appointed administrators who have incurred resentment from workers. The right to strike has been curtailed by FRELIMO as have the activities of "workers commissions" which grew up after the Lisbon coup.
ELASTIC This situation, when taken in conjunction with the objective economic realities of present day Mozambique, can only lead one to the conciusion InarrKaLVU cas ane leader of the State') is defending a process of neo-colonialisation.
The bandying about of the term 'scientific socialism' FKELIMU congress Dy sucn wel. established bourgeois nationalists as Joshua Nkomo or tae calonc ron only displays the elasticity Marxist termino ooy mas acourca. cal tas same be said for the term *Marxist Leninist Vanguard Party ?
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RED WEEKLY 3 March 1977 Günter Minnerup is mistaken in Weekly.
February) auce on ocolland the demand Assemo y OUTI separation is consisient with the principle of self-determination for cotland, and ought to be demand put forward by Scottish waxiss in ne oresent situauon First of all the demand for an accepting Neil's position is quite logical, we cemane an assemoiy with Dowers to implement socialist Dolicies In present we fight Assembly to MansCEne Ine mee bowers will be granted;
powers will be posed concretely as consciousness which marks the nothing 'quasi-religious" in Neil's concem about ine unny or c artisa workine classi Unlike in Ireland the expansion of English capitalism into Scotland and Wales revolutionised the nauional sublar structure Two smaller countres ing class became tne strongest class in all three Wales than in England), and in the Drocess orednic tes oped by the workers of all three The unite stones the ing needs of the Scottish and Welsh workers. as mucn as me choisn . The economic and social struggles in the three nations are British state which gives them a There is areater decree or contro over nel own destiny while not breaking these links.
He is also correct (to a certain extent) tending to 'dissolve' the question or sell-determination concept of bourgeois democracy (rela- skirted round sion'.
national June bresent portical Britain is seen for nationhood ina tood me that 'diversions' question of a rather general exposition of This fails to completely answer of Labour the pattern of land are no different to those in regions, the national queston in ocollane is a diver Lister ignores the fact that the of Scot- Fortunately tish workers is a material factor in situation because ne economic crisis by them in its of granting the They be nave cortically in espose to ta relationsnio. leavino ine wor anc Consisics the SWP fuming impotently about interests The dogmatists do not undernot.
Slane ma une meeraton ortic Scottish working class into Lab ourist electoral politics combined nauional ane class consciousneos nat is way me electora streno in Scotland was very different from that in 1 England, and political develop ments has now diverged trom tha ot england. Arter te disastrou Governments of the sixties and seventies it is only logical to expect a decline in the nationa element or Labours support.
dovance bourgeois nationalist politics been only partial, and has been con mineo to me electoral arena. It is DossIoe Scottish people contain avoid it.
of legislative we are logical and saying Asseroy win rear gowers is i Scottish working class but separation is ine issue tor enolish socialIsts is somewhat different; the philistine Labour lefts' have just combined with most elements or rorism to cereat tne Government's MOTIOn this means that the Devolution Bill talked If it Proves impossible to get DevoluWestminste SINC oresent suboon or an assomory may well give way to mass sup port for separatior will of course be the duty of soclalisis in choland to dovocale Ine cont or colane t Secede. But that is not the situation now, and the main challenge we face on sides of the border is how to inat is why welcome Red weekly's serious treatment or the issue and am alarmed at the ignorance and insularity prevalent on the rest of the English left.
BOB PURDIE (Coventry)