Soweto anniversary police crackdown

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At least 600 black militants have been arrested in the last few days in an attempt: by the racist authorities in South Africa to prevent any mass of the Soweto uprising.

Over a miilion blacks are reported to have taken part in commemoration of the anniversary • areas were cordoned off and thousands of police checkpoints and road-blocks set up. The authorities had support in their: attempt to prevent disturbances from Dr. Nthato Motlaria, the leader of the "Soweto 10" • along with a number of priests and other self-•styled black leaders.

Hymn singing

These 'leaders' tried to demobilise the anger of the masses by organising a seri i of church services, hymn si jing and sermons, to mourn the or more black South Africans killed by the police in the clashes which began in Soweto in June 1976.

otlana himself, tin artelevised speech, demagogically proclaimed that the struggle for black liberation was a "moral struggle" to be fought not with guns but with "moral weapons"

But the demagogy fell flat and his large audience remained silent and unimpressed, underlining the crucial need for the construction of a Marxist leadership to sweep aside these obstacles to the overthrow of A MEMBER of the proAlbanian party, the UDP, was murdered by the police in Lisbon on June 10.

The "democratic" Portuguese police were attempting to disperse a UDP counter-demonstration to an officially authorised 300strong demonstration of fascists.

lessly ambitious autocrat who had finally gained power after Menelik's death -was forced to flee to England, and take up exile in Bath.

But the Italian occupation was never able to overcome the mass struggles which continually erupted any more than it had been able to subjugate completely the resistance of the Eritrean people.

In 1941, the armies of the British state "liberated"

Ethiopia and Eritrea. Despite popular opposition;

Haile Selassie was restored as Emperor.

His despotic rule was maintained solely by the A full-scale* government crisis has arisen as a result of a difference between the Premier Tindemans' Social Christian Party and its coalition partners the Socialists plus two small regional parties.

The Tory-Labour coalition over economic poncy And amals public spending ünemployment is already in percentage terms the highest in Western Europe.

The Socialist Party is treacherously prepared to accept the cuts, wants. some obvious quid pro quo in the torn greater regional autonomy for the French and Flemish speaking communities.

Last week Tindemans resigned. King Baudoin's request to him to stay on and patch up the quarrel is an indication of ERed Sea ER IDAN & BEGEMDIR 'GOJAM ADDIS ABABA Tindemans the Belgian capitalists' fear * the explosive consequences of a break in the class collaborationist coalition.

In neighbouring Holland, economic problems have also caused major problems for the The mainly Tory govern. ment failed last week. to announce, as it had promised to do, a new austerity budget.

The reason was a reported split in the cabinet, some members fearing that the exceptional harshness of the measures proposed by the Finance Minister could provoke a wave of working class protest which would unseat the already rela-. tively weak government.

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