CAMPACC: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities

• 1: Home
• 2: About Campacc
  • 2.1: Aims and objectives
  • 2.2: Statements about anti-terror laws
    • 2.2.1: CAMPACC statement: Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers serving the politics of fear (2008)
    • 2.2.2: CAMPACC statement: Creating Terrorist Suspects (2005)
    • 2.2.3: CAMPACC statement: The "war on terror" at home: We're all targets of the state (2003)
• 3: News & events
• 4: Campaigns
  • 4.1: Campaigning on legislation
    • 4.1.2: Oppose the Counter Terrorism Act 2008
  • 4.2: Terror bans
    • 4.2.1: 'Terrorist lists' seminar series 2009
    • 4.2.2: 'Terrorist lists' seminar series 2008
    • 4.2.3: 'Terrorist' lists project with Statewatch
    • 4.2.4: Communities targeted for harassment and prosecutions
    • 4.2.5: Charities accounts frozen or denied
  • 4.3: Detainees and control orders
    • 4.3.5: Letters from detainees
  • 4.4: Everyday harassment
  • 4.5: Torture & rendition
  • 4.6: Right to protest & free expression
  • 4.7: CAMPACC conferences
  • 4.8: Self-determination
• 5: Resources
  • 5.1: Legislation, rulings & CAMPACC responses
    • 5.1.4: Proscribed groups
  • 5.2: Publications & campaign materials to buy
    • 5.2.1: CAMPACC t-shirts
    • 5.2.2: Taxi To The Darkside
    • 5.2.3: Big Brother
    • 5.2.4: A Permanent State of Terror?
    • 5.2.5: Listen to the Refugee's Story
  • 5.3: CAMPACC statements, press releases...
  • 5.4: CAMPACC articles, reports...
  • 5.5: Useful articles
  • 5.6: Film & audio
• 6: You can help
  • 6.1: Become a supporter
  • 6.2: Volunteer
  • 6.3: Donate
  • 6.4: Sign up for emails
• 7: Links
• 8: Contact us
• 10: Together Against Prevent

After the Marikana massacre where 44 people were killed during the strike at Lonmin’s Platinum mine on 16th August 2012 (34 shot dead while trying to disperse, while 10 people died before and after the massacre) the government set up the Farlam Commission which cost R153 million. The police and the striking miners were not asked to give evidence. This ‘inquiry’ failed to ask the right questions (who gave the order to issue guns to the police...and to shoot to kill?) or to address the issues - better wages and living conditions for the mineworkers.

The politicians have shares in the mines, so they cannot hold them accountable. There is, as yet, no compensation for the victims’ families and for the injured miners. Farlam merely recommended another ‘inquiry’ to determine if the suspended National Police Commissioner was ‘fit for office’ (even a blind person could see that she is not fit for office). Meanwhile accommodation for workers Marikana is woefully inadequate, reminiscent of old colonial schemes, ‘houses’ being 40 square meters..!

MARIKANA MINERS SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN (UK) DEMANDS

• Lonmin must pay compensation to victims families and injured miners, and begin a programme of housing construction for workers
• Confiscate Lonmin’s capital in tax havens
• Prosecute Lonmin for environmental destruction and negligence regarding workers' health
• Charge Lonmin’s then CEO plus Nathi Mthetwa, Riah Phiyega, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa and the lower level killer cops with murder
• Find the killers of Sikhosiphi Rhadebe! End MRC+ State Terrorism
• Nationalise the Mines, under workers’ control.

SUPPORTING GROUPS: The Marikana Miners Solidarity Campaign, Caribbean Labour Solidarity, Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum, All Afrikan Peoples Revolutionary Party, Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, Global Justice Forum, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UHURU, MOYO WA TAIFA, CAMPACC, Foil Vedanta, London IWW and others. For more info on this action click here.