The leaflet says the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid (ILNAA), formed in late 1987, was inspired largely by the solidarity of 350,000 striking mine workers in South Africa. South African unions have helped teach us the meaning of labor solidarity. ILNAA's purpose is to educate and activate local unions in solidarity with South African unions in the struggle to create a new democratic, non-racial South Africa and to end all forms of apartheid. The leaflet mentions labor education programs, internal resistance, mandatory comprehensive economic sanctions, corporate disinvestment, U.S. companies that have violated rights of South African workers, repression of trade unions, release of...
The leaflet says the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid (ILNAA), formed in late 1987, was inspired largely by the solidarity of 350,000 striking mine workers in South Africa. South African unions have helped teach us the meaning of labor solidarity. ILNAA's purpose is to educate and activate local unions in solidarity with South African unions in the struggle to create a new democratic, non-racial South Africa and to end all forms of apartheid. The leaflet mentions labor education programs, internal resistance, mandatory comprehensive economic sanctions, corporate disinvestment, U.S. companies that have violated rights of South African workers, repression of trade unions, release of jailed trade unionists, pressure on the South African Consulate, elected public officials, and two dozen representatives of local union affiliates in Illinois. [Note: This document was most likely printed on ILNAA letterhead.]
