It has robbed us of our land, insulted our people and their cultures. In in name and for its preservation, our greatest patriots have been killed or thrown into fascist dungeons. Since 1967 they have been engaged in armed struggle and sometimes send the enemy troops running for shelter. But this is only one side of our struggle. A revolution is what we fight for and a revolution is not always only a military struggle.
People revolt against some order and for some new order.
We want a society where we can five in peace, security and with human dignity, a society where equality and love between our people is possible. The armed cadres of Umkhonto are not a professional army. They ore dedicated sons and daughters of all the Sections of the South African people who have sacrificed the ordinary comforts of life to contribute to our liberation. Together, these organisations employ political, industrial, military' propagandistic and other methods towards achieving the peoples' programme - The Freedom Charter. At a historic gathering almost twenty years ago, the most representative meeting of the peoples of South Africa adopted as their programme, the basis of the society to be, this charter.