empty Thursday through Monday / as pupils heeded COSATU's call for unity between students workers students joined their stayaway by many university students as well. The success of the May Day action bodes well for the three-day stayaway called for this month to mark ine anniversary the Soweto uprising on 16 As a COSATU official summarised the meaning SHOW of workers power in South Africa on May Day, 'This shows that workers have laken a decision to bulld South Africa into CCUCAL country. We will not rest until this goal is realised. WHILE COSATU was carrying through against apartheid. May Day was also incongrously chosen for the launch of the so-called Workers Union of South Africa (UWUSA).
This outfit is inspired Kwazulu Bantustan chief. It is being projected as a tribally-based rival to COSATU. Its real character 'union' is evident from the fact that its entire executive is drawn Inkatha, Buthelezi's organisation the apartheid regime, malaced HO DISE 50,000 for the UWUSA trains which were taid on. Onlv three smal unions representing tewer than S00l workers were present. Buthelezi prepared for the launch with a scathing campaign vitriol conducted against COSATU for the past six months. Not surneither the bantustan police South African state forces were used against partineants at this rally.
The aim 'UWUSA' is to break up the unity around and aid the apartheid regime.
womens conference on 17 MaShe will echo her warning to the London meeting: "The American government • 1S not interested on peace negotiation • Central America. They are trying paint the Nicaraguan governmen as terrorists.
that affects us too as we have the 'We don't see our fight in isolation. This is why AMES has contacts with women fighting across the world, like the women of Namibia South Africa. We are preparing to oppose an invasion of and we hope you will support us.
• For information about AMES and solidarity with El Salvador, contact ELSSOC c/o SOGAT, 13-16 Borough Road, London SEI. Chile:
Santiago, police and army occupied the There were over 600 arrests.
Kurdistan: others being injured. rocket which goes up next year. Beijing went into the commercial launch business last October and is undercutting its European and US rivals by 15 Pinocher, facing widespread mass demonstrations and strikes, has stepped up the repression. On Tuesday 22 April police opened fire on student demonstrators when he visited Tumuco in Souther Chile. Five were wounded, and there were over 60 arrests. A week earlier in universities for four days attacking students demonstrating for a democratic university system and against the expulsion of victimised professors.
A wave of revolt against the Baathist dictatorship has swept the Kurdish termitories of Syria and the Kurdish minority in Damarcus, the Syrian capital. On 21 march the national day of the Kurdish people, there were widesprent demonstrations, clashes, and arrests which sparked even wider demonstrations. In Da ascus Kurdish workers and students marched bestle left wing Arab activists on the presidential palace. Police, riot troops and intelligence agents blocked the route and a young worker was killed, eight