ZIMBABWE'S Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the main electoral opposition to Robert Mugabe, has announced the expulsion from the MDC of the working class activist and leader Highfield MP Munyaradzi Gwisai. He is also a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), and is a regular visitor and speaker at the Marxism event each summer in London. Gwisai was found "guilty" of six charges.

These included urging workers to use direct action to force bosses and the government to give them better wages, denouncing the IMF, World Bank, George Bush and Tony Blair as enemies of working people, and saying that MDC leaders have forgotten the masses who elected them. These charges and the expulsion in fact show how authoritarian, undemocratic and neo-liberal the MDC leadership has become.

Over the last three years the ISO has championed the cause of workers fearlessly and tirelessly. Gwisai had led the struggle to pass pro-worker measures in the new labour bill due to come before parliament soon. This has enraged the bosses. The expulsion of Gwisai signals the climaxing of the war that the rich, the farmers and the industrialists, backed by their imperialist masters like Tony Blair, have been waging against ordinary people.

The MDC Highfield district and wards have overwhelmingly rejected the expulsion. Students are threatening demonstrations opposing it. For solidarity messages or donations to assist us to produce leaflets and posters and hold meetings, please e-mail  isozim@hotmail.com

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANISATION, Zimbabwe