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Issue No. 116, July-August, 1986 ( Australasian Number 118 July/August 1888 30 cents Massive Black Strike Under Ap-artheid Reign of Terror • I rica own Reuters offices of. the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) as Forge a well as those of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were ransacked. Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Boishevi,k Party! ANC leader Nelson Mandela, was barred from speaking to journalists Australian Prime Ministers, past and restricted to her house from 6pm and present, have been shooting their to Sam daily. Reporters were completely barred from the black mouths off a lot lately about South townships and prohibited from re­ African apartheid. Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser as co­ porting any "subversive" statements (such as a strike call), any actions by chairman of the Commonwealth the police or army, or the names of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) and detainees. On the 16th telephones present Labor PM Robert Hawke have were cut off for most of the day in the been piously extolling the virtues of townships around Johannesburg, economic sanctions to pressure Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth Pretoria into anti-apartheid reforms. and Durban. Both are provetr. Cold War union Pretoria geared up for repression on . busters and enemies of the Soviet a massive, bloody scale. In. an inter- . Union and Vietnam. Both have admin­ view on ABC News, T J Swanepoel, istered the institutionalised murder of the police commander who ordered the Australian Aboriginals through cop first shot fired in the massacre of over terror, ghettoisation, unemployment 1,000 black youth during the 1976 and the grinding poverty, disease and Soweto rebellion, said he would do it death in the bantustan-like Aboriginal again: "I will kill a thousand people if reserves. Both have proved them­ I can stop the violence .... " On June selves worthy of the vicious whites­ 15, police fired tear gas into a only tradition of this white imperialist Apartheid terror rumbles through Crossroads as black settlement burns, gathering of nearly 1,000 commemor­ enclave in Asia. So what's going oil? leaving more than 70,000 homeless. Quite simply they're trying desper­ ating Soweto at the St Athans Road Moslem Mosque in Athlone, a mixed­ ately to avoid the revolution that South Soweto commemorations and under Botha declared the "state of emerg­ draconian nationwide "state of emerg­ ency" June 12 after the bogus "parlia­ race suburb of Cape Town. Africa so desperately needs. Hawke According to the UPI: "Terrified recently worried openly about moder­ ency" conditions. As we go to press, ments" of coloured and Indian the near-total blackout of information representatives balked at giving Law worshippers broke doors and windows ate black South African "leaders" attempting to escape and several older like Bishop Desmond Tutu losing from South Africa leaves only scraps of and Order Minister Louis Le Grange . iriformation gleaned from dispatches martial law powers. In the early hours people and children fainted and had to control of the anti-apartheid struggle be dragged from the building, and said: "If we have any interest in self-censored by the media to conform ofthe 12th, security forces rounded up to apartheid baas P W Botha's emerg­ at least 1,200 anti-apartheid militants, witnesses said. Police waiting outside seeing a South Africa that is not going the mosque beat fleeing worshippers to depend on the weapons and support ency" restrictions. In Paris, African including leaders of the United National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Democratic Front (UDF), the president with whips." At St Nicholas Anglican of the Soviets rather than the West, Church in the Cape township of Elsie's then we've got to be associated now Tambo said that, contrary to official of the Azanian People's Organisation reports of "only" eleven killed on (AZAPO) Saths Cooper, Piroshaw River, 250 were arrested (including with the process of change"(Age, many children) by police who called 5 June). Fraser, Hawke and Foreign Monday, there were "unconfirmed Camay of the Council of Unions of reports of massive slaughter" . South Africa (CUSA), and clergymen. the service a "subversive" meeting. Minister Bill Hayden are the enemies Despite Botha's reign of terror, the . of South African black workers, Film footage that has gotten through During the next days. over 4,000 were shows the streets of Johannesburg "detained", including many lower and massive strike was carried off. In the Australian workers, Asian workers, 20-month-Iong confrontation between Soviet workers. They're worried virtually deserted, as were the trains middle-level officials of black unions and buses that normally bring and anti-apartheid groups, as well as the racist regime and deepening solely about "stabilising" the anti-apartheid revolt, police-state southern hemispere for white imperi­ hundreds of thousands from Soweto to the secretary general