IN ONE of the most ACTiON SOCiALiSt that apartheid is reforming destroyed.
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could not exist for a day it by the British and rulng classes • Britain has £12 billion invested in South Africa. This is almost 40 per cent of all foreign investment. • British banks have floated f6 billion out of the f23 billion foreign debt of South Africa. Over half of this debt falls due for repayment before the end of this year. Africatai Britain is one of South largest trading partners.
Without this support South Africa's would collapse This is Thatcher will not accept anything but the most cosmetic THE reimposition of the State of Emergency by the South African regime has exposed Thatcher's lid itself. There is no possibility of apartheid eliminating itself. It has to be sanctions against South AInca. ror sucn sancuons will not only hit the Botha government, which hat cher and Reagan support, but also the 1200 British firms with direct investment there the Trade UK South African declared: British bluntly declared: investment in South Africa is more profitable than most British other overseas investment'. In straight monicial apartheid boosts the proBritish firms tits of by t5000 for every black worker they super exploit. Little wonder that Tories moved an amendment parliamentary motion to impose measures deleting 'economic. British firms naturally consider their profits important than black lives.
British complicity stretches right aown line. It is criminal that the British press and media Is sticking to the last detail. The absurdly •acostall restrictions imphe State of El terms ol State Emergency The only justifiable reason for not reporting the pro. tests on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto that the broadcasters journalists had been expelled. The fact that none of them speaks volumes for nave our "free press' The foreign minister meeting on Monday cowed exactly the same pattern. No effective taken, even measle proposed, against South Africa.
The leadership was correct to move motions demanding economic sanctions Tuesday.
Parliament But their proposals do not go nearly far enough. The labour movement cannot content with Neil Kin. nock's and Denis Healey's approach based on appeal. ing to the and promising only limitec measures All links with South Africa be broken. The forces that mUSI be aided in South Africa not "liberals" within the Botha regime but those led by the African National Congress the of South African Unions the United Front, who Demociall aim overthrowing apartheid The demand of the labout movement has to be breaking all links, economic, financial, commercial and political with the apartheid state. . This is the demand of the South African masses. It must be out demand also.