MAY DAY | GREETINGS — { | | ' ‘eo +4 - | on May Day Greetings £50 WORLD NEWS ’ to world labor RE OEE i FMLN extends operations 7 EL SALVADOR — Detachments of the Farabundo Marti | Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador conducted a series of suc- cessful operations against the junta’s troops. According to dispat- ches received in San Jose, the FMLN occupied Santa Lucia village in La Paz department where they held a political meeting and called | upon the population to join the armed struggle against the Duarte Tegime. | The FMLN is reportedly fighting stubbornly for a strategic road linking San Vicente and Zacatecoluca, the centre of La Paz depart- . ment. The two centres, about 20 kilometres apart, are some 40 kilometres from the capital San Salvador. =e According to representatives of El Salvador’s Committee for Trade Union Unity (CUS) who toured Canada last month, the | FMLN holds five strategic areas and about 20 percent of the land in El Salvador. Inan unsuccessful effort to penetrte the defences mounted by the FMLN, the Salvadorean military has been using helicopter gun- ' ships and artillery and has carried out terror raids against the civilian End the arms race Build detente Veterans of the Mackenzie- B.C. Peace Council Papineau Battalion iSALUDOS!| El primero de Mayo 1981. Dia internacional de Fraternal May Day Greetings ‘You must never forget that sooner, rather than later, grand avenues will | population. trabajo be opened where free men will march | According to a report in the U.S. Daily World, Salvadorean arm- on to build a better society.’ 1 ed forces last month surrounded more than 1,500 peasants, forced . —Salvador Allende, Sept. 11, 1973 , | them into a cave and dropped bombs on them, trapping everyone May Day inside. S | Residents in villages of Yarutela and Santa Ana on the border with Honduras told of the massacre. It surpassed in atrocity even : Greetings : | the Sumpul River eeeect May by sagt ues CSE ok from the Unidad Reinaldo Eraso, general secretary of the Honduras i Bi se: | ordination Committee for Soldarity withthe People of EiSalvador Canadian Cuban Popular | told reporters in the Honduran city of Tegucigalpa that ondural . E | troops had participated in the attack. They also took part in the Friendship (Popular Unity) . murders last May of 600 Salvadorean refugees who had tried to Association escape army repression near the Sumpel River. The EMLN has warned that U.S. Green Berets dominate the command of the military of El Salvador and have organized mobile commandos to be airlifted in targeted areas for “counter- insurgency.” The are using sophisticated Huey helicopters provided by the U.S. as part of its $35 million military aid program. The tactics used closely parallel those used by U.S. forces in Viet- “U.S. Nambibia plan hie j LUANDA — Leaders of Africa’s six ‘‘frontline’”’ states ended i their high level summit meeting in the Angolan capital last week - with a blistering denunciation of U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s 1 reported plan to give U.S. military aid to South African-backed ee Canadians for Democracy in Chile salutes all the workers of Chile this May Day, and es- pecially the 10,000 workers now. on strike at the EL TE- NIENTE copper mine in nor- thern Chile. MAY DAY UNITA anti-government bands of Janas Savimbi in Angola. In ad- = dition, they publicly denounced U.S. Undersecretary of State- ; : : designate Chester Crocker’s new plan for Namibian independence. The members of the eight unions involved The frontline states are Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, © pe . . Botswana, and Zimbabwe. There are so-called because they repre- Ukrainian have been on strike for their trade 1 ing sent the states adjoining Namibia, illegally occupied by South : vs rights since April za: Africa. While the African leaders were meeting in Luanda, Crocker Senior Citizens ie - was huddling with representatives of the South African a oe | Telegrams and letters of support are urgent- in Pretoria. The African leaders reiterated their support for the = = : United Nations plan for Namibian independence, calling for theim- Club No. 1 ly needed. Send to: Federacion Minera, 43 mediate withdrawal of South African troops, and free elections, Brazil, Santiago, Chile. : eipevied by UN troupe, Croce ee ea . Se - opposing the UN plan, presently obstructed by South Africa, in favor of a plan that would insure greater power for South Africa’s puppet Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. Pe The South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) is in- ~ ternationally recognized as the legitimate representative of the Namibian people. South A frica fears its mass support, which would result in a massive election victory. ’ - Ina related development, the foreign ministers meeting of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, meetingin Algiers last week, endorsed the call of Algerian president Chadli Bendjedid to oppose any proposed Namibian solution worked out between Crocker and the South Africans. | Sihanouk courting China BEIJING — Prince Norodom Sihanouk is back in Beijing once _ May Day Greetings to all our members, friends | and supporters | . B.C. Provincial Ctte. Nanaimo Club again seeking a formula that will lay the basis for the setting up of an anti-Kampuchean and anti-Vietnamese front. Sihanouk, former - Kampuchean (Cambodia) head of state, arrived from exile in North leader Khieu Samphan of wanting ‘‘to make war until they Win. War, war, to the end,” he said, “‘It is madness.” China reportedly won’t give aid to Sihanouk unless he accepts a full role for the Pol Pot-Khieu Samphan-led bands. The U.S. wants to support Sihanouk and Son Sann, limiting the Khmer Rougerole, but also doesn’t want to strain its alliance with Beijing. Son Sann Wwon’t join Sihanouk as long as Pol Pot and the other former Kam- | Puchean leaders are represented. Meanwhile, Sihanouk, who alsois against Pol Pot participation, says the front, even with sophisticated arms, couldn’t defeat the Phnom Penh government and their Viet- Namese allies, “I’m too realistic to believe in it,’’ he said last month. Greater Vancouver Regional Committee Building Trades Club u oe : BillBennett Club North Vancouver Club | Korea, to to China and the U.S. for military and economic : eee : aidto Se aeranth the front, which would include forces loyal Nikos Belogianis (Greek) Club __ Olgin Club to Sihanouk, and those under the command of his former Prime Burnaby Club Richmond Club Minister Son Sann, and the genocidal Pol Pot Khmer Rouge bands. Coquitlam Club Surrey Club © | Sihanouk’s on-again-off-again plans to lead such a front have Fraser Valley Club. Vancouver East Club ( made his repeated statements almost ludicrous to even the Western Kingsway Club Victoria Club Press, As recently as last March he accused China and Khmer Rouge Maple Ridge Club Westside Club - Communist Party | New Westminster Club . Nigel Morgan Club Niilo Makela Club « of Canada PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 1, 1981—Page 17_