dn appeal reveived this week by the Bulletin,
11 comrades are asked to respond as thoy can to the following appeal just recoived"from tho youth of Zanzibar, Tho unjugt persecution by the British colonial police of the Zanzibar progressive papurs, the news bulletin "Zanews" and the organ of the Federation of Progressive Trade Unions the "Worker", has evoked our strongest protest against the ruthless action of the British colonialists in Zanzibar. This illegal action is yet another British colonial suppression of our demand for immediate independence and yet another colonialist persecution of our country's militant freedom fighters.
" To this end the Youth's Own Union condemns in the strongest terms this most brutal act of forces by the British colonjal police in Zanzibar, who have turned Zanzibar into a police state of terror, persocution and suppression of our peoples Tho British colonial police have in vain attempted to level five false charges of "a doPiiatory libel" and three false charges of"sedition" against the acting publisher of "Zanews" Comrade Said Salim, who is the organising secretary of the Youths Own) Union. They have also levelled three frame-up charges of "sedition" against the editor of “Worker" Comrade A. Qulatin, ‘
"In defiance of the peoples! opposition and world public opinion, the British colonialists detained for months without trial fifteen fighters including our nationalist heroic leader Abdul Rahman iiuhhammed, well known as Babu, The British imperialists are still persecuting him in their prison after having imprisoned him on.a frame-up charge of "sedition" for fifteon long months since June. They now turn to other pretexts under which they can step up their persecution of other militant patriots. They hope in this way to put an end to the most persistently anti-imperialist front and also to the most outspoken of their opponents in the ranks of the opposition press.
"We aro convinced that the struggle for freedom of the press of "Zanews™ and "Worker" is a component part of tho strugzle of the people including the youth and workers of Zanzibar for our national liberation from British colonialism and imperialism, The imperialists hate the sight of tho resolutely uncompromising — papers because the people of Zanzibar look upon them as their voices, and because they stand against colonialism and for national unity and independence, for peace, against war and imperialism, that is, they advocate the policy of positive neutrality and nomalignment closely upheld by all the froedom and peace loving people of Zanzibar.
"The Youths Own Union strongly insists that Zanews and Worker must exist and must continue to speak for the colonially subjugated people including workers’ and youth of Zanzibar, and strongly condomn the barbaric persecution of the acting publisher of Zanews and tho editor of Worker, whose only crime is they oppose colonialism and demand complete independence for their mother country. We there= fore urge you to extend your support condemning the prosecution and the subsequent ban of Zanows and Worker and imprisonment of Vomrades Abdulla and A. Qulatein.
"lfessages of solidarity should be sent to the Youth's Own Union, P.O. Box 1188, Zanzibar and the Fedoration of Progressive Trades Unions, P.O. Box 1233, Zanzibar, Bast Africa.