Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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This trade union/Labour Party branch expresses its full support for the strike action taken by the Bolivian miners of the Huanuni, Siglo XX and San Jose Camps in defence of the right to independent trade unions and full democratic liberties. It condemns the actions of the regime of General Torrelio in arresting democratically elected union leaders and cutting oft supplies of basic necessities and electricity to these areas as an attempt to starve the population into submission. In support of this struggle, this branch resolves to make a contribution of f... to the Bolivian Workers' Support Fund to be sent immediately te Bolivia in aid of the workers and their families.

All contributions should be sent to the Bolivian Workers' Support Fund, 54 Studley Road, London E7 9LX [01-471 6008). Receipts will be given and all mossages of support sent on to the miners.

by Alexis Carras Kicking out an openly anti working class capitalist party was too political for Bergeron! It seems he is now making up lost ground, however, by witch hunting Mitterrand's class collaborationist government.

One question that Marxists will ask is how the French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) will respond Bergeron's latest antics.

The OCI - the largest self-styled Trotskyist group in France - has had a longterm political accommodation to Bergeron and the FO leadership, as a result of which dozens of OCI members hold down bureaucratic posts within the union federation.

But the OCI has also given its ecstatic greeting to the Mitterrand electior victory. Will it now defend Mitterrand's governmens against Bergeron's attacks?

Or. will OCI members in FO continue to keep their heads down?

The task in reality is t campaign within the French working class fo:

the ousting of the bourg eois ministers from Mitter:

and's pro-imperialist, pr:

capitalist government. anc for mass action to figti unemployment and defer working class living standards.

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