of the South work in the factories, shops and African Catholic Bishops Conference measures have failed to cow the alism and anti-Sovietism. We reprint oppressed into submission. Import­ below the article "South African offices. Reportedly the strike was and members of the End Conscription completely effective in the Eastern Campaign, a white group that opposes antly, repression could not prevent the Showdown" from Workers Vanguard two previous general strikes, in the no 406, 20 June 1986 with a program Cape region, including blacks, the draft. coloureds (mixed race) and Indians. Under the regulations, detainees Transvaal in November 1984 and for black-centred workers revolution nationally in the recent heroic May in South Africa and international One business source reported that up may be held incommunicado indefi­ to 90 percent of the nation's black nitely, and no security official can be Day strike. But as the prospect for proletarian action to ensure that the bloody one-sided civil war looms ever imperialists fail in their aim. workers participated in the strike. In tried for any actions under the Durban, 40 percent of the workers "emergency", including murder. The Contmued on page two JUNE 17 - South Africa's black reportedly stayed away today as well. masses observed the tenth anniversary However, mass demonstrations and of the Soweto rebellion, which was the insurrectionary actions Botha bloodily repressed by the apartheid claimed were being prepared by state, with a general strike on June 16. "radical and revolutionary elements" The largest ever "stayaway", involv­ apparently did not materialize. In the ing millions of black workers and June 16 test of strength between the shutting down major urban centers, Pretoria regime and the combative was carried out in defiance of the black masses, it appears that there has regime's banning of any and all been a cold standoff, for now. Registered by Australia Post - Publication no NBF0710 It spawned reactionary black vigilantes South Africa ••• -< in Crossroads, called "witdoekies" for the white armbands they wear, Contmued from page one consisting primarily of black cops, common criminals and some shop larger, the question of power - who owners, to be used against the .shall rule the country - is posed militant township youth, the "com­ starkly. In confrOntations such as this, rades". the need for revolutionary leadership Between mid-May and mid-June, is more urgent than ever. the police and army have backed up South Africa today.has the smell of a several thousand vigilantes in system­ revolutionary situation. In Lenin's atically destroying sections of Cross­ classic definition, it's not enough that Black unionists roads occupied by the "comrades", the masses can no longer live in the old cheer founding killing at least 6S with machetes and way - their rulers must also be ofCOSATU, guns, torching thousands Qf shacks unable to rule in the old way. The November 1985. and leaving 70.000 homeless in Cape government's actions are losing Town's winter rain and near-freezing coherence, going in different direc­ 7." temperatures. Pretoria's game here is tions at the same time, trying for .'j....... hio" clear, of portraying the events at .,., .. piecemeal "reform" of apartheid, Crossroads as "black on black viol­ ordering brutal repression of anti­ ence". And Ronald Reagan joins in apartheid revolt, fantasizing about a ". .1& this pretext for terror, claiming, "It . separate Afrikaner state. Meanwhile is blacks fighting against blacks" the open fascists are growing in first installment" (New York Times, to hell" (Times [London], 23 May). (New York Times, 14 June). As has strength. There appears to be a loss of 22 May). At the Crossroads squatter settle­ been evident since the outset of the nerve at the top, the inability of the A genuinely fascist far right has ments near Cape Town, the regime is anti-apartheid revolt, Washington state to act as the general staff of a srown, largely at the expense of giving a taste of what it is prepared to stands with its anti-Soviet ally in united ruling class. Which doesn't Botha's National Party (especially unleash on the black population. For Pretoria, charged with policing the mean they're not ready for blood - among the police). Hitlerite Eugene years Crossroads has stood as a continent for the "free world" . on the contrary, genocide can be the Terre 'Blanche led his Afrikaner symbol of resistance to the apartheid This simple fact has not dissuaded result. Hitler came to power in part Weerstandsbeweging (A WB - Afri­ "influx control" which makes it illegal the proponents of imperialist "sanc­ because of a loss of nerve of the kaner Resistance Moyement) thugs for the majority of blacks to move to tions" - who run the gamut from German bourgeoisie. But rather than in storming a National Party the cities. The government has Bishop Desmond Tutu to the ANC and uniting around a bonaparte, the South meeting just days after the bombing of unsuccessfully been trying to force out· its "left" supporters.
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