As fighting between Sandinista
forces and the Somozan national
Sard continued this week,
Members of the Sandinista provi-
Sional government flew from
Costa Rica to Leon, Nicaragua to
demand that the new regime in

anagua hand over the govern-
Ment,

}| . Tuesday, there were celebra-
|} ons in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
when it became known that Anas-
; tasio Somoza had fled the coun-
|| "TY, ending the 43-year-old Somo-
Za family dictatorship. Under
avy U.S. armed guard, Somoza
left Managua for Miami, Florida
Where he will live in permanent ex-

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ile with his estimated $500 million
personal fortune.

The Somozan Nicaragua Con-
gress elected 54-year-old ° Fran-
cisco Urcuyo as president and suc-
cessor to Somoza. Immediately
after assuming power, Urcuyo re-
fused Sandinista leaders permis-
sion to land in Managua to take
over the government, and instead
ordered the national guard to con-
tinue fighting.

As Sandinista forces closed in
on Managua Wednesday, spokes-
man Manuel Espinoza warned
that Urcuyo will be responsible
for the bloodbath that will follow,
if he does not turn power over to

the new government.

Although the U.S. state depart-
ment expressed surprise with Ur-
cuyo’s refusal to step down, the
Sandinista National Liberation

A demonstration to demand
Canadian recognition of the
Sandinista provisional govern-
ment and to warn against U.S.
military intervention in
Nicaragua has been scheduled
for Saturday, July 21, 1:00 p.m.
at the old court house, Georgia
St. and Howe St., Vancouver.

Front (FSLN) had warned last
week over Radio Sandino that
‘all arrangements had been made

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FSLN demands gov’ as Somoza flees

for Somoza’s exile.’’ The Radio
Sandino report said that Somoza
would be replaced by a new gov-
ernment which would be ‘‘Somo-
cism without Somoza.’’

Earlier, Sandinista leader Hum-
berto Ortega Saavedra had warn-
ed against manoeuvres by the U.S.
government to undermine the
military victory of the FSLN. ‘‘No
mediation, no civilian-military
junta attempted to be imposed on
us from outside will ever be ac-
cepted,’’ he said.

Saavedra stressed that military
victory is a certainty. ‘‘Managua is
surrounded and isolated from the

See AID page 8

Parrot

Postal workers leader Jean-
Claude Parrot told trade unionists
in Vancouver Tuesday, ‘‘Whatever
the name given to it, industrial
democracy, or workers participa-
tion . . . the aim is the same — to
take away the strength of the union
membership and gi ve it up to the
employer.”’

“The trade union movement
should be looking at ways to
strengthen collective bargaining, —
not looking for alternatives to it,”’
he said to a standing ovation of the

Vancouver and District Labor ‘}

Council meeting.

Parrot, still facing a three month
term in jail, pending the outcome of
his appeal on charges of defying the
federal government’s back-to-work
legislation, spent several days in this

province addressing a number of

trade union meeting as well as a
demonstration of farm workers in
Clearbrook.

He touched on the continuing
campaign of the Canadian Union of
Postal workers at Tuesday labor
council meeting, noting that the ac-
tion by postal workers ‘‘is much
more than a fight for wages and
conditions—it is a fundamental
struggle for the right to negotiate,
the right to collective bargaining
and the right to strike.’’

But Parrot warned that trade
unionists were ‘‘in a new era — and
we’re hearing a lot about industrial
democracy and workers participa-
tion on boards of directors and
other schemes to replace bargain-
ing.

“Y’m really concerned about it
because the employers and govern-
ments which advocate them are br-
inging some unions and some
leaders—and even some

See PARROT page 8

Communist Party urges ‘country w

The
Co oe! Executive of the
“count Rist Party has called for a
the ti fig crusade’’ to counter
to j :
Paration © COntinentalism and

n :
Sueq by pecial Statement is-
the parse eader William Kashtan
Tatic P. called on the New Demo-
Congress the Canadian Labor
CG ie the Parti Quebecois, the
Canada ®e for an Independent
ion .? the National Farmers Un-
Students the National Union of
to 2, Overcome differences
A . “ork together to preserve
The Cp dependence. ia
letter warns that Canada

“could be entering a period of no
return.’’ On the one hand, possible
separation by Quebec threatens to
weaken Canada, it stated, and on
the other hand Canada is faced with
increased pressures for a policy of
continentalism, integration and free
trade with the U.S.

The letter said that the dangers
“are multiplied by the election of
the Conservative government”’ and
cites prime minister Clark’s rejec-
tion of the right to self determina-
tion for Quebec, and the Tokyo
declaration of Tory finance minis-
ter John Crosbie that his govern-
ment ‘would support ‘a policy of

free trade’ with the U.S.

The two issues are inseparably
linked, the CP stated, ‘‘unless the
democratic forces in English-speak-
ing Canada come out forthrightly in
support of the right to self determ-
ination for Quebec, it will be diffi-
cult, if not impossible, to win sup-
port in French Canada for Cana-
dian independence.

“Conversely, unless the national
and ‘democratic forces in Quebec
come out in support of Canadian
independence, it will not be possible
to win support in English Canada
for the right to self determination.”

The working class and working

ide crusade’

people have the chief stake in the
issues, the letter continued, as a sep-
arated Canada would weaken work-
ers ability to combat U.S. based
multinationals, and continentalism
and free trade will undermine the
country’s limited manufacturing
base and lead to a loss of jobs and
political independence.

The CP called for a ‘‘country-
wide crusade,’’ the end result to be
the election of a new majority in
Parliament dedicated to implement-
ing the right to self-determination
in a new Canadian constitution,
and measures to win genuine Cana-
dian independence.

SOMOZA .. . flight into exile
brings rejoicing in Nicaragua.

member Eunice Parker
blasts the _ school
trustees’ association ac-
* tion in distributing a pro-
accreditation brief to
local boards, page 2.

i tee ‘

@ REFUGEES: An interna-
tional media campaign
has given massive
coverage to the refugees
in Southeast Asia — but
‘strangely missing are the
details of the agreement
between Vietnam and
the UN which poses a
solution to the problem.
A look at the issue on the
eve of the Geneva con-
ference, page 7.

‘Reach!’

@ INFLATION: The new in-
creases for oil and gas,
coupled with the conti-
nuing slump of the Cana-
dian - dollar will likely
push inflation beyond ten
percent. See Economic
Facts, page 8.

Se

@ ACCREDITATION: |
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