TH£ El Salvador: progress toward FMLN unity . 6 Protest FBI raid of Puerto Rico . 8,14 Struggle against Marcos rule in Philippines . 11 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 49/NO. 37 SEPTEMBER 27, 1985 75 CENTS S. Africa: clergy N.Y. unions Nicaragua join Oct. 11 drives out call Oct. 9 strike prorest Honduran BY RASHAAD ALI NEW YORK - "When I heard that a invaders group of white South African busine~smen BY CINDY JAQUITH was going to Zambia to meet with the MANAGUA. Nicaragua- The Hondu­ exiles. or 'terrorists.· ~1s Botha and Reagan ran Air Force invaded Nicaraguan territory call the African National Congress. I knew September 13 , attacking positions of the victory is at hand." Sandinista People's Army. This marked a That's what Cleveland Robinson . secre­ serious escalation of the war being or­ tary-treasurer of District 65 of the United ganized by Washington to overthrow the Auto Workers. told more than 60 anti­ Nicaraguan revolution. apartheid activists meeting here September The night of September 13 . Nicaraguan 17.at the union's headquarters. President Daniel Ortega reported details of Robinson was the prime mover in the the attack: tremendously successful August 13 anti­ On the morning of September 13, some apartheid demonstration of 30.000 people 800 mercenaries - armed and organized in New York City. A majority of those by the CIA and based in camps in Hon- marchers were trade unionists. Based on the success of that action. the meeting voted to form the New York Anti­ apartheid Coordinating Council. There was a signifi<;:ant union presence at the meeting. It included unionists from the Central Labor Council; District 65: United Federation of Teachers; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Thousands of Muslims marching in funeral procession in Cape Town for one victim Employees; International Ladies' Garment of racist terror. Workers' Union; and Hispanic Committee Of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. In addition there were representatives of BY FRED FELDMAN The regime is also cracking down on the African National Congress, National Bishop Desmond Tutu and 12 other re­ news coverage. Black United Front, Peace Council, vari­ ligious figures - Black and white- have Newsweek reporter Ray Wilkinson was ous other peace and community organiza­ called a one-day strike throughout South expelled from South Africa September 12. tions, and students from Columbia and Africa to be held October 9. The demands The Citizen, a progovernment newspaper, Hunter colleges. include an end to the state of emergency warned: "We hope the Newsweek writer's The newly formed council voted to sup­ imposed by the apartheid regime July 21, expulsion will be a warning to those for­ port a citywide march and rally on October withdrawal of police and troops from Black eign media people who have been painting II - the National Anti-apartheid Protest townships, and the release ofpolitical pris­ a biased picture of South Africa that they Day and International Solidarity Day for oners. should tread carefully." Southern African Political Prisoners. Ac­ The strike call, which is forbidden under On September I I President Pieter Botha tivities will be held on a number of cam­ the state of emergency, was made in adver­ offered to "negotiate" the restoration of puses in the city. At 5:30p.m. a rally will tisements in the Johannesburg Sunday South African citizenship to residents of be held at Citicorp's headquarters. newspapers. Signers of the advertisements four supposedly independent African Citibank is one of the largest private len­ included Anglican Archbishop Philip Rus­ "homelands." Millions of Africans were ders to South Africa. Following the rally, sell of Cape Town and Methodist leader stripped of South African citizenship when at 7 p.m., protesters will march to the Peter Storey, who are white. · the so-called homelands were proclaimed South African consulate. The strike challenges escalating repres­ independent. Tanaquil Jones, a leader of last spring's sion by the government. More than 700 The negotiations are to be held with the anti-apartheid protests at Columbia Uni­ "homeland" governments, which were versity, reported on upcoming actions by Militant/Michael Baumann Blacks have been killed as the apartheid re­ Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega gime has tried to put down the antiracist re­ handpicked by the apartheid regime to re­ students. On October 7 at 2 p.m. , a protest volt. press the Africans who are confined there. will be organized at Low Library while the Botha's aides said that these "citizens" trustees meet to discuss a proposal to have duras- attempted to infiltrate Nicaragua's Winnie Mandela, a leader of the out­ would have no right to vote in South Af­ Columbia divest from businesses that have lawed African National Congress and the northern Nueva Segovia province near the rica. The "homelands" are desolate re­ investments in South