British athletes all Namika apainst the IsiR and government complaint against the The majority WHILE the government is doing its best to prevent going Olympics, Rugby Union selectors are drawing up lists of players for this summer's tour of racist South Africa has been in illegal occupation of since 1966. Its troops Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe - in every case to fight the forces that now make up the governments of these countries.
has recently sent in an forty-four Angolan territory launched January of this year alone.
South African government holds the whole black population of the country — the vast in a state of universally condemned the Moscow government is have invaded Africa.
The Angolan boycott? No.
official on Namibia in will she demonstrators. subjection. The British government has issued one statement, before the decision to tour was made, stating that it thought it inadvisable. The statement was as lukewarm as it could be, given that the signatory to an agreement opposing sporting relations with South Will we now hear the mass Tory ranks baying Will we see threatening British players with the sack, cutting off their money, and crusading for the moral pressure of the nation to be hurled against them! No. If there are demonstrations against the tour, do? Probably arrest Meanwiors, Brilain's highly profitable trade, conditions human rights.
World War the codeworo for anti-communist war nvsteria investment and business links with both Namibia and South Africa - through which rich Tories grow fat while African workers suffer abominable That is why the Olympic boycott campaign has nothing to do with the right of self-determination, nothing to do with the defence of democracy, and nothing to do with Like the clarion call to 'defend small nations' with which the imperialists launched the First - during which they trampled over every small nation in Europe — the call for the 'right of self-determination' by the imperialists is not worth the paper it is written on. It is a straightforward, naked and totally hypocritical