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Workers organizing struggles,
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Moncada ecins Cuba’s renowned Grupo
and Igni Tawanka, a Nicaraguan
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COPE
arden Party

Sunday, August 17
i A 2 p.m.

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Hy 139} Commercial Drive
pvcouver, B.C. V5L 3X5
€lephone: 253-6442

_ Just published,
Coming soon!

gre Rise and Fall of the
y parian Connection.
Fra dward S. Herman and
nk Brodhead $15.50

a Thi (paperback)
and IS book analyzes how -

: why the media — and
‘heals public — were so
Cag pletely misled. It is a

© study in Western
Nformation.
youth Africa: The Cordoned

bhatt: — 20 South African
: _ $19.95

(paperback)

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tographers

Folk fest features locals

cians Toyn Hawken and Steve Gidora, and
reciters Jean Shiels, Willis Shaparla and
Bob Jackson — the latter two veterans of
the original trek.

Also performing songs of struggles past
and present were Vancouver Folk Song
Society regulars Michael Pratt and Lynn
McGown, Ross McRae and Lorraine Hel-
gerson, and Phil and Hilda Thomas. Sev-
eral of the performers were also on hand for
a workshop commemorating the 100th
anniversary of May Day. ;

Vancouver Sath premiered an English-
language version of their Punjabi-language
play, “Picket Line,” concerning the efforts
of the Canadian Farmworkers Union to
organize in the Fraser Valley.

Some 15,000 attended the festival, an
attendance figure down somewhat from
previous. years, attesting to the drawing
power this year of Expo 86. That left festival
organizers facing a larger than usual deficit.
The festival plans a fall campaign to help
raise funds through donations, which can
be sent to the Vancouver Folk Music Festi-
val, 3271 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. V5V

3M6.

FROM TOP: Vancouver
Sath actors in ‘‘Picket
Line,’ concerning CFU
organizing CFU organizing
efforts; members of On-to-
Ottawa Trek, 1935-1985;
Cuba’s popular New Song
Troubadors, Grupo Mon-
cada, on festival’s main
stage.

PART OF MY SOUL WENT WITH HIM.
By Winnie Mandela, edited by Anne Ben-
jamin and adapted by Mary Benson. Pen-

_ guin Books, 1985. $7.95 paperback.

“I have ceased a long time ago to exist as
an individual. The ideals, the political goals
that I stand for are the ideals and goals of
the people in this country,” says Winnie
Mandela in this powerful book. Written ina
clear and moving style, My Soul gives sub-
stance and sharpness to understanding life
under the brutal apartheid regime in South
Africa.

This is a not a glossed over image but a

personal and intimate account of Winnie

“the woman ... the mother, the political
fighter.” A woman who has lived most of
her life under a ban; faced numerous arrests,
imprisonment — including 17 months in
solitary confinement — torture and surveil-
lance.
Woven throughout the text are tape-
recorded interviews, extracts of personal let-
ters from her imprisoned husband, Nelson,
documents and. tributes that attest to
vibrancy and strength. A friend Sally
Motlana states: “They will never succeed in
building a wall around her. It doesn’t matter
where they banish her — homeland, desert

Winnie Mandela’s courage

or forest. This woman is so dynamic, she
will make the birds sing and the trees rustle
wherever she goes, you can be sure of that.”

Attempts to break Winnie have been
constant and abundant ... “They used to
put the plates of food outside next to the
cells and by the time it came in it was full of
bird shit ... They would take the sanitary
buckets and bring them back without even
rinsing them ...” And the words of the
infamous Swanepoel .. . “You are going to
be broken completely, you are shattered,
you are a finished woman.”

The apartheid forces even tried to force
her to divorce Nelson and denounce the
non-racial African National Congress.

Particularly poignant are the letters
between Nelson and Winnie offering an
indepth look at the Mandela’s lives of strug-
gle.

In essence Part of My Soul exemplifies
the unceasing battle waged by Black and
progressive South Africans in their fight for
a democratic South Africa. Winnie sums up
their optimism in the final words of the
book: “Of course they will come back to
play their rightful role in Black-ruled South
Africa and Nelson will be our Prime Minis-

ter.”
— Clair Carew

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