Biggest ever US anti- apartheid rally | Socialist Action 1983

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APPROXIMATELY 100,000 people marched and rallied in New York on 14 June in the largest antianniversary of the Soweto rebellion.

The action was orcalised by the New York Anti Apartheid Coordinating Council, broad-based union-led united front ot more than 200 organisations formed last September. organisations in the city endorsea te cemolstlation The timing of the protest was quite significant.

Il occured the South African regime all oailcu declaring nationwide state of emergency.

The action drew people ot al ages. but in lIs majority was young. chers funneled nine assemoly DOlll around the city, converging on the park from both the north and south.

the AsselnDlng United Nations building, march organisers say, were 40,000 demonstrators, grouped in labour, womCentral CuS Aulichcall. student, other contingents. The labour contingent was the largest.

Hundreds of activists involved Central American solidarity work marched banners demanding 'Boycott South Africa, not Said contras in Nicaragua or Angola', and 'US out of Central America southern Africa'.

Many college students parucidce LnTe prolesl Marching behind a banner • youlI halilst Kacısm WCLC York City school students who have •set up their own branch affiliated the French organisation SOS Racism — ranas vlt my buaay.

Harlem several thousand black people rallied and led a spirited march that linked up with hundreds of Puetro Ricans Barrio'. Also in this contingent welc Dominicans Salvadorans.

Together they marched into the park from the north.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu sent a message to the rally, which was presented by his daughter Mpho Tutu. The featured guest speaker was alfr ed secretarv-general of the African National ConA message of greetings solidarity Trom half-million-strong South African federation COSAT was presented by Amon VSauc aso slewau dl the 3M Company in South Africa.

At the end of the rally the anti-apartheid coordinating council vowed to continue organising future protests against apartheid.

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Socialist Action 4 July 1986

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apartheid protest yet to take place in the United States. The rally demanded an end to all US ties with the apartheid regime and commemorated the tenth