INTHE PLEASANG Cross ago they could have to management they would have said no.
Now 100 guards had stood firm and strike comwere being established. KANIWOTKCLS are discover this they sorts skills they didn't think they had. The miners will know all about this.
Pledges of support had already been given Kings Cross guards trom Nottingham and the Kent pledged solidarity The festival continued for three days showing the play In the National Interest about the strike at Betteshanger in 1941 large audiences and attracting many young people to the bands events. Mines not Missiles is going to become an annual event in Kent and it is a useful way of taking the issues raised by CND into the labour movement. The strong commitment of the CND group to the of not backed up by National event was, unrortunalery FRANCOIS Mitterrand bas been at pains deny any French government involvement the widelypublicised bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior New Zealand. to Describing the act 'criminal terrorism' demanded that those responsible should punished. But with the announcement that three French army officers involved in the incident it looks as if Mitterrand will have to ensure some people high up his UHL.
secret service are punished if he is gong to turn words into deeds.
French army lieutenant Christine Cabon, who has now been arrested in connection with the bombing, introduced herself Real is reace sunGreenpeace supjust month Rainbow Warrior in was attacked. She was acGreenpeace cented member and was allowed attend internal he meetings.
to Paris which she claimed be were for a magazine.
letters are now believed to have been French secret service Two other French army officers are now under suspicion for the attac These are captain Domi otherwi known as Sophie Turen and Alan Turengebased the Fren secret services underwal combat school in Corsk They • Were NOt after the explosi S0U1I on a charge of murder Three NCOs from Train same underwater school are now also bei sought on international The warrants in conn tion with the sinking of the shithe whole episode becoming a major politi development in France shows just how determ ed the French • governm to push through nuclear testing program in the Pacific.
WHEN THE TUC congress meets next week one discussion will be 0r f Africa's apartheid regime. The connections between the British and South African governments were reinforced last year by the visit of premier Botha. Thatcher's government continues to isolation of South Africa in support of the black struggle there.
Closures conference, the connections between the struggle of the British miners and black people in South Africa fighting for their freedom.
BLACK South African women and have taken inspiration from the militancy of British working class women, before, during after your SACTU urges you tend this strength, this uniL, ms milancy o sup port the fighting peoples of South Africa the brutal oppressive apartheid regime.
The profits of the coal we mine in South Africa go into the same coffers as the profits from the coal that you mine here in Britain. As workers we refuse to compete with other We motivated by greed. long as there is a trade and LITELIECE relationship between Britain and South Africa the bosses will always go to South Africa where coal can be produced cheaper.
Coal other minerals produced more cheaply Africa sanctions against South It is now up to British trade unionists to decide In her speech to the recent Women Against Pit TANYA ABRAMSCE drew Botha to Britain last year during vour strike was to with the government, including methods supress their unions. Maggie Thatcher was looking for methods to import and control your Solidarity this blatant alliance of exploiters and oppressors which highlights the need for solidarity between South African Back South African women are particularly afof black workers in South women gre vine in the Bantustans against their Their husbands, brothers and fathers forced migrate to the mines in the towns to earn living which Just enough money and imposed taxes.
Apart from toiling for long hours in the barren 8110 Bantustans. these women suffer untold stress imposed on them by the state which stops them LUCI CVCU seeing their menfolk in the towns. Women have continuall defied these forced separations by coming to the towns in tneir aroves and setting up "squat camps' continued harassment by LIC bLaLCI We, the people South Africa, refuse to be oppressed. We reject being discriminated agains black people. We rejec being oppressed women. We reject being exploited as workers.
rejection of this oppression by our fighting reste reuteral soull Africa ungovernable. The bothe regime nas reacted with naked brutality by the so-called regime against wall. amount of petty reforms crumbs SINUSI! master's table will divert our pau.
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practical measures against the apartheid state. on a practical programme for the total economic
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