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The WSL is holding its annual international summer school trom July 21 to July 29 inclusive. The school is open to members and supporters of the WSL:

This year we are extending a special invitation to ex-members of the WRPboth those who have been the victims of recent expulsions and those who have found themselves outside the WRP in various ways over the past few years due to the political degeneration of the movement and the increasing bureaucratisation of the internal regime.

Today, in the most fertile conditions for revolutionary work, the WRP has reached its deepest stage of political degeneration. Its heritage has been liquidated by its leadership.

The WSL now represents the most developed expression of the continuity of the strengths of the IC tradition and the fight for the Trotskyist programme-its principles and methoddeveloped over the last 4½ years.

One of the tasks of the summer school will be to deepen our understanding of this development as a sotelual VELS PApRinNCH SALL FANE In response to the stepping up of British Tory government aid to the white racists in Southern Africa, Anti-Apartheid called a demonstration on June 30.

The march was in defence of

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INCANDS IN the Patriotic Front in Zimbabwe and against the recognition of the Smith-Muzorewa regime installed under the "internal settlement"

Anti-Apartheid, and its backers in the Communist and Labour Parties, had failed to mobilise seriously for the demonstration and a high proportion of the 2,000 marchers had been mobilised by left-wing organisations.

The main sponsors of the march also showed that they had no political answer to the urgent need for British labour movement support for the national liberation struggle in No practical suggestion for labour movement action was made from the platform.

'Left' Labour MP, Joan Lestor, called for emphasis on "keeping the issue clear" and "explaining what is taking place".

She bashed the Tories while hypocritically covering up the way in which the Labour government, in which she was a Foreign Office minister, paved the way for today's Tory policies.

Labour may have opposed the "internal settlement'-but only because they wanted an equally undemocratic "external solution" to set up a black neocolonial regime.

The two speakers from the Patriotic Front showed that essentially the PF leadership, too, looks for a negotiated external settlement with 'the imperialist countries.

The ZAPU speaker called frequently for the "joining of hands" to get rid of Smith and Muzorewa-but did not utter a word about "revolution" or "socialism".

He looked for help to the "progressive forces" of the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the Organisation of African Unity.

The ZANU speaker used the words "revolution" and "social - ism" in almost every se atence but presented no cc ncrete demand or suggestion 1 o the labour movement in the imperialist countries.

The closest thing to a concrete demand came from Abdul Minty, of the Anti-Apartheid executive, and it expressed an attitude which is the opposite of proletarian internationalism.

"We need it!"

He protested against the Tory government's measures which will help to supply oil to South Africa when "the price is going up and we need all the oil we can get."

The chauvinism of this remark is typical also of the "disinvestment" campaign so beloved of the Labour 'lefts' and the CP.

The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe will not be materially assisted by moral sympathy for the petty bourgeois nationalist leaders or by chauvinist calls on the Tory government and appeals to the United Nations.

This is the politics of Anti-Apartheid and its Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee, which is backed by the Labour Party, the Communist Party, the SWP and the IMG.

Real solidarity requires concrete programme of independent labour movement blackand South Africa.

It requires also the building of a revolutionary socialist party in these countries to lead the fight for social revolution against both internal and external "settlements" the political leaders of the world's seven major imperialist powers last week exchanged notes on the mounting international What they could not offer each other was any serious hope of a way out of the insoluble contradictions of the capitalist crisis.

Instead the final communique spluttered its rage at the latest round of OPEC price increases and made a vain attempt to find a formula for a cutback in oil imports to 1978 levels.

Behind the blather about solar energy, "going nuclear" and "far reaching changes"

Warmonger Carter however each capitalist leader was well aware that the latest phase of the crisis will mean the devastation of whole areas of industry, huge new unemployment and plunging living standards in their own countries.

And the wholesale misery and suffering that will be caused by the crisis in the semi-colonial countries will trigger intensified struggles for national liberation, alongside the inevitable resistance of workers in the advanced capitalist countries.

Divisions and rivalries over oil quotas along national lines between capitalists-each seeking to maintain their own profits at the expense of their competitors-bring the prospect of all-out trade war, even while the US imperialists prepare for a 110,000 "unilateral strike

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ing of supplies to the racist regimes in Zimbabwe, Namibia