A PRESIDENTIAL campaign with a difference is under way in Mexico. Last month a euphoric 5,000-strong meeting launched the candidature of Rosario Ibarra de defence of Mexican political prisoners and The Mexican government, dominated for decades by the aptlynamed Institutional Revolutionars Party (PRI), has called presiden tial elections for June 1982 "democratic" Image. LAEL soiled Break Living midway between Central America, the Mexican ATE demanding with louder and louder EOYCTIICHE which will break from the we are united to end poverty, oppression, and exploitation.* This is how Maurice revolutionary Grenada's Prime Minister of the first International Conference of Solidarity with Grenada. The conference was huge sucCC55. delecations representing 40 countries in attendance Piedra, renowned for her grip of US banks businesses and their Mexican parasites They are fighting a new land-owning class tied to US-dominated 'Agribusiness', and industrialists growing fat on oil profits.
Mexico's SUCELS are lined with colour pictures of Miguel de La Madrid, the PRI's candidate.
Rosario represents Mexico's other f forces working country, and her husband was captured and EUE attended.
Black organisations of all descriptions WELC there from the USA.
Delegates heard reports from the various ministries of the revoluSelwyn Strachan, Minister of National Mobilisation. pointed out that *Grenada is engaged in a By Alan Ball in Mexico Like the families of hundreds of poor Mexicans, she faced the iron fist in the PRI's velvet glove. She faced the agony of her son disappearing the government denying all knowledge of his fate, not knowing if he was alive of dead.
Fighting to find him, she helped set up the committee for the defence of political prisoners, campaigning for the release of those known prisoners and for the presentation of the "disappeared'.
Through this work she learned the reasons for the LCUECSSIULE She met sant leaders' familie whose relatives had been killed, kidnapped or torGROW MORE FOOD two thousand members since the revolution.
Both the National Womens Organisation and the National Youth Organisation have had a SUPER over the last year The NWO aimed for 5,000 members by December, they've recruited 6,467 The NYO's target was 7,000 by their first December, and they've already reached 7,288 evervwhere young and old alike are joining he Militia to defend the revolution against possible imperialist invasion.
The loudest cheers in the conterence were revolutionary Cuba Vietnam Lacedon fighters of (second from left)
tured by the landowners' private Prime of once ing come mon land that was legally She met the father of a five year old girl who 'disappeared' at the age of response crime of setting up an in.
strikers. Finally the Ambassador consented to debate or television representatives of the committee, including PR leader Manuel Aguilar.
popular it him!
BUILD THE EVOLUTION Africa. Any attacks on these countries is viewed by the people of Grenada an attack E30,000 to SWAPO Namibia Aid Aid for Grenada is vital. the union(AUEW), the sheetmetal workers, and the journalists union all sent telegrams of support from Britain.
school photographic equipment is needed here. Just about (Revolutionary Workers' The Four lanerationat , Mexican section of approacheo mer last June to stand in the ciections she agreed. She ernlained why to the meeting: We have destroy this government of bankers, landlords and exploiters and build on its ashes a FIVE times in the last three months, Mexico's Committee fence of Political Prisoners has led protests to the British Embassy about the treatment of Trish hunge The 45-minute progra TESTIC VY203 30 assador. A month later the Briash government withdrew so ine British everything you could imagine is in short supply. As marene. forward, imperia dismomil pressure is applied by stopping supplies to the island.
Jeff Meckler and Reba Hanson, the San the workers, the peasants and the poor of the cities.
The PRT's campaign is intended to give voice to struggles against the PRI and government. Solidarity B8C33ALC to the conlerence peasants OTTESTOS trade unionists, and committees democratic rights.
TV The PRT's monthly television broadcasts call such people organise, to rely on their actions rather the procedures of a corand link up with the embattles peoples of Nicaragua. EI Grenadian workers march last May Day Francisco US-Grenada Friendship Society brought Grenada Commee orce susten m cluding duplicator, electro-stencil machine, paper and ink for a month, and so nurses unitorms They managed to get it all on the plane as part of Socialist Challenge Salvador and Poland The campaign is hav ing a major impact. It was front page news in most papers and the left wing daily Uno mas Uno' car. ried two-page spread about Trotskyism written by PRT member Octavio Rodriguez.
the left. The Rec flags i of the PRT mingled aLE the meeting the yellow flags of the MRF (Revolutionary Movement the People)
ULR (Union of Revolutionary Struggle.)
last the strug, again being As Rosario promis : This campaign wil shake Zapata in his grave. Socialist Challenge wishes it the greatest possible suc cess. their luggage!
Maurice Bishop closed the conference by that: The people of North America, and of Europe are not our enemies, the majority of those people are our friends Our enemics our enemy is imperialism. 10 December 1981
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By Pat Kane in St Georges, Grenada THIS conference has injected our people with a new confidence, a new sense of courage, a much deeper understanding of what our own revolution is all about. It has shown us why we are united in this anti-imperialist struggle, why
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- los Trabajadores. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra at PRT rally with Peruvian revolutionary leader Hugo Blance