*----------------------------------------------------------* | | | x x x x x x x xx xxx xxx xxx | | xx xx x xx xx xx x x x x x x Issue #5 | | x x x x x x x x xx x x x xx xxx | | x x x x x x x x x x x x 11/07/84 | | x x x x x x x xx x xxx xxx | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | Newspaper of the Maoist Internationalist Movement | *----------------------------------------------------------* SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE KILL 16 IN GENERAL STRIKE Police shot and killed at least 16 Blacks in South Africa in the last two days. The police shot the protestors in an effort to quell protests associated with a general strike in the Transvaal. The general strike arose when workers decided to join students who were boycotting school. The student-worker alliance is taking action against the new constitution in South Africa which reconfirms the fourth class citizenship of Blacks in the last major colonial regime in Africa. Hundreds of thousands of students and workers stayed home on November 5th in an amazing display of defiance in a well- tuned police state. By all accounts the strike and boycott has been well organized and quite effective. That the police killed another 16 Blacks in the general strikes shows once again that the state is never "neutral" in class conflicts. In August and September, somewhere between 80 and 150 Blacks lost their lives in protests against the new constitution. The massacres make a farce of white liberals' claims that South Africa can be changed through persuasion and reform. They also show what a lie "democracy" is right here in the U.S., since without U.S. military and economic aid, South Africa could not so efficiently repress its people (See "U.S. and South Africa" on MIM literature list) (Detroit News, 11/7/84) SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS SEARCH 20,000 HOUSES The South African army attempted to intimidate Blacks in South Africa by searching houses and making mass arrests. The crackdown and use of the army failed to quell protests. Protests in the face of the army crackdown demonstrated the determination of the people to overcome apartheid despite Western claims that South Africa "is getting better." (New York Times, 10/24/84) CIA TERRORIST MANUAL FOR NICARAGUA ADAPTED FROM VIETNAM WAR According to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan the manual that the CIA supplied to rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua was "word for word" from U.S. Army efforts in Vietnam in 1968. (See MN3 about the manual.) (Detroit Free Press, 10/29/84, p. 5A.) FMLN CLAIMS TO HAVE SHOT DOWN CIA PLANE Four U.S. spies died in a plane crash in El Salvador last month. The FMLN said that the U.S. explanation that the plane crashed in the rain is ridiculous. The U.S. offered this explanation to give the appearance of not violating the law regarding U.S. forces in combat. CASUALTIES IN GRENADA COVERED UP Two former military intelligence officers said that at least ten combat deaths of Americans in the U.S. invasion of Grenada were covered up. The deaths came in a top-secret operation just before the public invasion. Families of the dead have been told to keep quiet. Also in question is the number of Grenada's dead, since there never was a final total. Two hundred forty U.S. soldiers and military policemen continue the occupation of the tiny island a year after the invasion. (NYT 10/22/84, p. A6, Time 11/5/84, p. 44.) CAPITALIST GOALS SET BY CHINA "China's new blueprint for invigorating the economy with capitalist incentives and burying Mao Tse-Tung's egalitarianism will allow the country to 'soar' for the first time since Communist rule began 35 years ago, a high- ranking party leader said." (Detroit News 10/22/84) HEAD OF U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOL IN GRENADA QUESTIONS INVASION MOTIVE General Hudson Austin visited the U.S. medical school once he took power last year. He assured the safety of the U.S. students and saw to their food and water supplies. Thirty hours passed before the U.S. invaders reached the medical students. They had not been harmed in the meantime. No one went onto the U.S. campus to take revenge against the students for the U.S. invasion. U.S. imperialism needs excuses. That any country with some U.S. citizens in it is open to U.S. invasion shows two things—that the U.S. imperialists fear the world they oppress and that they need to wage war on a grand scale. (NYT 10/28/84, p. A8.) CHINA ADMITS A KIND OF "REVOLUTION" In frenzied attempts to throw China right back into the Dark Ages, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has admitted that the establishment of capitalism in China has been a "kind of revolution." Publicly, Deng still does not admit that China is state capitalist. Recent changes in China have made front pages of the U.S. papers as capitalist. The latest announcements form China are that industrial firms will be independent of the government and have considerable power to fix prices. If the Detroit News can recognize that China is capitalist, why can the League of "Revolutionary" Struggle (LRS) or the Spartacist League (SL)? Like the U.S. ambassador they are are trying to save China's face for going for capitalism. (Detroit News, 10/22/84, p. 1A) LEAGUE OF "REVOLUTIONARY" STRUGGLE (LRS) ENDORSES MONDALE A supposedly Marxist-Leninist newspaper called "Unity" published by the LRS backed Mondale, liberal candidates and issues across the land on November 6th. LRS claims to support Mao and Deng of China. Nowhere in the paper did Mao's name appear, despite his supposed role in inspiring Deng and the LRS. 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