Kuando Kubango, heading for Mavinga, miles from the border.
attack. (FAPLA) and the South Africans is still continuing in the over 350 miles away.
pursuit' raid after SWAPO guerrillas, it is now clear that Pretoria set out consciously to harass and weaken the Angolan government, bombing least villages.
Sending huge armoured convoys of British centurion Lanks alic SWAPO fighters Dolnuess. As the Angolan Ambassador said in London last week 'You can't catch flies with vinegar'.
Whether Or the American administration likes it, Namibia will be independent with SWAPO in power. You can't stop the wind blowing your hands.
The Western are collectivel however, pursuing a more complex and lethal strategy 1o counter and Teverse ind gains made by the liberablack working class This considerably extends the range of the Fighting between the Angolan army South West Kunene province Contrary to South African claims of a 'hot towns and several give a huge boost to the struggle in South Africa, possibly leading to a white Nationalist Party split.
Zimbabwe, the former white regime could bomb and the liberation movement, and bribe their rear-base ales into submission, sucsequently grafting the black nationalist leaders onto the old Rhodesian state structure.
Depend But Namibia has lackthe equivalent white colonial state to do this.
SWAPO's Angolan allies cannot be bribed through dependence on DOULO • WANDA 200 Miles BENGUELA to use Jonas Savimbi's terrorist group UNITA, which is now run as a wing of the South African aras a whipping stick against Angola. Buffer Hence it is no surprise that Pretoria is trying to 'buffer LUIIC Southern Angola so that Savimbi can claim support under the obsolete UNITA banner and South Africa announce con currently that their Namibian DTA puppets wlll governmental assullic 'power'.
This DTA constitutional farce naturally precludes autolity policy over uciclice _ane ters, and will do nothing to end or moderate the intensifying detention, tion, pillage rape and murder Dy lne racist oc cupation of Namibia in this brutal offensive has been totally obscured by the capitalist and even the press, which have chosen to hammer Reagan the surprising exception of Daily Mirror!). • It 15 centurion tanks British-supplied oil and brunnance watca being used butcher Namibians and Angolans to say nothing of Mozambicans and South Africans.
The Labour leadership has played despicable role in this, they did over Zimbabwe. In the Namibian case they have flouted World Court and Labour Party conference decisions hibiting the trade.
only are Callaghan, Owen and Healey but even Tony Benn * signed Socialist Challenge Namibian uranium contracts which help finance South Africa's war.
The Namibia Support Committee, which has been working to raise this question the labour movement for eleven years, is asking for support for a fundraising benefit Saturday Town Hall, Upper St september Islington 7.30 pm Bands include Enchanters NSC is hoping Owen Cal con MP and SWAPO wil speak at the event Tickets £3.00 in ad vance, £3.50 at door from NSC , 188 North Gower St, London NW1 2NB, phone 5539. A vigil will b held outside the US Embassy in protest against th US veto endorsi raids into Angola from 6 Thursday Vet ra Friday 1l September ton September until 9 am 10 September 1981 Pagt 5