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SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE KILL 16 IN GENERAL STRIKE
  Police shot and killed at least 16 Blacks in South Africa
in the last two days. The police shot the protestors in an
effort to quell protests associated with a general strike in
the Transvaal.
  The general strike arose when workers decided to join
students who were boycotting school. The student-worker
alliance is taking action against the new constitution in
South Africa which reconfirms the fourth class citizenship
of Blacks in the last major colonial regime in Africa.
Hundreds of thousands of students and workers stayed home on
November 5th in an amazing display of defiance in a well-
tuned police state. By all accounts the strike and boycott
has been well organized and quite effective.
  That the police killed another 16 Blacks in the general
strikes shows once again that the state is never "neutral"
in class conflicts. In August and September, somewhere
between 80 and 150 Blacks lost their lives in protests
against the new constitution. The massacres make a farce of
white liberals' claims that South Africa can be changed
through persuasion and reform. They also show what a lie
"democracy" is right here in the U.S., since without U.S.
military and economic aid, South Africa could not so
efficiently repress its people (See "U.S. and South Africa"
on MIM literature list) (Detroit News, 11/7/84)

SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS SEARCH 20,000 HOUSES
  The South African army attempted to intimidate Blacks in
South Africa by searching houses and making mass arrests.
The crackdown and use of the army failed to quell protests.
Protests in the face of the army crackdown demonstrated the
determination of the people to overcome apartheid despite
Western claims that South Africa "is getting better." (New
York Times, 10/24/84)

CIA TERRORIST MANUAL FOR NICARAGUA ADAPTED FROM VIETNAM WAR
  According to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan the manual
that the CIA supplied to rebels trying to overthrow the
Sandinista government of Nicaragua was "word for word" from
U.S. Army efforts in Vietnam in 1968. (See MN3 about the
manual.) (Detroit Free Press, 10/29/84, p. 5A.)

FMLN CLAIMS TO HAVE SHOT DOWN CIA PLANE
  Four U.S. spies died in a plane crash in El Salvador last
month. The FMLN said that the U.S. explanation that the
plane crashed in the rain is ridiculous. The U.S. offered
this explanation to give the appearance of not violating the
law regarding U.S. forces in combat.

CASUALTIES IN GRENADA COVERED UP
  Two former military intelligence officers said that at
least ten combat deaths of Americans in the U.S. invasion of
Grenada were covered up. The deaths came in a top-secret
operation just before the public invasion. Families of the
dead have been told to keep quiet. Also in question is the
number of Grenada's dead, since there never was a final
total. Two hundred forty U.S. soldiers and military
policemen continue the occupation of the tiny island a year
after the invasion. (NYT 10/22/84, p. A6, Time 11/5/84, p.
44.)

CAPITALIST GOALS SET BY CHINA
  "China's new blueprint for invigorating the economy with
capitalist incentives and burying Mao Tse-Tung's
egalitarianism will allow the country to 'soar' for the
first time since Communist rule began 35 years ago, a high-
ranking party leader said." (Detroit News 10/22/84)

HEAD OF U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOL IN GRENADA QUESTIONS INVASION
MOTIVE
  General Hudson Austin visited the U.S. medical school once
he took power last year. He assured the safety of the U.S.
students and saw to their food and water supplies. Thirty
hours passed before the U.S. invaders reached the medical
students. They had not been harmed in the meantime. No one
went onto the U.S. campus to take revenge against the
students for the U.S. invasion.
  U.S. imperialism needs excuses. That any country with some
U.S. citizens in it is open to U.S. invasion shows two
things—that the U.S. imperialists fear the world they
oppress and that they need to wage war on a grand scale.
(NYT 10/28/84, p. A8.)

CHINA ADMITS A KIND OF "REVOLUTION"
  In frenzied attempts to throw China right back into the
Dark Ages, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has admitted that
the establishment of capitalism in China has been a "kind of
revolution." Publicly, Deng still does not admit that China
is state capitalist.
  Recent changes in China have made front pages of the U.S.
papers as capitalist. The latest announcements form China
are that industrial firms will be independent of the
government and have considerable power to fix prices.
  If the Detroit News can recognize that China is
capitalist, why can the League of "Revolutionary" Struggle
(LRS) or the Spartacist League (SL)? Like the U.S.
ambassador they are are trying to save China's face for
going for capitalism. (Detroit News, 10/22/84, p. 1A)

LEAGUE OF "REVOLUTIONARY" STRUGGLE (LRS) ENDORSES MONDALE
  A supposedly Marxist-Leninist newspaper called "Unity"
published by the LRS backed Mondale, liberal candidates and
issues across the land on November 6th. LRS claims to
support Mao and Deng of China. Nowhere in the paper did
Mao's name appear, despite his supposed role in inspiring
Deng and the LRS. (Unity, 10/26 - 11/15/84, p. 1)
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