The same Nelson Mandela who said "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
Lammy sinking ever lower to try to justify the genocide enabling and incipient authoritarianism.
"Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960, with the formation of the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid.
The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today. We have no option but to continue. We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement would be created soon so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle."
@ecadre Yes, a lot of people quoted that passage above the original post. Have you read Hilda Bernstein's The World That Was Ours, about the Rivonia trial? Highly recommended.
@ecadre Yes, I've not read it for ages either but I remember it being excellent. It just happened to be sitting on the shelf in front of me while I was replying to you - my memory wouldn't have dredged it up of its own volition 😂
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