Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:01:04 GMT
Subject: M-NEWS: S.A.workers' pamphlet


Fellow Workers and Friends,
Greetings!

The ITUSC has the text of an exciting and informative pamphlet written by
South African worker activists to their fellow-workers in that country.It
is an absolute *must* for anyone interested in the developing situation in
South Africa. Because of its length, the full text is available by e-mail
on request to: itusc-AT-gn.apc.org Enter the following in the Subject
heading: 'SEND S.A. PAMPHLET'

Its chapters include:

The end of apartheid?
What has gone wrong?
Put the unions back under workers' control.
Break the Tripartite Alliance!
A government of the people or a government of the few?
'Leave it to your leaders'?
The mass movement and socialism.
The tasks in front of South African workers. 

Its authors write, "This pamphlet was produced by workers in the Durban area
who  fought to keep alive the ideas of socialism.  We joined others from
around the world, including an older generation of socialists from Eastern
Europe who kept those ideas alive during the long period that Stalinism and
tyrannical bureaucrats suppressed the workers movement in Eastern Europe and
took control of the political parties around the world including the SACP.
Now that bureaucracy has collapsed.  All around the world, workers are free
once more to  take up the struggle for unity and socialism.  No matter how
much damage these old leaders of 'socialism' have done to the idea  and
movement for  real workers' democratic control of society,  their collapse
now opens up the possibility of real workers unity and a real struggle for
socialism".

In solidarity,
Keith Standring
ITUSC

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International Trade Union Solidarity Campaign (ITUSC) at:-
PO Box 18, Epsom, Britain KT18 7YR
Tel/Fax:  ++44 (0) 1372 817778
e-mail:  itusc-AT-gn.apc.org
URL: http://www.itusc.org.uk 
The ITUSC is an international and internationalist association of organised
workers and communities of resistance, dedicated to rebuilding the workers'
movement and to overcoming sectarianism and division in working class
organisations.
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