THE FOLLOWING tional appeal 'For Peace, against aggression' has been issued in Managua by the CST Nicaraguan trade union federation.
Socialist Action hopes this appeal will be taken up in the whole labour movement.
The translation is by the CST.
president interna- the main Rica that include and horrific murders of more 8,500 people young people, fessional people. billion in economic losses.
In addition, troops supported by the of the United States. Mi Reagan, and under the guidance of the Central Intelligence Agency have launched attacks from the neighbouring territories of Honduras and Costa kidnapping, rape than including children, wulich. old people, workers, students, peasants and proCounter revolution They have unleashed terrorism, destroying and burning down homes, schools, tarm cooperatives, chilacare centres, transportation, oil and food depots. This has resulted in over $1.08 the foreign debt of $1.65 billion has risen to $4.35 billion because of interest. Due to the international economic crisis and the US will have a balance of trade deficit of approximately $500 million in 1985.
them, Of the earnings from exports, 37 per cent goes to service the foreign debt left by Somoza and 40 per cent These two categories alone add up to 77 per cent, leaving 23 per cent for obtaining the must buy abroad: medicines, vehicies, spare parts, Inpeople attacked by the US its people's democracy need committed solidarity in order to survive. The inof the US government against Nicaragua becomes ever more dangerous with the present Big Pine II military manoeuvres, in the course of which the number of Us soldiers stationed in Honduras 20 miles from our border has risen from 5,000 to There they are stockpiling inorof ammunition, missiles. Units of artanks have accu mules from our borders. There are aerial manoeuvres involving highly sophisticated planes; the secret units like Task Force 160 of Airborne Division; naval manoeuvres in the Pacific and These shows of force are carried out very close to our violation of Nicaragua's territorial tasks.
The economic, commercial, and blockade has weighed down on the backs of the Nicaraguan CST that the International Development Bank was to provide Nicaragua for use in basic social and infrastructural programmes benefitting Nicaraguan people.
There is overwhelming evidence of Mr. Reagan's aggressive policies: the cuts in the quotas for our main agricultural export products such meat, sugar, and bananas, which has a seriously damaging impact on Nicaraguan economy; the US refusal to accept the ruling of the International Court of Justice in the Hague; the ignoring of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 530; the pressures exerted on the governments of Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador not to negotiate or sign the Contadora Peace Treaty.
This administration's political and foreign policy line rests on the platform of criminal aggression by government against Nicaragua. Likewise, the Nicaraguan workers are being bled white, and the United States wants to totally destroy as US vice president George Bush stated in Honduras, on 17 March, 1985.