Labor Party Scores U.S. Latin Policy

The opposition Labor Party adopted a resolution Friday, condemning U.S. policy in Central America and saying that a future Labor government may supply Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime with military aid to fight U.S.-backed rebels known as contras.

The party, on the last day of its annual convention, also accepted a proposal calling for a repeal of “all criminal laws which discriminate against lesbians and gay men.”

In the foreign policy debate, the party unanimously resolved that “a future Labor government will put pressure on the United States to cease funding the contra forces and failing that, to supply military aid to Nicaragua for as long as, and as a counterbalance, to contra forces which are similarly supplied by the United States government, the Central Intelligence Agency, private sources, etc.”