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Rallies in South Africa Call for New Government National struggle sharpens THE in Yugoslavia PageS A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 55/NO. 24 JULY 5, 1991 $1.50 UN council Rallies in South Africa refuses call for new government to lift / BY GREG McCART AN emment said. The move was welcomed in Washington, Tens of thousands rallied and marched Because the repeal of the Population Reg­ because it fulfills the fourth of five conditions sanctions across South Africa June 15-16 to press istration Act would nullify the basis on which it placed on Pretoria when it was forced to demands for an interim government. the parliament was elected -Blacks are de­ adopt sanctions against the apartheid regime Mrican National Congress (ANC) spokes­ nied the vote and the right to run for office in 1986. on Iraq man Patrick Lekota said the protests were "a - measures were also introduced to main­ U.S. sanctions bar the export of military very huge success," with 60,000 marching tain the current political setup. Continued on Page 3 in the mining town ofWelkom, 20,000 in the BY SETH GALINSKY _ administrative capital of Pretoria, and 10,000 The United Nations Security Council is in Johannesburg. refusing to lift economic sanctions against Nearly 50 localities held rallies that in­ Iraq. This decision came June 11, after its cluded calls on the government to end its first formal review of the measures in two complicity in violent attacks on Black town­ months. ships, the release of political prisoners, and Cuba, Yemen, China, Ecuador, and the job security for all. Soviet Union have suggested easing the Lekota said, in a phone interview from sanctions. The U.S., British, and French gov­ Johannesburg, an interim government was an ernments have warned that they will veto essential part of the struggle for a nonracial, any such move. No formal vote was taken democratic South Africa. at the meeting. "The National Party which is now govern­ According to Philip Arnold, spokesperson ing the country cannot both be a participant for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, in the negotiating process and at the same "President Bush and this administration's time guide that process," he said. "Our dem­ position is that in so far as possible the onstrations are part of the pressure on the sanctions should not be lifted while [Iraqi government to concede to the demands and President Saddam] Hussein is in power." In show the groundswell of support that exists." a phone interview, when asked about the At a rally of 30,000 in Soweto, ANC impact of the sanctions on the Iraqi people, Deputy President Nelson Mandela said, Arnold changed the subject. 'There can be no compromise whatsoever" _ "It's very hard to say" when the sanctions on the liberation movement's call for an could be lifted, Arnold stated. He claimed interim government. Such a body would su­ that medical supplies have been "flowing pervise election of a constituent assembly into Iraq ... but we haven't been paying for and the formulation of a new constitution. it, of course." "If the government does not listen to us June 13 protest against cop killings of two Black youth in Hillside, New Jersey. According to the Security Council resolu­ then we will use our power- mass action," Hundreds have joined marches demanding justice. See story on page 3. tion adopted after the signing of the cease­ Mandela said. "There can be no compromise fire with Iraq, the sanctions must be reviewed on that." every 60 days. But '-'if the Security Council The actions came on the fifteenth anniver­ doesn't do anything, then the sanctions stay," sary of the Soweto uprising. Some 600 anti­ Los Angeles judge says evidence of Arnold said in the interview. apartheid protesters were killed by police While restrictions on trade in food and during several months of demonstrations in medicines have been formally lifted, little of 1976. The uprising was sparked by the mur­ cop racism allowed in King trial these basic necessities make it into Iraq. The der of a Black youth by security forces. UN sanctions monitoring committee earlier On June 17 the South African parliament BY HARRY RING racial epithets were shouted during the bru­ denied an Iraqi request to export $1 billion passed legislation repealing the Population LOS ANGELES -Acknowledging that talization of King. of oil to purchase food and medicine. The Registration Act, used since 1950 to racially racism was a key factor in the police beating King's lawyer, Steven Lerman, had United States, Britain, and Switzerland have classify every person in the country as either of Rodney King, the presiding judge in the charged early on that at least one such epithet refused to unfreeze Iraqi assets worth another "white", "Black", "Coloured", or "Asian". case ruled that evidence can be introduced Continued on Page 11 Continued on Page 10 Whites number 13 percent of South Africa's showing the racial bigotry of the cops who population. assaulted him. - But wording in the legislation left existing An invaluable tool Four city cops have been indicted in the racial classifications intact, except for babies savage assault on King, a young construction for today's fighters born after June 17.1)is will remain in force worker who is Black. In pretrial proceedings, until a new constitution is adopted, the gov- their lawyers have tried to bar introduction •:• New NATO rapid deploy­ of recorded police statements which include ment force, aimed at Yugosla- An announcement racist slurs. via? •:• Why can't imperialism One transcript of a typed computer mes­ bail out the bureaucratic caste to our readers ... sage by one of the cops the night of the beating describes it as "right out of 'Gorillas in the Soviet Union? •:• Why The next issue of the Militant will be in the Mist."' can't the U.S. or Israel impose printed on July 9, 1991. Suspending publi­ "To say that those comments aren't ra­ cation for two weeks will make it possible a "solution" to the struggle of cially biased is like sticking your head in the the Palestinian people? for Militant staff members to help prepare sand," declared Judge Bernard Kamins. He for and attend the 36th Constitutional Con­ added that he believes that "race could be vention of the Socialist Workers Party, sched­ Fighting workers, farmers, youth, and part of the motive" in the beating. uled for Chicago June 26-June 30. Gls seeking an explanation of the roots The next issue of the paper will feature A prosecution lawyer argued that the "go­ of imperialism and war need New In­ firsthand coverage from a three-person re­ rilla" reference showed "motive and also bias ternational no. 7. It explains: •!• How porting team in South Africa. Militant editor ... against Rodney King because he is government attacks on affirmative ac­ Greg McCartan, Young Socialist Alliance Black." tion, abortion rights, and the social leader Derek Bracey, and Ruth Haswell from A lawyer for the cops argued that they wage of the working class are part and Britain will be reporting on the historic Na­ parcel of the employers' take-back de­ tional Conference of the Mrican National were "within their rights" when they used Congress, slated for July 2-6 in Durban. The force against King and that the only issue to mands and cop brutality. •!• Why labor meeting is the first national conference held be decided is whether they used that "right" must chart an independent political since the ANC was banned in 1960. Follow­ appropriately or "excessively." course based on the power of fighting and transformed unions, joining in the ing the event the reporting team will spend Judge Kamins also said that if the cops' an additional week gathering interviews and lawyers try to dredge up King's past in an struggles of toilers worldwide. •!• Why such a course is the only answer to the covering protest actions. effort to discredit him, he will permit the drive by the billionaire ruling families in Washington, London, Tokyo, Bonn, The coming issue of the Militant will also prosecution to introduce evidence of past and elsewhere to drag humanity into more wars, like the one waged against include coverage from the Second Confer­ performance by the four cops." At least two the Iraqi people, and the slide of world capitalism into a worldwide depres­ ence of the Political Parties and Movements of them have been involved in previous bru­ sion. of the Sao Paulo Forum, held in Mexico City tality cases. June 12-15. The conference was attended by representatives of more than 60 political or­ In addition to the "gorilla" slur, it has been $12 Available from Pathfinder, 410 West St. ganizations from 22 countries throughout the established that the police officials were lying New York, NY 10014. $3 shipping and handling. Americas and elsewhere. when they asserted that there is no evidence 'Out Now': tool in fight against next wars Reprinted below is the foreword to the Cambodia, and Laos were killed. colors and nationalities liJld help win over imperialist powers toward wars to defend new edition of the Pathfinder book Out Unable to crush the Vietnamese workers many of them to oppose the war. their decaying social system. Now! A Participant's Account of the Move­ and peasants in their struggle for national The antiwar movement affected tens of The strength of U.S. imperialism relative ment in the United States against the Viet­ liberation and against imperialist exploi­ millions of people around the world. It to its main capitalist rivals has declined in nam War.
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