America Jobs with Justice A US National Day of Action for Workfare/Welfare Justice is planned for December 10, 1997. Activities are scheduled in at least 25 states and 35 cities accross the US. Tactics and targets will vary from state to state, but the main themes are; the creation of full-time jobs paying a liveable wage; displacing workers from their jobs and creating exploitative 'workfare' jobs without any rights or protection; protestina the vilification of poor people dan f poor people "while greedy corporations divert scarce public dollars into private profits. 11 Contact Jobs with Justice at tel. +1 202-434-1106. Fax 434-1482 FBI "sting" against U.S. Communists
On 4 October the FBI arrested three At CR arrested three Washington DC activists on suspicion of spying for post-apartheid South supoenas to appear before a Grand Africa. Others have received Jury. The covert action started when
Theresa Squillacote, a member of the
Committees of Correspondence (a group of former CP members) wrote congratulating South African
Communist leader Ronnie Kasrils about his recent book.
His Christmas card thanking her for her message was intercepted by the
FBl, which then forged a letter using
Kasrils' name, informing Terry tha
South African intelligence was interested in obtaining secret documents. The FBI claim that a meeting was set up with an FBI agent posing as a South African agent.
Kasrils, South Africa's Deputy
Minister of Defence has stressed that
"there was no 'involvement' of the
SACP or any of its membership in this covert and misguided attempt by the
FBI to set up a 'sting' operation."
According to the CoC, "it is ironic