from Dave Windsor
The South African cricket team is touring Britain this summer. The Anti-Apartheid Movement has put out a call to all its supporters asking them to ensure that matches are picketed, The Movement wants all the spectators to be aware that the team is picked on a racialist basis. The it as follows: June Saturday 26th v. Derbyshire at Chesterfield " Wednesday 30th v. Yorkshire at Sheffield July Saturday 3rd v. Essex at Colchester " Wednesday 7th wv. Surrey at The Oval " Saturday 10th v,. Gloucester-
shire at Bristol " Wednesday 14th v. Minor Counties
CoAe at Jesmond (Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) " Saturday 17th v. Leicestershire at Leicester " Thursday 22nd First Test Match at Lords " Wednesday 28th v, Kent at Canterbury " Saturday 31st v. Glamorgan at Swansea
" Wednesday llth v. Middlesex at Lords
" Saturday 14th v. Hampshire at Southampton
" Wednesday 18th v. Sussex at Hove
" Saturday 2lst ov. Warwickshire at Edgbaston
" Thursday 26th pire Test Match ch The Oval September
Wednesday lst ov. Lancashire at Old Trafford
"Saturday 4th ve T.N. Pearce's
Hleven. at Scarkcrough
It is to be hoped,that all readers of The Week will help to organise activities as suggested the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They should consider what else they can do to make sure that the South African cricketers get the welcome they deserve! Of course, these people are merely symbols and the aim of any activity must be educational and agitational, with the aim of draving people's attention to the necessity of action by this country to fight aprtheid,
A special responsibility rests with Labour Party members. A number of towns on the itinerary are Labour~controlled; as is well-known there is nothing *lduncillors like more than an excuse for a booze-up. The visit of foreign sports teams is usually used as a excuse for a civic reception. The left must establish the fact that any "Labour" councillor taking part in or voting for such receptions thereby becomes an accomplice of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Any such councillor or alderman forfeits the right to be know as a socialist and is not fit to be adopted as a Labour candidate.
Unfortunately, there is little we can do directly to help our comrades in South Africa in their valiant and ceaseless struggle against Apartheid and for a socialist South Africa. However, we can make some amends for our inability to persuade the majority of the Labour Party of the need to boycott South Africa by waging a determined fight on the occasion of this tom... Let us ensure that the South African cricketers go back to their country under no illusions that Apartheid is acceptab yi Let us make the position of any Labour Party member who entertains them completely unbearable.