Open letter to Anthony Greenwood

The following is the text of an Open Letter, published by ‘Humberside Voice' and Hull Youth Forum, and distributed at Anthony Greenwood's meeting during the recent Hull by-election. ir. Greenwood, While the Tories were in office, you participated in wany struggles against the official Labour Party policy. You spoke at public meetings against Britain's retaining the Hebomb, and for a foreign policy of friendship with the emerging ex-colonial countries. Now that we have a Labour Governnent, not only have you abandoned the fight for a socialist foreign policy and the end of Imerialism. Until recently, you were Colonial Secretary } Isn't this the negation of everything you previously stood for ? While you held this post, the Aden Constitution was suspended, robbing the workers in Aden of their trade union rights. The white supremist Rhodesian Front, under Ian Smith, was allowed to declare independence unilaterally, so that hopes of a peaceful transition to universal suffrage in Rhodesia recede even further. Socialists cannot excuse imperialism because it is administered by a Labour Government. We must make a stand for the rights of all workers everywhere to organise themselves in trade unions, and to democratically elect Govern~ ments in the ex-colonial countries to carry out the tasks of industrialisation and agrarian reform which are so necessary there.