N E W S L E T T E R OF THE M A T E R I A L A ID C A M P A I G N FOR ZANU

VOL. L no. 2

US INCREASES SUPPORT FOR SOUTH AFRICA

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On November 3, 1982,the Special Com-mitee of the Inter-national MonetaryFund met in Wash-ington, D. C. and ap-proved a 1.0? billiondollar loan to South

Africa. The loan was pushed thr-ough by the u.s. even after theworld community at the U.N. votedoverwhelmingly to oppose the loan.The u.s., England and West Germanywere the only, member states ofthe U.N. to vote in favor of theloan. The I.M.F. has proportionalvoting based on the amount ofmoney contributed. Therefore,even though all the African coun-tries voted against the loan, theu.s. and the other imperialistcountries control the I.M.F. andset its policies based on their

own economic, military and pol-itical interests. Th •. I.M.F. isclearly used to maintain and dee-pen imperialist control over theThird World.

The current I.M.F. loan toSouth Africa reflects increasingsupport by u.s. led imperialismfor the white settler colony ofSouth Africa and is needed bySouth Africa to meet its militaryand economic needs at this time.

South Africa is involved ina heightened state of war in aperiod of ecenomic decline.Thewar in Namibia, attacks on neigh-bouring independent African states,covert operations such as theattempted coup in the Seychellesand increasing repression at homeagainst the African majority areall reactions to the strengthen-ing of the front line states es-pecially with the liberation ofZimbabwe as a vanguard against

Mas? struggle :i Azania (Soweto 1976) continues to g'ow and intensify

the South African regime. This,heightening strength, the escal-ation of the mass struggle insideAzania , the building of the arm-ed struggle and the economicsanctions imposed on South Africaby the U.N.for South Africa's ille-gal occupation of Namibia, have allput great strain on the South Afr-ican economy and its ability towage war. South Africa spends onemillion dollars per day to carry outits war in Namibia, so this loanwill pay for the illegal occupationof Namibia and all South Africa'ssecurity needs at home and abroad.The u.s. support for South Africa isbecoming more and more open, as seenby the pushing through of this loan.

Militarily, South Africa isvital to the needs of imperialism.It maintains direct control of thesouthern part of Africa.It is alsoa place for the u.s. airforce andnavy to use as bases to control theIndian and Atlantic Oceans. Justrecently, the export of 6 u.s.planes to be used by the SouthAfrican airforce as air ambulanceswas approved. South Africa is anarea of intelligence gathering forthe u.s. particularly via satelliteand it is the force that maintainsthe instability of Southern Africaand the continued exploitation ofthe rich land, labor and resourcesin the area.

To enhance the ability to do allof these things, the u.s. breaksinternational law:- two years ago, shells for the u.s.I50m.m. cannon that can be used fortactical nuclear weapons were sentto South Africa from Vermont viaCanada.- in September, 1981 the u.s.issued visas to the springbokrugby team to come to the u.s.tobuild support for South Africa.- in September 1982 2,500 shockbatons were sent to South Africa.Their 3,500 volt charge is usedto terrorize prisoners and toattack strikes & demonstrations.-the recent State Dept. author-ization allowing americandiplomats to visit the "home-lands" (bantustans) . •>

- visits to South Africa by amer-ican entertainers in the face ofUN mandates against the culturalsupport of South Africa.- The $1.0? billion IMF

Economically and financiallyu.s. imperialism's investmentsare substantial and increasing,u.s. industry, especially "defense"and other related industries relyon the strategic minerals that areextracted in Azania and the restof southern Africa. Substantialprofits are made there because ofthe super-exploitation of Africanlabor, u.s. financial investmentshave doubled in the past 10 yearsfrom 1.1 billon dollars to 2.63billion dollars. In 1972-73 Citi-bank was involved in 27 loans toSouth Africa totalling 1.6 billiondollars. Chase Manhattan, theFirst National Bank of Boston andthe Republic National Bank alsohave hugh holdings there, u.s.auto and oil companies are oper-ating numerous facilities, just-ifying their presence there byusing the Sullivan Principle thatmandates a token number of Africansbe employed in u.s. companies inSouth Africa. The sub-group onnuclear export co-ordination(including officials from the Ee-partment of State, Defense, Com-merce and Energy) is consideringSouth Africa's application for alarge hot isostatic press used innuclear technology. In all, 19.5$of all foreign investments inSouth Africa are from the u.s.

