Trade Union apartheid

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Title:	Trade Union apartheid
Author:	Braverman, R.E.
Year:	1967
Periodical:	The African Communist
Issue:	29
Pages:	50-59
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	trade unions apartheid
Abstract:	The writer discusses the various divisions that have developed in the South African trade union movement, and in particular the steady degeneration of the Trade Union Council. From the initial acceptance of racialism in the labour movement it has sunk step by step to a role of defending apartheid at home and abroad. The South African Labour Party was once a quite strong organisation, but because it admitted and appeased racialism and colour prejudice the Labour Party today is as dead as the dodo. The Trade Union Council of South Africa: (TUCSA) will suffer a similar fate. On the contrary the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) which has consistently opposed the theory and practice of apartheid and the colour bar, will survive every blow. With the TUCSA neither trade unionists abroad nor African workers in South Africa should have any truck.