NEW CALEDONIA For self determination for the Kanak people
The Kanak people's struggle for independence has speeded up greatly in the last few years. The founding congress of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front in 1984 was, in this context, a further step forward in the radicalisation of the struggle of the oppressed Kanak masses. The electoral boycott of November 18 last year then demonstrated a new relationship of forces on the ground and at first forced the French imperialist government of Francois Mitterrand to make certain verbal concessions. However, this latter is still committed to finding a neo-colonial solution that would deny the Kanak people's rights to self determination and guarantee the preservation of the interests of French imperialism and the white settlers.
It is in this perspective that the Pisani plan was developed. This desire of French imperialism has led it to increase repressive actions against the Kanak population and the activists of the FLNKS (the murder of Eloi Machoro and of Marcel Nonarro, disarming the Kanaks, house to house searches among the
This stepping up of brutal colonial repression has also been signalled by the installation of a state of emergency, the application of which is in general oriented to stopping the mobilisations of the Kanak independence forces and sending new military reinforcements.
International solidarity is more than ever an important factor in achieving a change in the relationship of forces in favour of the Kanak people.
The Fourth International calls for the building of a mass movement of solidarity with the struggle of the Kanak people for independence. can be undertaken: petitions; delegations to French embassies; united demonstrations; official statements of the workers' and democratic movements; a campaign to denounce French colonial and military policy in the Pacific....
We call for the immediate withdrawal of French occupation forces and support for the FLNKS demand for complete and immediate independence of the Kanaks. No to the continuing colonial war! Stop the repression! Victory to the Kanak people! International Solidarity with the struggle of the FLNKS and the Kanak people for independence!
Tjibaou — president of the provisional government of Kanaky (DR)