance nmw that the possibility exists that. Bitish arms andttropps will be sent to Rhodesia to fight you?" He sounded like a man who knew what he was talking about. Our answer to that provocative question is simple: Our short-run chances may be limited, but there can be no doubth the long-run the entry of British arms and men in this war will have no decisive effect other than that of slowing down our march towards victory.We know this from the valuable lessons of the VietNamese people's war of resistance against American aggression. There, the world's most toothy monster in terms of power and ruthlessness is being forced to sue for peace after suffering the most humiliating defeats any major world power has ever had to stomach. And this Yankee defeat is important because the Pentagon went into the VietNam bush expecting to prove that wars of national liberation could be effectively contained. The tragedy is that the Yankees have lost thousands of men and billions of dollars to prove what has always been true: that imperialism is a paper tiger! The same fate awaits the forces of international imperialism and their agents in Zimbabwe.

ZIMBABWE NEWS, OCTOBER 26,1968 Page 3 INSIDE ZIMBABWE NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND In the August 3 issue of this publication we reprinted excerpts from a parliamentary speech by Rhodesian hangman Desmond Lardner-Burke in which he sighted a wide-range of underground activities by ZANU as a justification for extending the three-year old Rhodesian state of emergency. Today these small and scattered underground activities, the which are indispensable for conduct of successful guerrilla warfare, have become so wide spread as to terrify Rhodesia's number one policeman who admitted in parliament on Octobet 18 that freedom fighters are active all the way from in the South East to Mtoko in the north.Lardner-Burke says that "given half a chanced these freedom-fighters arR°wellorganised as to destroy the whole fabric of "law and order". " .... In the area during August rocks and boulders wereplaced in railway lines. Fortunately only slight damage was caused and there were no injuries to anybody. Also an African(stooge)-owned bus was stoned whilst travelling on the road,Bulawayo, and a motor car (driven by a whiteman) was stoned in a Salisbury suburban area. Again, in Matabeleland, though this time at Gwanda, extensive damage to a building and its stocks was caused by fire. In , in the Mtoko area, witchcraft has been used to foment opposition to land husbandry measures and to incite tribesmen not to dip their cattle. So called political slogans make their appearance on walls in African townships. "There have been other incidents during this three-month period under review in these and other parts of Rhodesia. All these incidents added together indicate the continuing presence of a subversive element within the country..." BRITAIN PREPARES FOR END OF UN SANCTIONS There is mounting speculation in diplomatic circles about the future of the half-hearted U.N. economic sanctions against Rhodesia. A well-placed Western European diplomat in London "-predicted " that by December the British Government will have gone before the UN Security Council to plead for an end to the Sanctions which were imposed after UDI. The same diplomat foresees the use of the veto by Britain should the Afro-Asian group try to resist. There are reports from Rhodesia itself which terd to confirm this. According to these, Rhodesia's white farmers have been secretly assured that they may grow all the tobacco they want this year as there won't ba any sanctions by January.

ZIMBABWE NEWS, OCTOBER 26,19 age 4 THESE YOUTHS ARE OUR ALLIES Tomorrow an estimated 40,000 people will be marching through London to demonstrate their solidarity with the VietNamese people's heroic struggle against imperialist aggression. Like their counter-parts in France, West Germany and North.America, these are mostly young people - students, workers and others. They are young anti-imperialist progressives who are as fed-up with the anti- revolutionary policies of the revisionist Communist Parties of Europe and America as they are sick of the "liberal, ideologies of imperialism. The revolt of the youths of the imperialist countries is directly related to the anti- imperialist struggle of the peoples of Africa,Asia and Latin America. In the United States, for example, imperialism spends over V20 billion annually on the VietNam adventure while millions of black and white people in the Arerican South, in Appalachia a in the northern ghettos, go without a pint of milk. Su C % are the facts which show our Afro-American brothers and progressive whites that all imperialist wars fought by t 1-,L E U.S. abroad are detrimental to their interests as worker .4 Hence the blacks in America constitute the vanguard of th , domestic resistance to American imperialist aggression in VietNam and in South America. And if students in Europe and America tend to be among the most revolutionary sectors of the population it is largely because Universities in capitalist countries have become the most willing ally of international imperialism. They are used to conduct research in the weapons of murder; they do research aimed at porpetuating the rule of nec-colonialism in developing countries. That is why the most"successful professors today are those who work for the CIA or those.who, like America's famed Walt Rostow, enjoy playing war games with the Pentagon. Finally, Western Universities are used as a vehicle for selling conservativism and rection among the youth. That is why the University in the dest is among those institutions under attack by youths. These young men and women are our allies because they are fighting imperialism right at home. They are comrades because they share the same ideological outlook as do all the genuine revolutionaries of Africa, Asia and South America.