SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Co-op bans apartheid goods

Socialist Action No. 117, 11 October 1985 · p. 8 of the scan · 432 words

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anti-apartheid activists large demonstration on S planning October in Zurich. S. AFRICA THE CAMPAIGN for boycott of South African goods received a boost last week with the announcement by the Cooperative Retail Services that South African produce will be banned its stores.

The CRS was joined by Cooperative Wholesale Society which owns 300 stores. The CWS progressively cut out South African imports S package no South African goods under the Co-oD use no South manufactured products and stop fruit imports. Brands made or packaged in South Africa will be axNorman Bentis welcomed Norman welcomed would give hope to camapartheid.

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providing a rerun of past years on Ireland, as union bosses veto the most reasonable proposals, the government is pursuing its Dublin Ôn September Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president, briefed party workers on the current situation. We reproduce an edited version of that talk.

WHILE it is foolish to speculate on the speculation about the outcome of the current LondonDublin talks, Irish establishment opinion shows how little it is prepared to accept how successful the British have been in setting the agenda and side-tracking public opinion away from the real issues. Dublin and the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) have left the British firmly in contheir Unionist allies, who have failed to defeat the Republicans, with a Dublin ally has produced a situation where the London government is once again projecting itself as honest broker, caught CUTORSH It should be remembered that Unionist use of discrimination and gerrymandering was encourag. ed by Britain for as long as they fulfilled the British need to repress opposition to their rule in Ireland. Sustained resistance of recent years has made unionist methods redundant. Britain now seeks new ways to repress or neutralise opposition.

the rise of Sinn Fein, the BritishCard was liways stacessfulthe nionithere, in Unionists were, British propaganda terms, the guarantors of the nationalist opposition has meant that Britain no longer needs the orange excuse as much as it did Since the hunger strikes, London and Dublin interests which were always complimentary, have become clearer Whatever the outcome of the cur rent talks (and agreement now appears very likely) London's role will be to confront the unionists while Dublin's will be to try to lower nationalist Both governments are pursuing their joint objective of defeating republicanism.

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