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ON HULL Socialist Organiser supporters' meetings. every Wednesday. Details from SO sellers.

BROAD Left for Railway Workers National Rally: Saturday December 11, noon to 5pm, at Hampden Community Centre, 150 Ossulton St, London NW1. Contact: Broad Left, 2 Binstead Gardens, Sheffield 6.

VOTTINGHAM Socialist Organiser meets every Friday 7.30pm at the International branch. Ireland, the wai that Britain can't win' -public meeting with Richard Balfe MEP. Thursday December 16, 8pm at Starr House, 57 Church Road, Richmond. London WC2. LABOUR Committee on Ireland: Anuual General Meeting 1983 will be on March 26. Resolutions to be in by February 27. There will be an extended meeting. of the LCI National Council on January 22.

STANFORDS map shop strikers' Benefit. Tuesday December 21, 7.30, Seven Dials Club, Shelton Street, London SC2.

PALESTINE day school organised by the Birmingham Solidarity Campaign with the Palestinian people, including presentations by Moshe Machover on Zionism and George Galloway on solidarity work in Britain. Saturday December 11, 11am to 5pm, 1lam, Victoria Pier.

LONDON Workers' Socialist League educationals on basic Marxism. Next one: The roots of women's oppression', Friday December 10, 7.30pm, For details of venue write to WSL, PO Box 135, London N1 ODD.

CLASS FIGHTER Steering Committee: Saturday Docember 11, 12 noon, Keskidee Centre, Gifford St, London NI. Details phone (01-) 609 3071. Belgium A SECOND general strike within one week has hit the Belgian right wing government of Prime Minister Wilfried Martens.

200,000 local and provincial government employees stopped work on Monday, following up stoppages last week by other sectors, demanding a programme of work sharing in place of redundancies and lay-offs.

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nternational News International News International News Socialist Organiser no.112 December 9 1982 Page 5 General strike hits entine junta

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Juarez SONORA CHIHUAHA Bachíniva • Parral LAGUNA •Torreón Cuencame® STATES Palomas SAN LUIS POTOSI Mexico• City MORELOS -MEXICO •Veracruz → GUATEMALA Arg INDUSTRY and services througheut Argentina were stopped on December 6 by a one day general strike.

The strongly-supported strike highlighted the crisis of the decaying military regime, under which strikes are still supposedly illegal. Its demands included wage rises and restoration of trade union rights.

Originally called by the formerly pro-regime CGTAzopardo union federation, the strike was swelled by support trom the more independent CGT-Brasil and other groups. The conditions that provoked it _ the dramatic decline of real wages and jobs in the last year or so - are shown by the recent estimate that some 30,000 abandoned children are now living on the streets of Buenos Aires.

The junta has tried to damp down the opposition by bringing forward the date for which it promises elections, from spring 1984 to late 1983. But the pillars of the regime are crumbling.

Last weekend, the Financial Times reports, 'A military parade . near Buenos Aires in commemoration of the Argentine fallen during the Falklands war, and attended by some of the country's top generals, was disrupted when hundreds of conscripts shouted anti-government slogans and saged an unprecedented sit-in...

'The demonstration... reached a climax when the strike, and Buenos Aires police have threatened similar action for a wage rise. In late November, middle class suburbs of Buenos Aires took to the streets in protest against ruinous tax increases. The bourgeois opposition parties have rejected proposals from the junta for a social pact, and have scheduled a joint mass rally on December 16.

For the regime to be discredited by its defeat in the South Atlantic is, of course, one thing; for the Argentine working

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by Martin Thomas