Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report Messrs Benn, Mikardo and Hayward at the press launching of Labour's campaign against racism. The material for the campaign backs the racist 1971 Immigration Act:to the hilt. If these gentlemen disagreed with it they didn't say so. LA / last weekend were of no little importance for the future.
to sell apartheid to his imperialist masters as the militants. game away completely. profits which imperialism extracts from South Africa.
what combination of forces to replace the business area OT Cape Town. beginning to The continued existence of the white regimes in southern Africa depends ultimately on the goodwill of Western imperialism - and in particular, of the United States. Thus the talks between Kissinger and Vorster in Zurich With the ever-increasing radicalisation of the black working class, Vorster's ability best defence of imperialist interests in South Africa is now severely limited. The intensity and scope of the demonstrations have convinced Dr Kissinger that an alternative strategy must be developed which heads off the potential development of a conscious anti-imperialist struggle by the black African Dr Kissinger expressed this position forcefully in a recent speech in Washington. He condemned 'South Africa's internal structure .... (as) incompatible with any concept of human dignity', but went on to say: "No system that leads to periodic upheavals and violence can possibly be just, nor can it last.' Forget the bit about justice, just concentrate on the complaint about the inability of apartheid to guarantee political stability and safeguard imperialist investments. The words 'nor can it last' give the Safeguard huge profits Far from having any concern for the plight of the black African under apartheid, Kissinger is simply worried about how to safeguard the huge • The problem he faces — in Rhodesia and Namibia, too, but especially in South Africa -Swine regimes At present the South African police show little sign of being able to defeat the wave of protest sweeping the country. Indeed, the solidarity of the black African working class must be frightening to them. During a recent three-day boycott of work at the Soweto township over a hundred failed in their attempts to break the self-confidence of the black Africans was again demonstrated by the determination of the coloured demonstrators in carrying the fight against apartheid into the heart of the The South African regime is surely What it can do to quell the disturbances.
Concessions of a cosmetic nature may well be tried, but it is unlikely a summit meeting of five African countries taking place specifically to discuss Kissinger's proposed mission to South Africa, he clearly needs to extract something from Vorster in order to retain any credibility