Views on invasion
The Socialist Unity Party and the Socialist Action League have jointly published a broadsheet featuring the debate on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. It contains speeches made at a recent meeting in Auckland by the president of the Labour Party (Mr J. P. Anderton), a national executive member of the Socialist Unity Party, Mrs Ella Ayo, and the national secretary of the Socialist Action League, Mr R. Johnson. Mr Anderton says that the Russian intervention is “no more or no less than bloody aggression.’’
Mrs Ayo says the Soviet Union is merely honouring the terms of its 1921 treaty of friendship with Afghanistan and that Soviet troops “are not fighting in Afghanistan or interfering in any way. They are posted along "the "AfghanistanPakistan border to secure the territory against intrusion by United States-Paki-stani-Chinese backed rebel Mr Johnson, also justifying the Soviet intervention, says that only when Moscow saw a real danger of a new Chile situation on its border did it send soldiers to Afghanistan. -
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Press, 27 February 1980, Page 13
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