prints and true were established. The crumbling regime Salvador is prepared to ounrace maintain itself in power.
Meanwhile LIC charges against Salvadorean us nuns in 19i0 have nuns in 1980 nave been dropped for 'lack of evidence' ON HIS TRIP Salvador, the Pope visited the grave of Oscar Romero, San Salvador murdered Dy lue call squaus.
Immediately after that popped shake hands with RoberD'Aubuisson, leader the National Assembly, who ordered Romero's death.
When Romero appealed to Ine rope in 1980 to intervene in support OT Hite poor, the Pope refused. Lacking papal tion, he was murdered a new ways laler. Manifesto TO COMMEMORATE Ine centenary senanghai 22-year-old worker scribed the text of the Communisi MORIPSEO 50.000 Chinese RONALD Reagan's latest anti-communist crusade getting loonier. In a speech last week approvingly quoted a father he heard saying: would rather my three daughters died In a nuclear war than grew up under ComSpirit 1983' is the name of the huge military exercise being carried out by US and South Korean forces.
It involves a total of personnel, two of the largest US aircraft carriers and o4 nignters ground attack airCall.
North Korea has been placed on a war alert as the exercises take place a few miles from its territory.
THE TENTH anniversary of the Chilean coup apparently bringing depression sion to General Pinochet.
As Friedman-style has ruined bankrupted business, the COOU Genera himself isolated and con.
According to Richard Gott the Guardian Pinochet going through nard time. All our readers. we're sure. will wish the General a speedy ead 1o his prob ing Democratic suffered a major defeat in the December 1982 local elections at the hands of the SP CP The led by Pinto Balsemao of the Social Democratic (toD resigned, opening up the habitants on the Black Sea coast. No different from thousands of other Anatolian towns. Except that since 12 January this year, 759 of its inhabitants are mass trial in Turkey's recent history.
It was in the October 1979 municipal elections general surprise LO against the dominant right wing parties, that Fikri elected was mayor, supported only by ICEl WilL or callisallulls such as Devrimci Yol Two far left organisations, the Trotskyist PSR and the UDP a slate in the elections to defend working terests and to demand a class-independent ment socialist policies. small town of 25,000 inThe military prosectors are asking for the death (Revolutionary Sonmez had a 65 per cent majority.
The programme of the was radical, democratic successful. Rodu repairs, house building, provision Poster's for the 1980 election in Lisbon of cheap transport, provision toi electricity as well as sewage WCLO Municipal workers' wages were increased by between 150 per cent and 350 per cent differentials abolished.
'People's Committees' rapidly became the sovereign of administration and decision-making. People from all viewpoints were allowed to participate these bodies except for members of the neo-fascist Nanona. Action (better known by the name military goon squads the 'Grey Wolves')
The Fatsa experience gained widespread support throughout Turkey 1980, Fatsa hosted days of popular culture' with the participation of one hundred thousand people On 13 July, two months before the military coup, the army surround"to put the town in order'.
A statement was issued form O1 a joint declaration by the local representatives of all the establishment parties, including the representatives of the ruling conservative Partv town was well in order.
Nevertheless, the army moved in and occupied the town In the months following the extreme right pro voked bloody confrontations which led to ninety deaths. Naturally, when the army seized power ratsa was principa ‹target. further twelve deaths and three thousand arrests were the result. Torture The Fatsa trial is important for its size and as a symbol resistance to military rule. not, however, exceptional More than UnIC thousand prisoners. widespread torture, four thousand people - mostly youths facing the death penalty: thirty already hanged; this is the barbarous reality of the bastion of NATO's southern flank the Turkish military junta Mayor Fikri and the other defendants have been brutally tured in their two and a half years incarceration Now they face a terrible fate. They are appealing for representatives of local government worldwide to come to their aid through expressing solidarity with the ratsa detendants Turker For more information:
Solidarity Cumpaign, BM Box 5965, London WCIN 3XX.
Socialist Action 25 March 1983
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municipal administration of Fatsa into a Com- sentence for 261 of the defendants. It is the largest