five Swedish Africa Groups they have assisted in the printing of primary school
text books for Guine and raised some
funds and sent clothing. Similarly, the
Finnish TRICONT group collaborated in
the schools campaign that financed the
Mozambique Institute publishing house,
which is just starting to print our school
text books. Of the groups that work
through established organisations in their
countries the Belgian Comite de Soutien
a la lutte contre le colonialisme et l'apart-
heid has been active among the Belgian
trade unions and the British Committee
for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and
Guine was instrumental in obtaining a
£ 30,000 grant for the Mozambique Institute from a British trust. As one of its
future work priorities, the Norwegian
Council for Southern Africa is to campaign
for full aid to the liberated areas.
Education and publicity are a prime preoccupation of most of the organisations
by means of articles and books, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, lectures, plays, study
groups etc., disseminating information
wherever and when ever they can. In addition to the well-known pamphlet, 'Portugal and NATO', and its own 'Angola
Bulletin', the Angola Committee has started to produce a fortnightly 'Facts and
Reports', consisting of clippings from a
wide range of newspapers and magazines.
Other regular bulletins include 'Guerril-
heiro' from Britain, 'Bulletin d'lnforma-
tion' from France, 'Afrique Australe'
from France, and 'Sodra Afrika Bulletinen'
from Sweden. In addition, the Dutch and
the Swiss have both published pamphlets
on Cahora Bassa, the Berlin Projectgruppe
Afrika (formerly INFI) has published a
book entitled 'The Revolutionary War of
Liberation in Angola, Guine-Bissau and
Mozambique' and a book of photographs
of MPLA has been published by ARMAL
in Italy. Other means of disseminating
information have been through the establishment of information centres and the
distribution of films. Aktion Dritte Welt
are trying to establish an information
centre on Southern Africa in Bonn and
the Danish Action Committee for Angola
Mozambique and Guine, in conjunction
with the Danish Vietnam Committee,
have established a publishing house, film
distribution centre, and international information centre which handles all materials and articles relevant to the anti-imperialist struggle. Many of the groups
have sent their own members to the
liberated areas to obtain information at
first hand: the Dutch and British in
Mozambique, the Swedes and French in
Guine, and the Finns and Italians in
Angola. The British Committee, in conjunction with the Anti-Apartheid Organisation and a group of teachers are taking
a new approach to the 'Information centre' by producing an 'educational kit'
comprising fact sheets, slides, maps, statistics, pictures, tapes, etc. for teachers of
secondary school pupils.
Another important responsibility in the
field of education, according to many of
the groups, is their own political education
appraisal of their activities, and study of
the situation in the Portuguese colonies.
This has been the subject of particular
debate among the Swedish Africa groups
who stress that 'support work' is just one
part of their work as anti-imperialist
groups. Similar work is being done by
the people in Berlin, who have held teach-
ins on West German imperialism and
written articles on Cahora Bassa for workers' newspapers in the AEG and Siemans
factories. As a result of their experiences
they state that only the political mobilisation of the workers in industrialised
countries will force international capital
and support out of the Portuguese colonies and thus give really effective support
to the people there. They therefore intend to form a broad-based solidarity
committee for the support of the liberation movements in Africa, in close collaboration with the 'Committee for the
Struggle Against Imperialism' recently
formed to West Berlin to organise anti-
imperialist activity among the intellectuals
and students in the city. Its overall guide
lines will be that of anti-imperialist activity as part of the revolutionary strategy
of the working class.
NATO
A campaign against NATO is planned for
Norway and Holland, the specific target
at the moment is the supply of Fokker
planes to Portugal. Although civil air:
craft they are known to be used for military purposes. Another activity at the
moment is that of helping Portuguese deserters, who now arrive in Holland at the
rate of about 20 per month (this is expected to increase during the summer).
In the Spring of 1970 an assistance
bureau for Portuguese deserters was established by various church and refugee organisations. The Swedish groups have
also been helping the six deserters   there.
But of course the biggest campaign on
which most of the organisations have
been concerned has been that against
Cahora Bassa. The main events are summarised below.
West Germany. Most of the members of
the Heidelberg Komitee Sudliches Afrika
formerly belonged to the radical student
organisation SDS, whose campaign against
German participation led to a large demon
stration in Heidelberg culminating in the
banning of SDS there. Recent activities
have included teach-ins at the university
and open discussions with representatives
of the firms involved, and of the German
Ministry of Economic Co-operation.
In Berlin, solidarity demonstration against
the banning of the Heidelberg SDS took
up the issue of West Germany's involvements in Cahora Bassa and in November
held a teach-in on Cahora Bassa, West German imperialism and the liberation war in
Mozambique. The second edition of their
book contains a new preface on developments since 1969, dealing particularly
with this subject.
The Frankfurt Cahora Bassa Group was
formed specifically to agitate within the
firms participating. However, their activities have now spread to wider issues of
German support through other private
investment and NATO, and they are currently investigating whether the chemical
weapons used by Portugal originate from
West Germany.
Switzerland. After stimulating action in
Parliament by an MP, the Berne group
distributed a lengthy paper on Cahora
Bassa in parliament, to the government
administration, churches and press. They
had a large public meeting attended by
about 1,000 people in Baden, headquarters of the Swiss Brown Boveri Co., in
which they had a direct confrontation
with the directors of the company.
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