SocialistAction 1983–88

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

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Socialist Action No. 117, 11 October 1985 · p. 9 of the scan · 399 words

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page 9 of the scan

HAIR BLACK IGN Advances in South Africa boost black people fighting for their rights in Britain.

the of repression has further fuelled the anger of our people. They have deterWOLKCIS mined to make apartheid unworkable LABOR PARTY, The enemy's incessant campaign confluence already been Liberation OUl people stockbrokers, politicians. long awaited, Downing peculiar apartheid state. their screens from South Africa every The relation between our coun tries goes back two centuries. The both nations has decided by colonial governments, expeditionary armies, robber barons, stockbrokers and their political representatives and allies. They give birth to the criminal apartheid system. It is a past to which important political and economic forces of this country remain bound. They refuse to accept anything different from the rule of a racist and colonial regime in South Africa. There is no difference in this question from the former Smith regime in Rhodesia. Together they pronounced themselves the alternative to terrorism and justify the violence of racist tyrants as the maintenance of law and order.

We believe the time has come when no longer can relations between be decided by bankers and colonial The contours of the new tha emerge have already been drawn by the Southampton dockers wno nave laken action to ensure that supplies to the armed forces would not reach South Africa, Anti Apartheid demonstrators obscenity. Stop feeding them. Stop giving them the strength to take even more lives from our people The LE CCULES we have brought this conference are from an embattled people. But also a people that is confident of victory. It is because we are convinced of the certainty and proximity of that victory that our people are making sacrifices. There can be no turning back. In their millions, our people are determined on a combination of political and armed struggle to bring down the citadels of white power and replace them with a system of democratic rule based on the principle of one person, one vote in a unitary state. Nothing Botha does car save him and his regime from this thing. Not the so-called reforms designed to refurbish this racist system, nor the greater use of force Neither can the invasion of Angola and the support of puppet forces against the independent states of our region, the murder of South African refugees that occurred in June, nor continuous external support will save the apartheid system.

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