SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

ANC leader speaks

Socialist Action No. 115, 27 September 1985 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 263 words

The scan: 115-sep-27-1985-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 3-5 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 8 of the scan

level of resistance to the apartheid system such we have never had before. It is a great leap forward toward our goal of ending apartheid and replacing 1l with a new South Africa.

Have you intensity the tult demonstrations?

Yes and no. I have been laYe endured so long, in spite of everything the regime has done to stamp out the proOn the other hand what happening noW follows naturally what went before. The jailings, the tortures, the Sharpeville Soweto killings have given people no choice ou lo escalalt the struggle even further.

Many of the present demonstrators very young, even children. Can you control At this distance we cannot control events on an hourto-hour But we have called on the people in general to make the countl ungovernable Naval theid unworkable, what is happening is a response to that call We can't tell our children that what they are doing is They are ycly udlikeivus. sustained by a hatred of the system.

Will the ment give in to economic political pressure or I have but already but then break the regime. This ALEt demanthat 'the wealth poly shall for these very but that wealth is perhap of the wealth. blacks have whites excluded well and these there will plenty of IUU1l! for enterprise. decisions come, targets?

We're not children sideration but is the Both sides is an aim is to SCCIAl in extend the to Does that's throw when on I police civilWe have attacks, struggle economic of the Our military damage the

page 9 of the scan

Socialist Action 27 September 1985

← Break all links with apartheidA challenge to the left →

Something wrong on this page?