Take out a years inland subscription and we DESPITE THE news embargo imposed by Botha's white minority regime, the success of the protests two weeks ago which marked the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising was total. The media ban imposed by the racist regime cannot hide the determination of South Africa's black majority to sweep away the hated apartheid regime. Action against the ANC, described for Socialist Action the situation in South Africa today.
IT IS clear that on the anniversary of Soweto, as on May Day, there was what can only be called a hugely successful general strike by workers through out It covered every single major area of the country.
That is not just the proexample, in the main in. dustrial and commercia area of Johannesburg, and the surrounding allas i even the racist regime and South African people had to concede that it was very nearly 100 per ent successful. figures run into thousands. And hundreds if not thousands of activists mass democratic organisations such as the UDF and the movement have gone into hiding.
Because of the supermarkets in different parts of the country against the arrests of trade union leaders. Strike achon by scaool students Is still taking place. And in every township in South Africa, though the occupation army is there finding different ways of putting up resistance.
No amount of repression at this moment in time can ever duelle solut ol resistance and the fighting quality by the masses That time has gone. The initiative has passed into the hands of the people their organisations like the ANC Historically speaking it is true that after Sharpeville in 1960 there was a short period when there was, racist, calm. After 1976 words the too for some months the struggle abated But in 1986 one can state with absolute confidence that this is not going to happen. The latest bomb blasts in Durban clearly in dicate that the _armed struggle continues One can say that the state of the racist regime is now one of desperation. They really do not have any conerent suales solution to the problems in The racist regime is açting on a day-to-day basis in which the military and security forces are taking all of the decisions. It is quite clear that even the political members of the
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repression by Botha's state-paid thugs is still go- ing on. ESSOP PAHAD, a long-time activist of the