Astrid Proll setback ASTRID PROLL faces extradition to West Germany unless her claim for British citizenship is met. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate has ruled decided that the West German government has enough evio1 une charges against Astrid.
Astrid's trial in 1973 on two attempted murder charges was stopped because of her health as a result of sensory deprivation torture.
The West German state is very free attempted murder charges. The said in 1967:
someone is hit with a truncheon by a police officer and disarms the officer and hits him back, charge of attempted murder:" they should prepare for The magazine Der Spiegel (not a friend of the left) says that even at the time of the trial the prosecution was unable to produce the witnesses convict Astrid.
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Socialist Challenge 25 January 1979 page 10 Information, better to of imperialist countries.
Politicians are "taken
junket trips to South Africa.
South African business people try to buy their way into the European and American press.
Prominent university figures other and journalists are courted.
Thinly disguised propaganda is distributed material.
All this came to light as a result of the South Africa's Department of THE New Year in Jamaica began with, a wave of mass any demonstrations throughout the island, sparked off by a steep rise in the price of petrol to J$3.20 per gallon. banks and businesses closed, and buses barricaded streets.
In response, Prime Minister Michael Manley troops onto une streets, and a least six people died.
The protests involved workers, poor and unemployed. But they were undoubtedly ploited and mainly organised by the right wing, chiefly the Nationalist ment, an affiliate conservative opposition Jamaica Labour Party.
anti-government campaign similar to that during the CIA's "destabilisation" campaign in 1976.
Manley first won support by promising to clamp down on the "big man", the big capitalists known as the scandal, revealed the huge extent of an international network of bribery and corruption which had been developed to serve the interests of apartheid. The details of where the hand-outs are going paint an interesting picture of politics in some of the Information, but much of the details about how the millions on WCIC SOCHL most successtul exercises remain secret.
What do we know? Fifteen months ago entitled "Marketing the International Image Africa' was educationa University of South Africa and organised by the Department of Information. enquiries into Among those invited by Dr Connie Mulder, the deposed and landowners, and to give a better deal to the poor through economic and social reforms and by cutting inflation and unemployment. nomy was in a grim state when Manley's Peoples Schools, Party took office, decline in output, the trade deficit and deficit in foreign reserves.
Manley's ability to carry out brought his reforms soon although his socialist rhetoric remained.
He has since capitulated to a SereoE naron ex- which the International Monetary Fund agreed to bail him out: first the Move- devaluation and of the freeze April 1977, further devaluations of 15 per cent and a 15 per Limit the followingy car. Polic and spending has taxation increased.
Inflation has now reached a record per unemployment is 30 percent, but the economy still shows no signs of recovery. In fact, it has Reginald secretary "Muldergate' William Ford III.
invest in South Africa.
Maudling since the conference?
SUUDULLS particularly the ministers and the tion. conference supporting of South hosted by the vinism at the same time direct way with apartheid. deteriorated sharply the Gross the ecoreserves National J$402.7 balance of payments a J$200m worsened.
a J$17m vanished RECORD terms protests that cent JS10 failure.
then cent wing in been cut and cent and calls to right and the CIA. today Minister of the Interior, was Maudling. Other currently guests included the former US magazine Treasury, Simon, and Henry reputedly Henry Ford distributed a 23-page report entitled •Why STO SI police.
What sort of 'marketing' has 1976, been involved controlling Morgan According to Hansard he the Smith arguing that the Zimbabwean government is now multi-racial because there are three black ber of the settlement would end racial discriminaMaudling considered that the "terrorists' in West Africa Zimbabwe is like backing the CHOWICE IRA - attempting to appeal to Mirror group.
anti-Irish and pro-Smith chau- There management, But Maudling isn't the only British politician involved in a and it Main road in Montego Bay blocked with tyres between 8-10 January.
According to official figures Domestic Product will have declined by 2.3 per cent over the last year, foreign dropped to minus the Manley million, and the deficit Big business is still failing to reinvest and is taking its money out of the country instead.
So, when early this year the OVI announced yet followed were against a record of government Commerce Manley's response has been simply to condemn the protests as totally the work of the right attempting to bring down his government, and to sections. call in the military to 'maintain law and order'. This echoes the defend the PNP government in 1976 against the Liberation there are itself the also turned up on junket trips to South Africa. These trips, where thousands of dollars are selected journalists and politicians, were particularly popular with the South African propaganda machine during the rigged Namibia Other British figures to have turned up on similar occasions are General Sir Walter Walker of private armies fame, and the deputy chairperson of the Tory Party, Rear Admiral Morgan The South African Government and its supporters clearly understand the importance of a sympathetic press.
David Abramson, one of the super rich racists in the secret Club of Ten - best known for placing expensive newspape ads in support of apartheid - is launching a South Africa Called Pace, the magazine is specifically for blacks and has received £600,000 South Africa's secret It was Abramson who, in tried to acquire interest in the Grampian HOLE ATE group. Later he sold his 28 per cent share to Trafalgar House which runs the Daily Express.
Stuart Pegg another memClub of Ten, similarly interested in gaining influence in publishing. the strongly rumoured that he has gained control of the influential magazine forby the Daily are denials but odd things are happening on the journal noW knowledge that South African important differences. In the first place Manley is discredited among the masses Secondly, it seems clear that US imperialism's policy toward government has Vanie shifted. The IMF loans and the visits of Carter and Young and recently nine Us senators to discuss economic co-operation, indicate that imperialism no longer thinks it necessary to get rid of Manley, either electorally or by any other means This interpretation is borne the and bourgeoisie in Jamaica was split over the recent demonstrations. The Jamaica Chamber of Private power Sector Organisation of Jamaica DUJOULL condemned them, showing that at the moment the right wing does not have the backing of the most important business What of the Jamaican left in this situation? In November the him. largest left wing organisation, Stalinist-led Workers League, declared Workers Party of The present "consultant' to the Club of Ten is Donald Boddie, former editor of the London Evening News.
In education attempts have been made to gain more favourable coverage for apartheid. In the United States, for example, 10,500 multi-media kits for free distribution to intermediate, union, and high schools have been produced.
The Foreign Affairs Association, another of apartheid's shadowy propaganda outfits, has been organising trips to South Africa for prominent educationalists.
One such recent visitor to the apartheid state was Professor Jack Spence from University. And all this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Erasmus Commission, activities of the Department of investigate Information, identified operations, of which only 57 had been terminated According to Prime Minister Botha, 68 of these operations are to continue, only eight of which will be openly financed by the government. A furthe 13 operations, ranging from penetration of foreign news papers to film making, have yet to be evaluated Many, many more are still completely secret Every day as the freedom fighters get nearer to toppling racist regimes Southern Africa, so the Labour government makes harder efforts to reach a 'negotiated settlement This makes even THOTC pressing the need to expose the exist between Britain and apartheid, as part of building effective solidarity action.
Jamaica, at a founding rally of 2000 people.
The change in name was not marked by any change in their olicy of critical support for th government. They continue to blame all anti-government agitation on the right rather than recognise it as legitimate anger at Manley's sell-out to imperialism.
There are two possible outcomes the present situation. If Manley continues to meet the IMF's conditions despite the austerity measures is able to keep the working class in check, then it is likely that he will remain in imperialism's On the other hand, if the right wing is able to exploit the present discontent, then, in the absence of a clear alternative from the left, it may gain sufficient influence to replace Either way, the reformist politics of democratic socialism' will have been thoroughly discredited.
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THE COVERT propaganda activities of the South African government are no longer a secret. The exposure of the now defunct Department of