Visit of US warship blocked more cropland, often overseas.
The family farmers' immediate financial plight must be relieved by halting foreclosures, by guaranteeing them at least the cost of production. Government aid must be concentrated on the small
A naval training exercise between the ANZUS powers - Australia, New farmer and the truly impoverished part-
Zealand, and the United States - has been cancelled following the withtime farmers who number nearly two
The exercise, Sea Eagle 1985, had been
No more million-dollar payoffs million.
scheduled to take place off the southeast coast of Australia in March.
Farm production must to agribusiness.
be planned to match market demand at home and the needs of hungry people
The small farmer's natural ally in the struggle for an effective farm program drawal of the United States.
Neil JARDEN
The Pentagon has also announced that it will conduct its next Pacific region tests of the MX missile without using bases in
Labour's antinuclear policy overturned.
This move was forcibly blocked by oppo
The move followed the ann- sition from the party's ranks and by the the American worker. Both are exploited by the food conglomerates who squeeze the farmer at one end and the consumer at the other. The wheat farmer gets only 11% out of a one dollar loaf of bread Consumers suffer far more from profitchains than by a rise in the prices paid to the farmer.
Farmers should get their message to organized labor and to consumer groups. Already many unions have joined the farmers in rallies and protest actions across the country. Together with millions of allies in the cities, the embattled farmers can hammer out a program that will benefit the real producers in the mines, mills and on the farms - the working people and the working farmers.
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ouncement by Australia's Labor Party premier Robert Hawke that antinuclear sentiment in the party would force him to reverse a prior agreement to allow use of the bases.
The US government's withdrawal from the ANZUS naval training exercise followed the refusal of the Labour government in New Zealand to allow a port visit by a US warship the USS Buchanan. The Labour government which is based on New Zealand's union and was elected last July, has said it will no longer allow nuclear-armed vessels to visit New Zealand
The government's stand has wide popular support among working people in
There has been an ever deepening opposition to visits by US nuclear-armed warships since they were resumed in the mid-1970s under the previous National Party government of Robert Muldoon. The National Party is New Zealand's main capitalist party.
Opposition to the entry of nuclear-armed vessels has been expressed in prowaterfront unions and workers against such visits, and by street
Since Labour came to office, peace organizations in New Zealand have mounted an extensive campaign to pressure the new government to maintain an antinuclear stand. While seeking to accommodate this pressure, Labour's officials have repeatedly stressed their continuing political and military commitment to the "Western Alliance" and to the ANZUS pact. No fundamental change in imperialism's policy
ANZUS is a military alliance, signed in 1951, that was sought with the United States by New Zealand's and Australia's imperialist rulers as a result of the replacement of Britain's world military predominance by that of the United States following World War Two.
From the beginning ANZUS has been an imperialist aimed primarily against the Soviet Union (plus China, Vietnam, and other emerging workers' states) and against the national liberation colonised peoples in the demonstrations involving tens of thou Pacific and Southeast Asia.
22 sands of people. The main union federindividual unions, and successive Labour Party conferences have adopted policies opposing the visits and
New Zealand's withdrawal from the Anzus alliance.
In addition, throughout the Pacific the past decade has seen a growing movement of the indigenous people of the region for the Pacific to be nuclear-free. It is in this region that are found most of the world's victims of nuclear weapons -from those who had atomic bombs dropped on them at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the people of the various Pacific islands and the aboriginal people of Australia, who have suffered the effects of US, French, and British nuclear weapons testing.
The stand taken by the New Zealand Labour government reflects the pressure of this sentiment. For example, in 1983, when Labour was in opposition, party
It is one of more than 100 military and intelligence treaties that link New Zealand, Australia and the United States as Britain and Canada), reflects the common interests that unite economically, politically and Zealand's special role ANZUS is policing the colonial island nations of the South Pacific. In return, New Zealand imperialism receives a range of special privileges from Washington from favoritism in trade to military equipment and assistance.
This is an arrangement that New Zealand's rulers do not want to give away lightly - especially as policing the South Pacific, for them, is not a burden, but something that enables them to secure there own economic domination over the region.
From the time of its preparation in the
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ment) till today, ANZUS has received full from New Zealand's military radio systems the reformist leadership of the Labour during the war.
support from both the National Party and Party.
The Labour government's refusal to allow the USS Buchanan to visit New Zealand represents no fundamental change in this imperialist foreign policy. Prior to declining the proposed visit of the USS Buchanan, David Lange had requested the US government to send an alternative vessel, a frigate, that Lange claimed had not yet been fitted with nuclear weapons. Such a visit, he said, would allow his government to demon-
"continuing commitment to the ANZUS alliance and their desire to work in the closest cooperation with their treaty partners.
Lange described the subsequent cancellation of the Sea Eagle naval maneuvers as for much of its south Atlantic navigation
The past decade has seen a major increase in the US military presence in the Pacific. This has been justified by propaganda claiming an presence" in the region.
In actual fact, the Soviet Union has no military bases in the Pacific outside its own territory. In contrast, Washington is reported to have 517 military bases and installations of various kinds in the region outside its own mainland.
The imperialist military build-up in the Pacific has been fully supported by both the National and Labour governments in New Zealand. New Zealand itself has established a rapid deployment force in Pacific Island "trouble spots"
During the recent upsurge in New Caledonia, Lange has said not a word in support of the Kanak people, but instead has backed the French government. And his government has refused to oppose the escalating US-led war against the workers amd farmers of
The cancellation of Sea Eagle 1985 has focused much media attention on the New Zealand government and its foreign
David Lange's refusal of port entry to the USS Buchanan has been hailed by leaders of the peace movement in New Zealand and internationally as a "courageous blow for world peace.
An editorial published in the February 15 issue of the New Zealand newspaper Socialist Action, which reflects the views of the Socialist Action League, puts forward a different view. It says: "The only
"regrettable".
New Zealand's warships military is structured, equipped and train- to fight against imperialist war policy, have been conducting such training exercises in the Pacific and elsewhere for over wars abroad, and it has imperialist twenty years with the US and nuclear-armed vessels.
In 1985 alone, New Zealand's armed forces are scheduled to take part in 22 ed to participate in Vietnam-style counterbeen used in this role in successive wars in Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietway working people can achieve peace is means, first and foremost, the war policies of their own
"It means demanding New Zealand troops out of Singapore; support for the
New Zealand's forces today serve with Kanak people's struggle in New Caledonia;
army, air and naval training exercises with the Pentagon, many of them involving the UN multinational force currently no support for the US government's war nuclear weapons.
Zealand government provides aid to the support for the British in the Malvinas;
It is this close military partnership, and the integrated character of the right-wing guerillas attacking Kampuchea freedom for East Timor and West Papua;
ANZUS forces in the Pacific region, that makes New Zealand itself a de facto ties with the Marcos dictatorship in the uata, Fiji, Samoa and other Pacific and nuclear power.
illustrated by recent revelations surrounding the sinking warship General during the British war to hold on to its
The British navy, itself nuclear armed, relied on signals
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And it maintains its own 1,000-strong military base in Singapore.
In its first budget, last November, the Labour Party government increased mili-
15%, while cutting spending in social welfare and almost all against the people of Central America; no real aid without strings attached to VanThird World nations: and so on."
For people here, this means "demanding an end to New Zealand's participation in ANZUS and all other imperialist military alliances, including all secret military and intelligence treaties."
SOUTH AFRICA.
In this dehumanizing system, all suffer. But the women undergo a triple oppression. Beyond the subjection to savage white racism and to exploitation as workers (one out of every three Black workers in South Africa is a woman),