Imperialism and its aids

'The number of animal experiAIDS THE PRINCIPLE of non - collaboration in Africa was an expression of the class struggle which Marx said was the basis of change in slave, feudal and capitalist societies.

Its opposite is collaboration and African nationalism fits into this category.

It begins with the idea that all 'black people' should unite and ends with a call to all 'black' workers to unite with 'black' capitalists who are the subservient vassals of the 'white' imperialists.

Nationalism

African nationalism inevitably drags workers under the heels of the imperialists. Into their plantations, their mines, their Commonwealth, their apartheid, their United Nations, Organization and their Organization of African Unity.

African nationalism began as a European idea. It was particularly favoured by the British Liberals and social democrats of the Fabian Labour Party and by the trade union bureaucracy.

The second and fateful step in the company's sales campaign MAKANDA imperialists to train and corrupt the petty-bourgeois leaders in the colonies which later became "independent'.

Through the 'home' Labour aristocracy and the semi-colonial bourgeoisie the imperialist-capitalist class maintains its rule throughout the world.

The social-chauvinism underlying this twin corruption spread from the imperialist camp into the Workers' States producing the agency of imperialism knöwn as Stalinism.

Stalinism is not the product of socialism, but of capitalism. It was made possible by the isolation and inherited backwardness China, urope "are themselves products of capitalism.

Semi-colonial

African nationalism operates the semi-colonial state machinery for imperialism, especially for the British and the French. It is the enemy of the African oppressed and the workers.

Stalinism, by its recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a state, its support for the UN, including the intervention in the Congo and future UN action against the oppressed people of Namibia (SW Africa), its backing for the OAU and the African quisling regimes of Ethiopia, Kenya and elsewhere, has helped imperialism to stay in its African saddle.

But at the same time the toilers of Africa regard the USSR and China, together with the other Workers' States, as revolutionary examples and antiSUNDAY, FEBRUAF ALEXANDRA PALACE Wood Green London, N22 CLASS STRUGGLES INI AFRICA imperialist bastions in their own struggle for liberation.

The defence of the USSR and China is inseparable from their own anti-imperialist struggles.

As long as they are under foreign imperialist economic military or political domination, the toilers and oppressed of Africa, 'Latin' America and semi-colonial Asia, have, of necessity to organize what is called a 'liberation movement'.

The semi-colonial bourgeoisie, quasi-tribalists and semi-feudalists constantly divert, betray and crush the anti-imperialist Solidarity This reinforces the necessity for the formation of workers' and peasants' parties politically independent of the 'national bourgeoisie', even when combined military action against imperialism (e.g. Israel) is required.

The independent political organization of the toilers of Africa against capitalism means a noncollaborationist anti - imperialist movement.

This, in turn, means solidarity with the USSR and China as creations of a social revolution, but equally it means a struggle against the collaborationist poliStalinism, including Maoism, in Africa itself.

There will be many struggles between the oppressed of Africa and British governments, whether they are Labour or Tory.

There is no difference between the Tories and the social-democratic Labour group. They are both imperialist. They both share, however unequally, the vested interests of British imperialism in African workers have nothing in common with social democrats.

But they have everything in common with the workers of Britain, W Europe and the USA.

Çapitalism is their common enemy. British labour cannot be free so long as African labour is in chains.