PRISONERS
News has recently reached the West that in the spring of 1974 Ukrainian women political prisoners in Mordovian concentration camp no. 19 launched an action in solidarity with
Chilean political prisonen. The women — Nadia Svitlychna, Iryna Staciw, Nina Strokata, and Stefania Shabatura — requested that their meager camp wages to bent to a fund to aid
Chilean political prisoners. The camp administration refused this request.
The women were arrested in 1972 and sentenced to prison terms averaging five years each for opposition activity in deferise of national and democratic rights in Ukraine.
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which have adhered consistently to immediate majority rule and none of which command the effective fighting force in the field that ZANU does. Thus, the Zambian government has played right into Smith's hands by striking yet another blow at ZANU. Of course, Lusaka's action to cripple ZANU is a logical part of the whole strategy that Kaunda's government has been pursuing for the past six months in its attempts to further "détente" with South Africa. A settlement of the Rhodesia question has been the linchpin of this effort. Without this it would be quite impossible to maintain the myth that Zambia - The tude ok Bea athand the liberation movements were launched last December with this end in view. At the talks the Rhodesian representatives supposedly made a commitment to hold a constitutional conference with full representation before the end of March 1975. Its function was to lay out the steps towards majority rule. Smith was also supposed to have undertaken to release the approximately 400 political detainees in his prisons. Of course, nothing has been done towards these ends, except the release of about sixty prisoners.
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In this situation it was fast becoming clear that the militants of ZANU had been correct when they said that the moves toward "détente" were simply a cover for the indefinite perpetuation of white rule. By making this frontal attack on the organization, Kaunda obvious ly hopes to persuade Smith that Zambia is carrying out its part of the bargain. In this way Smith can perhaps be persuaded to make some concessions to the "moderate" (that is, "sellout") sections of the ANC; this can then be sold to the world as a victory for "détente." In face of these manevers by one of the cleverest of Africa's neocolonial operators, the task of the international revolutionary movement is clearly to demand: *Immediate release of all imprisoned ZANU militants in Zambia; *Escalation of support to the ZANLA fighters; *Complete end to any contacts and negotiations by any African state with the racist regimes of southern Africa; *Recognition that the only authority to negotiate the Future of Zimbabwe rests with the representafives of the people of Zimbabwe themselves. March 29, 1975 Société Internationale d'Edition Departement d'Europe Orientale