AROUND THE WORLD resolution in the following terms.
"It is a good document. The most important thing in it is the point about directly agreed economic relations with workers' collectives and regions of Russia. I think that today a practical blow to the totalitarian regime can be dealt not by strikes but, in the case of Lithuania, by direct horizontal ties. The regime cannot tolerate that". The resolution reads as follows:
"We regret that in the context of his own calls for a peaceful solution of conflicts and disputes among peoples and nations, the president of the USSR [Gorbachev] has taken the initiative of applying forceful pressure, including economic sanctions against an expression of national will [of the Lithuanian people].
accordance with the principles of workers' solidarity and social justice, the congress calls for the immediate cessation of the economic and political blockade and the beginning of negotiations between the governments of the USSR and Lithuania without any preconditions, and in a manner conducive to maintaining and reinforcing confidence among the peoples of the republics.
"The congress calls on the workers' collectives having economic ties with Lithuania to maintain and strengthen these ties on the base of direct agreements.
"Only our solidarity with the people of Lithuania will make it possible for Lithuania and the other peoples of our country to become free".
involved are And Jef/Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy, the Union for Popular Democracy, and the Sexuba Readers' Circles.
Politických omylu
Senegal is a country dominated by French interests. It is a member of the "Franc Zone". Several hundred French soldiers are stationed there permanently and the French base at Dakar has been vital to a number of France's military
- Trida-
The sign reads
"Avenue of political mistakes"
operations in Africa. More than 20,000 * PRATELTYL French nationals live in Senegal of whom the majority work there as enterprise managers. Finally the regime is controlled by the "Socialist Party" , a member of the Socialist International, supported by the French Socialist Party. The multiparty system is a mere facade, the party in power enjoying undisputed control over all the public activities of the opposition.
In their declaration of unification, the four organizations say that their decision is a response to "a profound aspiration of the masses, and of the youth in particular, to see the unity of patriots and revolutionaries realized", as well as being a result of "the progress realized in the common engagement of our organizations in the popular struggles of recent years, particularly those which have followed the fraudulent elections of February 1988". They commit themselves to the struggle for "a progressive, multiparty, democratic, secular state in the service of the Senegalese masses, within the framework of a pan-African dynamic of struggle for the emer-
The board reads:
"In the past this street was called: Station Street;
Konrad Henlein Street
(after the Nazi Gauleiter);
Marshal Stalin Avenue;
Avenue of
Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship;
Freedom Avenue (in
1968?);
Avenue of
Czechoslovak-Soviet
Friendship."
TATO ULICE
SE L MINULOS
JMENOVALA:
→ Bahnhofstraße
* Konrad Henlein straße
→ TRIDA
MARŠÁLA STALINA
→ ČESKOSLOVENSKO SOVETSKÉHO
PRATELSTSVI
* TRÍDA SVOBODY
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Abolish the snooper state!
THE SWISS political police celebrated its hundredth anniversary on May 1,
1990. In response a popular initiative,
SWITZERLAND
N MARCH 6, some 60
(MPs), voted in favour of a motion for the abolition
Stasi (political police — see /V 184).
And, as we know, after the public admission comes the line about "collective responsibility" (or irresponsi-