SocialistAction 1983–88

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

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Socialist Action No. 137, 18 April 1986 · p. 9 of the scan · 320 words

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the experience colonial revolution in Africa, they have not efMany substantial political advance of black people in countries with powerful workers CHOVCNCULS The advances made by black people in USA, for instance primarily to the civil rights movement which had its own dynamic growing out of American conditions and the black experience there. This is in conthe effects of the Russian revolution worldwide, or the Chinese revolution in Asia, or Cuban revolution in Central America These previous African revolutions did not have to contend with a colonial settler nationality, which in Southern Africa numbers some five millions and consulutes a permanen feature of any South African nation state imaginable in the future as much as it does in the present. This settler nationality, now embattled, prepared to go to any lengths to protect its privileges even in the face of now forseeable collapse of its ability to rule.

South Africa has the developed, and now one of the most powerful working classes in the entire world. It consists of one of the most revolutionary working populations to be found anywhere. Its youth constitute a whole politicised generation coming up out of the experience of Soweto. ed primarily to appease whites in South Africa as to the compromising nature of the new nation emerge out of the fought out now. It is an eminently revolutionary strategy come about because of the conditions which face movement there.

To the policy supremacy practised not only by the bosses and their police, but also by the racial trade dependent trade unions have advanc. ed the doctrine which says that all workers have equal right to representation by and in their own organisations. formed and powerful trade union confederation this as the basis of its own class theory, most advanced stage reached by the most revolutionary anywhere in the capitalist world.

All revolutions involve the sweeping away of the old vile and bankrupt

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