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Thursday and Saturday EDITORIAL: FIGHT U.S. IMPERIALISM The US Assistant Secretary o f State for of terrorist regimes throughout the world. African Affairs, Chester Crocker has This Administration, which has condemned what he calls “terrorist •elf-righteously proclaimed its mission to be activities” and other “violent efforts” by the fight against international terrorism, SWAPO and ANC. Testifying before the spends huge sums of dollars to prop up US Senate Sub-Committee on Security fascist dictatorships such as those in El and Terrorism on March 22,1982, he'said Salvador to continue with their genoddal that these two organisations receive 90% policies. It is also the same .Administration of their military aid and 60% o f their overall which supports the Pretoria racists not aid from the Soviet Union. only to conduct a reign of terror against the The derogatory reference by Dr Crocker majority of the people in our country, to the just struggle tor national but also to carry these acts of terror into independence waged by the national libera­ the neighbouring states with complete tion movements as ‘terrorism’ - is but a disregard for life and property. feeble attempt by the Reagan Administra­ Neither the ANC nor the Soviet Union tion at concealing its role as the mainstay made any secret about the selfless support ) -. advances by throwing it* f|ill weight behind that the Soviet Union,, thV. Socialist Community and. th* progre*ive force* the racbt Pretoria regime. ; ; Fearing the destruction o f Ua fwnghold thfr-world b r ' w . p » N toJ 5 J ! ! 2 £ in Africa toy the ©eration'forces led bytoe fighting against oppression, exploitation ANC and SWAPO, imperialism now * £ * to And a pretext tor it* aggreesion in toe “ 4« obM». «"»■> ngtoa. However this tone'to* exaisefor this “revelation’ o f Soviet asaistance to the intervention 6s not Cub. ot W but the Soviet Union tor ita asaUtance to UbF^°them^p t e ot^outh the Uberation movements. lt b a w r g manoeuvres of the R e a g a n A lt e r a t io n that • the strategy of ^international in Central' America . are instructive, us imperialism. In particular toe United States, Imperialism, hrring M ed to its niachinatioM i* to suppress the liberation, movements to subdue the people of Cuba and to reverse In South Africa and Namibia, and to-use their revolutionary gains, wu^ the racist South African .regime to attack with yet another humiliating defeat with the front line states tor their assistance the trtunph of the struggle o f the people to our cause. of Nicaragua, Added to these defeats the The ANC therefore calls on progressive US - Administration is now confronted mankind tb- condemn these , dirty with the increasing tepipo of popular manoeuvres by the United States and struggles, namely in El Salvador and other give all possible support to toe national countries In the region. In response to these Uberation movements and to toe front ’ developments the US Administration has line,states in. our subcontinent. For our adopted a desperate and aggressive stance nart we In the ANC shall not rest until towards Cuba and Nicaragua. Vre destroy to* apartheid monster and. create a South Africa that will stand ' similarly, In Southern Africa, Imperialism peace, democracy and social progress. which has suffered great losses as a rwuitof the victories o f the revolutionary stru^es AMANDLA! MATLA! Alfred Nto, Secrttary General waged in the region, seeks to reverse these U.S. DECLAKtb w a r ON ANC AND SWAPO It is an open secret, indeed a known fact, Denton Commission that the US does not only collaborate with In March something very sinister took r a cist South Afrifca, it actually coordinates racist South Africa’s plans against the place in the US namely the hearings on ANC and SWAPO organised by a sub­ people of Africa. Up to now little has been committee of the US Senate on Sentry known - at least outside Our «nks and Terrorism. The Chairman of tbs sub- that the US has declared war on us, the liberation movement* of Southern Africa, committee is no other ton Senator it b now taking measures to confront us Jeremiah Denton, a man who in the mid 60’s, an America which still nhvsically. It is true that the Reagan regime largely believed in the “ Vietnam, wai*. has always confronted us at least morally He spent seven years and seven months • filin g ua “international terrorists and In -North Vietnam as a P ^ “*r °f attempting to , view our struggle In the after being shot down over North Vietnam context of cold war, “IntematlonaUsmg’ and captured on July 18,1965. our struggle. Now they openly collaborate The hearings of this subcommittee with, the racist regime of Pretoria In this bring beck memories of th e U N -American dirty game. t Activities Committee headed by Joe McCarthy. u d hit South African Trip Joel Lisker is the Chief Committee aide of Senator Denton. He together with Bert Milling visited South Africa and Namibia on January 11-19, 1982 to investigate the Soviet, East German (the name they uae for the German Democratic Republic) and Cuban involvement and/or control in the ANC and SWAPO. It was not the first time that Ltsker went to South Africa. Formerly with the Registra­ tion Unit at Justice which oversees the registration of Foreign Agents, Lisker travelled to South Africa during the Muldergate Scandal to investigate the American aspect and angle to the scandaL The one case that did come out of this was refused to adopt Marxism and abandon the Me Goff case. Also investigated was Christianity; and was intented in inspect­ Donald De Kieffar, the Foreign Agent ing “captured material” from numerous representing the South African Information South African raids into Angola Office, who is now the Chief Counsel for (including the Kasslnga massacre). the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The delegation, as we said before, received There are some shocking revelations a briefing by the South African Intelligence about this visit: the trip was coordinated while there, and in return they briefed the with the State Department; the delegation US State Department on their return. briefed the US embassy officials in South Africa upon their arrival and were debriefed Enter Chester Crocker at the State Department upon their return. They also had the cooperation of the racist The hearing started on March 22 in the South African Government on their trip. US. In his opening statement Senator Prior to leaving the US, Lisker sent a Denton spelt but the mandate of his sub­ “ shopping list” to the South African committee: officials indicating the people they wished to “Today, we commence a series of five meet with, the places they wished to visit hearings on the role of the Soviet Union, and the information they hoped to have through its puppets in Cuba and East access to. All in all they interviewed over Germany, in fomenting and supporting 20 people while there, mostly former ANC terrorism in Southern Africa... and SWAPO1 members. These people had ' “ ._ these three countries have been left the organisations for various reasons described repeatedly as actively and success­ including anest in South Africa, voluntary fully trying, under the overall control of surrender and dissatisfaction with the the Politburo in Moscow, to infiltrate and organisations. All this did not matter to manipulate so-called national liberation Lisker - he was not concerned why they movements. We have heard repeated left the organisations he- was interested In: references to the Soviet Union’s activities what they did within' the ANC and in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, South SWAPO; what type of training they Yemen, and elsewhere in the world „ received and where; what type of educa­ there is a strong case to be made that tion they received and where, how many African Blacks, as well as whites, will wffer trips they made to the Soviet Union and if communist movements expand or triumph the German Democratic Republic.