WHILST STUDENTS and others have been engaging in direct action to tres fairs where sales to indonesia are be. ing organised, the solidarity campaign with the East Timorese resistance and the indonesian trade union and democracy movements gathers pace in the labour movement.
The current focus for the campaign is to mobilise activists to attend the December 7 lobby of Parliament which is calling for an immediate embargo of arms sales to Inconesia and for the sale of Hawk lets and Alvis Tanks to be stopped.
The conference of the Transport and General Workers Union passed a resolution calling for an arms embargo and for all TGWU sponsored MPs to support the lobby. UNISON is also helping to mobilise for the lobby at a national level.
Labour conference
A model resolution has made its way through to the Labour Party conference which calls for an immediate embargo on all military sales to the Indonesian regime.
Undoubtedly the Blair leadership will try to wriggle its way out by arguing tor European Union action on military sales which will of course take some time to organise. Anything to maintain a bi-partisan position with the government on arms sales. Meanwhile workers are shot down in Indonesia, peasants are strafed in East Timor and resistance leaders are tortured in the hands of the mitary occupiers.
It is impossible to imagine December 7 passing in East Timor without some expression of popular resistance to twenty years of the indonesian occupation.
The East Timorese now know that the world is listening as they do battle aginst the Indonesian giant.
What they are asking for now is for the world to mobilise in defence of their revolution for national self-determination. of Appeal The Strand. Sat 28 TUC demonstration: Unite against racism. meet 12 noon Platt Fields for march to Albert Square. Leaflet from Kay Carbury at TUC on 0171 636 4030 NOVEMBER Sat 25 STOP hospital closures conference sponsored by London Health Emergency 11.00am to 4.00pm ULU, Malet St. London. WC1
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 90, September 23 1995, Page 11