Salvadorean trade unionists take to the streets.
popular resistance, the FDR-FMLN Demonstrations take place almost daily. On May Day 40,000 workers took the streets of San Salvador. July, 22,000 peasants marched to demand rights for their cooperatives.
An estimated 80 strikes have taken place since the beginning -Ene year. Many have been met with in by hospital workers was broken up by the military and a patient was killed. The public and internareaction atrocity forced the employers to concede the workers demands higher the lismissal of corrupt ad The unity of Salvadorean workers and peasants grows will cacn struggle. The STECEL WorKers VENASTRAS, one of the pan largest trade union federations. With other federatons tney are unifying their efforts through the Committee for Union Unity, CUS and a broad movement the Coordination of Workers Solidarity, CST.
While they are in Britain, Valencia and Represa will be appealing for funds tor this movement. The organisers of the tour, the The tour began on 4 with meetings with Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire miners wives and rail workers. From there the STECEL members will spend two weeks in Yorkshire.
Their packed agenda has meetings with local NUM branches the Yorkshire NUM executive, action committees, - traces coll Rotherham Doncaster. • PUBLIC MEETINGS WITH SHEFFIELD Friday House, Furnival Gate. 7pm House. ment by the RUC An example of how far these talks have progessed can be found in recent British leaks about the role of the UDR. In the past, Fine Gael and the Catholic hierarchy have all called for the disbanding of the UDR. Recent leaks have dismissed such a move and suggest that discussions now centre on URD identification numbers or their accompanieInstead of dismissing such suggestions as an absurdity, Dublin and their Six County allies the SDLP, prefer to tell nationalists not to expect too much anyway. They bank on predictable unionist outcry to create tne illusion of substantiala moves.
So much for the heady days of the Dublin Forum. Whatever gains are produced at the end of the present process will have been won by the suffering of Northern nationalists and republicans, and their support for Sinn Fein. They are not and