2nd ANNIVERSARY

DEMONSTRATION

AGAINST THE BRUTAL

MARIKANA MASSACRE

SOUTH AFRICA HOUSE,

TRAFALGAR SQUARE,
LONDON
2-5PM Sat 16th August

2014
THE MARIKANA MASSACRE WAS DELIBERATE. S.A.
POLICE KILLED 34 AND INJURED 78 STRIKING MINERS.
MANY WERE SHOT IN THE BACK &/or ON THE
GROUND. RAZOR WIRE, SUB-MACHINE GUNS AND
ARMOURED CARS WERE PRESENT. HORSES AND
HELICOPTERS WERE USED. 270+ SURVIVORS WERE
ROUNDED UP AND CHARGED WITH THE KILLINGS.
WITNESSES ARE BEING REGULARLY MURDERED AS THE
WHITEWASH OFFICIAL INQUIRY ROLLS ON. THE
WORKERS CONTINUE TO RESIST.

PASCF Workshop
VIEW POWERFUL FILM:-

MINERS SHOT DOWN

7pm FRIDAY 15th AUGUST 2014

@ 365 Brixton Road, BRIXTON,

LONDON, SW9
We call for joint solidarity action with all those interested in
campaigning on Marikana and like mining atrocities as well as
other forms of anti-people repression by Imperialism all over the
World!

SUPPORTING GROUPS; Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS) Pan-Afrikan

Society Community Forum (PASCF) All Afrikan Peoples Revolutionary
Party (AAPRP) London Miners Network, Pan-Afrikan Reparations
Coalition in Europe (PARCOE) Global Justice forum, Colombia Solidarity
Campaign, Algeria Solidarity Campaign, UHURU, MOYO WA TAIFA,
Socialist Workers Party(SWP), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),
Foil Vedanta

AFTER APARTHEID? The Global Political

Economy of the Marikana Massacre
In the Marikana Massacre (16th
August 2012) 34 striking miners were
deliberately shot dead (70+ injured) by
the neo-colonial South Afrikan/Azanian
state, run by the one-time liberation
alliance (ANC-COSATU-SACP)
acting in
collusion with the UK-based multinational company LONMIN. Such firms
are gorging on Azanias wealth extracted
at a terrible cost to those working in
notorious underground conditions for
starvation wages. They live in notorious
shack-townships. This massacre confirms
that the ANC is running the worlds latest
brutal
neo-colony.
Black/
African
Economic Empowerment installed this
ruthless class in South Afrika.
Neo-colonialism is the rule of excolonies using a local class/class fraction
acting in its self-interest and that of
racist capitalism-imperialism, now under
so called globalisation & guided by the

half-crazy policies of neo-liberal finance

capital. This system uses the older
structures (UN Security Council, the
Breton Woods set-up of World Bank,
IMF+) and newer ones (Uruguay Round,
WTO+). The neo-colonial class signed-up
to the lie that this system is benevolent:
with aid donors, neutral, necessary
foreign direct investment, providers of
protection (from terrorism, drugs
cartels and destabilisation), bringers
of the efficiencies of the international
free market of privatisation (only the
polluted air remains free), where every
country supposedly enjoys its own
beneficial,
equitable
competitive
advantage.
Neo-colonialism began in 1820s
Haiti after the Haitian Revolution. Liberia
was not far behind. Neo-colonialism
spread in 19th century Latin America;
then to Asia & Africa in the long
independence era (Ethiopia - 1941 to
Azania/South Africa -1994).
LONMIN shows up the MNCs busy
disembowelling
our
countries,
demolishing & exporting our mountains;
driving our people from their land and
fishing grounds; some land leased for
pittances to all comers. Oil, gas, minerals
extracted leaving ruined landscapes - as

in the Niger Delta. Jamaicas main

watershed came close to being dug down
for bauxite. Cell phone MNCs have their
hands almost directly in the pockets of
poor people.
Nothing is more important now than
to
understand this moment in worldwide oppression through imperialist neocolonialism. Unreserved support must be
given to those in the worldwide struggle
against it. Above all, the way must be
found to defeat a monstrous enemy with
its deceptive new face.
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