IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Save Mahlangu Stop the execution of MAHLANGU sentenced to death for fighting apartheid

Socialist Challenge No. 38, 23 March 1978 · p. 12 of the scan · 254 words

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page 12 of the scan

-SOLOMON Mahlangu of the African National Congress of tenced to death by the The ANC Bas heid regime. pointed out that this sentence is aimed at the South African *Wie of the African National Congress of South Africa rebemently condemn this hurous conviction und tence. We demund that the I racist regime of Vorster complies with the newly introdaced LaCECTA Convention states that guerillus captured in Bas the war of liberation be treated as prisoners of war."

The ANC goes on to call on opposition as a whole and not the widest international solidarity to release all prisoners including Solonion Mablange: It is the Vorsten and Krugers and not the free. han- dom fighters who have to be sen- put on trial.' South African Macists and Stalinists talk about "peasants" without ever they mean by the term A Tavourite of the Macists is the small peasant.

Engels defined the small peasant like this: "By a small pea sant we mean here the owner or tenant former — of a patch of land no bigger as a rule than he and his family can till and no smaller than can sustain the family:' for peasants in South Africa becomes sion and have been so rapid, thorough and complete that wage labour has hecome the precondition political for existence in South Africa.

hi the end Or each moDE countless scores of dependents in the Bantustans (homelands) wait anxiously for the regis tered package from their bread winner in the urhan areas.

independent other Caledonia.

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