Socialist Action 3 May 1985 the blockade must involve not just the solidarity campaigns themselves but all those of the labour movement that see Nicaragua's gains as our gains.
its clear that the defence of the gains of means defeating Us policy in Central America. For the Labour Party this means there can se no 'return to the 1960's when Harold Wilson acte as the United States poodle throughout the nam war. Present policy, expressed the pressure for Neil Kinnock's visit to Nicaragua intervention and for tis intervention gains of the revolution.
We now need to get that policy into action with a sharp campaign for increased aid and trade with Nicaragua. This should instrikes. That requires quite different project for democracy and socialism in Brazil.
Prospects for the mili. tant wing of the workers and popular movement are now simultaneousl greater and thore than ever before. The rul ing class alliance stitched Tancredo Neves is doing its best to look cool and collected. but already it can be seen to be tearing at the seams.
The PT leaders in turn for long saw their party's role as merely 'expressing the social struggles alread taking meant the PTs meant the PT's base was without organised policies for action. More recently the PT has begun to recognise the need for it actually to lead these stragg les at the same inal clude spreading the twinnIng by local authorities and using them direct connections through delegations OUIIC means. The party should organise the largest possible demonstration for the autumn or early winter to defend Nicaragua against the ongoing The setting up of the Central America Group (CALG) by Labour Party members involved in the solidarity can aid this work. It now needs support from constituency parties and sections throughout the country.
PRo, London Sis, Brompton For more information the Solidarity Campaign, Compton Terrace London NI. time as it begins to offer an overali political alternative to the Brazilian people.
But as one PT Call didate for senator Raul Pont points out this pro cess hasn't gone nearly far enough as yet. In a proposal on the party's electoral policy, published in the revolutionary marxist Em Tempo, Pont described the need for the PT to give the lead in a new system of democratic wadkers and rpopular bloss under hegemony, based on clas independence, drawing in all sections of the movement, shanty town associations, the the ecology movement, and all sectors of the op pressed who are ready to struggle.