NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY-
We send a message of peace, friendship and solidarity to all Nicaraguans to encourage them to continue their work of building a free country, for the greater happiness of its men, women and children.
Adopted in Managua (Free Nicaragua), April 27, 1984.
Congress, to the United Nations, and to other international organizations signed by the workers in all countries.
"To foster solidarity, especially among longshoremen, with the peoples of Central America in general, and with the peoples of Nicaragua, who are facing a
World labor support against US intervention An international trade-union meeting for peace in Central America Nicaragua April 24-27. It was called by the main Nicaraguan union, the CSN, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Augusto Cesar Sandino, the historic leader of the Nicaraguan liberation struggle.
Some 240 delegates representing 133 national unions from 68 countries and belonging to all the main international trade-union organizations attended. though of the French CGT and the Italian CGIL were present, the West European trade-union movement was less broadly represented than those from North and Latin America.
"world workers' unity." imously approved a special motion on Nicaragua and two declarations, entitled respectively, and "Statement from Managua, Free Nicaragua."
The Central America statement contained a concrete plan of action for building solidarity, including the following points:
"To highlight solidarity with the peoples of Central America on May Day throughout the world
"To organize trade-union solidarity committees with Nicaragua and El Salvador and build broad solidarity mobilizations in our countries. Our aim is to halt the war of aggression: our slogan is "No to intervention in Central America!"
"To inform workers throughout the of the aggressions against
Central American peoples, especially the
Nicaragua and El Salvador, and explain the reasons for the worsening social and economic situation in these
"To denounce the aggression directed against the Central American peoples, especially in Nicaragua and El Salvador; to the meeting of the International Labor Organization to be held in June in
La resolution condemning this aggression adopted there.
"To urge the governments of Honduras and Costa Rica to respect the international treaties and conventions governing the relations between states and the right of asylum and not to let their used as a base for attack-
"In the case of Costa Rica, to demand that its government follow its of neutrality, expel counterrevolutionary gangs, and dismantle the structures that can serve as operational bases for criminal attacks on the people of Nicaragua. To demand the immediate rescinding of the authorization given for US military advisors to enter Costa Rica next November.
"To demand that our respective governments condemn the US intervention in Central America and that they provide Nicaragua with means for clearing away the mines from its ports and for assuring the freedom of international civilian maritime traffic. To demand that they strengthen their diplomatic, economic and cultural relations with the government of Nicaragua.
"To send protest messages to the U blockade and mining of their ports that is an integral part of CIA-financed plans for building up to an invasion.
"To organize discussions, round tables and conferences in the international, regional and local organizations to expose the policy of mining the Nicaraguan ports being carried out by the Reagan administration in violation of interna-
FSLN support 35-hour week
From the speech of the FSLN representative at the recent congress of the
German Social Democratic Party, SPD:
blamed for We are supposed to be responsible for the guerrilla war in
We are supposed to be responsible for the guerrilla war in
El Salvador, for strikes in Costa Rica, for social unrest in Honduras.
"Since there are some of us in West
Germany, I hope that you won't think
[Laughter.] We have nothing But we do have a deep feeling of fraternal and total solidar ity with the IG Metall workers. [Ap plause.] We wish them luck. We hope they will be victorious."
"To pledge to build a week of solidarity with Central America and with Nicaragua in particular from July 15 to 21, 1984. As a gesture of material solidarity with the people of Nicaragua, during that week, the workers of the world will give part of their July 19 day's pay.
"To build campaigns for the release of trade-unionists imprisoned and kidnapped in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
"To organize protest demonstrations ouside US embassies in our respective countries and outside the embassies of governments that support the Reagan administration's interventionist policy world the
Special motion on Nicaragua
We, the delegates to the International Trade-Union Conference for Peace, support the popular process in Nicaragua, which aims to achieve the free and sovereign development of the country, justice and well-being. The sovereignty of
Nicaragua is not negotiable.
in Central America.
"To organize brigades of technicians and workers to go to Nicaragua as volunteers and to carry out campaigns of material aid to the people of Nicaragua, collecting funds, food and medicine to the heroic defenders of the
"In order to keep the union movement informed and assure the continare best suited to their country, free from pressure and attacks, whether diplomatic, economic or military.
3. We condemn the mining of the Nicaraguan ports, aggression from whatever territory it comes, economic embargos or any other kind of aggressive action.
4. Therefore, representing workers on all continents and belonging to different ideological and trade-union currents, we appeal to all the peoples of the world to aid directly in the economic reconstruction of Nicaragua.
5.
uity of solidarity actions, uan CNS will remain in continuous contact with the trade-union organizations in the various regions of the world."
This resolution is all the more significant because it came from a conference including workers representatives and from various ideological and trade-union currents," as the documents adopted in Managua said explicitly.
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