Fwd (GLW): ZIMBABWE: Socialists given a rousing welcome

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Green Left Weekly, May 15, 2002.

ZIMBABWE: Socialists given a rousing welcome
BY ROSA ZULU

HARARE - More 6000 workers gathered for the May 1 rally in the Gwanzura
stadium here enthusiastically supported socialist MP Munyaradzi Gwisai's
criticism of the participation of the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) in talks with the ruling ZANU-PF. Gwisai is a leading member of
the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe (ISOZ).

The ISOZ is successfully mobilising opposition to the MDC's conciliation
with the government of President Robert Mugabe, both within and outside the
MDC.

The talks, mediated by representatives of the governments of Nigeria and
South Africa, resume on May 13.

An open letter from the ISOZ was sent to the MDC leadership on April 8. It
demanded that the MDC abandon "unity" talks with the Zimbabwe African
National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and instead mobilise its supporters
in a campaign of mass action to remove Mugabe. The letter received
widespread media coverage.

In response, the MDC leadership on April 17 declared that the ISO is not a
component of the MDC and demanded that Gwisai resign within seven days or be
expelled. The ISOZ said it would remain in the MDC and attempt to convince
working-class MDC members of the need for militant action to remove Mugabe.
The MDC youth wing has joined the ISO in opposing a resumption of talks.

< The remainder of the article can be found at
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