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issues issues Two Iranian students in this country, Mahmoud Tournen and Manammad-Keza roorian are currently under threat of deportation to the ¡ails and torture chambers of their own country.

They were both arrested by the police during a demonstration against executions in Spain.

Mahommad-Reza Poorian has been imprisoned for six months, allegedly for assaulting a policeman.

Much worse,. however, both students were threatened with deportation.

When the case for deportation of Mahmoud Tourneh came up on April 22nd, even the judge felt he could not recommend such an extreme step and left it to the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins.

The Labour movement must immediately demand that these students should be allowed to stay in Britain.

They will certainly face many years of torture and imprisonment if they are compelled to return to Iran, as do all politically active Iranians discovered by the regime and SAVAK, its notorious secret police force.

Efforts on behalf of these students should be linked with the ending of all links with the barborous regime of the Shah. It is bad enough to see the Queen Mother accompanying the Empress Farah around the World of Islam Festival in London, but all the visits. by Peter Shore, Barbata Castle, Lord Briginshaw and other prominent Labour leaders to Iran are a disgrace to the working class movement.

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Henry Kissinger's visit to Southern Africa last week marks a fundamental change in the policy of US imperialism in Africa.

In 1970 it was Kissinger himself who authored the notorious "Tar Baby" policy. In it the US govern•..racial problems of Southern Africa will become more acute perhaps leading to major violence and the greater involvement of the Communist power"

But it went on to say:

...whites are here to stay and the only way constructive change can come is through them. There is no hope for the blacks to gain the political rights they seek through violence which will only lead to chaos and increased opportunities for the communists"

SALE

The outcome of this cynical policy was the sale by the United states i military equipanent to equipment to Vorster's white racist regime in South Africa and the Byrd amendment in the US Congress which allows the US, in contravention of United Nations sanctions, to import chrome from Rhodesia.

Speaking, however, in Lusaka (Zambia) last week Kissinger announced the inauguration of a "new era in American policy" in which he bluntly warned White £1.15 £2.30 £4.60 £1.50 £3.00 56.00 ›cialist ANGES Rhodesians that:

....Smith and his colleagues must hand over power to the majority. This is America's challenge noW"

He promised "aid to a newly independent Zimbabwe" He concluded by appealing to South Africa to "heed the warning signal of the past two years"

WARNING

The warning signal that Kissinger himself has been contemplating is of course the forward movement of the masses in Southern Africa reflected in the MPLA victory in Angola, and . the growing mass support for the war for the liberation of Zimbabwe. Support for this is spreading like wildfire into South Africa itself.

The imperialist powers are concerned at all costs to defuse this situațion by forcing Smith out as quickly los possibre, therebich the ing a long war. which The consciousness of black workers and peasants would rise.

Some of Kissinger's proposals are clearly out of date: in offering the assistance of US diplomacy for negotiated settlement in Zimbabwe, for example. Negotiated settlement is no longer an aiternative to war.

LEADERS

those African leader like NKOI und Kaunda who ovi the last years have fallen ›ver themselves to hold back the war in favour of 'negotiations' which simply allowed Smith to play for time, now realise this.

What the new American policy in Southern Africa theretore in practice amounts to is to strengthen the hands of the opportunists like Kaunda. The object is to ensure that even though guerilla war is necessary to force Smith out, the Zimbabwean forces will remain firmly under the control of the right-wing led by Kaunda, (who claimed to be "emotionally charged" by . Kissinger's Lusaka speech) and Nkomo.

DETENTE

Both these 'leaders' are in favour of continuing the policy of detente with white racism in South Africa. The US will undoubtedly act in accordance with such criteria in its channelling of any 'aid'.

From this perspective the continuing divisions within the Zimbabwean liberation movement assume crucial importance. Kaunda, Kissinger together with Presidents Nyere of Tanzania and Machel of Mozambique set up a few months ago an eighteen-man guerilla High Command in Mozambique under their own tripartite control, and not under the control of the political leadership of the liberation movement, the ANC.

It was put about that this arrangement was necessary purely because the Sithole faction and the right-wing Nkomo faction of the ANC could not resolve their differènces and therefore both were being excluded from participation.

However, according to a report reaching the Guardian on Apri 18th, the three Presidents in their impartial wisdom flew Nkomo out to one of the main guerilla bases in Mozambique in early April ....where arrangements were made to present him [Nkomo] to some 16,000 guerillas as their natural leader. The guerillas were said to have refused such leadership"

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