RECOGNISE THE MPLA ing shot themselves.
Africans who have invaded the South of Angola.
science.
Make no mistake about who those mercenaries really represent.
onstrators in Derry in January 1972.
Regiment, the Commandoes and other true blue British regiments.
enemy.
soldier.
from these shores.
Angolans but us. * End all aid to the FNLA and UNITA! * Stop all arms supplies and mercenaries to Angola! * Labour must recognise the MPLA government now! Fourteen British mercenaries have been reported shot dead in Angola. This should come as no surprise to anyone. For centuries the British ruling class has been sending gangs of hired killers half way round the world. The only difference is that normally they are dressed in fancy clothes and called 'the British army'. The other difference is that it was normally they who were killing 'the natives' instead of beThe trouble for the British capitalist class is that 'the natives' have learnt to fight back. The MPLA and the Cubans have licked the FNLA and its American allies in Northern Angola. Now they will smash UNITA and the white "master race' of South It is only now, when they're losing, that the British capitalists discover their conShooting, pillaging, raping, looting is fine provided it's our side that's doing it. Where were the hysterical press reports, the tear-filled news programmes when 'our boys' were beheading guerillas in Malaya, torturing women in front of their husbands in Cyprus, slaughtering whole families in India and Kenya? Where is the condemnation today when British troops torture, blind and kill in the North of Ireland?
Even the maa colonel who is reported to have had them shot is a product of the British army in its proven testing ground of the North of Ireland - in fact he was a member of the infamous First Parachute regiment which shot down thirteen unarmed civilian demThe scum who comprise the rest of the mercenaries are products of such institutions as the Special Air Service, the Paratroop Recent revelations show many were still members of the army when they became mercenaries.
The MPLA in Angola who are fighting the British mercenaries are fighting our Every blow they strike weakens not only their imperialist oppressor but the exploiters of the British working class. Every unknown MPLA soldier who fights the British troops in Angola fights not only for himself and his oppressed nation but also for us just as every IRA soldier strikes at our enemy when he shoots a British Our task is not to weep over the possible death of the murdering seum who come Our task is to aid the fighters of the MPLA. Every mercenary who is stopped from going, every drop of aid to the imperialist stooges in Angola which is prevented, every move to recognise the MPLA government aids not only the FRANK STAGG is dying. The British FREE Government is letting him die. They refuse his request for a transfer to Northern Ireland. They say that he is not FRANK entitled to it because his home is not in Ireland. But even if it was, they would STAGG! still reruse nis recuest What is at stake is not where Frank Stagg rots, but the fact that a transfer would aive him the status of a political prisoner. This would destroy the Labour Government's claim that the IRA are gangsters and that the army act as police men. They are policemen-but the policemen of a foreign power in a foreign country. The Labour Government will never admit this unless it is forced to.
The pickets who gathered outside Jenkins' house were not there for his benefit, but to demonstrate their solida rity. We endorse their demands. Grant political status-save Frank Stagg's life.
2 Jobs/Fund Drive Red Weekly 12 February 1976 This sort of tactic is used by the Murrays base and draw attention to the Assembly.
The Communist Party's witch-hunting
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