Gay rights policy dropped! | Socialist Action 1983

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ingrove Park. * Sat 2 April GLC Bunker Party. 7.30pm at Civic Centre worth recknam. *Sun 3 April GLC Easter Parade, featuring specially commissioned 'Peace Float'. *Sun 3 April Demonstration at Faslane Nuclear Sub base. * Thur 7 April Aberdeen CND meeting discussing END. Starts 7.30pm at 24 Adelphi (off Union St), Aberdeen. *8-10 April Campaign Against the Newton Terrace, Glasgow G3. Details contact (01)-278 * 8-10 April International Peace Camp at Wycombe. * Contact Bob Saunders Bourne End 22624. *8-10 April Nuclear Free North Atfantic Conference Mitchcll Theatre, Glasgow Starts Battersea Park al meeting. Friends Meeting House IT IS touch go whether the campaign document produced by the Labour Party NEC will contain any commitment to lesbian and gay rights.

This was revealed at a meeting in London on 18 Maron nu Tom Sawyer, deputy general secretary of VUPE and NEC member.

he Loe Ine meeting, organised by the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights, nov wing a1 C fighting against the inclusion in the document of the policies on gay rights passed last year's Labour Party conference.

These policies included: • support for an anti-discrimination law banning discrimination against lesbians and gay men housing, employment and social facilities. • the lowering of the age of consent for gay men to 18.

In addition there is a need to ensure the inclu sion in the Party manifesto of a full commitment to gay rights including equality in the age of con sent for heterosexuals (presently 16).

As Paul Canning described to the meeting,

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AS WE go to press it appears that a substantial invasion force has been infiltrated into the Nicaraguan province of Jinotega, just north of the province of Matagalpa and east of the town of Esteli.

The force is apparently well armed and is at least several thousand strong. Part of this force has come overland, 'and two thousand or more have been parachuted In using planes of the Honduran air force.

I he force appears to be commanded by Augusto Calero, landowner whose land has been collectivised by the FSLN (Sandinista) government.

Reports indicate that the scale of fighting is such that the Sandinista are using tanks and artillery. ing dictatorships in poverCentral America.

Salvador Guatemala left wing guerrillas Have wol Sweet! victories liberated whole sections of the countryside.

considerations make it difficult to send US marines was done the Dominican 1965) the United States has embarked multi-million dollar campaign to de-stabilise uva" revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua and prop up the ailing military dictatorship in El Salvador.

All along the Honduras-Nicaragua border the forces have established duras. Training were also established In charge or tne been provided by Ronald Reagan's SUCCLICS on the evil of Communism Socialist Action 25 March 1983

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