Could you explain how people are organising in the working-class and poor areas, and also which political organisations are participating in the resistance?
In terms of political organisations, the left-wing political parties recognise that the Democratic Unification Party and other expressions of the left do not control any part of the popular movement. It’s the opposite: we are part of the popular movement. It is a country in which all the political tendencies [of the left] converged in the social movements, even before the coup. If we talk about trade unions, 95% of Honduras’ unions represent the public sector and only 5% of the organised unions represent private enterprise. That 5% are the most militant unions because they have the most direct class conflict with capital, such as the union in the cement industry, also the union of workers in the beverage industry. STIBYS is the union currently most involved in politically coordinating the situation. In fact STIBYS just launched an independent presidential candidate — Charles H. Reyes, who is also one of the main leaders of the struggle. He has been a popular leader for more than 30 yea