Economists put forward thatthe economic crisis in South Af-rica is because of the sharp dropin gold since 1980. That is onlypartically true. South Africa hasbeen in crisis ever since 19?6,and the wave of sustained up-risings that followed the masseruption in Soweto. Theseuprisings and the student boy-cotts of 1976, came out of a longhistory of struggle in Azaniaagainst the regime. The uprisingssparked by Soweto precipitatedthe present economic and poli-tical crisis. South Africa isstill paying for the replace-ment of the facilities, both

CHAIRMAN POKELA OF THE PAC AT THE UNChairman Nyati Pokelaof the Pan AfricanistCongress of Azania(PAC) addressed theUnited Nations twicerecently. On Nov-ember 5, 1982 hespoke before a ses-

sion of the U.N.'s Special Com-mittee Against Apartheid. Theoccasion was the presentationby the U.N. of its Human RightsAward for those who have made acontribution to humanity, andspecifically in this case, in sup-port of the liberation of Azania.

Chairman Pokela delivered amajor address to the General As-sembly on Nov. 9th, making a re-port to the body on the situationin Azania, and to strengthen theU.N.'s resolve to push forward itsfull program in support of theAzanian liberation struggle. Inthis address, he stressed thatapartheid could only be elimina-ted by the full restoration ofthe rights of Africans, and thatthe U.N. was duty bound to insurethis. All other political arrange-ments such as the "power sharing"proposed by the whites to rulewith the passive cooperation ofthe Indians and coloreds was justanother way to stop the Africanmajority.

Concerning the imposition ofsanctions, Chairman Pokela said:"The reasons for this reluctanceon the part of the western powersare not difficult to find. Trueapartheid is abominable, but itis also very profitable. Westerninvestment, in defiance of inter-national calls for sanctionsagainst the apartheid regime, hasbeen steadily growing... Such in-vestments do not constitute pres-sure for change, but an activeform of encouragement for aparth-eid."

Chairman Pokela also spokeof the recently approved IMF loan'to South Africa. The money ($1.0?

billion) was needed to enable theSouth Africans to pay for theircontinued agressicn against Nami-bia and Angola, and the racists"regard it as a license to commitaggression against neighboringand far off African states...Theovert and covert assistance givento the South African racists bythe United States, Britain, France,West Germany, Switzerland, Japan,and the close cooperation thatexists between the racists in oc-cupied Azania and the Zionists inoccupied Palestine has also beeninstrumental in the racists inten-sifying repression and suppressioninternally".

Chairman Pokela did continueto call for mandatory sanctionsas an important contributory formof struggle. But given the reac-tionary violence of the racistregime and the refusal of the west-ern powers to implement sanctions''the oppressed people of Azanialong decided to employ whatevermeans at their disposal to rea]-ize their inevitable victory.They consciously chose the path ofarmed struggle...not because theylove violence, but because theyknow full well that it is the onlytrue path to liberation in theface of racist intransigence andwestern connivance'1. He ended hisaddress calling "on the people ofthe world who cherish justice andare resolutely opposed to all formsof exploitation to launch a majorinternational campaign against allthose who overtly or covertly con-nive with the South African racistregime."

Chairman Pokela, while in NewYork City, was the guest of honorat a reception Nov. 6th in theHarlem State Office Building, wherehe was enthusiasticly received bysupporters and members of the Har-lem community. Chairman Pokela alsparticipated in a program in hishonor sponsored by the NationalBlack United Front held on Nov.12th at Medger Evers College inBrooklyn NY.

