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Nicaraguan government will also speak. May at County Hall, South Bank London. The conference is intended to provide information and education on the background to the preIt will also provide guidelines for effective and practical solidarity Speakers will include leading trade unionist Alan Sapper, Judith Hart MP, Salvador Moncada, senior FDR/FMLN representative in London and Jenny Pearce, author of "Under the Eagle' Information from El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, 29 Islington Park St., SOLIDARITY Campaign Meeting. This will be held in conjunction with the El Salvador AGM on Saturday and Sunday, 22 and 23 January at the Catholic ChaplainFormal business will be dealt with separately but there will be a number of joint workshops. Building of the labour movement conference on El Salvador will be high on the agenda. For further information write to El Salvador Solidarity Campaign as above Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, 20-21 Crompton Terrace, London NI. Tel.
• BENEFIT CONCERT for the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign'to Avenue, London, to raise funds for the adult education programmes being carried out in the isolated Atlantic coast region of Nicaragua.
also help publicise the true situation that The line-up of artistes who have agreed to appear (for free) is not yet finalised but includes so far: Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Alfred Monina, Maggie Steed, Pauline Melville, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ken Cranham, French and Saunders, Ben Elton, Emma Thompson and It is also hoped that a leading member of the FSLN or the army Annual General Theatre, Shaftesbury On 28 May, supported by several brigades begant an operation in brigades operation Chaletenango province. The FMLN counter-attacked, beseiging San Fernando and Perquin in Morazan and forcing the redeployment of the three brigades to this province.
At the same time the Honduran occupied territory inside El Salvador in the area of Perquin and attacked southward in two pincers. The main attack by the Salvadorean regime's mobile forces was launched northwards up the highway.
The FMLN's response was such that during June, in the actions we realised in Chalatenango, Guazapa, Salvador, Usulutan, Morazan and in some areas of San Miguel province, we captured more than 250 arms and inflicted 500 casualties on the enemy army, principally in the US Instead of achieving the turning point of the war, which for months he Reagan administration had been hoping to achieve, all that they managed was to lose an enormous number of arms and soldiers above all from their elite mobile brigades, while the revolutionary forces improved their operational ability.
Colonel Castillo, the Minister of Defence, was also captured during these operations. At the end of June the situation in the army was one of demoralisation, desertions, confusion and disagreements, which was reflected in the regime's internal policy.
Since then the revolutionary