ultraWHITE racist South Africa was on fire over the weekend. Bombs planted by guerillas of the African National Congress blew up three top-secret oil plants in different parts of Millions of gallons of petrol, chemicals were destoyed in fires which raged throughout Monday.
Two of the explosions were at SASOL plants south-west of Johannesburg; the other bomb went off in the centre of an oil complex at Secunda, east of Johannesburg. At least £5m worth of damage was caused.
Elsewhere in South Africa the struggle against the apartheid regime has taken other forms. 'coloured' school and university students are involved in the six week campaign against the racist education system.
Schools are being boycotted and youth are taking to the streets • in protest. In the schools which remain open, white cops and soldiers have been drafted in as 'teachers' Education in South Africa is a brutal example of the racist nature of the apartheid regime. The Rand Daily Mail has published figures showing that during the last school year the government THE National Front is planning to break up a conference on Ireland called by Tameside Trades Council for this Saturday.
It is understood that the fascists are planning to stage a demonstration agalust the conference and then send in a tenperson 'hit squad', made up of ex-British Army soldiers, to wreck the event.
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threats of the TUC. spent S677 for each white youth's education at school, $227 for each "coloured' (mixed race) student, and $66 for each black In schools for whites there is, on average, one teacher for 23 students; each teacher in coloured schools has 50 students.
Another difference is that whites are required to attend school, which thereby ensures that they receive a full education, but for coloured and black youth attendance is voluntary. Non-whites also pay for their own books and other school items.
But the racists in the South African regime are now finding that get away with such blatant discrimination. — like Britain's Tory government - have On Monday the Tories again refused to publish the names of the British-owned firms Operating in South Africa which pay below poverty-line wages. Such co-operation will do little in the long run to save either these companies or the racist regime with which they work hand and glove with.
The fires of freedom are now burning in South Africa with increasing heat. As black militants in the USA once put it — burn, Nearly three months ago Tameside was removed from Congress House's list of recognised trades councils because of its intention to hold the conference on Ireland.
The TUC objected to some of the speakers invited and to some of the publicity material distributed to publicise the event.
But Tameside has pressed ahead with the conference, which will be held at Manchester Poly Students' Union. The new threat from the fascists makes it more urgent than ever that the conference is well attended — not just by people interested in Ireland but by trade union activists and the anti-fascist movement.
It will start at 10.30am on 7 June. A demonstration to defend the conference from the fascists will assemble at noon, Manchester Poly Students' Union, Cavendish House, All Saints, Manchester.
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