SocialistAction 1983–88

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

Apartheid

Socialist Action No. 117, 11 October 1985 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 209 words

The scan: 117-oct-11-1985-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

by the Dunnes strikers, by the international conference of dockers' unions which is due to meet in London at the end of this month to discuss the imposition of the oil embargo.

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authorities, and the educational and other establishments that have taken direct action against apartheid are LUaL engaged in a process which we have , namely, the expression of the will of the people by the people themselves, since it is all too clear that Street has rather ot what 11 means to give one damn about the What we are saying is that the • Yet we have no desire to inherit a country with more graves than it has already. We have no wish to celebrate liberation day surrounded by desolute landscape of destroyed buildings and by productive machines have been reduced to scrap metal. Were it in our power we would pursue the just solution of the South African question on the basis of non violence. But that choice is denied us. and we are determined to meet force with force, the quicker to defeat this racist regime. Comrades, it is in the hands of the British people to help bring down apartheid

page 10 of the scan

Socialist Action 11 October 1985

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