SATAWU welcomes The Russell Tribunal on Palestine

[Rea Molopyane]

 

SATAWU welcomes The Russell Tribunal on Palestine

31 October 2011

 

 

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) highly appreciates and warm-heartedly welcomes the holding of the third Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 5th-6th, 2011. It is quite befitting for our democracy to host such an important international political event. The struggle of the people of Palestine for freedom from Israeli occupation and oppression is as just as our struggle for freedom from Apartheid rule. It is a well-known fact that Zionist Israel and the Apartheid regime worked very closely in perpetrating their tyrannical systems over Palestinians and black South Africans, respectively. Therefore, the revolutionary movement in Palestine and South African had to work hand in hand in order to defeat the Zionist-Apartheid reactionary forces. Thus, a free, democratic South Africa is duty-bound to continue rendering international solidarity to the beleaguered and fighting masses of Palestine in their quest freedom and national self-determination. Our own liberation cannot be complete while our fellow brothers and sisters in Palestine are still living under Zionist terrorist rule.

 

As SATAWU, we know Israeli oppression of Palestinians from first-hand experience. The striking resemblance between Israel and Apartheid South Africa, politically, economically and socially, does justify the current characterisation of Zionist Israel by progressive forces internationally as Apartheid Israel. At the close of the third RToP this fundamental truth, among others, will have been thoroughly explained in great detail to the whole world. We are looking forward to playing our part at the RToP as a contribution to hastening the dawn of freedom in Palestine.

 

Let the representatives of the revolutionary working class and the democratic forces of our country tremble before the revolutionary international jury, the third RToP!

Let us make this third RToP a political platform that must spur on the masses of Palestine to greater unity and an intensification of their just struggle for national liberation!         

 

 

Issued by:

Mamokgethi Reagoikanya Molopyane

SATAWU National Spokesperson

082 395 0907

r...@satawu.org.za

Twitter: @Reagoikanya