Trade unionists defend Nicaragua | Socialist Action 1983

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Solidarity Campaign the _delegates Sandinista Hotel only seven troops planaca.

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on behalf of the CST, explained the contras main target is to destroy the Nicaraguan economy and impoverish its Deodle. Ihe aim of the working class had to be to defend and develop that production.

The conference linked itself to that struggle on organising tate vive' appeal :the trade union movement here.

One of the effects of the recently declared state of emergency has been to encourage the defence and Cross squads which guard the factories and communities against conemergency has bera Nicarat arad except the CUS The the Nicarag cam affiliate of the Confedera tion of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which also inCate the us AFL-CIO British TUC. It has just 3000 members. It .

affiliated the Nicaraguan Democratic Co-ordination (CDN), the main right-wing opposithe Sandinistas, which also includes the mair employers federation, he TUC International Committee currently considers this scab rump to be the genuine voice Nicaraguan One of the tasks ol the solidarity movement in the next year must to be correct this. As Luciano Torres put it, the CST has good mas wal maividual unions like the NUM, NALGO. NUPE, 'the problem is at the top' Al the CST's fourth Septeraber, there was the Britist nas strike and a photo eu abition of that struggle unions to develop direct bilateral links with the CST. , to send delegations to Nicaragua, so they can report the truth about the state of the TUC policy, passed at the '85 congress, send a fact finding delegaThree months have now gone by and there is not : whisper taking place.

Representatives at the conference from NALGO and ACTT expressed their with this and frustration determination to fight to ensure that this delegation takes place unionists in the NSC will be making this a priority in the coming months.

The conference mark. ed a significant step for ward in building seriou: CONTAN with Nicaragus in the British trade union Many Huveicul. were represented, amoR them telecom and civi service unions, railworkers spriakling fron many otber indestries.

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Socialist Action 29 November 1985