SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA. No one had heard of it a week ago. Soweto is black, one million blacks, and blacks don't exist in South Africa.
Johannesburg does, eighteen miles away. Johannesburg is white. Soweto provides the warkers to service white Johannesburg. Eighty six per cent of Soweto homes have no electricity, B3 per cent are without & shower or bath and 97 per cent have no hat water. Fifty four per cent of Sowetans are unemploued Then the final straw. The racist scum who rule South Africa decided that the children must learn thair lessons in the language of the master race — Afrikaans. The revolt simmered, then bailed over. And the white racists replied with the only methods they knew: repression and death, We didn't use rubber bullets because those make people tame to the gun, said South Africas Justice Minister. And while the children lay dying in the dust, still more rose up to take their place Sharpeville had cowed the black masser of South Africa for fifteen he struggle. Michael Foot spoke of our comaties # South Africa Union leaders are indignant, And they die nothing to the shine ras stop the flow of ate and amentio * Nothing to slop the mong tide of raciem in this country, which has already: claimed the lives of thre ent to all work permic for foregn workers, and call for import controls solving our problems at the expense of workers abroad They refuse to support in any way the upsurge of black and workers struggles against the racist offensive.
Soweta brutally revealed the real taos of racism A racism re emerging and becoming overt in this country as the leaders of the labour mavement tie the fate of the working class to a crisistorn capitalism and refuse to fight for socialist solutions Racism produces the same obscenities in Britain as in South Africa. The same fascists who suppart the Soutts African regime kilt blacks and threaten the labour movement in this country. The labour movement must learn the lessons, Cut all links with South Africa! Smash Enoch Powell! Drive the racists off the streets! And light those in the labour movement who refuse to break all links with South Africa and crush the racist vermin here,
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Red Weekly 24 June 1976 South Africa/In Focus 3