I the Labour Purty and the trad unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitulist class.
Socialist Challenge belleves that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class strugale tendencies in opposition to class-collaborutionism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive in character grouping together militants hold ing a wide range of political views.
cuton begin to liniteder the creation unified democratie revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front alternative workers engaged in struggles.
Such un organisation should he based on the understanding that:
seeks to unite the fight o workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers al society - women, hluck people, sruggling for beration. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new orguns of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state. MULDERGATE, like Watergate, has finally toppled the country's head of stute. But press comment has only scratched at the surface of the issues surrounding Vorster's resignation.
The Erasmus Commision has not questioned the need for the unauthorised state financing led to the scandal. On the contrary. The attempted takeover of the Morgan Grumpian pahlishing house, for instance, is described as a bona fide effort to foothold in foreign media with the object of promoting South Africa's interests'.
including unspecified campaigas in Namibin and Soweto — aren't challenged because they were and are needed to counter the growing threat to the apartheid regime posed by the black population and the world unti-imperialist movement.
Vorster lauded by Erasmus as late as last December -had to be sacrificed in a bid to end the affair and stop speculation about premier P.W.Botha's own role in allowing money from his former defence presently projects whose Again a These projects — more than 130 in all, and whose "unisemished, integrity WAS - hus hudget to he used in financing the secret projects. Vorster's likely replacement, Louwrens Muller, Is pushing the Advocate-General Ball through Parliament to prevent forther newspaper exposés of the scandal.
But much of the damage has already been done. The confidence of the apartheid regime and its supporters has been budly shaken. advantage is increasingly ours — If we care to take it by bullding a worldwide solidarity movement that can topple the system as well as its idois. The