SDITORIAL NOTIS
ritish seg ses s must do ail in thoir powor to ensure thet the rovo lutions ry devolopments in ZanZgivar are aliowod to follow thoir natural courso without any kind of British intorvention (iailitery, diplomatic or economic). Any such measures must be vohemently opposade
The cause of the Rovolutionary Government is ominontly just. The leading coalition party, tho Afro~Shirz Party, obtained 549% of the votes at the last olection. Cnly the Prousar constitucncy distrib ution, rigged by the Colonial Cffice, prevented its pooceful assumption of power. Tho Sultants party, based on 2 rural social order, only one step away from slavery, where flogging is still tho punishment fcr any infringoment of landlord rights, recently domonstrated its antidonocratic nature by banning the Umma (Pooplets) the other momber of tho revolutionary conlition, Abdul Rehman Mahomed (Tam), the leader of the one Farty, was imprisoned by the Colonial CfYPices with the connivance cf the Sultan, until shortly before the olections.e The electoral majority of tha new reveoluticnary conlition would have been even larger had the Umma Party been abla to contest the elections. both ruling partios arc committed to programmes of militant socialisn and antiminporinlicme
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From all s@ounts eho: Zanzibar rovolution was classic in conception and oxvcution, FPirst, a poriod of intonsive political organisation onda emcation followed by armed insurrection based on mass popular support in face of this, the Sultan, despite his ugyptian police and 150 armed | henchmen, fled the island which his cynasty has oppr °SSa for centurics (with the active collusion of British imporialism during the rocent poriod. )
Later issues of The Weok will carry on the spot reports from revolutionary Zanzibar.