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From: SMITH@SLACVM.BITNET
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Subject: Mandela
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 16:35:55 EST
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   In poli-sci V6 #95 Will Doherty suggests that we get our views on
Mandela from amoung other works:

>"Mandela, Nelson.  The Struggle is My Life." London: International 
>Aid and Defence Fund for South Africa.  1978.

   I bought my copy of this book from the same place that I bought
Alex La Guma's "Apartheid": from the Communist Party in San Francisco
I don't know of any group more interested in Mandela in the area than
the CPUSA, their bookstores are overflowing with information and I
suggest to everyone fortunate enough to live near an active CP (like
we are in SF--Check your phone book!) to stop by and browse.  I am
fascinated so see the CPUSA so-o-o involved in distributing these
international materials. They even still have information about how
great things are in Ethiopia now after the revolution. It is a real
learning experience to see all the things they are active in. You can
see the issues before they hit our News which always seems to be so
surprised by the spontaneity of the people's outpourings of concern
over people and places they never saw and don't have to live with
(especially the outpourings of our widely traveled, experienced, and
financially astute college students--we all consult them when we are
planning our personal portfolios).

   It was also very fascinating to see that many of the pictures that
are used in Anti-S.Africa posters at campus demonstrations are right
out of Doherty's suggested reading.  Doesn't anyone else besides the
CP care enough about Mandela to take his picture for their
demonstration posters? I have seen others, but they just don't seem to
make the posters very well. I think it would be great to get some new
posters, perhaps a picture of a burning necklace and the words:
"ANC--Greater Individual Freedom".

                                      John Smith

[I had to edit this message (with permission) to remove the
address/phone of the CP of SF due to arpanet advertising guildlines.  
For more information on the CP of SF, please contact John directly.
-CWM]
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