Continued ine national solidarity will be vital in backing up their efforts so as to bring about the speedy overwhole.
It should be cphasised that similar succostul in securing relense from prison We would be pleased if yoa would THE ATTEMPT OF THE BIG IMPERIALIST POWERS (including Britain) to save South Africa's bacon at the United Nations through the use of their "veto" power fell apart last week when the General Assembly voted to expel South Africa for the next year anyway.
The Labour Government once more lined up behind white racism, voting against the expulsion and 'deploring' the decision.
The expulsion cortainly came as a shock to South Africa, which had carlier breathed a sigh of relief when their expulsion had been w. ted by Britain, France and the US. South Africa had been hoping to use this victory to try and manoeuvre in its foreign relations both with the black African states and the world as u It is this which lies behind certain statements that have emerged from South African politicians in recent weeks. On 5 November, just after the vetoing of South Africa's expulsion, Prime Minister John Vorster asked his critics to 'give South Aftica a chance of about six months, they will be surprised at where this country will stand' But a system like the vicious racisat of 'spartheid" cannot be takeo apart bit by bit. Too muny whites in South Africa have deepscated interests in its continuation, and the blacks have suttered too long to wait patiently for tiny handouts while the brutal economic exploitation and police rep ression continues in force.
Vorster realises this, and had no sooner spoken his words of 'moderation than he was vigorously backpedding.
Ten days later, for example, he told a githering of black political leaders: ...if there are people who are Taising your hopes tbat there will one day be one man one vote in the white Parliament for you then they are misleading you, for that will never happen".
Liberation can only como to South Africa through the struggle of the black people of the encire contineut. It is the responsibility of the labour movement in Britsin to solidarise with and support that anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle, not lo cooperate in the attempts of white racists to cover over their blood-stained regimes with a phony "liberal" whitewash The Labour Government should be told to stop its policy of aiding the cover-up operation of people like Vorster. Instead, it should end all aid, trade, investment and diplomatic support for the white racist regimes, and give its backing to the black anti-imperislist movements fighting these regimes.