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By MARGRIT PITTMAN

_ MANNHEIM (FRG) —
AN action program to

guarantee a secure future

for the people of the Fed-

€ral Republic of Ger-
was

Many (FRG)
adopted last weekend

(October 20-22) by the

gress of the German
Communist Party

‘It was the party’s fifth Con-

- 8Tess since its founding on Sept.

25, 1968, after a 12-year period
a peri

of illegality. Its founding was a

allenge to the government’s

Policy of ‘social peace’’ im-

_ Posed in 1956 by outlawing the
~“Ommunist Party of Germany,.
just 11 years after the defeat of

fascism. Despite the fact that
the new party is tolerated by the
establishment, the law banning

__ its predecessor is still on the
~ books

Despite all these difficulties,
€ party is now able to register

_ &8Membership of 46,480, an in-

Crease of 16 percent since its
last Congress two years ago.

_ Theme of the deliberations
Was ‘‘For a change toward

democratic and social progress
— for peace, freedom, and
Socialism.” © — :
Delegates make plans _
Plans to achieve these goals
were made by 820 delegates and

alternates, of whom 80 percent .

Were workers and employees,
One-third women. The average
age was 36 years. Some 755 del-

' €gates are union members, of

Whom hearly 500 hold elected
Union offices.

___ Reflection of the DKP’s in-
ternational esteem was ex-

Pressed in the presence of dele-
8ations from 50 Communist and
Workers Parties and from four
national liberation movements.

Among them was a delegation —

from the CPUSA headed by
Helen Winter, the Party’s in-
ternational secretary.

A representative of the Afri-
can National Congress was
prevented from attending the
Congress because FRG au-
thorities refused him a visa.

In his report to the.Congress
DKP Chairman Herbert Mies
outlined the situation in the
world today and the problems
confronting the people of the
FRG. ;

Greatest need for all working
people, Mies said, is the strug-
gle for peace, detente and dis-
armament.

He pointed to the NATO pro-
gram adopted in Washington

last May which projected a-

steady increase in military ex-
penditures over the next 15
years. one
“We never forget,’ he said,
“that thousands of U.S. atomic

-war heads are stationed here

and that there are horrendous
plans to also place the neutron
bomb on FRG soil. We under-
stand the consequences of the
introduction of the neutron
bomb. It is a brutal weapon of
mass destruction and it

‘heightens the danger of atomic

war. These plans make per-
fectly clear that our homeland
is considered nothing but an op-
erational area-whose destruc-
tion is part of their plan. There-
fore we say quite clearl—in the
interest‘of life arid peace — the
neutron bomb must not be pro-
duced ahd stationed in
Europe.”

Yet, Mies emphasized, ‘“We
do not overlook the fact that
FRG imperialism becomes
ever more active in world poli-
tics. The fact that the policies of
imperialism are increasingly
coordinated through interna-
‘tional systems of alliances of-

fers the ruling class of the FRG
additional opportunities to
further their world-wide ex-

> pansionist interests.”

Despite these dangers, Mies’
analysis struck an optimistic
note. While one cannot under-
estimate the dangers of the reac-

tionary efforts, he said, “the

imperialists cannot alter the
fact that they have irrevocably
lost the historic initiative. On
the world scale the offensive is
and remains in the hands of the
main revolutionary forces of

our period. The imperialist :

“policy of strength” already
failed in the fifties and sixties.
Today it has still less perspec-
tive because since then — and
particularly in the recent past
— the international relation-
ship of forces has further devel-
oped to the disadvantage of
world imperialism.”

Mies dealt extensively with
the defense of the people’s liv-

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ete

ree eee

Protest movement grows

ing standards, the problems of

fighting the monopolies’ chal-

lenge to their hardwon gains.
Foremost among these tasks,

he said, is the fight for a right to
a job and the right to vocational

_and professional training.

