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Resolution adopted at the Twenty-Third Biennial Convention of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The Resolution resolves to work to develop support among the U.S labor movement to change the present policy of political, economic and military support to the Southern African minority regimes and South Africa in particular, by the U.S. Government; to organize, mobilize and take actions that will put economic pressure on U S. based multi-national corporations and other businesses active in Southern Africa to pull out and allow the people of Southern Africa to determine the course of their economic development; together with the Black community, general community, churches and students, help forge an ongoing movement in solidarity with the Black majority and other peoples fighting for liberation in Southern Africa; to encourage U.S. trade unions to investigate and find ways to divest any and all union funds that are a part of U.S. capital investment in South Africa; and to take concrete steps to aid and support the trade union movement of Southern Africa, particularly South Africa, materially, financially and morally. The resolution says the fascist, white minority regime of Southern Africa - Zimbabwe, Namibia (illegally occupied by South Africa) and South Africa itself - continues and is increasing its brutal oppression of the Black majority through terror, including imprisonment, "banning," murder and deportations to so-called "homelands" or Bantustans. The resolution discusses John Henning, the California Federation of Labor, apartheid, human rights, the Black majority, Pass Laws, education, medical attention, direct U.S. based multi-national corporate investment, mines, manufacturing, banking, trade, the racist white minatory regimes, the Carter Administration, the recent military intervention into the internal struggle in Zaire, direct support of South African Government troops' invasion of the Republic of Angola, the War Powers Act, multi-national corporations, Sharpeville, the United Nations General Assembly, Anti-Apartheid Year, national liberation, independence, majority rule, imperialism, colonialism, oppressed workers and people, liberation organizations and movements, self-determination, political prisoners, and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU).

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Resolution on TRADE UNION SUPPORT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Resolution #R-26a

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