Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 102, 30 September 1982 · scan p. 5 · about 290 words

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keen-to-govern bourgeois parties to get in - and then slip in later as willing to collaborate' when the bourgeois bloc starts crumbling...

'But this tactical manoeuvre met resistance at the SD annual conference. Resistance to any collaboration with the bourgeois parties was so obvious that Anker could only hint at such a possibility... The demand for 'a clear SD profile' was on the lips of speaker after speaker. The rank and file have had enough of the rightward turn.' Toppled Danish socialists now need to launch a thoroughgoing struggle against the Social Democratic right wing, comments "Trotskyist Viewpoint' "The bourgeois parties' government must be toppled! Not to be replaced by a new Social Democratic government which carries out bourgeois policies, but power by the workers' struggle, and with a programme that can solve society's economic chaos in the interests of the working class' A round-the-clock co: tinuous picket is beir mounted outside South A rica House by the family an aupporters of David Kitso: now in his 18th year of ja in Pretoria.

David's health is failin and , his supporters a demanding his immediate r lease. The campaign is off cially backed by the NU and other unions. NL President Jonathan Hamn ond told us: "The NUJ has always bee actively against aparthei and has continually prote ted about the imprisonme and harassment of blac journalists and the Soul African authorities effor to shackle their trade unio organisations. It is proud 1 protest also in the case e David Kitson, a distinguishe trade unionist whom it is quite clear the Sout Africans are trying 1 legally murder so that he wi never emerge alive fro prison."

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to make way for a workers' government, raised to

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