" 2 The struggle for democracy in South Africa by Matthew Nkoana. * 6 Advertiser's announcement. " T CeOeAeO. resolution on South Africa. = 8 The South African situation by Barney Desai. " 12 Publications: announcements,
INTRODUCTION
Shortly after our succesful school. devoted to Africa and held over Whitsun this year. we announced that we were to publish a pamphlet which would comprise the speeches and lectures made at that school, This has proven to be too unwieldly and we are, therefore, splitting the prop-= osed pamphlet up. This is the first part and is devoted entirely to South Africa, Others will follow (but further material on South Africa will be included) as and when the technical work is completed.
In introducing these two articles only a few points have to be made, Firstly, we can and must endorse the call made by the two writers for the line that experience has shown that only an armed struggle by the South African people can remove the monstrous Verwoerd regime in the forseeable future, This is entirely an affair for the South African people to decide; but socialists in Britain have the duty to explain this fact and thus prepare to resist any tendency for intervention by British imperialism against the African people.
Secondly, we have to recognise the big part played by British big business and the various British Governments (including, unfortunately, the present Labour Government) in bolstering up the Apartheid regime in South Africae What is more, this regime seems, with aid from U.S., West German and British imperialism, to be building up its resources for an expansion of its power on the African continent, Clearly, all socialists (and humanitarians) must show their seriousness by fighting with all the resources at their disposal to change this state of affairs, If we do not do this we are accomplices of Apartheid; there is no third way.
Lastly, we need to explain that the whole business of Apartheid and hypocritical British support for it is yet another argument showing the rottemess of capitalism, Despite all the affluence, welfare statisn, etce, South Africa is a living example to show that capitalism means barbarism,