BRITAIN: South African unionist condemns Israel's apartheid

On March 11, Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willy Madisha condemned Israel's apartheid policies at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign trade union conference in London. He said South Africa's apartheid was "characterised by killings, hangings, disappearances, arrests, exile, confiscations, inferior education, rapes and the creation of bantusans", and that "all this was a Sunday picnic compared to what is happening to the Palestinians. I say with confidence that Israel is an apartheid state." Madisha warned: "The trade union movement must move beyond resolutions, otherwise history will look back on us and spit on our graves." He called for an international boycott campaign similar to that which helped to end apartheid in South Africa. For more information, visit <http://www.palestinecampaign.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, March 22, 2006.

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