of military the demand tor dialogue simultaneously with taking the war into all departments of in order to alter the military balance forces.
The US recognising the failure of their current policies, increasingly backing repression, claiming that the FMLN's tacdesigned to proVUKO •TOLeSI against human rights violations at the US embassy is aimed campaign in against the growing repression in El Salvador. the of free zone. This will bring them into Kanak liberation movement. immediately related to them.
problems.
French territory.
Sebastian The upshot of a recent meeting of 13 Pacific states, at the 17th South Pacific Forum, was a calling for turning the Pacific into a nuclear contradiction both with the USA and France. The same meeting demanded that the question of New Caledonia be placed on the agenda of the UN decolonial commission. This has been seen by French commentators as a defeat for French diplomacy and a victory for the struggle of the The new French government has moved backwards even in relation to the meagre measures proposed by Mitterrand, which forsaw a referendum on independence for New Caledonia in 1987. The Pacific Forum demands that participation in this referendum should be restricted to the Kanak people and those It stated that if the result of this plebiscite did not go towards independence, it could only exacerbate the The Spanish and French governments are both having to weather a rising storm of militant opposition to their terrorisation of liberation fighters in the Basque country. The Spanish government has been conducting a dirty war of assassination and imprisonment against ETA. The French government recently decided to cease offering asylum or refuge to Basques in It has begun expelling them from France, often without an extradition demand and without provocation. Txomi, the main leader of ETA, was deported in line with this. As a result there have been huge demonstrations in St It is clear that the climate of opinion in the Basque country is swinging towards ETA and the political party which supports it. This has promoted a crisis among the conservative Basque nationalists, PNV, which has reversed its policy of support for the existing autonomy statute on the basque countrv and called for it to he renegotiated. Most important of all, it has called for negotiations with ETA, something which the Spanish government steadfastly opposes.