A statement of Communist Party members who are students and workers at UC and active in the surrounding community expressing support for the sit-in, boycott of classes, and other recent actions by students and workers at UC Berkeley calling for divestment of university funds from corporations doing business in South Africa. The recent upsurge in the anti-apartheid movement in the Bay Area was sparked by the refusal of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union--ILWU to unload South African cargo. On April 18, 1985, 400 ILWU members came to the Berkeley campus to show their support for the actions at UC. The CPUSA applauds the growing unity between students, the labor movement,...
A statement of Communist Party members who are students and workers at UC and active in the surrounding community expressing support for the sit-in, boycott of classes, and other recent actions by students and workers at UC Berkeley calling for divestment of university funds from corporations doing business in South Africa. The recent upsurge in the anti-apartheid movement in the Bay Area was sparked by the refusal of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union--ILWU to unload South African cargo. On April 18, 1985, 400 ILWU members came to the Berkeley campus to show their support for the actions at UC. The CPUSA applauds the growing unity between students, the labor movement, the Black community, and the broad free South Africa movement. This movement demands an end to the Reagan administration's "constructive engagement" policy, complete economic and political sanctions against South Africa, and freedom for Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and all South African political prisoners. It also calls for defense of Angola, Mozambique, and other newly independent states against South African military aggression and withdrawal of South African troops from Namibia. The CPUSA calls on people to become part of the worldwide movement of solidarity with the people of South Africa to end apartheid.
