THE Portuguese general election has ended with a for the left. big victory The Socialist Party won cent of the vote, per and the Communist Par ty vote increased to per cenl. A sutabic casc an SP-CP government. you mignt think. But socialist- leader Soares has no such intention.
Mario Soares The right wing Social Democrats won and it is CenE O1 LuC vOLes. to them that Soares looking for a coalition. The platform for such a deal would insecersh op rihe saonomy SCCLOIS nationalised during 1974 5 revolution.
A Doll inside the SP revealed less than 5 per of coaliavoulwith the CP of the secorOuULL tarianism the ultraStalinist PCP.
Hot Spring Fascist students in Paris wave of demonstraTons es ovec austerity proposed eоCalOla reform sweeping France.
The student started with protests against the NtOOCEOI IUIC rigorous selection among other students.
"The protests have spread to include a series of strikes in hospitals and of small businessmen against government price control. For the left, the problem is that rightists Se vaniloHuC rUª rests against a left wing The demands of the people who run small basinesses reactionary • but they stem from the etfects of the government's austerity measures.
Among students, both the left wing and right wing student federations have oppos en ne cekson eı. But for the first time in fifteen years, the Gaullist students have made the running with the fascists, who made up the do' groups fighting with the police last Thursday.
The Mitterand government has only Tseuno Dane oy rerus ing take measures against big business, and imposing strict austerity they have ICabuI Co handed the right wing a campaigning issue on a plate.
An indication oi the demonstrations hisicdu of the slogan of '68 CRS-SS - they . chanted 'CRS-Gauchiste'. More Socialist Action in future issues. Bomb Test Britain has recently carried out a nuclear test of a 20-kiloton OU11U. feet below the Yucca the Nevada soLs desert. The explosion is thought to be dart of the Trident missile proy dalillc Supreme from the Chat'e the illegal dict O'Higgins said that cenous the venereal for the individual.
Very harm never Reuter reports that 300 living on ULEi Fakoafo atoll the South Pacific have learned swim fish.
They live on a diet of seaslugs, small molluscs and fish. THIS WEEKEND's EI Salvador labour movement conference is an important step in swinging the British movement around active support for the people of Central America.
The backing which even the right wing of the gives to the struggle of the Salvadorean people is useful - but more formal than active.
The difference between Central America and Vietnam is that in Indo-China hundreds of thousands of US combat troops were deployed, something which dramatically lighted the aggressive character of the war This made bulding. a solidarity movement easier. In Central America the US intervention is more concealed but no less real TOl that. What is needed is a campaign WalCu Dast. itself on mass mobilisation and labour movement acLOL The key demands of 'US hands Central America', and 'an end to British complicity'. The KrinSh government been one of the few to give Us intervention support whatsoever Britain alone in Europe sent observers last year's phoney elections in Salvador. sabotaged EEC economic aid to Nicaragua. And Britain is currently engaged in US-inspired deal with Guatemala, by which Guatemala will drop its claim to Belize. in return for a corridor to the sea. "The British government will then sanction the use of Belize by the US and its allies for anti-guerrilla operations.
series of initiatives give labour movement activists a chance to greatly step up activity on this question this year. • The El Salvador labour movement conference will declaration of auuul solidarity • with the people should be taken widely in. Salvador. to the Labour Party and the trade unions tor endosement. controlled councils should adopt this statement.
US defence seceretary Caspar Weinberger /isiting the Oxford Unior on 27 May. A demonstra policy against US and intervention in ulucical Centrai America nas been called for that day.
In September the Chile Solidarity Campaign oldin o mark use ruln annuve County Hall 14 May 1983 10am-5pm Speakers include: Judith Hart, Alan Sapper, Jenny Pearce, Salvador Moncada (FDR/FMLN representative in Britain).
Trade Union, Labour Party, and LPYS branches are invited to send two delegates each.
Fee £2 per delegates: send to El Salvador conference, 29 Islington Park St., London N1 (359 2270).
arv or oe mutary coul The demonstration shoul be bullt or the slogan of 'No more Chiles US hands off Central America!' The Salvadorean FDR-FMLN has appealed for money for the 'controlled zones, to help the project of reconstruction. movement boales must be approached to contribute to Las lund Rallies will be held at the time of the anniversary of the victory of the Sandinista revolution in As Reagan escalates his war, calling the counterrevolutionary gangs 'freedom fighters' it's up oTluSI socialists escalate .their solidarity WIlI real' freedom fighters the revolutionaries in El Salvador, Guatemala.
conjerence, County Hall. Last minute delegations ring ELSOC, 01-359 2270 ment have occured. FifFMLN freedom fighters
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