Look for the money interest. When you nave t/, wom investca in South Africa, is it any wonder that the press takes the attitude it doese Times and newspapers take £15,000 worth of Struggle a workers' strike and out. I brought over a black ludge from New York. I wanted to put the magistrate and South African so-called justice on trial.
when the Juage came our or tre trial the day Namibian worker walked up him. •Ine man was in rags. handed the said: I don't want it. I'm a rich man.
Tor Nanting sai It's for TrOM struggle?' The Namibian said: It's for the struggle of the black people other in Amence In short, it's one struggle.
the why the Labour (At this point the Shuring. point in a brave and bitter struggle for politics waged by - Paula Let's have David Hemson, Martin LegasWILl sick and Robert Petersen and others within the African Congress Unions, which is affiliated to the ANC. they have made the most imwas flung portant contribution development of a strategy for socialist revolution in Africa to have come from any quarter in many years Their black Workers' Movement, the ANC to and SACTU The ideas, and how they fought for them in the whelming a said: Take it. people who are widely regarded The judge as leaders of the fight against 'Wha African workers and youth in 1976 causèd a ferment of ideas 'FACTIONALISM' and circulating a document 'attacking the movement' were the reasons given by the UK regional committee of the South African underground liberation organisation, the African National Congress, when four ANC members in exile in Britain were suspended earlier this year.
This incident was a turning itional revolutionary the four Ensor, ist Congress, the attacks South of Trades In the course of that battle upsurge, to the of their politics.
South around the cessful at doing this pamphlet The lutionary explains their • lace ol overopposition Unity.
The uprising of the South ANC Communist leadership and discussion within the tradorganisations of the South African masses, such as Unity the ANC and the Pan Africanwhich had been gle in driven into hiding and exile by 'national Verwoed government in the early '60s. question It was apparent that these organisations had not been able to play a role in leading the phlet write:
and examining the implications of the new wave of struggle meant a reassessment capitalist The current authors pamphlet were the most suc- through capitalism 1977, their revopolitics were put forward in Workers' Unity, the official paper of SACTU, with behind them. Robert Petersen as editor. But the leaders of the ANC soon showed themselves to be utterly opposed to the line of Workers' •In April last year, Petersen was bureaucratically removed as editor. 'A campaign of haras- " is possible to attain 'national' sment was then launched by the UI leaders against the militants involved. culminating ers in the suspension of the four.
The lead in this campaign was taken by the South African Party, which within the ANC First, the ideas which the comrades argued in Workers' were opposed to SACP's notion that the strugSouth Africa is a democratic lution' and therefore that the of fighting for socialism is not raised.
The authors of the pam'We have argued that apartheid in South Africa is rooted in the system of exploitation. National liberation for the black majority can only be secured the overthrow through the seizure of state power by the organised working class, drawing all layers of the oppressed 'Only on this basis, on the basis of a democratic workers' state, can our country be freed from poverty, homelessness, unemployment and tyranny.
point out that the gain 'ANC leadership's belief that it ously growth semi-legal independent black unions and the need to build these, while at the same time constructing underground networks of worker activists.
A correct emphasis is placed the need for definite demands around which workcan organise, demands which can 'build bridges from the economic to the political, from the desire for reforms to a realisation for the necessity for revolution Party There is one question which the pamphlet does not take up - whether the ANC, which as Petersen says is 'a broad combination of oppressed people with different clas: interests', the SACP and SACTU • can be transformer into an adequate instrument for implementing the strategy outlined by the authors.
The fact is that they can't. The working class has to construct revolutionary proletarian party.
This is not counterposed to fighting for a united front of all the organisations of the masses including the ANC, against the But workers require their own party to asocialis leed to identify Socialists need to first of all with those fighting for revolutionary working class politics, and therefore with the whịch this pamphle represents. It should be wide read.
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