IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Soweto struggle rocks racists

Socialist Challenge No. 10, 11 August 1977 · p. 12 of the scan · 558 words

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further attacks by the racist state's police.

On Tuesday police arrested 13 Sents involved in the school protest therings, In the process they and killed past few wceks to a total of four. The Government, through the ata of the Deputy Minister м "Hantu Affairs" * then warned stadents that uniess they tuturned to their classes by the end of the week they would he table to expulsion.

The police immediately took her an the green light for more et tough' measutes, and on turiday escalated their represSERTunner They org ed a swoop on tie homes a ent militants, ransacking and process, arrests Elsewhere buring the day the police ased andualcasico ponce hoya to break up crowds astrators, arresting a furCOMMITTEE OF 10 The Sowero Comminer of 10, the body which represents the AnEIGHE rsH дожеття, in demanding a genuinely demo democratic local self-government is continuing with yet authority, based upon a universal non-racial suffrage. This cues right across the policies of the Vorster Govern Black population in (which are reserved exchnively as "While territory) and insist that political views be expressed via racially-based "national" institu They have steadfastly refuse to meet the denouncing tem as stooges in the hands of the Student Rep resentarive Council'. But they are faced with determined opposition from the people of Soweto. that threatens to spread th out the ents in Pretoria have organise and nine-day boscort of classes protest agailist the racist educaof about "black interests" in mane in "total frustration" at the system.

Is is therefore not surprising that the Johannesburg Str reports a split developing in the Jiners, and the Minister of Bantu Affair seeking a softer line. It would appear that for the rime Dems, u operument nas res olved the prablem by facilig in nacist apartheid both directions at once: Kruger's to bash the student militacts the cities while "compromise" have leen put larward tor a "community council with advi Iу status el Urban Dante Coincin: woo the moderates on the Com mitree of 10, DANGER This points to danger in the present situation. Already some members of the Comillee of 10 nave tried to open un discurson PACHOSu with the Government, areuing that they can best 'control the But as long as the Student Representative Council, the mass sudents under their leadership, and the people of Soweto are united in this strutele, and self-governmens" is seen as ar and will remain a powerful one that the swallow without undermining the foundations of their whole racist political order.

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