MEW AFRIKAN & WHITE ANTI-IMPERIALISTS—TARGETS THE STATE'S ATTACK

On November 18, 1982 theu.s. government issued the mostmassive political conspiracy again-st revolutionary forces in recentyears, 11 people - Dr. MutuluShakur, Sekou Odinga, Nehanda Abio-dun, Biiai Sunni-Ali, Chui Ferguson,Jamal, Iliana Robinson, Nilse Cobeo,Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldiniand Dr. Alan Berkman - are beingcharged with conspiring in allegedclandestine actions directed bythe BLA. Of those indicted andfacing trial, Sekou Odinga is aNew Afrikan Freedom Fighter andPOW, several other people are orwere activists in public organiz-ations such as the Black PantherParty and the Republic of NewAfrika, and the two white anti-imperialists targetted in this caseare both members of May 19thCommunist Organization.

We believe that all progress-ive people need to support theseindicted comrades and combat allaspects of government repression.Through the use of traitors, theFBI hopes to discredit and des-troy the very concept of a revol-utionary armed struggle for liber-ation, criminalize claimed revol-utionary actions such as theliberation of Assata Shakur andtried to make public revolutionaryorganizing illegal. This is the

• same counterinsurgency strategyapplied by the CIA against nat-ional liberation movements inAfrica and throughout the world.

As a project of Mayl9thCommunist Organization we partic-ularly want to share with otheranti-imperialists our view ofwhy May 19th is being targettedand how it can be supported.

Proletarian internationalism,and in particular unconditionalsuppprt for the liberation ofAfrica and New Afrikan peopleshas been central to May 19th'sstrategic view of the defeat ofu.s. imperialism. May 19thCommunist Organization was bornout of the struggle for white

people in the u.s. to support theright of New Afrikan nation towage armed struggle for land,independence and socialism - thesame goals and strategy of Africanliberation movements throughoutthe continent.. It was largelythrough its relationship to theNew Afrikan Independence Movementthat May 19th Communist Organizationrealized the strategic importanceof building the Material Aid Cam-paign for ZANU-PF as an organizat-ional form for solidarity withAfrican liberation.

Through our work in solidaritywith the revolutionary movementsin Africa, we understand more deeplythe power of people's war in defeat-ing imperialism and white supremacy,that socialism must be the goal forrevolutionary forces and that itis advancing and that women partic-ipating in people's war and social-ist reconstruction is the onlystrategy for total liberation. Wehave also learned key lessons - inparticular when imperialism is facedwith the growth and consolidationof revolutionary forces and thepublic movement that supports thoseforces - it unleashes terror andviolence to destroy them. Theassassination of leaders, imprison-ment of leaders and politicalactivists, and attacks on thefamilits and homes of politicalactivists are not unknown to theu.s. government in its war againstnational liberation. In southernAfrica the 10 year imprisonment ofRobert Mugabe by the Rhodesians,the assassination of Patrice Lumumbaby the CIA, or the banning of thePAC by South Africa has not stoppedthe struggle of the people to befree.

Silvia Baraldini is a leaderof May 19th Communist Organizationand gives critical leadership tobuilding in the u.s. principledand strategic unity among whitepeople with national liberation -particularly African liberation.In February, 1980 she was part ofa delegation that traveled to Zim-babwe in response to ZANU's requestfor international observers of the

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MNR—IMPERIALISM ATTEMPTS TODESTABLIZE MOZAMBIQUE ,

MOZAMBIQUE

Since the liberationof Zimbabwe, there hasbeen a major advancein the regional strug-gle against South Af-rica. The front linestates are coordinat-ing economic planning

through SADCC(Southern African Dev-eloping Coordinating Conference)and reaching higher levels of coop-eration concerning security. Thisis particularly true of IViozambiqueand Zimbabwe.

Just last month, after thelatest SADCC meeting held inHarare, Zimbabwe, Prime MinisterMugabe of Zimbabwe and PresidentMachel held a day of joint dis-cussion on security matters.

