SocialistAction 1983–88

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

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Socialist Action No. 119, 1 November 1985 · p. 3 of the scan · 239 words

The scan: 119-nov-01-1985-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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keeping their present toilets clean, the new luxury restrooms will be made the United Nations The South African middlemen who arranged the deal wrote to Berox on 10 January to say 'We request that nowhere in your company reterence lists. nor in any future correspondence, our customer's name to be mentioned.

lot of straight il legal trading of this type goes But deception on a far wider scale is practiced in order the benefits apartheid from subsidiary which the 1n British American companies have a major - often controlling - - interest, but which registered South African rather than toreign companies. The collaboration. betwee imperialism South Africa is encouraged by South Africa's own capitalists, who are depen total of only 22,000 black workers. These are the only people to whom the pro tective codes of conduct apply. Yet total US invest ment adds up to billions of aollars, directly directly profiting hundreds of thousands of black people.

Many companies claim - gervestments but, like Barclays bank, simply hive off South African SUD sidiaries in which they re tain a controling interes Some of the better known indirect exploiters of apartheid are:

• ICI, set up in the 1930s to bring together Britain's chemical producers association with the grow.

South African plosives industry: It holds a 38 per cent share in the South African explosives and chemicals firm AECI, with 26,800 employees • Metal Box, with a 25

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