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Saturday 18 June Assemble Speakers Comer London 1.00pm SUPPORT THE SSA/NOISS Altemative Platform at the end of the demo ola remains enigHicial statements to, stated that the Ists' alming to set ais has such little swed as designed socking power aniden ogical ones selesa a sumiber of s no evidence of Soviet ent in the coup itself Alves was L posts last October. bident Neto's visit to the ad boca persuaded to ir protege. But to have Ived at all in such a areeting Important time the decision of the Natiena Caon of Sin deats to keep Twieci Mashinini - leader of this struide aff the plalform of the 18 Jame demonstration.
We hope that Socialist Challenge and everyone here wil oppose this decisien and campaige to ger it reversed. The South African straggle needs unity and International sobdarity, We hope that Soc demonstration.
Congo Soviets must have felt that they deed with theNeto Goverment On the other hand, Alves" relations to the Cubansseems to lave been uniformily hostile.
José Van Dunen, political com missar of the armed forces, was growing Cuban influence. And the insurgents" chief larpers for emisation amone the MPLA leadership was the Minister of Finance, able Cuban influence and had radical rency from the escudo zone, thus simtiltancousty breaking an imworld economy and striking a powerful bow at currency to Students' Ha euerxies Baroey Mokuade Secretar Salby Soweto SRCE trancbed Socialit Challense) It is not usual, even In the context of the traditional sectarlanism of the British left, to have two alterative platforms at the and of a united NUS-called Soweto aniversary demonstration face in London this Saturday, COLIN TALBOT, a member of the National Union of Students Executive, explains how this situation has arisen.
Farlier the year Toletsé Mashinini and • group of other Soweto esiles in Londos actions with those struggles against the rucist South African regime. The focus For Cotaily on the Cuban ade there was no doubt about their atitude: they immediately ralBed to the side of the Neto regime. Put together this suggests a substantial Cuban Soviet davergence over the best coura of eventsil Angola.
It is a sad comment on a seitgime that the paucity of internal democracy, the absence of a free васине оуст ровиса ороопя, and the ahsence of effective organs of mase political power, 183 20 1 2 Ce Wie crucial political issues remained buried bebind the curtain to be resolved by the mechan. isms of insurgency and counterialist Challenge will fight in Britain for these things with all Setele E Ciremires Message tu the rally elich But that ls what militants who tum out for the of the Soweto aprising which started on 16 Jane 1976.
This appeal has received substantial becking, including more than a dozen national trade union leaders, a ment, many artists and intellectuak, and .. the National Union of Studenes Executive Ar the time the Appeal was endorsed by the NUS Executive there LUCALIDE tial of Tricts Mashinim. Aller the MoE had announced its decision national demonstration Executive working party drew up plans for the demonstration On that working party it was the Hroad Left themselves who proposed that Tsiets be one of the central spenkers at the demondazen stration. They readily accepted my sugges tion that NUS should organise a national Soweto aludent leadera (left to right] Taleter Mashinini, Saiby Semela, Baroay Makhalle speaking tour was not a singi or query raisco about the creden to 00 18 Junc an Britain. his comrades.
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with Soweto snudens. Why operare so fully with people who they now sny do "nar represent a force of liberation"
Why are they orcoareo to wo so Tar as t rovoke a split in the solidarity movemen by their sectarian atitude to Tsiesi and hi The NUS Executive is dominated by the Broad Left coalition, which la in dominated, especially on international is sues, by the Communist Party of Great the international solidarit movement has been nereunded that th African Nacional Congresa was Lhe on liberation movement in South Africa. Fo with the Durban strikes and culminating in the massive Soweto uprising last year a new mass resistance movement is deve opine Although the ANC has played a part in this, and many individual ANC membens a very heroic part, no-one could serioust 0S21 SE SUA AO ISE TEI movement. But the ANC and its Commu supporters doa't want to admi the Soweta sudents who are critical of the ANC and have no intencion of joining it That is the orien ol the camosion aaains! Tsietsi and the other Someto leaders.
The atitude that the far left members of the NOS Exculive have adopted to thi campaign is simple. Firstly, we will de everything in our power to drag out into the which are being circulated about Tsietsi and They are heroic freedom fighiers who have laid their lives on the line on the struggle against apartheid. We do this irrespective of the views of Tsiessi and the orber Sowero sudents, with whom we may have many diferenoes. We would do exactly the same for ANC militants if the NON-SECTARIAN Secondly, we demand that NUS take
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