These meetings were to dealwith South African-backed counterinsurgents, the Mozambican Nation-al Resistance (MNR). This pseudo"liberation group*", like UNITA inAngola, is part of imperialism'sresponse to the advances of inde-pendent states and liberation mov-ements in southern Africa, andits attempt to establish neo-col-onialism.

On July 22, the MozambicanArmy intercepted and routed outa South African army unit nearthe South African border. Theywere forced to abandon a greatdeal of equipment which indicatedthat they had been on a reconnai-sance mission to open the way forfuture sabotage raids which wouldbe attributed to the MNR. It wasbecause of the fast-thinking oflocal peasants, who alerted thenearest Mozambican Army barracks,that the South Africans were soquickly ejected, ^residentSamora Machel has warned the peo-ple to be on their guard, and hasappointed military commanders toall the MNR affected areas sothat the civilian militias of therevolution can be reestablished.Since karch, the government hasbeen distributing weapons to thepeople in order to realize thisstrategy.

The kNR was created by theRhodesian secret services in 19?6while in direct contact with SouthAfrican secret police. This wasat a time shortly after Mozambiquehad severed ties with the thenapartheid, white settler regime ofRhodesia. From its very beginningfthe MNR was a foreign operation,intended to destabilize Mozambique.It is trained, financed, and runby South Africa and is made up ofMozambicans who had been bootedout of FPLM (Mozambican Army) forembezzling funds from the libera-tion forces.

After the victory of the Zim-babwean people over the Rhodesians,the mercenary forces of the MNRhad to flee to South Africa, wherethey received new bases. Sincethen, South African military intel-ligence and "specialists" haveplotted, assisted, and independent-ly carried out the actions forwhich the kNR is given credit.

Although the MNR had beenlargely destroyed by the time ofits ouster from Zimbabwe, it wasrevitalized under South Africanpatronage, and has damaged the re-organization of the iviozambican

President Samora Machel visits Zimbabwe to build regional cooperation and support

economy. It is concentrating ondisrupting the vital transportroutes between Malawi, Mozambiqueand Zimbabwe, sabotaging the fuelpipeline between Mozambique andZimbabwe, and also terrorizing theFRELIMO supporting peasants of theisolated agricultural regions.The MNR's internal supporters inMozambique are the huge land ownersand unseated politicos, who prefer-red Portuguese colonial exploita-tion and the resulting profits forthe imperialist few, rather thansupporting FRELIMO in building asocialist, egalitarian society.Although the MNR has attempted toencourage tribalism, the peasantsarid workers have overwhelminglysided with their FRELIMO run gov-ernment, demanding "Give us gunsto fight the bandits!"

Recently, Jorge Costa, thetop Mozambican security official,fled to South Africa, as haveother officials. This came at atime when the TRELIMO leadershipwas involved in meetings withabout 1,000 former collaboratorswith the Portugese colonial re-gime, who wished to remain inMozambique. These former lowlevel collaborators, had beenuncovered due to increased co-operation from Portugese auth-orities and the loosening of thetongues of former Rhodesian sec-urity officials by the new gov-ernment in Zimbabwe. Thishelped flush out South Africanagents who had managed to escapedetection earlier. Costa andothers like him, feared exposureand fled. President Machelcountered the fears of many Moz-ambicans over such a high leveltraitor, by saying that before wehad been weak, and now we arestrong. That is why Costa fled.

Now, with the building ofthe people's militias, and theMozambican security forces waginga campaign to eliminate foreignspies, we are seeing another stepin the consolidation of Mozam-bique's revolution, and in thetotal expulsion of imperialismfram southern Africa.

