No. 141, May-June, 1994
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No 141 May/June 1994 30p Newspaper of the Spartacist League ANe/De Klerk neD-apartheid regime: enemy of black freedom Buthelezi, De Klerk and Mendela shake hands on elections. "Power-sharing" deal preserves neo-apartheid capitalism, as power of black proletariat is shackled through nationalist popular front with bourgeoisie. _,",_"". MAY _.. lO-Today Nelson Mandela, means that Anglo is no longer such a leader of the ANC, was sworn in as presi natural target for an ANC-controlled dent of South Africa. It is only four years. For a Bolshevik workers party! government either to break-up ... or since he was released from prison after nationalise" . being locked up for 27 years by the racist The outcome of the election was in regime. Yesterday, Mandela walked arm For a black-centred workers republic! fact determined well before it took place. in-arm into the newly elected multiracial There would be a coalition "government parliament with his former jailer, apart of national unity" between the ANC and heid ruler FW De Klerk. The inaugural heid edifice, legalising black unions, elim petuate that exploitation by utilising as De Klerk's Afrikaner-based National ceremonies drew 46 present and former inating the segregation laws of "petty their agent the very organisation claiming Party. Now this has been amplified by a heads of state and government, at least apartheid" (against interracial marriage, leadership of the black liberation move deal to include Mangosuthu Buthelezi, nine kings, princes and sheiks and UN imposing separate beaches and public ment, Mandela's ANC. The Financial head of the Zulu tribalist Inkatha party, Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali. This accommodations) and "grand apartheid" Times (9 May) highlighted the triumphal giving him control of Natal province. In "New World Order" gala was to cele (the infamous pass laws, Group Areas ism of the gold and diamond mine KwaZulu/Natal there is evidence of brate a supposed "negotiated revolution" . Act and bantustan "homelands"). But the owners: "Anglo American and De Beers massive voter fraud. However, Mandela But in the desperately poor black shanty owners of South Africa's mines, factories Have Much to Celebrate - African refused to challenge this, raising specula towns, revolution is yet to come. and farms have by no means abandoned Empire Open to the World". And due to tions of a "deal within the deal", to let Over the past decade and a half, the their superexploitation of the black the counterrevolution that swept East Buthelezi have enough votes to bring him blows of revolt chipped away at the apart- toilers. Rather they are seeking to per- Europe and the Soviet Union, "this continued on page 6 Electing Labour has not, will not stop- the fascists Trade unions, minorities must crush the BNP! The fake left is claiming that Labour's mobilisations. The East End of London has been a on Jews, blacks, Asians, Gypsies, Irish victory in Tower Hamlets and the unseat Electing a Labour council does not battleground between the racist scum of Republicans, gays, leftists and trade ing of BNPer Derek Beackon strikes a change the fundamental reality of the the BNP and militant anti-fascist youth unionists. real blow at fascism. This is a lie! The state, which is an organ of class rule by who have sought to stop them. Life has Last September, after the murderous fascists will not be stopped by means of the bourgeoisie and is necessarily racist. become a living hell for black and Asian assault on Quaddus Ali and a fascist voting and by relying on the capitalist The BNP will continue to carry out its minorities - on the Isle of Dogs alone rampage through Brick Lane, an action state, whether administered by Labour or race terror and, as they have done in the reported cases of racial attack have led by the Militant's Youth Against F~.a> Tory. The BNP do not believe in abiding past, the cops and courts will seek to increased by 300 per cent since 1988. ism in Europe (YRE) and the S\'fp'~ by the results of the ballot box or other protect the fascist scum against the just Muktar Ahmed and Quaddus Ali have Anti Nazi League (ANL) succeeded in democratic niceties. They are an extra outrage of their intended victims. In been put in hospital by fascist-inspired leaving the BNP in a humiliated heap in parliamentary gang of race terrorists, breeding illusions in the chauvinist terror gangs, beaten to within an inch of Brick Lane. This action was welcomed by kept in reserve by the capitalist class. The Labourites who run the council, the fake their lives. Capitalism in deep economic thousands of anti-fascists across Britain. fascist scum must be broken and smashed left has in fact assisted in the demobili decline is the breeding ground for the The question