A demonstration in Sydney this summer an end to military intervention in labour disputes and to the pro-employer bias of ine courts The PPBI has led strikes and demonstrations in food-processing, plastics and textile factories, mobilising first hundreds, then thousands, in struggles for payment of the minimum wage, equal pay and shorter working hours, culminating in a protest in Surabaya on July 8, involving 20,000 striking workers from ten factories demanding a 33 per cent wage increase.
The state has responded by arresting and torturing PPBI activists and attacking demonstrations. On May 1 1995, police on motorcycles drove into a PPBI march, injuring 20. [email protected] PO Box 31417, perusalem. • Send letters of protest to your local Israeli embassy or consulate Birmingham Community Conference The PRD fights for a future free from exploitation and oppression. It is vital that the labour movement in Britain builds the maximum solidarity. Details of a forthcoming tour by a PRD activist will be included in future issues of Socialist Outlook.
For a copy of the Emergency Appeal launched by Australian Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET), contact: • Stop the Hawk Deal c/o One World Centre 6 Mount Street Manchester M2 5NS Tel: 0161-8340295 e-mail http://www.peg.org/~assiet/ Also write in protest to: Binyamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel Kaplan Street 3 West Jerusalem fax: +972.2.9977326 email: [email protected] [email protected] Our demands on the next Labour government