Fight for blacking action!
Socialist Press1980 1980-07-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Black all arms to the Junta.
The Thatcher government stands four-square behind the most barbaric dictatorships in Latin America. That is clear from the decision last week to lift the six year ban on sales of British-made arms to Chile.
There is no doubt that this move will be followed up by sales of arms and other trade with Bolivia, Argentina and other equally blood-stained regimes.
The British labour movement-many of whose leaders declare a verbal commitment to solidarity with the Chilean. working class and the Bolivian miners-must take active steps to force a halt to this trade.
Bolivia in particular is a land-locked country particularly vulnerable to blacking action by the international labour movement. The Bolivian COB (TUC) has appealed for such support.
Moss Evans, who headed the last Chile Solidarity march, must be called upon to instruct TGWU dockers and transport workers to black all trade, especially arms and military equipment, to Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.
And NUM leaders Daley and Gormley must be forced to mount an urgent fight for an all-out TUC programme of action in solidarity with the beseiged Bolivian miners.
Pressure must be placed on union leaders in Peru to ensure that Bolivia's main trading route is cut by blacking and strike action.