PREPARATIONS are in high gear for the Anti Apartheid Movement march and rally in London on 28 June.
Last year ove 100,000 people in Britain show their solidarity with the peoples of southern Africa. This year there is every indication that the numbers will be even bigger.
The AAM nationally has printed 350,000 leaflets. Groups across the organising to ensure the largest possible turnout on the south Africa, beginning there wil be a three-day stayaway general call over the country, to mark the tenth anniverRATES:
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sary of the Soweto uprisings. Throughout the decades South African Namibian people have shown their desire for freedom their willingness to fight for it.
The AAM has put out a call for everyone in solidarity with the South Namibian revolutions to assemble at 11.00am in Hyde Park.
The event will begin with a rally at which the main speakers will be from the African, National Congress and SWAPO The march will leave Hyde Park at noon for Clapham Common, South British bands will play unele throuch the evening. There will be also wide of SUBSCRIBE I enclose cheque/ PO payable to Socialist Action for f Send to: Socialist Action Subs, PO Box 50, London N1 2XP.
cultural as well as AAM material.
Anti Apartheid unte Movement is appealing for funds for this event. The campaign has set targets of t200 from each AAM group £50 each affiliated rand orp branch. All donations towards making 28 June a success are welcome.
All groups movement organisations should start now - and plan to make the in solidarity with the peoples of southern Africa a huge success. • Further information and literature is available from: AAM, 13 Mandela Street, London NW1. JUSTICE: The Miners Strike 1984-88 by the Campaign Group of Labour MРЗ On Afro American History by Malcolm X Nelson Mandela allow the Foreign Minister stead smashed up by prevented the meeting taking place.
But police collusion with the AWB's openly fascist thugs is hardly surprising given the role assigned to the 'security services' apartheid not a fascist state. But the chief fascists Ulldoubtedly in the governBotha himself was an organiser of gangs attackinhile parties in the thir meetings other ties Today it the apartheid state which organises the terror, torture, murder, suppressio the most lementar bourgeois democratic rights for the black majorıWhereby which is the sole means the apartheid state can be maintained in against South Africa's black majority.
This state is also increasingly organising Latin American style 'death squads which go . out murder anti-apartheid activists in the townships. hack hardly to be wondered at then when such alice forces riddled with support for the most openly fascist white supremacist organisation.
theyes some lae black they black townships.
The stories carried in British newpapers last week to the effect that Botha's governmen now threatened by 'fascist reaction' because reformist stance, IT IS an indication of the depth of the crisis of the South African state when the police stand by and to have his public meeting broken up by armed white thugs. But that is exactly what happened last week when the ruling Nationalist Party ordered the police to protect Pik Botha's meeting at Pietersburg. The meeting was inEugene Terre Blanche's Afrikaaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB). The police stood by as thugs carrying swastika 'look alike' flags Botha must therefore be supported, are ludicrous.
It is this regime itself which is the organiser of the colOssa SCat LONO necessary to hold back the black rebellion apartheid Compared to the Nationalistice regime organisations the AWB are just a joke. To olnerwise ano bre sent as threatened by 'the right' is to cover up for the inhuman crimes of this regime itself.
The most vivid proof of the intention oI the government came this week with the an nouncement by the South tends to railroad through still more repressive legislations will give the Minister of Law and Orde powers in any part of the country he deems to be an 'unres Such powers are deemed to include: for the police to take whatever action they considered necessary, and to prohibit any activity they deemed a threat to security; only if a person were held for more days in prison would the police have to release their name to no court of parliament; aw would be competent to give the validity proclamations and regulations decided by the Minister for such 'unrest areas: the proclamation unrest area would last three months.
In other words the purpose of the law is to allow the apartheid state's police to have the equivalent of the powers they exercised under a state of emergency without having the political embarassment of actually declaring one.
Splits among , the white racists are excellent. . They weaken them all. But the between the fascist ascist Tere the fascist Blanche, should not detain the labour movement for instance. Botha, not Terre Blanche, heads the most powerful death squads ir
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