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Workers Vanguard Interview Party of EW 50¢ ~)(.62J No. 637 ~~' 19 January 1996 Mandela Regime Cracks Down on Black Labor Striking black municipal workers protesting In downtown Johannesburg last September were met with brutal repression by "new" apartheid police. In Anglo American's giant Vaal Reefs anee-to halanee the needs of all South gold mine, a runaway locomotive crashes Af~icans, the rich and the poor, without down into an eievator cage, killing over suhstantially compromising the interests a hundred black miners. In rural of either group"! And in South Africa, K waZulu-Natal, a white landowner, the rich are white and the poor are black guarded by police, uses his tractor to pull or "coloured" (mixed-race). Whites own down the mud and cow-dung hut of a 87 percent of the land and 90 percent of family of black tenant farmers. Immi­ now become parliamentarians, govern­ tory. On the shop floor, it became com­ the productive wealth, and have an aver­ grant workers from Mozambique and ment officials, corporate executives, as monplace for workers to walk out in sol­ age income ten times that of hlacks. other neighboring states are routinely well as top union bureaucrats-have idarity when any worker was fired or To balance the interests of the rich and rounded up by police and deported back jumped aboard the "gravy train," buying otherwise victimized by management. poor in South Africa is a "challenge," as across the border. As striking black BMWs and Pierre Cardin suits and mov­ In South Africa, it is recognized that' Manga puts it, which the ANC cannot municipal workers take to the streets of ing into posh, formerly white-only sub­ the ANC is not a unitary movement; meet. For the moment, the Randlords and downtown Johannesburg, they are met urbs. Black workers see some of their people speak rather of the ANC/SACP/ their senior partners in Wall Street and by police firing tear gas canisters and' comrades of yesterday literally growing COSATU "tripartite alliance." This is a the City of London are relying on the stun grenades. Such are some scenes from fat since they're nqw eating meat three nationalist popular front in which the political authority of Mandela & Co. the "new" South Africa since Nelson times a day. Yet these very same people black proletariat is bound to their exploit­ rather than the armed fist of the state to Mandela was elected its first black pres­ are telling the impoverished masses they ers and oppressors through the bourgeois­ prevent and suppress black labor, town­ ident a year and a half ago. have to be patient in waiting for housing, nationalist ANC. Here is how Amrit ship, student and other social struggles. Of course, significant changes have electricity, running water and a decent Manga, a labor columnist for the pro­ However, De Klerk recently told his coa­ taken place at the political level. Open education for their children! ANC New Nation (29 September 1995) lition partners that he could have used white-supremacist rule based on police­ The white ruling class entered into describes "the challenge for the alli- continued on page 6 state terror has been replaced by a the "power sharing" deal with' the ex­ "power sharing" arrangement between pectation that the ANC and closely the African National Congress (ANC) allied South African Communist Party and the former white ruling National (SACP) would use their immense polit­ Workers Vanguard Interview Party of EW. De Klerk. The legal struc­ ical authority to restore a semblance of ture of apartheid-the passbooks, the bourgeois order without seriously threat­ rigid segregation of the Group Areas ening the whites' wealth and privileges. Act, the impoverished bantustan "home­ The township revolt in the mid-1980s lands"-has been dismantled. The estab­ undermined the apartheid system: effec­ lishment of an ANC-Ied Government of tive control of the segregated black cities National Unity naturally awakened the like Soweto and Alexandra passed into expectations of the hlack toilers of rad­ the hands of popular committees gener­ ical improvements in their conditions of ally supportive of the ANC; rents went life. unpaid for years as did charges for eiec­ But increasingly bitter black workers tricity and water and property taxes. and unemployed youth are saying that However, the development of a pow­ nothing has changed in their jobs, their erful and combative black workers townships, their homes. Much, how­ movement posed a far more fundamental ever, has changed in the lives of their threat to the rule of the masters of the leaders. A few thousand ANC cadre- Jo 'burg stock exchange. Formed in 1995, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) quickly became one of the strongest and most militant lahor movements in the Third World. This was signaled hy the great gold mine strike in 7""'25274"81030 1987, the largest in South African his- WV Photo Down With Police-State Repression in