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Meanwhile 85 people are known to have been death squads Salvador. A LARGE delegation from the Nottinghamshire North Derbyshire area, including NUM members, is expected for the El Salvador labour movement conference on This follows a successful tour of the area by a Salvadorean representative of the FDR, Jaime Lopez.
During his week long stay Jaime met leaders of the Nottingham and Derbyshire NUM including executive members Peter Heathfield Henry Richardson. He spoke to branch officiais at seven pits.
The national union is backing the conference with two executive committee delegates, a $100 donation and publicity. The response at local level is equally positive. The Derbyshire NUM is discussing sending delegates, Nottinghamshire executive has circulated to all branches and Yorkshire and Northumberland executive sending delegates.
Jaime's visit was met with keen interest from the miners. At Gedling colliery near Nottingham, they crammed into the union office to hear him. At Blidworth colliery an impromptu meeting was held miners staying on at the end of the dayshift.
Jaime also met striking hosiery workers on picket duty at Daleside Hadden in Nottingham (see report on page 14). He addressed meetings of Chesterfield and Nottingham trades councils.
At ine ena of the tour, trade unionists and Labour Party members came members of the exiled Chilean community for a evening. Jaime repeated his message of the week in his speech.
"The struggle is reaching greater levels of confrontation between El Salvador people. The US is really afraid that if it doesn't increase its in tervention in Central America, the repressive regimes will collapse in a matter of months.
"The policy of the US is failing In all fields because of the resistance of the people. Our struggle will go on until fina victory. MOVEMENT SALVADOR
THE ELECTION of Owen Carron as MP managh and South Tyrone, following the death Bobby Sands, was another blow to British domination of Ireland.
BOB WHITEHEAD spoke to him.
What are the main campaigns which Sinn Fein is currently engaged in?
Obviously the number one is the national issue, the fight determination for the Second are economic issuer fact that because of the national issue people are deprived socially housing situation in Ireland, the poverty, the unemployment shuanon.
Both the Northern and Southern states in Ireland are unstable. leads us to see that there must be a revolutionary solution to the whole problem the establishment of a socialist republic in Ireland.
Is the Northern Ireland Assembly an attempt to bring back Stormont and to what extent is it succeeding?
There is no doubt that the idea behind it is to restore Stormont rule and give credibilitv to the various shades Unionism. The fact that Sinn Fein won 10 per cent of the votes made it more difficult to restore Stormont, because it forced the Catholic party, the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) into a boycott of the Assembly.
The intervention and success of Sinn Fein has made the SDLP adopt a slightly 'harder' position and thus the Assembly is seen as a totally one-party body. That's made it untenable, even in the eyes of the Tory party in Britain who haven't given it real backing. for Ferof Photo: PETE GRANT for selfIrish people.
LUC the the North of Owen Carron This of middle-class LONG KESH which. we be We see the ple live there counties Socialist Action 1 April 1983 can increase the vote Of course there's a point beyon Call the vot because class interests will intervene There's a hard core of middle-cla: voters who will stick with the SDLP On the other hand there are man people who voted SDLP down th years because there was no realisti alternative. Now we are in a positio to show that there is support for a uncompromising stand.
Has there been discussion about Sini Fein's manifesto?
In the Assembly elections we stoo purely on the national issue, where: in the general election we'll obvious!
economic issues. campaigning It's hard to ask peo on sulid dil ple to campaign for 'Brits out' if yo don't have bread in your cupboard o your roof is leaking Would you take any seats in Parlis ment if you were elected?
No, we would abstain, we see that as fundamental principle. If we were t come to Westminster it would be seer in some way as giving legitimacy is the British presence in Ireland Is Sinn Fein trying to build up suppor in the 26 counties or are you concen trating on the North?
26 counties as bein! perhaps the most important to th development of the struggle, if oni because the majority of the Irish per — and because you car solve the national question withos the support of those people Our problem at the moment is tha whereas we have strategy in the North.
In the South, Sinn Fein's absten tionist strategy doesn't work becaus the majority of the Irish people see th parliament as a legitimate parliamen — and that is a problem that we hav got to come to terms with. We've go
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