The Home Office want to deport her because she black and llas been deserted not because of any technicality.
When she appealed to an Adjudicator he agree the Office representative's remark that she could not possibly have considered herself married as she let herself be beaten up and thrown out while pregnant'. Irrelevant Nasira Begum's case is perhaps the most revealA further illustration is the case of Rhazia кла toon who has lived here for several years, naving fled from Kenya.
She married Abdul Jacoob who was on a visit this Malawi. She is pregnant.
Because she isn't citizen born here she is being forced to leave her family and go to Malawi if she wants to remain with her husband Cynthia Gordon came from Jamaica in 1960. She lived here 12 years and had two children. Her mother in Jamaica became ill so as an only daughter she went to care for her mother and as a single parent took her children with her.
Defence After her mother died in 1977 Cynthia brought her British-born children back but the Home Office want to deport Cynthia on the grounds that she has surrendered her settlement by being away more than two years.
All these women shou the anti-woman black bias of British laws and institutions They are fighting for the right to live ir this country their children. Already number of black, women's labour movement bodies are engaged in their defence.
They cannot win by their own efforts alone. immigration laws.
the North west and trades councils of Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Students.
Manchester.
leatles and make donations to Friends of Nasira Friends of Jaswinder Kaur LAP BOx JK, Friends of Nasareen Achtar 59 Ashworth St, Rochdale Cynthia Gordon Action Grou Gradwell Walk Queen Anne's Gate, to their MPs:
Joseph (Jaswinder):
George Morton (Cynthia). •Demonstrate tor Jaswinee 16 May Leeds 8 • Demonstrate for Cynthia and Nasira hune manchester 15 June, Assemble 1pm the Immigration Appeals Tribunal. Anwar Ditta's campaign to bring her children to Britain has provided the example of how black people can fight and win against racist Nasira's campaign has won support from South west TUCs; the Stockport, Blackpool and Southport; several LP branches; she has been adopted as an honorary member of the National Union of Jaswinder's campaign has the support of Leed's Muslim, Sikh and Hindu Temples and youth movements in Bradford and • Contact their defence committees for petitions.
• Begum Stockport Longsight, Manchester 12 TCC, phone 061-225 5111 29 Blenheim Terrace, Leeds LS2 9HD Moss Side, , Manchester • Order the video 'A deportation of convenience' made by the Friends of Ivasira to show at meetings the Home Office, 50 , London SW1 and send copies Kumar Cyril Smith (Nasareen); and • Leeds, assemble 2pm Banstead Terrace, , assemble 12.30 at the corner of Princess Rd and Moss Lane East, Moss Side. For coaches from London phone Satnam 01-485 6672 Nasira's appeal will be heard at the High Court, Strand opposite Socielist Ghallenge 14 May 1981
The Duarte regime came to power in Salvador 1979 promising reforms Did ou tin land reform. you find any evidence that land reform has been carried through?
would just qualify the statement that the Duarte to power in OcLalil tober 1979. . 1 ne coup which removed General Romero had a lot HOTe OD timistic aspects to it than the present these whittled away by resignations and assasi ahio i.
the junta had number of progressively minded people, including importantly a man called Cordoba, who was the minister of agriculture. He was the architect aglanlal Ic.oll.
• His intention in October ' 79 WAS EO Caly out a very comprehensive land reform scheme which, in a period of five to ten would have dispersed all the land owned by 200 wealthy tamiles — into te danas o1 co operatives and into the hands of smal tenant tarmers Some 300 farmers were seized by the junta after '79, and handed over worker-based co-operatives to run for themselves. visited one of these co-operatives at a place callea La Labore. ana in fact it was working extremely wel.
There about WCLC workers with an elected .committee running the project, who had about 6000 dependents living with shem cohe arnd growing sugar, coffee sugar cane a prize example of the kind of scheme which Cordoba had in mind.
Unfortunately Cordoba was assassinated four months ago has had a substantial effect on the whole for agrarian reform. utte CubN Even the governmenl running the land reform admits that out of the 300 farms only about six are working.
The impetus for agrarian eform has more or less com harie celes abouri band reform Alac there really isn't any evidence of it being put into effect nora.
Indeed when I was there in February Duarte that the second phase of the land reform was to be postponed indefinitely.
