Dear Comrades,

We are following the terror that has been unleashed on the Kennedy Road settlement and Abahlali baseMjondolo activists in particular with outrage and offer our heartfelt solidarity to your organisation and to the people of Kennedy Road. We will do our best to support Abahlali baseMjondolo at this critical time through spreading the appeal for solidarity to working class activists and social movements nationally and internationally.

From the reports we have been given by Abahlali baseMjondolo comrades, it seems clear that the state, through the local branch of the ruling, ANC, and the police under the cover of a Zulu-chauvinist ethnic cleansing are attempting to crush Abahlali baseMjondolo in blood. The presence of police