HANDS OFF SOUTHERN ARABIA!
[The following appeal has been issued by the editorial board of The Arab Revolution, an Arabic magazine. ]
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The most brutal and inhuman war going on in Aden for the past few weeks, which has included deporting, starving, bombing villages and killing innocent women and children, etc., has been carried out by the British Army against the people of Radfan to enforce the reactionary, imperialistic policy of the Conservative party. it is a pity that the leaders of the Labour party support these barbaric and savage military operations.
For so many years the people of the occupied Southern Yemen (Aden and protectorate Sultanates) struggled for their independence under the leadership of the Aden Trade Union Congress, and lately the People's Socialist party, suffering imprisonment, torture, deportation and political assassination. At the same time the British government supported the most corrupt element, the feudalists and the sultans, forming the superficial Southern Arabian Federation against the will of the people, to keep and strengthen its rule and the rule of its allies, .
The British government organized the so-called Southern Arabian Conference on the 9th June in London, in the hope that it would reduce tension in Aden, but the conference represents one side only ~- the British government , its agents, puppets and fol» lowers ef the corrupt sultans and feudalists, This superficial "puppets conference" does not represent the people of occupicd Southern Yemen because the forces of the people with the biggest mass following in the Southern Yeinen, the Aden .Trade Union Congress and the People's Socialist party and the-rest of the national groupings did not take part in the conforence. Who are the real represontatives in this conference? -The British government only and
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We appeal to all our friends, freedom- and. peace-loving people, to the rank and file of the Labour party, trade unions and all progressive elements to give their support and solidarity to the heroic struggle of the people of occupied Southern Yemen under the leadership of the Peoplets Socialist party and the Aden Trade’ Unions and to protest to the British government and demand -- |
(1) An immediate stop to the brutal war in Aden.
(2) . The withdrawal: of all military forces.
(3) Immediate negotiations with the representatives of
the people of Aden, at its head the People's
Socialist party for the right of self~determination
and independence for Southern Arabia,
The people of occupied Southern Yemen demand their rig Bhs and, in order for us to succeed, give us your support.
- PAULING