Editorial

This issue of the journal marks the return of 'Africa in Struggle' after a considerable absence. We would like to apologise to our readers and offer an explanation. Our aim in producing 'Africa in Struggle' has been stimulate to tral questions facing revolutionary marxists in Africa today. ial board a vigorous place over the past year as to how AIS could best assist in the opening up of such a discussion. essential to be clear on the direction of the journal, and it is for this reason that production has for so long been delayed. We consider that an indipensable contribution to the process of political clarification will be the promotion of a broadly based journal representing a wide body of revolutionary opinion in Africa today. We feel that the promotion of such a journal will be the product of an extensive debate amongst African revolutionaries. We believe that 'Africa in Struggle' has an important role to play in engendering such a discussion, and it is to this goal that the efforts of 'Africa in Struggle' will be dedicated. We expect in future numbers to widen the spectrun of opinion represented on the editorial board. We hope that such a change will encourage a wider body of participants to the journal. forward to a free and open discussion within the journal giving our readers a CONTENTS Zaire ..... Zimbabwe ......... Tanzanian students expelled .... africa in struggle editorial frank debate. a debate on the cenaries. Within the editordebate has taken babwe. We felt that it was ry. revolution. open a much needec We look fricr. Black Consciousness in South Africa .. 00.... Ngugi - popular voice silenced ..... Ethiopia: national and international questions African Students Union Conference Report ..... Debate: Programme for South African Revolution first taste of what can be achieved by We feel that these experiences will give comrades renewed confidence to exchange ideas and hence by clarifying many key problems stengtnen and develop the unity of African revolution- Perhaps the need for political clarity as a basis for a united struggle is nowhere better illustrated than in Zim- In this issue of the journal we publish an analysis of the 'internal settlement' which raises very many problems for revolutionaries in that countwe conclude our debate with the Unity Movement over the nature of south African society and the tasks of the in this number we ALSO, discussion within the journal on the nature of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. Illustrating in a very pronounced way problems which beset countries already mentioned is the article on Ethiopia, developing in a particularly clear way the meaning of the national question for African revolutionaries. Finally we print several articles concerned with solidarity actions in support of the harsh repressions in East Africa, and a report of the annual conference of the 1 frican students Union, together with the call made by the ASU for a demonstration to commemorate Soweto. ie to co to rene ve leer of the iperinliot intorvention in tire, and re include a note on the = ignificaneo ci thic event for PAGE 3 12 16 18 24 .. 27