Neo-nazi danger
Considerable attention was
devoted to the need to rebuff at-

- tacks on the democratic rights
of the people. In this connection
a continued struggle against
blacklisting of workers from
civil service jobs needs to be
waged. Together with the pro-_
tection of the democratic
rights, the dangers of neo-

FRG Communists map program

fascist activities must be met
by building a broad front of
democratic forces. “The strug-
gle against neo-nazism remains
one of the basic political neces-
sities,’ he said. He recalled
that this struggle is anchored in
the country’s constitution and
he therefore appealed to all
democratic forces to demand
rejection of the statute of lim-
itations on Nazi crimes, that the
FRG government sign the
United Nations convention in
this respect and that all neo-
nazi organizations be dis-
banded and neo-nazi activities

stopped.

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to save life of S. African —

NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Mas

By ALICIA WEISSMAN

s international pressure is now being applied to stop

the execution of a young South African, Solomon Mahlangu.

At a recent meeting in Bel-
grade. of -the Movement of
Non-Aligned Nations, a resolu-
tion was passed calling on the
chairman of the Movement to
alert the international commu-
nity to the case of Mahlangu.

Protests have been sent to the
South African government by
France, Britain, Austria, Swe-
den, the Federal Republic of
Germany, and the Netherlands.

Member of ANC

An active member of a mili-
tary unit of the African Na-
tional Congress, Mahlangu and
a compatriot, Mony Motouny,
were arrested on June 16, 1977,
and charged under the Ter-
rorism Act.

_ Both were severely tortured
and Motloung, whose skull had
and Motouny, whose skull had
been fractured and jaw broken:
under torture, suffered irrever-
sible brain damage and was de-

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clared unfit to stand trial.
Mahlangu, 21 years old, on
March 2, 1978, was sentenced to
death. In June he was refused
permission to appeal.

Atrocities in school

In June ‘1976, Solomon
Mahlangu, as an active high
school student fighting the
hated bantu educational sys-
tem, witnessed first hand the
brutal suppression of student
protests in his township of
Mamelodi (Pretoria).

As in Soweto, South African
police opened fire on unarmed
demonstrators time after time.
Over a thousand people, includ-
ing many wom@gn and children,
lost their lives in these shoot-

’ ings.

Mahlangu joined the ANC
and left the country to be
trained as a freedom fighter.
On his return to South Africa,
three days before the first an-
niversary of the Soweto mas-
sacre, Mahlangu and his com-
patriots were stopped by South
African police. In the skirmish
that erupted, two whites were
killed.

_ __UN appeal

UN Ambassador Leslie Har-

riman (Nigeria), chairman of ©

the United Nations Special
Committee Against Apartheid,
recently appealed to the Gen-
eral Assembly on behalf of
Mahlangu: ‘‘The apartheid re-
gime bears the entire responsi-
bility for a violent conflict in
South Africa. The General As-

sembly has recognized the

legitimacy of the struggle of the
oppressed people and their lib-

*~ eration movement by all avail-

able means, including armed
struggle. . . . The people of
South Africa have not only a
right but a duty to defy the Ter-
rorism Act and other racist

J legislation. The execution of

an act of murder and aggravate
the situation in South Africa.”
Anthony Monterio, executive
secretary of the National Anti-
Imperialist Movement in Sol-
idarity with African Liberation,
said yesterday that the move-
ment to save Solomon Mahlan-
’s life.in the U.S. must esca-
ate to include all progressive
and democratic forces who.
support human rights.

‘‘We are demanding a stay of
his execution and his uncondi-
tional release. This is the first
time that there is this kind of
vicious (death) ‘sentence since
1960 in Rivonia, where Nelson
Mandela and other members of
the ANC were sentenced to
death. Only with massive interna-
tional pressure were the hands of
the executioners stayed.”’

Monterio said that the racist
regime ‘‘is feeling the pressure
of the masses and the armed
forces of the liberation move-
ment.”

Protest urged

Monteiro urged people to
send letters and telegrams to
Prime Minister Peter Botha,
John Voerster Square, Pretoria,
South Africa; and to Donald
Bell Sole, South African am-
bassador to the U.S., South Af-
rican Embassy, 3051 Mass.
Ave., Washington, D.C. 20008.

. The letters should demand
the freedom of Solomon
Mahlangu and the end of all mil-
itary, political and economic
ties between the U.S. and South
African governments.

for everyone at

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