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Trade unions are at the heart of combating racism
ROGER McKENZIE welcomes the opportunity to develop the movement’s anti-racist and black-worker organising strategies
Trade unions are at the heart of combating racism
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THE United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is held each year on the day the police opened fired and killed 69 people and injured 180 others at a peaceful demonstration against the South African apartheid “pass laws” at the now infamous Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.
At its general assembly in 1979 the UN agreed that each member state should organise a week of activities every year, beginning on March 21, to bring focus to the fight against racism.
Twenty years ago, after the fall of apartheid, the UN held a World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, to give fresh impetus to the struggle.
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