DEMAND | Socialist Action 1983

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there is complete violence from the regime. When the people in South Africa see his visit as a supportive act to the government.

While Ramaphosa was speaking, Africa the unions were announcing another round of strikes. The South African National Union of Miners declared that it would start strikes for the release of imprisoned trade union leaders this week.

Meeting in secret session the executive of the South African (COSATU) has also called for strikes to force the release of trade union members. Among those arrested under the State of Emergency Naidoo, general secretary of COSATU.

The ability of Ramaphosa to leave the country, the ability of COSATU to hold an illegal leadership meeting, the planned strikes, the reports on deaths from around South Africa show the continued, and mounting, resistance to the apartheid regime.

Cyril Ramaphosa spelt out the struggle in without equivocation. positive that we will succeed. Our goal is within reach. We can see that we are going to get liberation. And it is not far off.

On 28 June 250,000 people demonstrated in this country for sanctions. Thatcher still refuses them. The most urgent task that faces the entire labour movement is to get those sanctions imposed.

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