repression in Northern Ireland.
Irish crimes.
The launching pad will be the SMCOT's conference on 15 May at viedieser Polytechnic.
supporters at Southampton Uni• Is it possible for the apartheid system to be dismantled within capitalism?
I don't see how you can abolish aDar neid wallc mainlam. capitalist system in South Africa, simply because the dynamic interconnection between capitalist exploitation and national oppression is so deep that you cannot solve the problem of national oppression without solving the problem of economic exploitation.
What I am trying to say is that ine solution or une basic boncal problems, that is the bourgeois-STOO CHIS I Africa, must of SOCIalISE revolution Also the achievement of socialist construcion i unc country canno be carried out without solving the problems facing the black people.
• How can South African militants best advance the struggle against apartheid and capitalism?
There are two basic questions One is that you have an oppressed people which has thrown up number of organisations which seek to abolish national oppres sion. The second question is that these organisations are in reality organisations which, in classical terms, seek to accomodate black people within the capitalist structure in the country.
But, as I said earlier, we cannot solve the question of national oppression in South Africa without solving the question of econo: mic exploitation. This means that, as a revolutionary, I must support the national liberanion movement as a whole unconditionally.
And since vou have various The British Government has been highly embarrassed by the exposure at the European Court of its torture and And now the Student Movement Campaign on Ireland [SMCOI] plans activity to versity have organised a week of action from 2-7 May as part of the bund-up, and other colleges wishing tor speaners can now obtal including the numerous new organisations which have been born as a result of the activities of tho black consciousness revolutionaries must address inemse ves. o these and see to it that these movements are welded togetner banner of a broad national liberaton iront were tnere will be ne organisation which will seek to desuoy me denny or oner or ganisations.
At the same time, it would be very dangerous simply to strengthorganisations without creating a special organisation which should be in a position to go pose the demands for a real social revoluuon tac country.
Historically there is no other class capable of carrying out such a gigantic task except tne working -class itself. And if the working class is going to be in a position to take leadership, it must have its own indepencent organisation there to fight for the class interests of the workers and to see tha democratic rights which are denied to the broad body of oppressed Dco Die are meL.
Revolutionaries who seek to organise the revolutionary party in South Africa (or elsewhere in the world) must seek association with the only tendency that is representative of real Marxism world scale. The Fourth International is that organisation.
Revolutionaries in South Africa will have to build the various organs of the Fourth International simply because it is the only organisation capable of offering such vast experience acquired over a long period of ume Lne cannot be said, 1 believe, of any other organisation them through the SMCOI SpeakBureau (see dene McAlskey will De speaking al London colleges in the week before the conference.
dent movement for a campaign against British Army repression in reland was demonstrated at the recent National Union of Students (NUS) conference. Three hundred and fifty delegates packed a debate SMCOl and featuring Bernadette McAliskey and the Peace People It was the largest fringe meeting of the conference.
RESOLUTION HOWELVES The SMCOI resolution movements conference called on the NUS to *launch a campaign against torture and repression.... campaign, investigate charges that torture as charged at the Human Rights Court is still continuing.
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That there is support in the stuorganised by andoff campus. To build HAS DATE GLE The SMCOI could lay the groundInternational Tribunal on Britain's that the A tribunal on Ireland, organised around the theme of repression. could take evidence on issues inEs ento e overlical suppression of free speech, and police brutality. What's more, l could involve students throughout Britain - building local support on massive support in Britain for the demand *Troops Out Now' it is necessary to expose the role of those troops, to crack withdrawal. the illusion still dominant in the problems British labour and student movements that the Army is playing a progressive role in ireland Students wishing to build the SMCOI conference should contact Von McClary at the Enfield Site of were Middlesex Poly, through the Students' Union (tel: 01-804 1958). which was Speakers Bureau requests should be made through McClary.
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expose the continued use of repression by the British Army in Ireland and to build the protest against Britain's