"Stop the Hawks - No Arms to Indonesia" is the theme of a day of action on 12 November. Britain is supplying Hawk attack aircraft to Indonesia, which are being used against the people of East Timor, illegally occupied by Indonesia in 1975. During the past 19 years hundreds of thousands of people have been murdered by the Indonesian occupiers. The day of action coincides with the third anniversary of the Dili massacre, when 200 people were gunned down in cold National Conference Speakers include: Ken Cameron (Gen Sec FBU); Bob Crowe ¡ NEC RMT); Doreen Cameron (NATFHE); John Ireland (UCW)
Organised by Birmingham, Lambeth and Oxford Trades Councils. I Sponsored by Socialist Movement Trade Union Committee, NCU Broad | Left, Socialist Campaign Group Network. Delegates from TU organisations £8 each; from Unemployed Centres/unwaged £3. Send cheques made out to "Right to Strike Conference" to TUN, PO Box 6498, London NI IQW. blood during a funeral procession. Others were later murdered as they lay injured in Indonesian custody.
The day of action will see demonstrations in Canada, the US, Portugal, Ireland, Britain and Australia. Over 100 separate events will take place in England Scotland and Wales. Central to the action will be a protest outside the Indonesian Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square from 12 noon to 1pm.
For further information contact the Stop the Hawks coalition on 071-252 7937. A MEMORIAL meeting for Surinder Bassi, a leader of the Burnsalls strike in Birmingham, was held in London's Conway Hall on 20 September.
Surinder was on the picket line for over a year outside the Burnsall's factory in Smethwick. She had gone on strike for over a year to join a trade union - the GMB, for health and safety, and against forced overtime and the meagre wages for dirty and gruelling work.
Surinder, together with Darshan Kaur, became a spokeswoman for this historic strike of Asian workers. They travelled the length and breadth of the country - speaking to Timex strikers in Dundee; at the benefit held for Burnsalls strikers in London and at national conferences and rallies.
HOME NEWS She was always the first to challenge racist management, the strikebreakers and the police who continually harassed the strikers.
Together with Darshan she won the Martin Ennals Award for Civil Liberties in recognition of the Burnsalls workers struggle for basic trade union Surinder was born in 1950. She came to Britain came form India in 1968.
Earlier this year Surinder used her Industrial Tribunal award to take her daughter for a holiday in India. Soon after she was taken ill and died in Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham, at the age of 44.
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