never kill because Ulllaudy only the massacres.
In 1878, chief called follow whạt French the French rule in 1917, when they fought World War to France to defend the the French the Gerour killing organised people to in Paris. day, is in Paris. chief by the same people who granulaticis our grandmothers — were too scared revolt. The repression was really Up until 1946, the Kanak people did not even have the right to go into the towns - • they first nad to get permission from the gendarmes (police).
Our people mothers, our parents, and were humiliated every day.
Every day you would hear the whites calling us 'dirty Kanaks' 'Kanak', for them, was a really pejorative word.
The Kanak dress frock introduced by the missionaries throughout the Pacific), for example, is a symbol of our CUlonisation. The Kanak dress was designed distinguish the Kanak women the white women. The Kanak women did not have the right to wear jeans OI clothes.
They had to wear a Kanak dress, that when the tourists came they could see these dresses and admire the "beautiful folklore' of our country. work was really pejorative, fought Then created the Red The Red of our of cluding The back again the struggle get strong.
wing began They said Caledonia became said Africa, because ports did but We are the producers gold, iron, COC.
cobalt, He LOCE we have tourists.
that our freedom, the protect uS being hungry our country lot of young Namouda.
Kanak.
The inspector never tried, but to In 1980 they He was visited wages that were owing.
opened He light since they Jean-Pierre Declerca, He was this year by French colonial forces general secretary • of the Jnion Caledononienne. After each killing ILIUIC more people demonstrated.
The total population of Caledonia 140,000. But the Kanak people are only 60,000 in countrie The white French, alre descended from those who came 1853 (the Caldoches) 49,500 30,500 The Chinese, Wallis Islanders, Tahitians, other immigrants. This figure also includes an estimated 20,000 French civil vants and their families, temporarily resident in New Caledonia. Eloi Machoro, Kanak leader assassinated on 12 January We the word began to tions.
Out of 7000 The immigrants traitors from Vietnam. We get that sort of refugee!
The ernment has said that we will through ple who parent born in Caledonia We made concession tions, tims of refuse out rights as indigenous The French 'socialist" government of Mitterrand sent special envoy negotiate for them Edgard Pisani said he together, to meet lal tes bring 'communities'.
Communities? They can call other ethnic communities cause they are from overWe are seas, Dur nut us not Kanaks are the true people community, of the land On the question of negotiations, we say we do not want a plan for independence drawn up France for us to just sign We do not Walt neocolonial independence where bases hers military bases and control of our economy.
We want true economic, Duntical ana cultural independence and then negotiate our agreements as • a 50c nation with other sovereign nations. Kanak sovereignty our right in New Caledonia. I is not negotiable.
THE STRUGGLE in Africa sharply poses one of the most central questions of socialist theory: the relation between the struggle of the working class and the revolutionary fight democratic demands.
JOHN ROSS looks at the historical development of the way Marxists have posed the relation South of democratic key bourgeois published a Socialist Action dictatorship hands of 13 September 1985 tion that: the social content of tha boureois democratic revolution wi fill the initial period of the comir.
of the Chinese pro letariat and the peasant poor This perspective has developed ir real life and not simply in Russia -where the land question was solven after the October revolution, le atte power had passed into itthe working for example politica
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