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U.S. ·Imposes Sanctions, Keeps Ties with Apartheid Labor Day parades hit apartheid . 3 TH£ Role of U.S. investments inS. Africa ..... 8 ISR: speech by Nelson Mandela ...... 9-12 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 49/NO. 36 SEPTEMBER 20, 1985 75 CENTS U.S. ·imposes sanctions, Sandinistas combat keeps ties with apartheid racist BY FRED FELDMAN • The Reagan administration has imposed some mild sanctions against the racist oppress1on apartheid regime in South Africa. This is a concession to the deepening anti-apartheid BY CINDY JAQUITH struggle in South Africa and to the growing MANAGUA, Nicaragua- Many coun­ anti-apartheid movement here in the tries in Latin America have distinct Indian United States. and Black populations in addition to those Issued in the form of an executive order, who speak Spanish. This a legacy of the most provisions are effective starting Oc­ colonial conquest of these countries and the tober II. enslavement of Africans. But it is only in The most important of the economic Nicaragua that a government is charting a sanctions, if implemented, will ban further revolutionary course toward overcoming imports of the Krugerrand, the South Afri­ the historical oppression faced by Indians can gold coin. As a delaying tactic the ad­ and Blacks as part of advancing the inter­ ministration is seeking permission from the ests of all the workers and peasants. _· 90-nation General Agreement on Tariffs The Nicaraguan people are currently en­ and Trade. The import and sale of South gaged in a national discussion on a proposal African gold bullion will continue. to establish regional government autonomy Reagan said he was banning loans to the for the country's Atlantic Coast where most South African government. But he ex­ Indians and Blacks live. The proposal is cepted those "which improve economic op­ aimed at unifying Nicaragua as a multira­ portunities or educational, housing, and cial, multilingual, and multicultural nation; health facilities that are open and accessi­ strengthening its defense against im­ ble to South Africans of all races." perialist-backed aggression; and deepening This loophole is quite wide. In the past, the participation of all the nation's working Reagan has claimed that all U.S. invest­ people in the revolutionary process. ments and loans in South Africa help Historically, Nicaragua's original in­ Blacks. habitants were Indians whose lands were Reagan banned U.S . export assistance to invaded on the Pacific Coast by Spanish any U.S. company employing more than colonizers and on the Atlantic Coast by the 25 people in South Africa that refused to British. While most Indian tribes disap­ sign the Sullivan principles. peared as such on the Pacific, the British, The principles were authored by Leon Confidence of anti-apartheid fighters in South Africa grows with increasing political, for their own reasons, decided to allow the Sullivan, a Black minister who is on the diplomatic, and economic isolation of regime. Indian tribes on the Atlantic Coast to re­ board of directors of General Motors. They main intact. The British also brought in Af­ were expanded last year. They call for sup­ rican slaves. port to "the freedom of mobility of Black As a result, the Atlantic Coast popula­ workers" and the end of all apartheid laws, Get out truth - sell 'Militant' tion today is distinctly different in its racial inclusion of Blacks in management, composition, language, and culture from maintenance of nonsegregated plant facili­ September 14 marks the opening date of African struggle touches· almost all sec­ the Pacific. While the Pacific Nicaraguans ties, and other measures. the fall circulation drive for the Militant tions of the population. are predominantly mestizos, meaning Sullivan admits the principles have little and our Spanish-language sister publica­ College campuses were the scene of sig­ Spanish-speaking, on the Atlantic Coast impact in South Africa and that many com­ tion, Perspectiva Mundial. nificant solidarity actions last spring and there are six separate racial groups, each panies, having endorsed the principles, Politically, it couldn't have come at a the opening days of school confirm they'll with its own history and traditions. proceed to ignore them. better time. be a lot bigger ·in the fall. There are three groups of Indians, or in­ Reagan expanded a ban on the export of The escalation of the freedom struggle in Particularly encouraging is the way that digenous peoples, .as they are often called most nuclear technology to South Africa South Africa and the upsurge of solidarity organized labor has moved into the fore­ here: Miskitos, numbering 80,000 includ­ that was first imposed by the Carter admin­ it's evoked here alone are enough to assure front of the anti-apartheid movement, play­ ing those currently living in Honduras; istration. He also restricted