HISTORY: REVOLUTION IN AFRICATHE CONGO

The struggle of theCongolese people toachieve true ind- .ependence has beenlong and full oflessons for theworldwide struggleagainst u.s. led

imperialism and for buildingsocialist revolution. Thisstruggle has continued to growfrom generation to generation.This historical article dealswith the intermediate periodbetween the initial phase ofthe anti-colonial struggle led byPatrice Lumumba and the currentphase under the leadership of theFLNC. We look to the past to betterunderstand the present and future.The lessons from the nationaliststruggle lead to the waging ofpeople's war under the leader-ship of a Marxist-Leninist org-anisation to defeat neo-colonial-ism and imperialism and lead to theBuilding of socialism. Anotherlessonis the necessity for acontinuing ideological struggleto build the masses of the peopleto take on waging people's wartil victory and to do this byconstantly fighting the opportunismwithin the struggle that can onlylead, if unchallenged, to errorsand to abandoning the strugglewhen conditions get difficult.

October llth. marked theanniversary of the assassination ofPierre Mulele, the second liberatorof the Congo after the death ofPatrice Lumumba.Comrade Mulele,the Interior Minister in the gov-ernment of Patrice Lumumba was inthe leadership of the NationalCommittee of Liberation (CNL)which was created by the Lumumbiststo carry on the struggle for thecomplete independence: of the Congoand for socialism.

Pierre Mulele was a revolut-ionary and a socialist. He foughtto apply the science of Marxism/Leninism to building the struggle

and under his leadership the People'sRepublic o.f the Congo was proclaimedin 1963 at Kisangani, and the firstPeople's Liberation Army was formedin Africa. Because of its role inthe political/military strategyto win socialism for the Congo, itwas also known popularly as theRed Army.

It was only after this massiveforeign invasion that Mobutu couldofficially be put in power to rule1he Congo for imperialism. Thefull fire power and genocidalimperialist war strategy wasunleashed against the People'sLiberation Army and the wholepeople of the Congo in 1964 witha massive invasion of NATO troops.All the methods used by the u.s.and its allies in the Congo werethe same ones later applied inVietnam. Because of the savagryof the bombings throughout thecountry 550.000 Congolese werekilled between 1964-68, to saynothing of the high number ofinjured. This along with themilitary/diplomatic pressuresput on the socialist and Africanstates who supported the Congocut the supply life line to thefreedom fighters. The liberationforces were forced to leave thecountry by 1968.

Pierre Mulele withdrew tcCongo/Brazzaville in the face ofmilitary setbacks. In 1968 theimperialists put pressure on Congo/Brazzaville to force Mulele toreturn to Congo/Kinshasa to helu

set up a new government of nationalreconciliation that the imperialistswould "guarantee". This was a trickto lure him back into the country,and after three days he was ass-assinated by Mobutu. The liberationforces then left the Congo andwent into exile, mostly in Angola.

The assassination of PierreMulele ended one period of thestruggle to free the Congo—notas the imperialists had hoped thatwith the assassination of one leaderthe whole struggle would disintegrate, but instead marked the begin-ning of the current and final phase.

In 1968 all of the liberationforces formed themselves into anational liberation front, theCongolese National LiberationFront (FLNC), to fight for inde-pendence and socialism. In June,1968 after a decade of struggle theFLNC was formed to carry on thebanner of Lumumba until finalvictory.

Che Guevara, proletarian-inter-nationalist freedom fighter, whofought in the Congo in 1964-65,said that the struggle in the Congowould determine if Africa would besocialist or neo-colonialist. Theseare still the terms today and thestruggle in the Congo will not onlyaffect it alone but all of Africa.

For further readings:The Question of "Zaire"/CongoThe History of the 1977-78 Up-risings in the Congo.Written by the CongoleseNational Liberation Front.

There will be a series of demonstrations internationally onJanuary 17, 1983 to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the assassinationof Patrice Lumumba and in solidarity with the FLNC and the Congolesestruggle. They will be held in Africa, Belgium, France, West Germany,Switzerland, New York City, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Washington, DC,Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Austin, and Houston.

