ARAB MAGAZINE APPEALS TO BRITISH PROGRESSIVES from a Liverpool reader
The following appeal has been issued by the editorial board of Arab Revolution, a magazine published in Arabic by marxist s udentss
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 ageinst the people of Radfan to enforce the reactionary, imperialist policy of the Conservative Party, It is a pity that the leaders of the Labour Party support these bardaric and savage military operations. For so many years the people of the occupied Southern Yemen (Aden and protectorate Sit tamatan! 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 elements, 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 organised 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 followers of the sorrupt Sultans and feudalists. This superficial "puppets conference" does not represent the people of coccupied Southern Yemen because the forces of the peoples with the biggest mass following in the Southern Yemen, the Aden T.U.C. and the People's Socialist Party and the rest of the national groupings did not take part in the conference. Who are the real representatives in this caference? The British Government only and its supporters,
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 P.S.P. and the Aden T,U.C. 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 nezotiations with the representatives of the people of Aden, at its head the P.S.P., for the right of self-determination and independence for Southern Arabia,
The people of occupied Southern Yemen demand their rights and in order for us to succeed give us your help,