South African CP on East TImor

Russell Grinker grinker at mweb.co.za
Thu Sep 9 10:39:43 PDT 1999


Subject: Re: South African CP on East Timor

Chris Burford wrote:


>It is also an organisation that knows the need to appeal to international
bodies, while understanding of course that international bodies are dominated by the representatives of - surprise surprise - bourgeois governments. But if the SACP had not campaigned to the UN and to international public opinion, along with others in the mass liberation struggle, blacks would still be in South Africa without the bourgeois democratic right to a vote.

Yeah Chris, maybe the appeals at the UN and to a variety of international luminaries did achieve a bit. Funny really, I always had the idea that it was the struggles of ordinary people in South Africa that really made the continuation of apartheid a less sustainable option. But then the so-called solidarity movements overseas always did have a rather exaggerated opinion of themselves and their contribution to changes here.

Russell



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