WITH standing room only, 600 packed into Westminster to greet the general secretary of the Nicaraguan foreign ministry with chants of 'the contras — no pasarán'.
Alejandro Bendana was speaking at a rally organised bv the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign to launch a 'Blood Money' campaign against the US terrorists.
The appeal for solidarity was taken up by other speakers.
Labour frontbench spokesperson, George Foulkes announced that the party is organising a container of agricultural supplies to Nicaragua. He claimed a future Labour government would campaign against the World Bank and that a programme of aid had already been discussed with the Nicaraguan government.
From CND, Joan Ruddock said that the cold war: "is an obstacle to people seeing what's really going on in NSC is appealing for all-out support for the petition campaign Labour Women for Ireland THE British presence in Ireland has always affected women in very particular ways, writes KATIE FOLEY.
Traditionally women have led many of the struggles against British domination.
1 agree with vour reporter's view of the Labour Women for Particularly with this record of struggle and the solidarity which exists in the women's labour movement in Britain, it was disappointing that only 24 members attended to vote.
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