country since the fall of 'Baby months ago.
Shops and businesses closed, public transport ground to a nait as trade unions and dozens of other organisations supported the Sane Cal Throughout the country. provincial towns were the scene of demonstrations and other protest action.
Barricades were built as the military government of LtGeneral Henry Namphy sent in the US-trained army against the strikers. By the FOR the second week running the Caribbean country of Haiti has been gripped by general strike action, in what has become the most serious political crisis in the Doc' Duvalier end of last week the troops had shot dead at least ten demonstrators.
The immediate cause of the strike action was the government's decision to dissolve the main union federation, arrest its central leaders and re use lu accept the authority of the independent council set up to supervise forthcoming But increasingly, the strikers nave movea to ac mand the resignation of the government itset. Attemots by the government to defuse the situation have failed.
The release of eight deand the government's decision to reverse the dissolution of CATH, the Autonomous Central of Haitian worker though insisting on a change in the have only served to deepen the strikers' resolve to tuliv secure the democratic rights they sought when they overthrew the Duvalier dictatorship early last year.
Socialist Action 10 July 1987