to the refusal of British Leyland managment to recognise South Africa's black workers union, the Metal and Allied Workers Union, which has 95 per cen packaged cars to soutn Amrica.
Labour Party branches African industry-estimates ranging from £1 billion to £3 billion-with control of over 1,000 companies and interests in more. In 1974 Labour's manifesto declared: "We shall oppose all forms of racial discrimination and colonialism.
of this declaration has been 35-40 Government-sponsored trade missions to South Africa in the last two and a half years alone. Trade has increased and investment flow has lept from around £100 million to £150 million a year. Hammer blows world. The forced withdrawa of British investment. which also comes from nationalised industries like British Steel and British Petroleum, would deal Vorster and his cronies.
enforce these decisions. Years of pious resolutions and inaction are nothing but a slap in the face to the insurgent youth who have seen their comrades die in empty-handed against the full might of Vorster's regime.
An important step in the right direction has come from senior shop stewards representing 100,000 workers in 80 British Leyland plants in Britain. In response membership at the firm's Mobeni factory, they are blacking the transport of all Leyland stewards are also calling for union members to take up the issue of South Africa in their trade union and British big business has the single largest foreign owned stake in South This will mean support for all the liberation movements of southern Africa and a disengagement from Britain's unhealthy involvement with apartheid.' The effect Now is the time to isolate the racists of South Africa from the rest of the hammer blows to the regime. Likewise South Africa could not exist as an armed fortress against majority rule but for the arms which continue to be shipped to At the forthcoming TUC and Labour Party conferences delegates must see to it that policies to isolate apartheid are adopted, and followed up by action to the streets of the black townships in recent weeks as they have battled