weather. Despite operating a longstanding blockage of the island, the US Goverment allowed the aid through 'for humanitarian reasons'. Last year the 'Friendshipment to Cuba' 15 tons of medicine, food and other aid to Cuba. Italian Government in crisis Accusations made by informers have linked seven-time prime minister Giulio Andriotti to the mafia and to illicit party financino scandals, law need to reduce its deficit budget to comply with the Maastricht treaty. his means not only reducing the welfare state but also the rupt patronage that has kept the Plans to end proportional representation in elections to the Chamber of Deputies were opposed by trades union and the left. The new system will proable to attack the welfare state. in order to maintain representation, the change will speed fusion between the reformist Socialist Party and ex-stalinist Party of Democratic Socialism.
By Charlie van Gelderen NELSON MANDELA got the signal about the changing political mood at a Sowero commemoration for Chris Hani on 14 April, when he was booed when he mentioned continuing talks with the ruling National Party.
The large crowd by contrast cheered Clearance Makewuta. leader of the Pan Africanist Congress.
Since then Mandela's rhetoric has taken on a less conciliatory tone. Now he no longer speaks of De Klerk's 'integrity" but of 'this corrupt and illegitimate government". The ANC and the South African Communist party (SACP), anxious not to be outflanked by the more militant PAC, are now pushing for immediate elections and launching a campaion of mass action, in an effort to contain the revolutionary fervour which has boen unleashed.
By endorsing the negotiating process as the only realpolitik for the present, Mandela and the majonty of the ANC leadership were unwittingly supporting the well-laid plans of the government.
Acoording to Jeremy Cronin, leading member of the SACP. back in 1987 Neil Bamard, then head of the National Inteligence Service, produced a trailargued for negotiations as a mechanism for derailing the ANC.
Barnard wrote: 'We are not defeating them (the ANC) with out current strategies (repres sion). Let us un-ban them, engage their leadership negotiations, and prolong the talks. Popular expoctations will soar, and then plummet as the ANC, in the plain light of day. shows itself to be no more than The ANC leadership, if the strategy was followed, would become detached from its major In their grooming of Nelson Mandela and the other ANC leaders, the government was playing an old ruling class game - if you can't beat them in open battle, try buttering them up with material temptations In the Johannesburg Mail an ANC memher asked how com. mitted the ANC leadership was to liberating its people from poverty when Mandela lived in the plush white suburb of Houghton, his daughter Zinzi's luxury honeymoon was paid for oy a walie maonaire. He also referred to the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by ANC leaders.
Who's paying for all this* asks the ANC member. *Are these gifts from the South African white economic elite? if so. wny 0o inese leaders accept them? Is our human suffering mber searned tuic so cheap to be bought by gifts from the white racists who vote for the National party-led white alliance?' A leading academic, profes. sor Herbert Adam, added: 'On the part of the ANC/SACP, so- WORLD NEWS cialism has been reduced to anti-trust legistation and affirmative action. Lenin may still be quoted, but the World Bank, it seems, exerts and even bigger pull...
"The more far-sighted scction of the business elite ingraware inemscives with any political leadership...favours are showered on them, ranging from free trips in Lear jets, gifts of luxurious houses, invitations to corporate retreats and conferences in Bermuda and Davos. seats on company boards, lavish fees for speaking engagements...preferential admission of relatives to educational institutions..
ine miss caction to tae death of Chris Hani may well signal the end of this particular Start Lay a duck -SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.41. May 1, 1993. Page 8
Benn: standing firm on socialism