Demonstrate in solidarity with independence and socialism in theCongo and take a stand against u.s. imperialism's continued attacks onthe Congo. The demonstration in New York City will be at the ZairianiViission, 48th Street and 3rd Avenue from 4:00 to 6:00pm on January 17th.

For information on the details of the other demonstrations contactthe Material Aid Campaign.

VICTORY TO THE FLNC'.

DEFEAT U.S. IMPERIALISM'.

ANTI-SPRINGBOK APPEAL DENIED

The fundamentally politicalnature of the Anti-springbok 5case was further exposed whenthe New York State District Courtof Appeals rejected their appealon their harsh sentencing. Resp-onding to the assertion that thesentencing judge was politicallymotivated and based their 6-12month sentences on disprovengovernment allegations, JudgeTitone cited these same exact lies.Where the defendants put forwardproof of direct and continuingFBI intervention in the case,Titone simply ignored these factsand said they were not "improper".This was a continuation of thestate's strategy to criminalizefighting white supremacy and thebuilding of the revolutionaryanti-imperialist movement. Thegovernment's case w,as furtherfocused and sharpened becausesome of the Anti-springbok 5 arein May 19th Communist Organization(see article in this issue).

From the airport to the denialof the appeal, the u.s. governmentorchestrated this counterinsurgency/COINTELi-RO attack against the Anti-springbok 5 and the anti-imperialistmovement. The position of the ap-pellate court just like the trialcourt carried out the u.s. govern-ment's strategy. Just like the grandjuries and the recent RICO grandjury indictments of members of theNew Afrikan Independence Movementand May 19th Communist Organizationfor conspiracy,the denial is aimedat the destruction of forces thatsupport the revolutionary defeat ofu.s. imperialism and white supremacy.

In the face of these care-fully planned and conserted attacksthe four members of the Anti-springbok 5 in jail never waivered.They continued to build the anti-imperialist movement in solidaritywith the struggle in Azania andshow the nature of the resistancenecessary to build this movementand actively fight imperialism.The Anti-springbok 5's politicaloffensive around the appeal was

part of this resistance, and itexposed and sharpened the role ofthe state. Support for the FreeAzania Campaign furthers thisstance.

We are continuing our com-mittment to build solidarity inthe u.s. with the liberation ofAzania and the Pan AfricanistCongress of Azania by building theFree Azania Campaign. This campaignis to raise money for the AzanianPeoples Liberation Army (APLA),the armed wing of the PA.C, now whenthe main priority of the PAC isto heighten the building of thearmy and people's war inside thecountry. A primary task of therevolutionary anti-imperialistmovement in this country is tostop u.s. aggression in southernAfrica and to build solidarity withthe forces fighting u.s.-led imper-ialism. Fighting the springboktour was critical to building thismovement in the u.s. As the u.s.•builds its alliance with fascismin southern Africa we must heightenour committment to the forces forliberation. Participate in theFree Azania Campaign.

- make checks payable to thePAC.

- write to the Anti-springbok 5

Tim BlunkC?6 Men1s House10-10 Hazen Street£. Elmhurst, N.Y. 113?0

Mary PattenWomen's House15-15 Hazen StreetE. Elmhurst, N.i7. 11370

Eve RosahnM. C . C .150 Park RowN.Y., N.Y. 1000?

Eve is also a grand juryresister.

RUN FOR THE CONGO—UPDATE

On October 17, 1982 people gathered in Prospect Park in Brooklynto participate in the Run for the Congo. On that same day October 20thFreedom Fighters, grand jury resisters and the Anti-springbok 5 raninside prison in solidarity with the FLNC and with the struggle forAfrican liberation worldwide. Many other people showed their supportfor the FLNC by pledging per mile contributions for miles run by theFreedom Fighters and the other runners.

This event was part of a National Medical Campaign in Solidaritywith the FLNC. Contributions should be sent to the work and mailed tothe Material Aid Campaign, P.O. box 12?6, Stuyvesent Station, N.Y, 10009

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refused to participate in theracist South African strategy.In recent "elections" to set upa white dominated trirac-ialgovernment in the 87-3$ of Azaniadenied to African people, over 90$of the Indians and coloreds boy-cotted the elections.

