From: mim%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Maoist Intl'ist Mvmnt)
Subject: ANC,SACP Lead the Masses to Slaughter
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from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)

MIM Notes, Issue 69: October, 1992


       ANC and SACP peacefully lead the masses to slaughter

                             by MC31

On Sept. 7 South African president F.W. de Klerk's puppet troops
killed 28 Communist and ANC protesters who were peacefully
marching against the apartheid lackey Brigadier Oupa Gqozo in the
Black "homeland" of Ciskei.(1) De Klerk's response to the massacre
was to dispatch more national troops to "keep the peace," protect
industrial sites, and prevent looting after dark.(2)

Most of the rest of the world and the Azanians themselves do not
recognize Ciskei as autonomous as is proclaimed by the government,
and regard it as an apartheid creation designed to quarter off
Blacks and import them into South Afrika only as needed for labor.
The ANC has targeted Gqozo as one of the more brutal homeland
leaders.(3)

Jointly sponsored by the African National Congress (ANC) and the
South African Communist Party (SACP), the march to Ciskei was
planned in the face of promises from the homeland's military
rulers to use military might against the protesters, if they
disobeyed their conditions for the march.

The stipulations included a court-order that the marchers stop
before reaching the capital city Bisho, remain for less than five
hours, and carry no arms. The ANC rejected these conditions and
voted to go ahead with the march as they planned, despite open
threats of violent retaliation in plain view of the international
press which covered the event.(2) But "international outcry" has
proven in the past to be little match for a decaying fascist state
in a desperate stage of decline.

And as promised, hundreds, possibly thousands, of troops stood
ready to open fire as the protesters neared the end of their 90-
minute march. The ANC and SACP accuse Gqozo of persecuting
anti-apartheid activists and "imposing a reign of terror" on
activists.(1)

Much of the Western world condemned the killings as an outrageous
example of the evils of apartheid. Governments of other
imperialist nations believe that because the contradictions under
apartheid are so stark that the world will perhaps ignore the
atrocities that are committed by all imperialist governments which
exploit and attempt to destroy the power of the people. The
Australian foreign minister was appalled because this was a
"deliberate and calculated" massacre,(4) as if the reign of
imperialism was not a deliberate and calculated method of
super-exploitation and oppression.

The ANC has been mounting stronger mass actions and campaigns
against the reactionary apartheid system since rejecting
constitutional talks in June. The ANC had originally intended to
negotiate with the government, but after the mid-June Boipatong
massacre of ANC members that left 46 people dead, talks with the
apartheid regime were halted.

While the Azanian masses call for guns,(5) Mandela and the ANC
leadership are still reluctant to condemn de Klerk completely and
the sham negotiations that leave the Black masses worse off than
before.

But Mandela did angrily charge that while de Klerk claimed the
government was willing to consider real change through
negotiation, he was in fact preparing for war against the people.
"We are dealing with criminals . They want to drown this country
in blood. You are entitled to defend yourselves, but we appeal to
you to conduct your struggle within peaceful structures."(6)
Mandela's appeal for peace, in the face of government brutality,
is also criminal.

MIM believes the both Communist Party and the ANC should accept
the fact that in is not in white interests to "negotiate" their
dominion away to the masses who will strip them of their power and
privilege. Both the ANC and the SACP should also face the
responsibility for their mistakes and misleadership, including
peaceful, non-violent marches onto the battlefield which puts the
masses in dangerous positions of powerlessness.

It is counter-revolutionary to believe in and work toward
negotiations with white imperialist pigs who will never
voluntarily give up. The Azanian people know that their lives will
not improve until not only white minority rule, but also all
imperialist terror, is overthrown. If the recognized leadership of
the ANC continues to entertain notions of negotiations with a
government that will never do more than throw out a few crumbs of
concessions to the Black masses, then the people must make the
choice to organize for revolution and take control of their
resources and their lives.



Notes:

1. The Washington Post 9/8/92, p. A1.
2. Proprietary to United Press International 9/8/92.
3. The Toronto Star 9/8/92, p. A1.
4. Agence France Presse 9/8/92.
5. The Economist 6/27/92, p. 44.
6. The Washington Post 9/9/92, p. A23.


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