[As the Tories move hell: for-leather towards recognition…]
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As the Tories move hell: for-leather towards recognition of the reactionary Muzorewa-Smith regime in Rhodesia, Lord Harlech has been named the unofficial ambassador to the puppet regime.
He will operate a virtually continuous shuttle diplomacy between Salisbury and the so-called "front line states" • seeking sufficient signs of weakness from their bourgeois governments for the Tories to proceed with full-scale recognition of Muzorewa.
The Tories have abruptly abandoned the strategy jointly developed between Labourite collaborator David Owen and Carter's token "black" reactionary Andrew Young.
The switch of line under Thatcher has forced Carter's US administration to reconsider its own policy, as Senate pressure mounts for the dropping of sanctions to open up supplies of cheap chrome and other raw materials from Rhodesia.
The British labour movement must act now to sabotage the Tories' plans to strengthen Muzorewa's puppet regime as a buttress against the independent struggles of the black masses:
A demonstration has been called in London on June 30, assembling at Spitalfield Market at 2.30 p.m.