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After the massacre of the Return to the Land Day in Palestine it’s time to make a stand against zionism, argues PHIL HALL
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian cameraman who was killed by Israeli troops on Friday while covering a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, during his funeral in Gaza City, Saturday

LET’S be clear. It was the United States and British governments who were the powerful supporters of apartheid between 1948 and 1990. 

Those governments and the corporations based in the US and Britain with investments in South Africa kept apartheid alive. 

The US and Britain, above all, ensured, through the IMF, that when there was a change, there would no redistributive tax or programme of nationalisations, despite the Freedom Charter, and that the aspirations of South Africans for economic and social justice would not be met.

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