A LABOUR movement delegation just returned EI Salvador reports that a new wave of violent repression is very much on the cards.
The scorched earth policy of Christian Democrat President Napoleon Duarte in the war against the FMLN is now be carried over into the struggle in the Cities Duarte, who started his Presidential career : with a goons call popular base amongst the urban masses, has now all but lost it. The cost of the war takes 70% of the GNP, despite US Said running at a rate of 500 million dollars a year (more any other country in the world bar Israel and Egypt).
Recent economic HIC SUreS have led drastic increases in the cost living against backcloth of combativity from the Unions that combines economic demands with political demands for the release and for eace talks with the FMLN.
Union leaders have been assassinated the last year. A leader disappeared last Thursday. The move ment delegation which in. cluded T&GWU and the NUM and Jeremy • Corbyn MP met Trade Union activists in san salvador and snow ed their solidarity by tak ing part in a Trade Union march under a banner in Spanish SHOTS reading 'British Unionists workers of Salvadorian union leader Ignacio de la Fuente. the world unite' They will produce a full report of the visit take London Rally on 17 March. *For further information on the delegation and to order the report contact Movement SOGAT 82, 13-15 Borough Road, London SEI OAL.
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