backed it worldwide are in a panic.
black ghettoes despite 1,000 deaths and 2,500 arrests.
limited concessions campaign for a boycott.
but they yet lack the beginning to panic.
the downfall of apartheid.
THIRTY THOUSAND BIG BUŞINESS in South Africa and those who' The State of Emergency introduced on 21 July in 36 of South Africa's 300 districts has not been able to quieten down the situation as Premier Botha hoped. For a year now there have been continuous revolts in the Western capital is anxious to get Botha to make South African capitalism. Even Reagan and Thatcher have been forced to make token concessions to the growing While not yet on the brink of revolution the South African volcano is beginning to rumble. The black masses have the power to overthrow apartheid means organisation necessary to lead that overthrow. That day will come and the white western capitalists are Below we report on what the labour movement is doing internationally to hasten marched sitt place and unions donated musical ment — in particular if the labour movement leads the action. Shell in South Africa. ment without trial, South apartheid regime there.
victims of apartheid terror.
publicity Danny counties of Ireland.
have institutionalised that injustice.
desriminaion in jority black population loyalist/white South and in the absence of any democracy, THE FOLLOWING front page appeared in An Phoblacht, the paper supported by Sinn 'Fein in Ireland, in response to the imposition of the state of emergency in South Africa. LAST weekend, as Irish Republicans were commemorating the introduction of internwell over 1,000 black Africans had been interned by the Just as the funeral of IRA Volunteer Charles English was followed by heavily-armed RUC personnel and British army helicopters through the streets of Derry, racist police in South Africa have launched savage attacks on the funerals of black In Belfast last Sunday, Sinn Fein's director of Morrison emphasised the similarities between the apartheid state in South Africa and the Orange state in the occupied six Both states are based on injustice and both in the sir counties, loyalist supremacy over nationalists has been guaranteed politically, through partition and economically, through through the virtual criminalisation of things 'naperpetuated their unjust supremacy over the mathrough a plethora of discriminatory laws which we know as the aparIn denying justice to the nationalist community in the six counties and in denying justice to the black population in South Africa, both the loyalist demonstrated the same perverse superiority which the Nazis used to justify genocide in the concentraBritain props up loyalist domination in the six counties and it is Britain which uses censorship and . In South Africa continued investment by British business interests and continued support from the Thatcher government have been major factors in stifling effective international opposi unwelcome visitors who might expose the truth are simply barred. The Dunnes Stores strikers brought international attention to bear on the need for Martin Galvin has focused US attention on British dissent? With plastic bullets, mass arrests, showtrías and shoot-to-kill. Taking all these things into account, we should not be surprised at the mutual and support which has characterised African Minister for Justice, Jon Vorster, when introducing a new Coercion Bill to parliament, said that he would exchange all such legislation for just one clause of 'Northern Ireland's Special Powers Laws will occasionally be rewritten to appeal less offensive and cosmetic reforms will be troduced, but in the six counties as in South Africa the basic injustice will not be removed until the loyalist state itself and the apartheid system are Just as the regime in South Africa has been allowed to survive because of the refusal of major world powers to do anything more than utter the occasional verbal criticism, so too the Orange state has survived largely because successive governments have refused to confront British rule.
In the absence of any pressure on their behalf people of South Africa and the nationalist people of the six counties must rely on their own resources and especially on the spirit of resistance which unites the African National Congress with the Irish