ILTARADANOV - reviewee in had weekive January. Doints oUtED! failure of the Black Consciousness Movement to link up with the black trade unions.
The limitations of this tactic question or an anemative. is ov arawing parted economy land rain and on the Dorcas David Hemson and Martin Legassick on the Airican social Tormation tnat tis question can begin to De answered Hemson and Legassick develop in some depth the possibilities of trade union action in South Africa The whole structure of South African legislatior designed to repress, lace unionism. Lane aumentic assertion or ine workers interests canno met without the transformation mean that the managements' should not be attacked or that no authentic entation or ine workers interesis can de made in uni present context.
Working class action in South Africa does indeed have a certain efficacy as the strikes in Natal in 1973 and in Soweto last year clearly demonstrate Many of te firms employing black britisn subsidiaries. _nis boses me question or wna can be done in Britain to encourage the formation of organisations of the black working class Good and Williams note that, menaPonce Cornission specific task was to examine the role of the state i promoting economic growth -ded that South Africa's industrial programme would serve little o purpose without the investment. Accordingly it urged the Government encoulace mouses i me union Dy Duoncisi overseas me avantedes or me count in reware to industrial development and by actively encouraging foreign firms voluntarily to establish themselves in High profitability in manufacturing together with a unty controlee labour Torce was encouragement •toreian investors neecec 1956 and 1972 direct foreign investments rose by just over 300 per cent In a condensed version of their paper, Good and Williams remark on Britain's share that census on outn airica s imemational investmen position snows inat at ine end or 19rs airect toreign investment in Africa amounted to mil per cly of us that is in madest assumitfor ) per cent of this (which is a modest since Britain's share in 1972 amounted to 66 per cent) ins woule mean maat outs comoanies nave a aireci ctake in the million at the end of 1973.
The problem with not so much that it is wrong -clearly pose but the reactionar understood link between the work of was to be invested in and control authentic of the south Cambridge, But this does not repressive apparatus TOPICS labour are involvement ov In 1958 a govern- workers UT CHUTE • unanimousiv conciu it is direct effects ly harshly to the gold industry Any solidarity betweer reading for militants CLIVE BALDWIN 43585 David DOULT Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Canarheid economy of about E2,150 the disinvestment campaign is obviously it would manner can disinvestment campaion Doses ine question of what to do with disinvested capital For the Communist Party the caused by unpatriotic businessmen investing abroad However, as Good and Williams show, if the capita antain under concitions o capitalist production, the rate of profit would have to be massively increased at the expense of the working Rather the example of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement in the US should be followed Massachusetts plant Corporation demanded that Polaroid should withdraw completely from South Africa, should make statement condemning apartheid in South Africa and should turn over some outs "-coter cans nor ever all) to the liberation movements in South Africa.' We would of course argue for all the money to go to the Besides the disinvestment campaign the extent of means tha British workers can play a powerful role in the creation of black trade unions in South Africa Hemson and Legassick put the point well: British bullpanio SHOUld disclosure or their activities in out ATrica.. call by British workers must be: open the books. For for actions by British workers to have South Africa, even reform by the South African state. For complex reasons the AmeriCan HERETO •TOI Aurican coal moors to me uo oroguceo une reocd. o the Master and Servant Act, which applied particular in Britain must have these as its aims. These articles are extremely rich in both information and analysis and are recommended unless ine SHITISE movement begins to take up the question, the future struggling against the apartheid reg • Dorcas Good and Michael Williams: 'South Africa The crisis in Britain and the Aparted cconomy and Martin Legassick: 'Foreign Investment and the Reproduction of Racial CapitalBoth published by