IT'S OUR FIGHT, TOO! WE MUST HELP!

It's not as far as you think from Cicero, Illinois, to Odendaalsrust, South Africa, where police recently machine-gunned African men and women.

U. S. Jim Crow and South Africa's Apartheid have the same common denominator of super-profits for the Morgan, Rockefeller, and other giant American interests which share in the expropriation of Africa's great resources.

Only with the crushing of the African people's liberation movements in South Africa and throughout the continent, only with the maintenance of alien overlordship, is it possible to fulfill the plans of making Africa supply the uranium and other war material needs of the United States and its

Western European allies and of converting that continent into a vast pivotal base of operations in World War III.

Thus it is that the ten million African and other darker peoples of South Africa, by their Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws, are contributing directly to OUR struggle for democratic rights and peace.

Let us Americans express our gratitude and solidarity by petitioning our government to support the African people, and NOT their oppressors, in South Africa.

Let us also contribute whatever we can — even if only a dime — in response to the urgent appeal from South Africa for help to the hundreds of victims of Malanazi persecution.

PETITION

To the President of the United States
The White House, Washington, D. C.

Sir:

No lasting peace and no security for any of us can be achieved as long as people
anywhere are victimized and oppressed because of their race or color.

In the Union of South Africa, where racist oppression exists in its most vicious
and blatant form, hundreds of African and other dark-skinned men and women are cur-
rently being arrested and jailed for striving to achieve and exercise elementary demo-
cratic and human rights.

This shocking and inhuman treatment cannot be regarded as merely a question
of domestic jurisdiction. If Hitlerism deserved to be a matter of world concern, so does
Malanism.

We call upon you, Mr. President, to halt United States assistance in any form
to the Government of the Union of South Africa, and to denounce publicly that gov-
ernment's racist program as an international menace.

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All petitions and contributions are to be returned before or by Sept. 15, 1952 to the Council on African Affairs, 53 West 125th Street, New York 27, N. Y.

Contributions will be forwarded immediately to the Fund for the Victims of Nationalist Persecution, Johannesburg, South Africa, jointly sponsored by the African National Congress, South African Indian Congress, Springbok Legion, Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, and Transvaal Peace Council.

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