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It of course ignores the fact leadership emerge in the Labour Party.

The leader of this party Sonny Leon opposes apartheid but rejects even the slogan "one man, one vote". . His belief in a franchise based on "cultural criteria" is a concession : to the racist government's policy of driving a wedge between the black and coloured The coloured revolt in the Cape has completely dislodged that wedge at a single blow.

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The political strength of the whole movement has been shown by the protests against Kissinger's talks with Vorster.

There are no illusions that the arch-imperialist has come, as he claims, to bring peace and justice to Southern Africa.

On thé contrary, the black workers and students, who knowingly risk death in demonstrating, realise that Kissinger's objective is to make Southern Africa stable and safe for racist rule on which capitalism in South Africa LEAGUE PUBLIC MEETING Wage Control and Union Democracy Wednesday 13th October 8 .00 pm.

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The compromising petty-bourgeois leaders of states like Zambia and Tanzania, for all their occasional radical words, know that their rule also will be threatened if a revolution takes place in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

It is for this reason that these leaders have put so much pressure on the different Zimbabwean groups to unify.

They see such unity as the necessary basis for a negotiated compromise with the Smith racists rather than an independent revolutionary struggle.

Although the whole anti-racist movement in Southern Africa is still dangerously lacking a principled leadership, the phenomenal courage and militancy of the mass struggle is every day making the shoddy and unprincipled compromise which Kissinger and Kaunda want more difficult to achieve.

At a pessimistic press conference after their discussions last week both Kaunda and Kissinger were said to be crying with emotion. They were real tears of fear.

In the last issue of the paper we inadvertently stated that Tony Kelly would be speaking at a meeting organised by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement in Hackney on September 28th. He will in fact be speaking at the meeting in Central London on October 8th and will of course be doing so in a personal capacity. chair in the confrontation with the seamen, follows from their involvement in the Ryder plan, in the same way that their betrayal of the seamen is part and parcel of the social contract. This is called class collaboration.

But the collaborators' problem is the open way in which the class struggle is now reasserting itself -through the seamen's vote, the spate of strikes in Leyland and now the fringe benefit claims.

They now have to police the working class under conditions where the 42% has already received a blow, and their flimsy economic arguments are disintegrating.

Every worker can see that despite all the cringing, wage-cutting polices of the TUC, inflation has escalated. Recent figures explode the myth, peddled by the TUC that wages are responsible for inflation.

But the working class must be warned.

To open up a crack in the social contract Is not enough. The standard of living cannot be defended through fringe benefits. The main question of wage rates must be tackled and the social contract destroyed.

The reason for the attacks on Leyland workers in Cowley is because • the bureaucracy know there is a force there fighting for programme and principled leaderCAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT PUBLIC MEETING Wage Control and Union Democracy Friday 8th October 7.30 pm.

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