Crawling to No.10

Workers Press no. 242, 29 August 1970 · scan pages 2, 7

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ESTERDAY'S 'Morning Sta carried a front-page pictur of three Communist Part leaders delivering a lette to Heath. The letter, signe by CP secretary Gollai appeals to the Tory goverr ment to intervene in th trial of 20. Africans i Pretoria.

The letter 'reminds' Heat that the Tory governmer had interceded with th apartheid regime at the tim of the 1964 Rivonia tria The Stalinists urge the Torie *to do no less on behalf ‹ the defendants in the pri sent trial than was done o by the Conservative gover ment in 1964' Nothing could reflect th treacherous right-wing lir of the CP today more clear than its crawling to Dowi ing Street on this issue. The imprisonment and tortu ing of the Pretoria defen‹ ants (19 of the 20 wel acquitted in February-an immediately re-arrested), typical of the Vorst, regime. But Heath repr sents the British imperiali monopolies whose inves ments in S Africa are tl foundation of Vorster's rul The government to who Gollan addresses his appe . is itself engaged in armir the S African racialists, :

well as assisting and pr • moting every other actic of colonialism everywhere The turn of the Briti Stalinists to the Tories part of the class-collabor tion policies being condu ted by Stalinism all ov the world.

By appealing to Heath SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Trotsky Memorial Meeting GLASGOW Partick Burgh Ha rkland St Under:

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"liberal' conscience, the CP helps to give him that cover he so badly needs at the present time, while the ruling class prepares its next moves in the attack on the working class.

Far from helping the victims of Vorster's police, actually strengthens Vorster's allies.

The labour movement is the only force which can come to the aid of the Pretoria prisoners and the many others in the South African jails.

This is inseparable from the struggle against the Tories as the allies of apartheid. Instead of friendly letters, a campaign to force this government of imperialism and racialism to resign is the way to speed the destruction of apartheid and to unite British and African BY A FOREIGN WORKERS on are working to The possibility of more extensive trade and economic links with fascist Spain is also foreshadowed by recent