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Letters In Defence of FRELIMO

Red Weekly No. 192, 24 March 1977 · p. 8 of the scan · 787 words

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revolutonary a long anti-colonial war declares itself in avour or scientine socials ang ine cictatorsnio orine oroletariat. when it carefully distinguishes and when it announces is uanstormalon ne a marxist-Leninist vanquare one would expect British consider great care and detail the activities or inal movement perore adopting a position or nostility Not so with Red Weekly.

(aranja on the recent congress of Encuimo was an doodine exam•e or contemorior a revo unionary process about which both authors quote ally Congress cocuments. siatementatrom leader, a few statements cobbled of them goney onio inaccuralei. ane ten usea to laoel ine mozambican government as neo-colonialist this is not s As for the specific allegations that the Mozambican economy is integrated that Africa and of the imperialist world in general: what Lewis and KaranПОТ DOLL •HELIMO Is perrectly well aware of this, and that its economic Links of dependence. Hence Idio Damora macner ar ine conoress onay industry consults toe endence. It allows a break from our meeration in une impendus! system Contrary to the molication in your article Rhodesian RELIMO closed the border with nodesia eary in isro. impound-Knodesian Mozambique, and has been vigorcost, since the Smith forces have not nestated to invade Dique. cestrovinc Mozambican villages, burning crops and wreckOne the reasons why the handling anion percentace Mozambique's total earnings lies in period uramatic snarpenny or the class suruggle as ronucuese capitalisis sapotaced and abandoned them factories. machinery was wrecksequently Given this breakdown in exporting incustries. is nor suronisino inat percentage Mozambican earnings represented by trade with Mozambique's tions with Africa determineo nor oy •me desires of FRELIMO, but by the situation wildly Frelimo guerrillas that was inherited from colonialunal ISIT instance wants to end the miorant abour thousands African mines: but it cannot Is unuloos have in mozamoique tor inose workers to return to. Part of the development of industry needed in order FRELIMO to wrear ine boull Aincar may be provided German and US firms surveying for coal and oil, to which Lewis and Karanja take such exception been created that FRELIMO does specialists in coal and oil technology and geology, the west wvestern prejudice the that will character of state control it can exercise over bally possess capilal.

participation Karania FRELIMO otner workers aDoroval writere revoluton are •companies ПО bullding of SOCIET Mallo deniel -Dy Said boisneviks to arract torelon iyoung CEnt sovie about the exclusion of th or ine population Tom внеси. they DOTTES into the realms For tota has natonaisee TIMs Here Swna HaY -relation:

remainee intact and impeded CeCTS need was clearly Snow to are Habour relations ano accelerate the vVe mentioner Lewis alli These are COUnCHS Neitne do your mention 'Grupos (Dynamisin and UTTE "Grupos the inaustrid VVe oiaven a kev role in keewine many abandoned firms in production JILL Lewis and Karanja drive towards COTH muna villaces desicnea to come ine backwaroness of trad tional farming and the extreme Cine aberator women - me campaigns leaD FRELIMO and the COMMOTI anisation of Mozambican Women' bride-pric and the like. Nothing is said abou une coucationa SOrO crammes o-KeLM fion is made of the detailed plans development Is povious mat, erner intoug! arrogance or inability to read FRELIMO cocuments on ar of these ds e necessar • cocuments are in our office: your writers are quite welcome to come and look at them We do no expect the IMG to agree with all FRELIMO's policies noweve Toereve •ina criticism should be informed and Accusations are simply absurd. in what way doe -MozamDICUE Say Kenya. • Senegal -or the vor admit tha Mozambique looks vermeren maependent aincan states Finally a translation FRELIMO Central Committee in whole will soon be avallable fallond consideraton or in neo week.!

SHEPPARI [Secretary Mozambique Angola and Guiné Information Centre • We apologise both to comrades Lewis and Karanja and our readers for bad editing which removed a article •wncn consoeraory cranfied the argument. o avoie ine we are printing despite its length Mike Lewis and will be replying Narallic nexrweek - COO

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