Pickets and Trials

Saturday’s Peace Pickets are on. The Johannesburg one will be outside the US Consulate near Killarney Mall. Many Communist Parties have signed a common declaration for this occasion of multiple international demonstations for peace. Saturday (March 18th) is the third anniversary of the US/British/Danish invasion and occupation of Iraq, which still continues up to now.. Paul Craig Roberts is a former US official of the Reagan period who writes for Counterpunch. He is one of many US “conservatives” who are militantly opposed to US imperialist war policies. People like PCR demonstrate that peace is an issue for everyone, and not just the “left”. In the linked article, he connects the death in custody of Slobodan Milosevic with the US attack on Iraq. The PUDEMO comrades are out on bail. Their bail money has been found by one means or another, but the Swaziland Solidarity Network is considering ways of raising money. This would be in the first place, to take over the strain of the bail bond from the families, secondly to defray the expenses of the defense, and if there is any surplus, to apply for the aims and purposes of the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN). Linked below are two reports (in one) from Swaziland forwarded by SSN. Two websites now carry SSN material. They are the Johannesburg SSN, and the Canadian SSN. There is no report of Monday’s evidence in the Jacob Zuma trial on the Friends of JZ web site yet. Jeremy Gordin’s extraordinary reports from the Sunday Independent did go up late on Monday however, and are linked below. Links: Serbia, Practice Run for Iraq, Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch (802 words) Swazi PUDEMO comrades free at last, Times of Swaziland (1022 words) Trial threatens political shocks, 5 strange days, Gordin, Sindy (2301 words)