TRIBUNE vs DWARF Dear Comrades:
OK so we smashed the Tribunites on Jan 24th. It was a nice, gratifying occasion, but I hope that having made our point we will no longer provide a platform to discredited social-democrats to mouth the stale, snide platitudes. Let's face it without the Dwarf they wouldn't have got a quarter of Friday night's audience, so let's forget them and move forward to setting up an alternative organisation. fraternally JOHN BARRETT S.E.7.
P.S. Incidentally I'm year old trade-unionist fed up with Tribunite crap which I've been reading for the last 30 Dear Comrades, I think it's time that a socialist view of the situation in Biafra was presented in your columns. I could easily write a long article about this, but let me just make a few points.
Have ound any revolutionary socialists quite astonishingly misinformed uninformed about blaira whe rightly question everything they see or read in the rotten mass media swallow whole all the Nigerian and British government. propaganda about Biafra which is churned out. And then, to my horror, they regurgitate in the exaci manner of the more stupid members of the bourgeoisie. For some reason they just don't want to know about Biafra. I wonder how many of your readers know the true facts about the 1966 events in Nigeria? How many of your readers have read the true and complete versions of Col. Ojukwu's statements about the nature of the Biafran revolution (which have never been reproduced in any public circulation paper in this country? How many of your readers realise the true part played by British and Russian imperialism in Nigeria?
Apart from anything else, Biafra should be studied in great depth by all revolutionary socialists because it is the first African revolution. (Katanga, wnica mcidenany can in no way be compared with Biafra, was, of course, an imperialist planned and financed affair). I want to quote the last part of a recent announcement by the Biafran government. I hope you, comrades, will end boycott Biafran information by publishing it: *Biafrans are fighting forces, the apostles of which are holding the instruments of oppression in order to exterminate us. We are fighting against the, most reactionary primitive institutions of Nigerian oligarchy. We are nightieconomic feudalism as practised by the Northern British colonialism economic imperislism. We are fighting against the of Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum and Unilever, organisations that aid the Gowon Military Junta. We are fighting against the most reactionary socialist doctines of the Soviet Union. We are fighting against the United States attempt destroy the dignity of the African man. We are fighting to uphold the ideals of freedom. Above al we are fighting to achieve humanity's most cherished ambitions - man's quest to live and survive as a biological species. We fight against genocide. Biafrans are the Number One Freedom Fighters in Africa. Biafrans are Ene only people in Africa fighting militarily to defeat American decadence and Anglo-Soviet revisionism in the connient.
If any comrade should find himself dismissing this (1 would guess on account of this ignorant prejudices, of which no socialist should ever allow themself to be accused then I suggest they get themself correctly informed about Biafra. If they don't know how to do this, I could help them.
vigel Wright Colville House:
London, W.1l.
SOCIALIST