What was your impression of the standard of living of the ordinary people?
thing about Salvador is the contrasts bet"79 ween the rich and the poor that are so acute. Ie re is a ri sizeable middle class Salvador, of whom were extremely well off -ot anomave tended to tlee the country and are now holedAılA ı dN looking after their affairs.
The middle class tends to be concentrated in the main centres of urban population.
people who run garages and businesses and who are really quite well off.
But contrasted with them is the vast majority of people who are landless and anything we would recognise as the poverty line.
They suffer from acute malnutrition. The infant mortality rate among the which represents 80 per cent of the population, is very high inGCCU I think it is the presence of this large middle class which is slowing up the revolution in Salvador. paralels which peopie nave attempiea to araw between El Salvador and neigh1200 bouring Nicaragua precise, oclausc dictator what was really family aynasty, who had hands into everything and who paid the National Guard to deTero liz cocol.
In El Salvador it is much because of more cittuse very large middle class, which is terrified of revolution.
process of revolution is thereore being very seriously sloweo do Whe evidence is everywhere that tid Vel CurE Oney population is hungry, and are not profiting at all from the original hopes that people had in the October "79 coup. Did you find any evidenco of announced El in are the richest wing death squads? What is They the linked to or part of the Na- evidence that they are shops, tional Guard or the army?
The killing in while I was there was running at the rate of 30 to 35 civilians per night. I gather that is still about living below the going rate even now.
These people are not' the victims of the combat number of people who die in El ucasallli y fighting in what is a limited civil war is very sillall. jority are just civilians who are simply taken out and 'disposed during the hours of darkness.
The victims can be found by the roadside in any urban area can find up to a dozen bodies in are specific areas in San Salvador.
Somoza regular intervals: Even in coun- They are try areas you bodies dumped at the roadside.
As for who is responsible for these killings, the overwhelming, killing these civilians is not bethis ing hindered in doing so by the armed forces.
The •IPA curfew ween the hours of 7.30pm and 5.30am. out by 5.30 in the morning. The curfew is very strongly policed ill fed by the National Guard and by the army. army these killings are going on and is doing little or nothing to preeasy to pin-point. tain is that squads are the armed forces You can trolled centres where heavily - the travelling in trucks the result of the troops.
towns.
The vast maSan Salvador policed solely by Certainly you left there that find groups members evidence is armed forces.
that whoever Is There is no reelk been for some months betThe bodies are already nind that the All the evidence is American is aware that in El Salvador. They this thinking.
Often ween tional Across?
urban areas. strọng, . because Whether the army and the National Guard are themselves involved in the killings is less What is cerright-wing inter-mingled with visit army-concivilians armed civilians, with troops. You can see them with the and policing whole There are the towns of San Sebastian and San Stephan -two towns within 40 miles of which are right-wing gunmen, who admit to belong ing to an outlawed group callec ORDEN, which was banned b! the junta in October 1979 ORDEN sile per that large numbers of ORDEN given free range to operate both in the rural and urban areas unhindered by the And you can turn up at a place like San Stephan, and that sign of an army possibly whatsoever. The touch civilian gunmen. I have no doubt in m . a major ole in the nightly killings This is not just my view, it is he view of many officials at th easier to embass who are horrified by what is happening will tel they are obviously at odds with current US State Department the truggl is left wing and right 'extremists' evidence of popular support FDR (Revolutionary Democratic Front) and the FMLN (Farabundo Marti NaLiberation armed forces) did you come acAs I said earlier, there is a substantial middle class in the Where they are • Ine sunport for ine FDR is not so obvious, largely people in the urban areas who do support them are very teariul or coming out anc expressing that support.
The result of even a hint L SALVADOR are related to, or seeing, or even in anybody who is sympathetic to thesassina tion perfectly specific about what the support is. Fiv eks of journeying accross untry in El Salvador certai mare the FDR is very strong.
• If you go to an area which has been recaptured from the guerillas we went to severa you will find that the farm pletely deserted, odesation, the sign s had there is the people had welcomed the army, that in any sense the ar my had "liberated' the area quite the reverse.
Whereas in countryside captured by the gerillas, wi found farmsteads and home fully occupied, and food free! •supplied to the gerillas by population. In turn th gerillas supplyed medical ai and assistance to the peasantry . There was a complete inte
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