South African struggles grow

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June 11 marked the 16th anniversary of the jailing of South Africa's best-known political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress.

He is one of 21 prisoners serving life sentences mostly, like Mandela, on Robben Island.

Hundreds of others are in jail for political "crimes". In the last lew weeks, as school students and workers have launched new boycott and strike waves, hundreds more militants have been arrested.

A small picket took place outside South Africa House on June 11.

It was organised by Anti Apartheid and supported by representatives of the Communist Party, the IMG, the WSL, the RCG and the RCT as well as individual opponents of apartheid.

From June 16 (the fourth anniversary • of the Soweto uprising there will be two weeks of anti-apartheid activities.

These will culminate in a march in solidarity with South African and Namibian political prisoners and detainees, ' on Saturday June 28 setting out at 2.00 p.m. from Temple Place, (Embankment), London. mining workers are African as are the urban police and the army, while sugar and rice workers are Asian and there is a rising class of petit-bourgeois Asians training to be tomorrow's technocrats replacing the role traditionally played by the European bourgeoisie.

The WPA was formed last year from four organisations of both ethnic groups and is attempting to build links between the two communities to challenge the government.

Last year saw a general strike which brought tremendous recruitment to the WPA but it was unprepared, organisationally and politically to overthrow the PNC regime.

Unemployment is high-35% -as elsewhere in the Caribbean and yet 95% of the economyand the mass media-are in the hands of the state, so the question of state power immediately arises in any confrontation.

Messages condemning the