This week we are revisiting contribution that help end apartheid in South Africa. In South Africa the US union DC 37 focused on aiding the South African labor movement and its civil disobedience campaign against the country’s apartheid regime. The Public Employee Press reported that tens of thousands of workers in 1980 defied state laws against organizing African workers. Workers had successfully organized “unofficial all-black trade unions and even managed to carry out strikes in the face of the most brutal repression.” The growing political and trade union consciousness of black laborers in the 1980s represented the greatest hope of ending apartheid and subsequent economic exploitation of blacks in South Africa.