was how to build upon this on the streets, through militant workers' sation of anti-fascist struggle. fascist BNP with their murderous designs continued on page 4 In memory' of Blair Peach Vindictive court judgment Anti-fascist martyr against anti-fascist fighter On 23 April 1979 Blair Peach was Union amidst imperialist "New World It took them two trials, but on 15 April Quaddus Ali and Muktar Ahmed are free murdered by the British state. Along with Order" crisis. the state finally convicted Martin Milne, to kill or maim their next victims. thousands of others, Blair Peach, a mem Blair Peach was murdered by cops a supporter of Militant Labour. Milne Four months after the 16 October anti ber of the Socialist Workers Party, had administered by the capitalist Callaghan participated in last September's action fascist demonstration, the cops launched turned out for an anti-fascist rally in the Labour government. And it was Harold on Brick Lane in which several BNP a renewed witch hunt, searching nation predominantly Asian Southall area of Wilson's Labour government in 1974 that scum had their heads "acquainted with wide for protesters they could frame up London against the National Front (NF) was responsible for the death of anti the pavement". Anti-racists everywhere for acts of violence in Welling. The Parti fascist scum. That day saw hundreds of fascist Kevin Gately in Red Lion Square. cheered at the news of this act of elemen san Defence Committee held a protest anti-fascist protesters arrested and dozens Appeals to the capitalist state, whether tary sanitation, which gave the fascists a outside Scotland Yard on 5 March injured. The murderous cops of the Tory or Labour, to stop the fascists are taste of the treatment they deserve. Far denouncing the dragnet and demanding Special Patrol Group killed Blair Peach, suicidal. Nor will the fascists be stopped from a criminal, Milne is an anti-racist charges be dropped against all anti-fascist fracturing his skull through repeated by wretched pro-Labour electoralism. hero and should have his conviction protesters. The PDC stressed the central blows to the head. Those responsible for What is urgently needed is massive expunged and be financially compensated ity of the organised working class in the Blair Peach's murder were never brought mobilisations of trade unions and minor for his trouble and expense. fight against fascism: "We call for disci to justice. ities to crush the fascists! But as Milne told the Militant (22 plined, trade union centred workers Today there is a sinister rise of racist The memory of Blair Peach should be April): "the police and Crown Prosecu defence guards to make the fascists afraid state and fascist BNP terror, which has seen seared in the minds of every cIiiss tion Service (CPS) wanted to make an to show their faces." We appeal to our the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Joy struggle and anti-fascist fighter. It will example of me". He was found guilty of readers to help defray the legal costs of Gardner along with brutal attacks on Quad take workers revolution to smash the "affray", bound over for two years and Martin Milne convicted for a courageous dus Ali and Muktar Ahmed. Fascist terror rotten capitalist system, which breeds the fined £500. In this racist capitalist soci act of anti-fascism. gangs are on the increase across Europe, fascist scum. Only then will the death of ety, anti-fascists are hounded by the cops spurred on by capitalist counterrevolution'in , Blair Peach along with all the victims of and courts, while the murderers of Send donations to: YRE Defence Fund, Eastern Europe and the' former Soviet this racist capitalist system be avenged .• Stephen Lawrence and the attackers of PO Box 858, London E9 SHU•• Timex strike sUPRDrter faces im! Support to the popular front is class treachery! Drop the charges against After hearing the news of the Febrnary Revolution 1917 while still in Switzer/and, Lenin wrote his "Letters from Afar". Len Drew McEwan! in's first letter was originally censored by the Pravda editorial board (including Stalin) for In late April, the Scottish courts post raid on McEwan, police photographed being too critical of the Mensheviks and the Provisional Govemment. In it Lenin warns poned their frame-up trial of Timex strike posters and confiscated phone numbers. TROTSKY LENIN supporter Drew McEwan. The adjourn This was nothing less than a terror raid against any suppolt to the bourgeois Pro- ment came after McEwan showed up in aimed at intimidating leftists and trade visional Government, a govemment of the court accompanied by 60 supporters, unionists. The raid followed the massive "capitalist landlords and bourgeoisie which mainly trade unionists who demonstrated 17 May 1993 demonstration in Dundee in has long been ruling our country economically".