LAST WEEK Neil Kinnock, and the Labour Party NEC, failed to speak for the labour movement. While thousands of people were taking to the streets to totally condemn Reagan's attack on Libya, Neil Kinnock was calling economic sanctions against that country. The people of Libya found they could no more rely on support from Kinnock than could the miners of this country.
OTE organisation, Party Black Section, did for the labour movement. the title US state terrorism egainst Libya' it savaged the US and its British allies, and brought ut the imperialism and racism of Socialist Action SOCALiSS believes this statement should be taken as a model for a response throughout the labour movement.
The Labour Party Black Section National Committee condemns the American bombing Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi and the support for this international aggression by Britain's Tory government. Margaret Thatcher cabinet are the accomplices of a blatant act of state terrorism. the Thatcher gave agreement American use of British air bases she signed the death warrant for scores of innocent Libyan civilians - including many children - and British citizens in Beirut.
The US attack on Libya shows the urgent need to remove US bases from Britain. It also demonstrates why Britain must withdraw from NATO.
called North Organisation. alliance to defend freedom. It is an alliance against liberation struggles allacks on arne and internationalist socialist governments in the third world.
might say, the root of the fighting in and her the Middle East lies in the denial by the forces of imperialism of the land When rights of the Palestinian people. The Labour Party Black Section believes there will be no peace in the region until the Palestinians are granted their demand of self-determination.
US has ruthlessly punished Libya for supporting national liberation strug gles like this, not because of acts of 'terror' It has blown the cover of the soAtlantic Treaty is not Whatever Reagan and his cronies America's economic Wing sought Ronald Reagan has whipped up anti-Arab racism by making hollow claims that the Libyan government oralisee tenoust attacks aroune une world. But any such 'terrorist' attacks - and there is no reason to believe US intelligence lies - shrink in puny * Libya. comparison to the bombing of Libya, the US financed terrorism of the contras in Nicaragua, and Israeli terror bean, bombing of Palestinian refuge camps.
demand for tougr sanctions and a blockade of Libya are in stark contrast to pathetic western measures beagainst Botha's racist in South Atrica Western governments pay only lip service to the demand of black people that the fascists in Pretoria should be brought to their knees and black majority rule fully supported. America's puppets stand indicted of gross hypocrisy We call on black Party activists porters, trade union activists, and al those who believe in peace and justice to take to the streets in defence of We must demonstrate our revul sion at acts of violence in the Carib Central America Middle East, the Far East Africa, which have made America the biggest exporter of terrorism in the We demand:
• US bases out of Britain • Britain out of NATO • Support for the Palesti Statement by the Labour Part Black Section National Committee
2 Socialist Action 25 April 1986 "Terrorism defines the Why did the prime minister agree to une use o] British bases? Was because of the Falklands