An incredible 1-1.5 million black women gathered in Philadelphia on October 25th, in a grass-roots mobilisation that bypassed bodies like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The official themes: Repentance, Resurrection and Restoration, mirrored those of the 1995 Million Man March, which brought 0.40.8 million black men to Washington DC.
That initiative was dominated by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. This Women's March had no obvious leaders, though applause was particularly strong for South African activist Winnie Mandela, and Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, who denounced the CIA for pushing crack cocaine in ghettos in the 1980s to ! raise money for the Nicaraguan contras
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U.S. Communists
On 4 October the FBI arrested three
Washington DC activists on suspicion
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Felipe Vasquez of spying for post-apartheid South The mines of Huanani, Bolivia are identified with the Fourth International. supoenas to appear before a Grand Africa. Others have received Jury. The covert action started when Theresa Squillacote, a member of the Committees of Correspondence (a group of former CP members) wrote congratulating South African Communist leader Ronnie Kasrils about his recent book.
His Christmas card thanking her for her message was intercepted by the FBI, which then forged a letter using Kasrils' name, informing Terry that famous across Latin America, because of a series of dramatic and determined strikes by miners like Felipe Vasquez
Until his health declined as a result of the hard conditions, Felipe was an active leader of the miners movement. He played a major role in organising 10,000 miners into the "March for Life from Oruro to La Paz. For several years he was one of the leaders of the FSTMB miners union. Felipe was also a leading figure in the regional branch of the Bolivian Workers Confederation (COB).
Besides his trade union activities,
After several months residence in Cuba, he participated notably in the 1969 Congress of the Fourth International, which re-launched the movement after the great events of 1968-69 He was also at the 1991 Congress, which tried to deal with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Felipe represented the best proletarian traditions of the Bolivian Trotskyist movement - seriousness, courage in the face of repression and terrible material adversity and continuity. He was an important link with the struggles of previous generations. We will miss was
African intelligence
South secret docu-
Revolutionary Workers Party (POR), him. [Inp/PG] * interested in obtaining ments. The FBI claim that a meeting was set up with an FBI agent posing as
Felipe was an active member of the a South African agent.
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
South Africa's Deputy
Kasrils,
Minister of Defence has stressed that
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"there was no 'involvement' of the
SACP or any of its membership in this covert and misguided attempt by the
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FBI to set up a 'sting' operation."
According to the CoC, "it is ironic that these people were accused of
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION conspiring to help the new, post apartheid South African government.
What is it that the US government fears could be revealed?" [CoC /JD] *
Contact: The Metro DC Committee of Correspondence
PO Box 11109, Washington, DC 20008-0309, USA
Penny Duggan & Heather Dashner (editors)
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