Africa. We will "let town of Boca de Poteca. wife of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson serves, where millions of Blacks are forced them know that our protest will not go Mandela, has reportedly been placed under Troops of the Sandinista People's Army to live when they are not employed by a away," she said. and helicopter units proceeded to drive out house arrest in Soweto. Security forces sur­ white boss elsewhere in South Africa. She also explained their plans for actions rounded her home , the September 23 issue the invaders. The battle lasted for several Under this setup, 86.3 percent of South Af­ on October I I and plans for an October 12 hours. of Newsweek reported. ·'When journalists rica's land is reserved for whites, while forum titled "Boycott South Africa not tried to interview her, the police removed At 2:41p.m., F-86 combat planes of the 13.7 percent is reserved for Africans. Afri­ Nicaragua." Honduran Air Force; made in the United four of them and took away the key to her cans make up the majority of the oppressed Also announced at the meeting was a front door. " States, flew into Nicaraguan territory. Black population in South Africa. "War Against Apartheid" conference set They fired on the Sandinistas, hitting one Seven hundred schoolchildren were ar­ Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 4 rested in Soweto for organizing a boycott of their helicopters but not downing it. The of classes. Nicaraguans forced the jets back into Hon­ duran territory. In Atteridgeville, near the capital city of A few minutes before the air attack, at Pretoria, police gunned down a four-year­ YSA leaders begin tours to 2:30p.m., mercenaries who had hijacked a ·old girl as they drove past her house. Nicaraguan civilian airplane landed at the In Cape Town. thousands of students, Honduran airport of Toncontin. The four teachers, and parents marched on two build anti-apartheid protests_ hijackers were given a heroes' welcome dozen schools in an effort to reopen them. and immediately placed on radio and tele­ The schools, part of the segregated school BY MARK CURTIS Floyd will tour several cities in the Mid­ vision . system for Coloured children, were among NEW YORK - Leaders of the Young west and will be in Chicago for a major At 4:20 that same afternoon, at Nicara­ 460 shut down on September 6. The gov- · Socialist Alliance begin national tours this anti-apartheid demonstration October 12 . gua's sot.~thern border, CIA-trained mer­ ernment charged that they were organizing month, speaking out against U.S . support cenaries launched a mortar attack from The YSA has made building the anti­ centers for the anti-apartheid movement. to the apartheid system in South Africa, Costa Rica on the Nicaraguan border post apartheid movement its top priority. YSA In Athlone, 173 people were arrested for and inviting young people to join their or­ at Pefias Blancas. members are active in their unions, on participating in the attempt to reopen ganization. campuses, in Black and women's rights or­ These attacks were carried out, Ortega schools. Police surroundecl the demonstra­ A key purpose of the tours is to help rally said, "with the objective of provoking a ganizations, and in Central America sol­ tors with armored cars, firing rubber bul­ young people behind the wave of demon­ confrontation among Central American . idarity committees helping to organize a lets and tear gas at them . strations, vigils, pickets, and sit-ins against governments that could bring the U.S. gov­ broad movement for a free South Africa. The United Democratic Front, a coali­ apartheid. ernment in with its troops, supposedly in tion of 600 anti-apartheid groups with a "We're encouraging everyone to join in YSA National Cochairperson Laura support of some of these governments. total of 2 million members, said the cops' the protests against U.S. ties to apartheid Garza, who was a staff organizer for the Through this maneuver, the United States brutality would not "deter people in their and to aid the Black majority's struggle for April 20 demonstrations for Jobs, Peace could find a way to launch a direct action, determination to reopen the schools." a free and democratic South Africa," ex­ and Justice in Washington D.C., goes on with the goal of destroying the Sandinista The apartheid government announced plains Jackie Floyd, national cochairperson tour later this month. People's Revolution." that the schools might reopen October I . of the YSA. Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 7 N. Calif. socialists push sales at oil refineries BY SAM MANUEL will be to get out the truth about portant stl)Jggles by workers. Two The workers there are members of tion to organizing the production SAN FRANCISCO -Twenty­ the fight to overthrow the racist years ago Local 1-326 struck for Local I 00 of the United Transpor­ workers there, also organizes the four copies of the Militant along South Africa apartheid regime.