olemented not only the demands they advanced but also implemented totally and completely the agrarian, . programme of the Revolutionaries every Communist Party 'in the world took over an agrarian programme based on the experience of implementing the programme of the Social Revolutionaries in Russia.
Revolutionary Marxists quite openly, and genuinely, state that they would implement, and favour completely implementing every COnId Freedom Charter on that basıs ley will also go beyona lt to a socialist revolution in Africa.
Forming a united front on the basis fo the demands such as those of the Freedom Charter, that is fighting for demands of revolutionary nationalism and revolutionary democracy, is counterposed to, but is a fundamental part. of, revolutionary strategy, country facing the objective tasks today in South Africa.
In this fight for democracy Marxist: seek unity in action with the revolutionary nationalist organisations South Africa such as the ANC.
Posing the weight of the democratic tasks in South Africa however also poses the question of what type of democratic Social in fact after 1917 Act totally No GenOC au jority.
and fight for this. pieces aolle.
democratic means forcibly expropriating South and ending never seen in history. Factories not other sphere of social life.
Take the in workers transport and other the most against this: But without such an expropriation there can be no democratic solution of the land question in South Africake housing. The Group Areas segregates housing creating separate slum black cities and towns in most cases and reserving all decent housing for whites in every case.
transformation South Africa can accept this segregation and oppression of the black maTo smash this aspect of apartheid to through the cally revolution housing, whites. tion segregation, scale The whites, once more, will fight to the death to maintain their privileges. Yet to accept that segregation, whether in law or simply in fact, would be to fail to carry through the democratic revolution in South Africa. Exactly the same applies to education, health, and every situation of the black the mines, factories, SUCLOS This is, relative to the advanced character of much of the South African economy, deprived shackled workforce in the entire world. Even the most elementary democratic transfordistricts in order to desegregate them; to desegregate the schools; to smash the resistance of the white employers to even the minimal defence of conditions of life for the black workers; to crush tribalists such as Buthelesi and his Inkatha thugs, will take armed force -armed force concentrated in the hands of the organised black hasse prepared to crush the white racists and capitalists by any means necessary.
It is here that the final confrontawith apartheid must Because finally apartheid does not rest on any laws at all. It rests on a white dictatorship draped in laws. Apartheid constitutes a state system of rule.
The core of apartheid's rule South African army, the police, and the rest of its armed forces. Linked to these KAFFIR ANY BE force on which the apartheid state rests. Without that the democratic transformation, the democratic revolution, in South Africa will be aborted.
Without smashing the armed core of the apartheid state the land will not be distributed to the blacks, the apartheid system in housing smashed to pieces, tribal and other divisions will not be crushed, the resistance of the white demands of their black employees will not be ended. In short the democratic tasks of the revolution would not be carred through come. State Only by machine of apartheid, and transterring power into the hands of masses, could the destruction of aparin theid in South Africa be thoroughly carried through. Given the structure of the black population in South Africa this means that the national and democratic tasks of the revolution in South Africa can only be solved in a thorough going way by the transfer of political power into the hands of the black working class and its allies.
Slall, democratic and national demands. has already will involve an axis around a revolutionary struggle for democracy an with tionalists in that struggle.
will not be employers to the just culling cagc, black with smashing the state the Dlacr The struggle in South Africa will Trotsky started around - anc achieving revolutionary na- emancipation But these Permanent revolution in regard to South Africa has nothing to do with the idiotic idea that the struggle in that country against apartheid has anything other than democratic demands as its For with the idea that the working class must make the revolution 'alone', and without allying . Ine omner strate of the black population - including the black rural and urban petty bourgeoisie.
For South Africa it means that the solution of the democratic tasks of the South African revolution, which are its axis of development, can only be solved through the dictatorship of the proletariat — a struggle for which unfolds precisely on the terrain of the struggle for democratic demands itself.
was classically formulated by follows in Revolution: 'the theory of permanent revolution signifies that the complete and genuine solution of the tasks of national conceivable only through the dictatorship of the pro