SocialistAction 1983–88

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

SHARPEVILLE 6

Socialist Action No. 179, April 1988 · p. 10 of the scan · 178 words

The scan: 179-April-1988-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 10 of the scan

breaks new ground in judicial murder. They councillor, This is naked state terrorism.

ple of South Africa banned.

the movement does not have that opportunity.

Botha is not in a strong position. His army is suf fering losses Angola The banning orders did not prevent his National Party's jittery base shifting towards the ultra-right Conservatives the THE DECISION to hang the Sharpeville 6 have been condemned for having common purpose with' a crowd that killed a township after he had shot their Justice Botha admitted that the 6 themselves did not do it. They are being hanged because they were there, they are black, they happened to be the ones arrested. It could have been anyone on the "The government has declared war on the peoAlbertina Sisulu, executive member of the UDF, one hour before being fascist AWB. That the AWB's gollertame rung solution of restoring the nineteenth Boer republics as a last laager of white supremacy has got any credence at all is clear evidence that the white racists are starting to Hose men conlucuce

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