British Labour government is following a colonial policy lifted from the Tory book with not a comma altered. A perfect example is provided by the case of Aden,
On September 25 the imperialist metropolis dismissed Chief Minister Abdul Qawee Mackawee, suspended Aden's Legislative Council and turned Aden formally back into a British Crown Colony ruled directly by High Commissioner Sir Richard Turnbull.
The reason for the move was indicated by Dana Adams Schmidt in a London dispatch to the September 27 New York Times: "The move had been under consideration since Mr. Mackawee and a trade-union leader Abdullah Asnag, deliberately brought about the failure of a conference that met in London early last month to prepare a constitutional conference."
The constitutional conference, however, was a gimmick fostered by Arthur Greenwood, a member of Wilson's cabinet, which met with virtually solid opposition among the Adenis. It would have bound Aden to the South Arabian Federation, a creation of the British imperialists. The Adenis consider themselves part of Yemen. A union between Aden and Yemen would lead to the liberation of the whole of Southern Arabia.
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In conjunction with the decision to revert to direct imperialist rule over the colony, the British Labour government moved another piece on the international chessboard. It sent Minister of State George Thomson to Cairo to see President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The obvious hope was to get Nasser to withdraw the support of the United Arab Republic from such formations as the National Liberation Front in Aden which have been fighting for freedom from British imperial~ ism,
But Nasser announced that he would not receive the envoy of the British Labour government,
In reporting the news, the Cairo daily Al Ahram explained September 27 that the British arranged to have Thomson in Cairo at the precise time it suspended Aden's constitution in order to create the impression that Nasser was willing to reach an understanding with London at the expense of the nationalists in South Arabia.
A few hours after Al Ahram appeared in the streets, Thomson caught an outbound plane.
Nasser, of course, could hardly play such a flagrantly open game with Harold Wilson. Cairo is not London or Washington where the rulers feel free to trample on the feelings of the colonial peoples. Nasser is keenly sensitive to Arab public opinion which knows from bitter experience the propensity of British imperialism to slide knives into people's backs. a
In Aden, meanwhile, the reaction was immediate to the British decision to impose open imperialist rule. The National Liberation Front called for a 24-hour general strike. The Trades Union Congress supported the call.
On October 2 tools were downed in the colony. Demonstrations broke out and violence flared between the British imperialist troops and the masses.
In reprisal, the British jailed hundreds and deported hundreds of others.
Aden is clearly entering another period of bitter conflict with the British overlords and their unctuous Labourite butlers.
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