the sale of com­ ing a key role in demonstrations in all parts Sumas, 8,000; and Ramas, 800. Each has puters to the South African government. of the country. This year's Labor Day its own language. These measures don't even touch the bil­ parades were marked by the many union There are two groups whose ancestors lions of dollars that U.S. banks and corpo­ EDITORIAL banners denouncing apartheid. were African slaves: Creoles (or Blacks), rations have invested in apartheid. While South Africa has been the center numbering 30,000; and Garifonos, num­ Bishop Desmond Tutu, a leader of the a bigger, more receptive potential audience of renewed political activism, it's by no bering I ,500. Many Creoles SJ?eak English anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, de­ than we've had in a long time. And there's means the only one. as well as Spanish. The Garifonos have a scribed the sanctions as "not even a flea a lot more happening besides. Opposition to Washington's war in Cen­ separate language. bite" against apartheid. It will be a two-month drive, ending tral America remains a substantial concern There are also about 120,000 mestizos Reagan "has really been saying Blacks November 16. During that time we're aim­ and will be the focus of important protest on the Coast. are expendable," said Tutu. "I said he was ing to sell 40,000 copies of both publica­ actions this fall. Nicaragua's total population is 3 mil­ a crypto-racist. I should say now he is a ra­ tions, and 2,000 introductory subscriptions Puerto Ricans, Chicanos. and other lion. cist pure and simple." as well. Latinos are involved in protest against ra­ The Spanish , British, and then U.S. col­ The United Democratic Front, a coali­ The past several weeks have been a good Continued on Page 18 Continued on Page 4 tion of 600 anti-apartheid organizations warmup for the campaign. Beginning with with 2 million members that has led many the special South Africa issue of the Mili­ of the current protests, declared in a state­ tant we published at the end of August and ment that the apartheid government "is the several issues since, sales in all areas FBI invades Puerto Rico, seizes 11 rapidly driving itself into social, political have jumped substantially. and economic exile from the rest of the A number of Socialist Workers Party BY ANA LOPEZ these II , as well as three others arrested world." branches report that their sales at plant NEW YORK - More than 200 FBI that day in Dallas, Boston, and Mexico, Randall Robinson, co-chairman of the gates have gone up since the South Africa agents, armed to the teeth, flew into Puerto are members of the Macheteros (literally Free South Africa Movement, said, "The events. Rico from the United States and raided machete wielders), a proindependence or­ executive order and speech were designed Throughout the country, community over 38 homes and offices of independence ganization. They have been charged with to help him reconcile his reflexive sym­ sales have gone up considerably, in some supporters. This attack is the largest armed participating in the 1983 $7 million rob­ pathy for the white minority government of cases more than double previous averages. action by the U.S. government against the bery of a Wells Fargo armored truck in South Africa with the building opposition There's been a great deal of receptivity Puerto Rican independence movement Connecticut. to his program of constructive engagement at South Africa demonstrations. since it repressed the 1950 anticolonial up­ Those arrested in the raid in Puerto Rico in the United States .... The South African At a New York picket of 300, a hundred rising on the island. were Hilton Fernandez, Angel Diaz Ruiz, government will be pleased no doubt that copies of the Militant and PM were sold. "With this attack the U.S. government is lvonne Melendez, Norman Ramirez Talav­ President Reagan remains a de facto ally of Two of our salespeople who sell weekly continuing its witch-hunt of the Puerto era, Elias Castro Ramos, Norberta Gon­ that vicious regime." at a Queens garment shop report that since Rican independence movement. This at­ zalez Claudio, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Car­ The imposition of sanctions - even the South Africa events hit the headlines , tack should be condemned by all those in los M. Ayes Suarez, Jorge Farinacci, Isaac such limited ones- is a blow to the apart­ sales at the plant have virtually doubled. the United States who support democratic Camacho, and Luis Alfredo Colon Osorio. heid regime. It reinforces the status of the Last week they sold nine copies of PM and rights," said Andrea Gonzalez, the Luz Berrios Berrios was arrested in Cuer­ murderous South African government as five of the Militant. One of the salespeople Socialist Workers Party candidate for navaca, Mexico; Juan Enrique Segarra an international pariah.
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