Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

DSU Believes

1. That Britain bears a unique responsibility to ensure that the people of Zimbabwe are able to achieve their liberation.
2. Successive British Governments have refused to take effective action to remove the Smith regime since it declared U.D.I. in 1965
3. That the people of Zimbabwe, having been denied all basic political and economic rights and with all means of non-violent change having been crushed, had no alternative but to embark on an armed struggle if Zimbabwe was to be freed. It is this struggle which has created the current crisis for the illegal regime.

DSU Condemns

1. The "Internal Settlement" and the April 1979 elections as a confidence trick which keeps all the crucial sectors of the state firmly in white control.
2. The Muzorewa regime, which is aligned economically and militarily to South Africa and which has intensified aggression towards the African front-line states.

DSU Rejects

The lifting of sanctions against the regime and any attempts by the British Government to recognise the Rhodesian regime.

DSU Supports

1. The front-line states in their commitment to the liberation of Southern Africa.
2. The Patriotic Front, as the only force capable of creating the conditions under which in a non-racial and democratic Zimbabwe the people can determine their own future.
3. The Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee, ZECC, a broad-based campaign of over 50 political parties, Trade Unions, anti-racist, youth and student organisations, set up by the Anti-Apartheid Movement to mobilise opposition to any sell-out of the people of Zimbabwe.
4. The demands of ZECC
   1. No collaboration with the Salisbury regime and no recognition in any form.
   2. No lifting of sanctions but their extension to include South Africa
   3. Support for the Patriotic Front

DSU Instructs

Exec: Support the various activities of ZECC - demonstrations rallies etc.

Exec: To campaign for the campaign demands of ZECC

Proposed and Seconded: External Affairs Committee

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