only be That in the position far 5m/ joke republics The overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship ago, hing. low the revolution in Nicaragua threaten Hated in El Sal müer On 24-25 June 1 there in Bl Ivador which shut down more cent or any, commar own, au goval ment offices.
Siege It was called by the Revo Com ittee of the at the beginning of the ye left-wing organisations, military wing.
The general strike gained more nors, 18,000 caches, and joined by mployees. Even small business nd lorry companies ad food s two days. The daily newspapers were shut dow is mentors in Washington, was let in to done tion its mentors in Washington what the mass of the country's people want.
TON KWESIX The M subject to periodic acting for United of which omow's former atcom was a two-day general strike.
organise people vernment Cops closed for ti JUAN EMBASSY AND THE NICARAGUA SOLDARTY CAMPAIGN RESENT MINSON (POETRY READING)
ide 52 in echance man NSC 218 The strikers demanded a halt to the militar repression and an end to the state of siere. They call: ed for a stop to US military aid and interference. They demanded the right to strike, pollucal Icaders wno nave been jalled by the junta Confrontation The strikers made preparations for the full-scale CRM called for the period of the strike to be used to people' committees and mities. Many such mectings were hek Food, water, and niedical supplies are now being stocked for the anticipated insurrection. paramilitary group OR DaN mand is presence rin, armoured there were few armed clashes.
The discipline of the strikers largely ensured tha ut on 26 June the junta showed its love for t reject populated working class area Salvador, was shelled. Reports indicate that at leas 2 redople were killed and hundreds wounded or cap.
The attack was a prelude to the invasion of the neare holding a press conference According to ders National University, MY MIGH CON I (LATIN AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC)
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connecte UNITA for his ment, bureaucratism, Algeria would back defend its ethnic group.
of Kabylia.
exported pro solidarity South right of self respondents who and the release of already revolution.
The dies while the government in the capital, San CRM leaders USA LAST week the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 59th anniversary. It did so by calling for the elimination of 'fondal and bureaucratic influence within its ranks.
Commented the People's Daily: feudal thinking runs deep and broad. Our party is no exeption. Such practices as the lack of compulsory retirepatriarchal tendencies, factionalism, seeking. nepotism are all aspects of feudalism'.
students; and trade union militants who had been jailed for demanding that the Berbers be recognised as a seperate As reported in Socialist Challenge (26 June), the imprisoned militants were to be tried before the state security court for taking part in strike action in the Berber province THOUSANDS of Polish workers have gone on strike in spontaneous protest against increases in meat prices.
According to the dissident-organised Self Defence Committee, 17,000 workers staged stoppages in the Ursus tractor factory plant in Warsaw and 3,500 struck at a vehicle parts factory in Tezew, near Gdansk.
The strikes have been described as the most widespread since 1976 when walk-outs and street protests forced the Nicaraguan daily El Nuevo Diario, foreign corwere present compared the attacks to the geocida measures of somoza ocrore n hasty departure for Florida.
The reason why the junta's backer, the US ruling class, is frantic can be seen from a glance at a map Cuba, just off the United States mainland, ha demonstrated willingness The foreign minister of Nicaragua, which strad North has warned President Carter that any form of direct US intervention in El Salvador would be like aggression against our own person.
The only policy open to US business intrests in June when hundreds of Salvadoran peasants fleeing an army attack tried to cross the Rio Sumpul into "The influence of personality cults, privileges and
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and South army, National Guard That's Carter's view Polish Government to drop plans to raise food prices.
The price rises which have cansed the protests include dombling the cost of beef and bacol Brazil AS part of his tour of Brazil, Pope John Paul II last week visited the shanty town of Vidigal, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The large crowds which had welcomed the pope elsewhere in Brazil were pocaliarly absent in Vidgal. Less than 100 local people turaed out and the rest of the pope's audience was made up of security agents.
The reason is that in the carly hours of the morning of the pope's visit the majority of the town's inhabitants were cleared out in a massive police operation designed to clean up' Vidigal and rule out the possibility of the poor using the visit as an occasion for anti-government protest.
The theme of the pope's address was 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.
IN the USA there is political asylum and political asylum. Last week in Florida a district court judge ruled that between 1978 and 1979 the US government had illegally rejected the claims for political asylum of more than 4,000 Haitians.
Judge James Lawrence King said that the government had been 'following a line of discrimination and political expediency' in refusing the Haitians asylum. He said that an attempt by the US State Department to defend the tyrannical regime of President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier "was unworthy of belief.
Judge King also authorities had shown to the Cuban refugees with those of the Haitians, the latter having the misfortune to come from. a country with which the US has friendly relations.
As to the Cubans, the original claims by Castro thạt the refugees from there included large numbers of criminals are now being substantiated. Almost 1400 of them have now acknowledged that while in Cuba they committed serious crimes — including murder, robbery, and rape. An additional 9,417 refugees have admitted committing what are my described as pett offences. i are.
Gull of Maxioo They were driven back by units of the Honduran and then gunned down by the Salvadoran hundred were murdered. fisherman found the bodies of five children in his sotdate Cathe people of Sale or paint human rights. please Carter or his friend Thatcher:
contrasted the attitude Federal
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