IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Dismissed the demand

Red Weekly No. 163, 26 August 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 169 words

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and for nothing else struggle against the apartheid regime.

grow fat on the backs of the Africans.

Not surprisingly he dismissed the demand to meet black leaders with the callous comment that 'most of them have been detained. There is no one I could see. Just to hammer home the brutal reality of apartheid, the Minister allegedly responsible for relations with blacks, Mr. Michael Botha, added his tuppence worth: blacks are allowed in white areas for one thing only-'to sell their labour Anonymous leaflets distributed by schoolchildren throughout the country last weekend called for a three day strike to paralyse the country's industry. For the first time the revolt of black workers is becoming generalised in a common ine intemanonal labour movement inererore nas a tremendous responsibility to come to the aid of the black workers of South Africa. It is imperialism's money and US, French and British arms that maintain the racist regime, while the exploitation of cheap black labour by multinational firms allows apartheid to

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