Peru! Last November 30, some two dozen in the late 1700s, is a Guevarist rural tinely tortured, taken before secret mil­ people were seized in a raid by the Peru­ guerrilla group politically sympathetic to itary tribunals, denied any legal defense, vian political police, D1NCOTE, in a left-wing parties in the popular-front and sentenced by unseen judges. The residential district in Lima. Five mem­ opposition. Over the last decade, it has Fujimori regime and the Peruvian mili­ bers of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary mainly struck at military installations tary are heavily backed by Washington, Movement (MRTA) were killed in a six­ and foreign-owned businesses, in dis­ despite occasional run-ins between their hour firefight. Surrounded by govern­ tinction to the Maoist Sendero Lumino­ respective "anti"-drug forces and not­ ment forces, the remaining members of so (Shining Path) movement, which has withstanding the "human rights" rhetoric the rebel unit surrendered, including a often launched murderous attacks on of the Clinton administration. The fact top MRTA commander, Miguel Rincon. workers and peasants unions as well as that in this case an American citizen was Also arrested in the sweep was Lori armed clashes with the MRTA. Hundreds seized has produced some liberal protest Berenson, 26, a Latin America solidarity of MRTA supporters have been thrown where normally the Peruvian military activist from New York. On January II, into Peru's dungeons, along with thou­ butchers carry out their dirty work out­ those arrested were sentenced to lengthy sands jailed as alleged Sendero militants. side the glare of international publicity. terms in prison, including life imprison­ The military-backed government of The workers movement internation­ ment for Rincon, Berenson and two Alberto Fujimori intensified its draco­ ally must denounce these vicious sen­ others. nian security crackdown after the presi­ tences and demand that all the victims The Tupac Amaru movement, named dent dissolved the Congress in 1992 and of this rightist "civilian" dictatorship be after a descendant of the Incas who rose instituted brutal police-state measures. freed. The Partisan Defense Committee in rebellion against Spanish colonial rule Prisoners accused of "terrorism" are rou- issued the following protest statement on January 15: Embassy of the Republic of Peru Lenin and the Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Ambassador: Lori Berenson, sentenced to life In Revolutionary Party prison by Peruvian military court, On January II, twenty-two members In honoring the memory of VI. Lenin. and alleged supporters of the leftist guer­ who died on 21 January 1924. we reprint population has been the vtctlms of rilla Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Move­ the/i,I/owing remarks hy James P. Cannon. brutal massacres at the hands of Peru's ment were sentenced to decades in a Fllllldillg memher of" the Communist alld military. heavily financed by the U.S. prison by Peru's special military courts. Trotskyist mOl'emellts in the United States. for its so-called "war on drugs." With Among them was Miguel Rincon, Tupac Lellill was the architect and leader (!( the the blood of thousands on their hands, Amaru's second in command. and Lori Bolshevik Party. which was the \'ital instru­ the generals and colonels were recently Berenson who was charged with trea­ mellt jil/' the Octoher 1917 sei:ure of power given a blanket amnesty by your gov­ son and sentenced to life. We demand TROTSKY hy the workers of Russia. the jirst victorious LENIN ernment. including those responsible for freedom for Miguel Rinc6n, Lori Beren­ socialist revolutioll ill history. Lenin's terminal iI/ness and death greatly aided a what is considered one of Peru's most son and all victims of right-wing gov­ notorious human rights cases, the hureaulTatic political count.rrevolution led hy Stalin under the nationali.~t dOlfma of ernment repression. building "socialism In one country." which ultimately laid the hasis for the restoration kidnapping and murder of nine La of capitalism nearly seven decades late!: But the fight for the Bolshevik program of As Ms. Berenson so eloquently an­ Canuta University students and a profes­ nounced at her sentencing, her "crime" world socialist revolution was carried on by Trotsky and the Fourth International, sor suspected of being supporters of the and is continued today hy the International Communist Lealfue. is "to worry about the subhuman condi­ Shinin~ Path. tions in which the majority of this Commentators in this country have Iskra (The Spark), as most of our readers know, was the paper founded by Lenin population lives." That majority of the continued on page II in 1900 .... Iskra made its first appearance at a time of rise in working-class activity, when the spontaneous labor movement was running ahead of its conscious political organization.
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