tion in El Salvador.
At a London meeting 0. Mav. Emeralda Martinez executive member of the El Salvador Women's Federation, plained the significance of this: Until now government which still goes. on, has frightened people But W thev nave naa enough and want to exDICSS themselves on the streets.' She said that the struggle in El Salvador has moved forward with the setting up in February of the National Unity of Salvadorean Workers (UNTS). This is a broad + TOO! of organisations, with 300,000 members and includes the Popular Democratic Union which previously backed Duarte.
UNTS called 80,000 in February; followed by the 1 May call. As the working class took to the streets in San Salvador, the government has stepped up intimidation of the peasants in the countryside. This attempt to break support for the liberation workers organisations has involved US equipped bombing of villages.
Ezmeralda reported hardered 2n0 people, led murdered 230 people.
people, remova 1200 people their homes and the destruction of 450 acres of land.
Azucena of the Association of salvadorean women (AMES) explained the Duarte regime's attacks on women in El Salvador and lne lights day in Salvador mothers' day But for Duarte and the Buyill mothers' day day for commerce. They do not meet the needs of women who are suffering like those who see their children die in air attacks, the women locked prisons or who queue there see their children husbands or the ones who see their families die of malnutrition.
The only peone in cl Salvador who speak for these women are organisations like AMES and the Mothers of the Disappeared. In El Salvador, result. on these issues, but recognises nothing 'We know' she said 'that can't move back against our countryside for being shed. take this ASTMS, Society Civil and Public Servants and to the Labour Party Belgium:
as 12 April there was a 20,000-strong • Contact: Comite de Greve, Eighteen thousand coal miners went on indefinite strike on 21 April in Limboatg Flanders. They struck because the Martens. government refused to give assurances about job losses and closure. The miners are demanding no closures, no redundancies, and no job losses from natural wastage. The government wants to introduce Thatcher-style cuts in pulic spending which would probably mean closing the remaining five Belgian pits. Union leaders were forced to call the strike when two pits took unofficial action. Solidarity committees have sprung up and as early demonstration in support of the miners.
Winterslag, Turksa, Zereniging, Herenstraat 16, 3600 Genk, Belgium.
Socialist Action 16 May 1986 boal still conannaca with radioac. tivity: Six months later some of the crew were stil in On September 1954 the radio operator, Aiticki Kuboyana, died' In the United States between 1951 and 1958 the military set atomic explosions above ground in Nevada. The radioactive debris fell on Utah, Arizona Nevada. Children born in southern Utah during those seven days died from the United States in the late 1930s, as the military nuclear Ducatictl.
safe 300,000 the over Grand ColPennDOWCI sylvania nuclear before Chernobly. The plant radiation, worth ively weak the victimisations EXCLUSION fairly cluded, or they to their class.
jobs and outright dismissal for union or political views or accommonplace events in British industry. Most personnel managers are familiar with the different ways of vetting their employees backgrounds for any signs of militancy or 'unhealthy' independence. Many employers maintain lists of persons to be excan approach a range of organisations who compile them as a service Socialists and union activists regard the sack as an occupational hazard. But unlike most industrial
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ON 1 MAY 100,000 people took to the streets of San Salvador to oppose government austerity, demand a negotiated peace with the FMLN-FDR liberation organisations and the end to US military interven-