The Anti-Apartheid Movement, Part III

It was with condescending interest that we read Bruce Robinson's paranoic spew about the Trotskyite plot to undermine the Anti - Apartheid movement.

What his myopic, middle class pakeha mind failed to perceive was that for the first time a significant number of blacks, both indigenous Polynesians and Overseas students had turned up to participate in the actual policy making of the W.A.A.P. This effectively broke the monopoly that middle class pakehas have always had in this organisation.

Bruce Robinson, however, chose to ignore this vital development in the Anti - Apartheid Movement. He has openly accused the Polynesians and overseas students present at that meeting of being manipulated by the Trotskyites, His article. If it reflects anything at all, does indicate the colonial attitude that befuddles this political analysis of what he fantasised was happening at the meeting.

His perspective is a classic example to overseas students, especially those from the Third World of the colonialistic attitudes with which most pakeha 'radicals' view the political activities that overseas students may choose to involve themselves in.

We will let him and his kind know that all the overseas students who came to that particular meeting came as individuals, independent of any group ideology. Most of there saw fit to support the motions put forward by the Polynesians. It is this combined force of overseas students and the local Black movement that Bruce Robinson sees as a Trotskyite plot.

As far as we are concerned the petty squabbles between the "bulk of the left" (which includes the so called Maoist faction - an obvious insult to our Asian friends in China!) and the "Trotskyite groupings " is irrelevant. They are, after all, liberal pakeha organisations nurtured within the insipid political confines of Godzone.

To say that these overseas students whose political minds were born out of active involvement in student struggles against oppression throughout the Third World, are being manipulated by any such liberal organisations is not only an affront to our pride and level of politicization, but also an attempt by certain insipid mentalities to grade themselves where they do not in the best deserve to be.

Further, an attempt on our part to get two overseas students as representatives on the W.A. W.A.A.P. Sharpeville Committee was seen by Bruce Robinson as being mere tokenism. Despite such colonial attitudes and opposition to the independent and active participation by overseas students in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, two representatives were successfully elected to [unclear: r] represent the interest of overseas students and thus to give the local natives, who are polticized enough, the benefit of our expertise.