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ON THE DAY before he was executed, South African freedom fighter, Benjamin Moloise, during a last visit by his mother, said: "Tell the world freedom is at hand." The following day he was hanged and, against the background of daily news reports of black people, some of them children, being murdered by the terrorists of South Africa's apartheid regime, Thatcher succeeded in preventing the imposition of sanct- ions against Botha's administration and the British Foreign Secretary called on the African National Congress to re- nounce violence. Thatcher was accused of being 'renounce violence'. We stand the only apologist Dr Botha can shoulder to shoulder with them depend on in the outside world. in their right to develop their She is not. The Dublin govern- struggle by whatever methods ment also refused to impose are forced upon them. We call sanctions. In the first six months upon those responsible for vio- of this year, imports to the lence to renounce its use. We twenty-six counties from South condemn apartheid as immoral. Africa and Namibia totalled We condemn Dublin's refusal over £10 million. Winnie Mandela to enforce immediate and total correctly described the British sanctions and we congratulate government's attitude as an the Dunnes Stores strikers. To insult to her country's black the ANC, we extend our uncon- majority. The Dublin govern- ditional solidarity. To our black ment's attitude on this issue brothers and sisters in struggle is not only an insult to the black we send this simple message majority of South Africa, it is an of support: "Fight on!" insult to the Irish people whose feelings are epitomised by the cou- It is no accident that the Dublin rageous Dunnes Stores strikers. government finds common ground The Dublin government's atti- with Thatcher and Reagan in their tude is disgraceful. Indeed, I attitude to liberation struggles. Dub- have no doubt that Nelson Man- lin's attitude on these issues is but dela, if he were in Portlaoise, an extension of its attitude to the would be speedily extradited by British presence in this country. FitzGerald and his cohorts. The natural and logical place for Ireland is alongside the Palestinians, the Chileans, El Salvadoreans and Nicaraguans. A government which S truly represented the Irish people INN Fein's attitude is would be in opposition to Reagan's straightforward and well- backing of repressive regimes in known. We do not hypo- Central America, in opposition to critically call upon the ANC to Israel's policy of genocide against the Palestinian people, and in oppos- 1