Taletsi Mashinine target of smear campaign June Soweto anniversary demonstration.
been produced by Colin Talbol, working party for the demonstralion.
It is no coincidence that the Broad Left it led by members of the Communist Party and that. as their document makes clear, the initiative in this affair lies with the African National Cangress of South Africa, in turn led Last week the majority of the National Union of Students Executive took the seclarian step of withdrawing their Invitation lo Soweto student leader Taietsi Mashinini to speak on the platform of the 18 They capped this off by launching & smear campeign against Mashinini in a document circulated to all their affiliated unions. A minority slatement, including a detalled relutation of all the Broad Left's slanders, has Sociallst Student Alliance member on the NUS Executive and the by memhers of the South African For many years the ANC has been postering as the leaders of everything that goes on in South ing influence ufter the defeats of the early 1960s. Certainly ANC militants were involved in the recent upsurge and their pisoned waders, lke seelson Mandela, remain political symbols to the mass movement. But the ANC is only one current in a much broader vanguard.
POLITICAL HOSTILITY Tsietsi Mashinini is part of one grouping which has resisted the ANC': overtures. He has been subjected to the full blast of their political hostility which, as with their attacks on Africanist Congress in tbe "60s and more recently the expelled minority, ANC of a slander campaign.
In their document the Brond Left say they condemn any ing to use own political purposes*. But that I USE WANEL DENISES CLE Broad Left and the ANC doing by making the NUS into a tool for their objecrives in southern Africa.
Already a number of organisa LOTS Students Alliance, the National Creamiestion Socialists Societies and the Man LOSET SEEINGS manded that the NUS Broad Left organise an anernative, samarian wallocut for the 39 June demonstration.
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financial ald to South African bringie this harassment in Botswanal and in perpetrating das theid to the geention or people, the national Defence and Aid Fund are touring two central inaders Cooncil who are among the leaders of the massive student A key element in the present shalogy ping pursung oy ime US Government in particular spearheaded by UN AmbassaCON ONE HIMA CONTRI ing the liberation struggle is to people from be aducated in the US. There is of confusion Tower SaiLorden is Mashinins and peign to provide more such Targely in the ;Extract from NUS circular 1o affiliated organisations.)
ANGOLA: We had intended la carry an analysis of the recent coup altecapt in Angola. Ho» the scandalous attack on Tsietsi Mashinini by the NUS Executive has meant we bave
GENUINE SOCIALISTS have always detested the Windsor monarchs, In the SOCIALIST CHALLENGE / June 1$77 was the monarchy. The penalty of being first into the new political universe was that
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