Islington rally against apartheid | Socialist Action 1983

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LAST Thursday people crammed into Islington's Red Rose Club rally against apartheid.

Organised by Islington North and South Labour Parties and the Anti Apartheid Movement, the rally assembled local MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Chris Smith, SWAPO, the AAM, Essop Pahad from the ANC, and Tony Benn MP. It took place on the same day that international bankers gave •LIC South African government year's financial Ronald Reagan made his space konala visit to Grenada.

Essop Pahad stressed that the fight against apartheid is a fight against imperialism. The South Africa regime had declared war on the country's black population, he said. The South African arms budget is greater than most black the Nyc ot African countries The ANC, he argued. is the only organisation with an army fighting apartheid, the organisation rame that can sh with He said there was a mass soontaneous response from the youth of South Anca identifying with the ANC, marching under