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Solidarity March for Abahlali baseMjondolo in Johanesburg

Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity March, Jo'burg, 5 December 2009

SOLIDARITY MARCH WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO!

On the 26th of September this year a gang of heavily armed men launched an attack on the shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo, and organisers of the Kennedy Road Development Committee in the Kennedy Road settlement outside Durban. Members of the community spontaneously organised themselves in self-defence, and two people were killed in the clash. Thousands have been forced out of the township. After police stepped in to stop the self defence, the attackers systematically demolished the homes of AbM and KRDC members – with the police and local ANC leaders present!

Statement of Solidarity from the Democratic Socialist Movement

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2009-10-02 11:27. Democratic Socialist Movement | Liv Shange | The Attack on AbM in Kennedy Road

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

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