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SOCIALIST ACTION MARCH 1986 3 31 speech to the opening session of parliament, Botha had said that the government would replace some of the restrictions against Blacks by measures that are less "costly to enforce."

Botha proposed a council open to various Black leaders as well as government representatives that would "advise on matters of common concern." To Botha's dismay, however, even the normally compliant KwaZulu "Chief Minister" Gatsha Buthelezi refused to go along with the scheme-which would perpetuate rule by the white minority.

But while losing friends at home, the apartheid regime found a helping hand once again on the international scene. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker has been dickering with South African officials over the fate of Namibia, a South African colony. The United States agrees with South Africa that its withdrawal from Namibia must be linked to the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.

In the meantime, Washington will join Pretoria in sending aid to Jonas Savimbi's signed the national Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement. On Dec. 19, 1985, after 16 months of "selective strike," " Massey admitted that its operations in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky constitute one "common employer." As such, Massey is legally bound to honor the national contract at all its mines.

UMW President Richard Trumka ended the strike. It is unlikely, however, that Massey will honor the contract without a court order. Miners have been ordered back to work to await news from the union's lawyers.

Trumka and United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber will co-chair the National Labor Committee on South Africa and coordinate the boycott. The boycott (CBTU); A. Philip Randolph Institute; Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW); and National Organization for Women (NOW).

On Saturday, April 5, NOAC is sponsoring a demonstration demanding that all U.S. ties to apartheid be broken. Protestors will assemble at noon on the campus of Cleveland State University, march down Euclid Avenue-the main shopping and business district-and conclude with a downtown rally at Public Square.

Featured speakers will be Bill Lucy, president of the CBTU and international secretary-treasurer of AFSCME; John Sweeney, president of SEIU; and Shuping DETAINEER terrorist UNITA troops in Angola. The Reagan administration has authorized $15 million from CIA funding to provide Savimbi's forces with arms—including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles.

Anti-apartheid and antiwar activists in the United States must redouble our efforts.

In New York City, on March 21, the American Committee on Africa is joining other peace and solidarity organizations to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre and to demand an end to U.S. support to the South African regime. This is the beginning of the National South Africa Weeks.

The activities of the Northeast Ohio Anti-Apartheid Committee, detailed in an article below, are a model of how to involve the broad forces of American society—particularly the trade unions—in a mass movement against the U.S. role in South Africa.

These demonstrations will be followed by the April 19 mobilization in San Francisco, which lists "End U.S. support to South African apartheid" among its demands.

was first called by the South African National Union of Mineworkers and the AFL-CIO. Other labor support has come from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; National Education Association; and the Bricklayers union.

Also boycotting Shell are the National Organization for Women; the World Council of Churches; Trans-Africa; and the Free South Africa Movement, of which Ms. Ngubo is a leader.

The Louisville audience honored Ms. Ngubo with a standing ovation when she ended her speech by quoting Martin Luther King: "An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped, ' it is time for freedom in South Africa and the time is now!"

Coapoge, member of the African National Congress United Nations mission.

Working closely with NOAC, the Labor Committee Against Apartheid has arranged for Jay Naidoo, secretary general of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the newly formed union of half-a-million South African workers, to come to Cleveland March 12 to 19. His tour will conclude with a talk before the March meeting of the Cleveland Federation of Labor.

At its February meeting, the Cleveland Federation of Labor voted to endorse the April 5 demonstration and the Shell boycott. NOAC, working with the local Shell Boycott Committee, added "Boycott Shell" as one of the demands of the April 5 demonstration.

Numerous local schools, churches, and community organizations have arranged for a NOAC speaker. Youth United to Oppose Apartheid, a group of high school students, is distributing 10,000 newspapers urging young people to participate in the April 5 demonstration.

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