must be remembered that even white' unions have restrictions, and claims are settled by reservation divides the working class into group groups depending on their shade of black, and weakens them all in their wage struggles, represent those Afrikaaners with a stake in industry, and are pushing for a more moderate CONCLUSION policy. The "verkramptes" represent the farmers The South African bourgesisie are trying to and the poor white workers who need apartheid, Vorster's non-intervention in the recent strikes, and now his new law to legalise strikes by black workers, reflect the needs of industry, apartheid and the growing strength of the black but be cannot ignore the "verkrampte right wing Apartheid is boiding back industrial growth. but it is the system which maintains the power which they depend upon to survive A leading Argentinian revolutionary militant and supporter of the Fourth International, Joe Baxter (known as "El Gordo'"), was among those killed when a Brazilian Boeing airliner crashed near Orly airport on 10 July.
Born on 24 May, 1940, in the town of Marces Paz near Buenos Aires, Joe Baxter first became actively involved in politics at the age of 16 when he joined the Tacuara Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (a right-wing nationalist group). He soon became prominent in the Peronist resistance, and was one of the founders of a left-wing grouping within it. In 1959 ho was arrested and jailed for several months before being released under an amnesty granted In 1963 Haxter took part in the first major bank raid organised by the Peronist resistance.
As a result he was forced to flee the country. going to Lruguay where together with Kaul Sendic and others he played a leading moie in the development of the Tupamaros, During this period abo he travelled to North Vietnam and China, which broadened his politica! honizons, and in 1967 he went to Cuba, It was there that he came into contact for the first time with Trotskyism through members of the leadership of the PRT (Revolutionary Workers" Party), Argentinian section of the Fourth International.
Establishing particularly close inks with two of the PRT's leading militants, Lub Puials and Tito Today CP lenders, inclading the general Bonnet, Baxter returned to Argentina wilere be joined the PRT in 1970, He played an active part in the preparation of its Fifth Congress in July of that year, and also in the building of its tial candidate for the Freate Amplio, the armed wing. the ERP (Peopk's Revolutionary With Pujals and Bonnet, Baxter was one of the fiercest defenders of the PRT's affibution to the its intention of purging the CNT of commuFourth International. He recognised that the populist tendencies and ideological confusion ty to build a real working class party, and regarded the struggle for ideological cantication as a life and death question. But in September 1971 Pujals was kidnapped and assassinated, and in August 19T2 Bonnet was amung those who died in the massacre of revolutionaries at Trelew, Baxter now found himself almost alone in this struggle. Shortly the Leninist Tendency, although he maintained close links with the Fourth International and the former Communist League in France.
CONSISTENT FIGHTER In a statement issued on 16 July. the Leninist Tendency declare that: "The world revolution has lost one of its most consistent fighters, He was a living expression of the rising tide of class struggle in Latin America, the deepening radica how their imprisonment in the first place tion and armed repression loosen the fetters on their black labour force in order to promote the growth of industry. But they are trapped between the racist ideology of working class, The contradictions are too great and every day only strengthens the conditions for their overthrow by the very black labour revolutionary vanguard and the world proleta riat from bourgeois nationalsin to revolutionary Marx isen, "We shall not forget that it was be who taught us the necessity of a World Revolutionary Party and convinced us that the basis for this party lies in the Faurth International, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 It was he who educated us in Leninist methods ol political struggle and ideological disctission. Above all, he showed us by his own militant example what it means to be a revolutionary Marxist.
•We, militants of the organisation which ho founded and which he led until his death, publicly pledge ourseives to continue the struggle lor the world socialist revolation, Twa weeks ago in Uruguay the Communat