South Africa is trying topush this plan through in directresponse to the advances of theliberation struggle, trying toblunt it and at the same time, toachieve some international supportand legitimacy for the "progress"it has made. But mostly SouthAfrica has increased internalrepression which has only led topreparations for even more rep-ression. This is why South Africaneeds the IMF loan and shockbatons. The current situation inAzania for all the fascist brutal-ity of the South African govern-ment, is a reactive and defensiveresponse to the mass and clan-destine mobilization of the Az-anian liberation movement and tothe fact that except for Namibia,it is completely surrounded byfree and independent Africanstates.

economic and military, thatwere destroyed at that time.In 1976 77°/o of all South Africa'sforeign loans were from the IMF.Also in 1976, a consortium, ledby Citibank, loaned South Africa95 million rand.

South Africa's crisis isfurther heightened by the con-tinued refusal of Africanpeople to leave the cities andreturn to their "homelands".Their refusal to recognize thebantustans stands is coupledwith the demand by the Azanianpeople that all of Azania istheir home. The Indians andcoloreds have also actively

UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNSSOUTH AFRICA'S TERRORISM

As this paper goes to pressthe United Nations SecurityCouncil condemned South Africa'sinvasion into Lesotho on December8, 1982. South Africa attacked byair, ANC (African National Con- •gress) members and refugees re-siding there, killing 42 people.The Material Aid Campaign for ZANUjoins the international condemna-tion of this cowardless attackagainst liberation forces that arefighting to defeat South Africa.We also fully support the rightsof the Lesotho government toprotect and provide asylum forpolitical refugees from SouthAfrica.

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elections prior to independence.She retruned to Zimbabwe in April,1980 as ZANU's guest for the Inde-pendence Day celebrations. InAugust and September , 1981, as aleader of IViay 19th she traveled insouthern Africa meeting with ZANUas well as leaders of SWAPO, FLNCand the PAC. These relationshipshave deepened our understandingof the struggle against imperialismin southern Africa and our commit-ment to building solidarity in theu.s. Since October 20th last yearSilvia Baraldini has traveledthroughout the u.s. as a spokes-person for the Coalition to Defendthe October 20th Freedom Fighters.

The Material Aid Campaign forZANU extends our full solidarityto the 11 people indicted and topeople jailed because they refuseto collaborate with the u.s. gov-ernment by testifying beforegrand juries. This case in part-icular is an attack on our rightto build a revolutionary anti-imp-erialist movement in the u.s., onour right to participate in thetotal destruction of u.s. imper-ialism and the building of asocialist society.

Join us in fighting to stopthe repression against revolut-ionary forces:

1) the campaign to stop theRICO grand jury - write to theCoalition to Defend the October20th Freedom Fighters, P.O. Box25^, Stuyvesant Station, N.Y.,N.Y. 10009 to circulate petit-ions, arrange for speaking en-gagements . Come to a vigil out-side MCC on the 26th of everymonth to support non-collaboration,

2) Free the RICO indictees --stay in contact with Kay 19thCommunist Organization to arrangespeaking engagements, engage inspecific campaigns, find out whento come to court.

3) MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TOLIBERATION LEGAL DEFENSE/BAIL FUND,We need funds to be able topolitically combat these attacksand provide legal support. Ourfirst priority is to bail SilviaBaraldini out of jail - herpresence on the streets will bea victory and will greatly contrib-ute to our collective ability-tofight this repression by buildingrevolutionary resistance.

Stop the repression'.

Support the armed clandestinemovements'.

Victory to African liberationworldwide1.

Defeat u.s. imperialism'.

For more information, write Material Aid Campaign for ZANU{PF),P.O. </#7 Stuyvesant Sta.,N.Y., N.Y. 10009or leave a message for Material Aid Campaign for ZANU (PF) at (21?) 868-3330.