Denounced:
PARIS, Jan, 27 =~ The United Secretariat of the Fourth International today sent the following protest to British Prime Minister Sir Alex Douglas Home, denouncing the use of British troops to crush rebellions in East Africa:
"the Fourth International protests in the sharpest way against the use of British troops in Tanganyika, Kenya and Uganda, The claim is that the troops were needed to put down a mutiny and that it is — tlegal't because invitations were issued by Kenyatta, Nyere and Obote, These are shameful pretexts like the pretext used by Belgian imperial-~ ism to justify military intervention in the Congo in July 1960.
"The real aim of the armed intervention is to intimidate the popular masses of these countries, who havé been encouraged by the victory of the Zanzibar revolution, and to prevent them from unleash~ ing a vast movement to break definitively with neocolonialism and imperialism, The imperialist troops went into_action the same day a general strike was scheduled in Dar-es-Salaam [January 25]. One of the aims of the military intervention was to block this strike,
"The Fourth International appeals to the British labor movement to manifest its disapproval of this neocolonialist intervention and to demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops from East Africa,
"The Fourth International is convinced that the masses of these countries -- with whom it expresses fraternal solidarity -- having . seen in action the vaccilating or outright traitorous rule of Kenyatta, Nyere and Obote, will turn boldly down the road of the permanent revolution in the example shown most recently by the peoples of Cuba, Algeria and Zanzibar.