Victory to the EPLF
Socialist Press1979 1979-11-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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The Eritrean • Popular Liberation Front is now consolidating its positions and once again gathering its forces after the offensive launched earlier this year by the Derg, with the help of its counter-revolutionary allies in the Soviet and Cuban bureaucracies.
In this period of relative calm, as the reactionary military dictatorship Ethiopia struggles to regain its foundering military initiative, the Association of Eritrean Workers and the Association of Eritrean Women have called their first congresses in the areas liberated by the army of the EPLF.
The WSL was unable to accept the invitation to attend the congresses, but has sent its fraternal greetings which we reprint below:
Comrades, The Workers Socialist League of Britain sends its revolutionary socialist greetings to the First Congresses of the Association of Eritrean Workers and the Association of Eritrean Women.
We call on all working class and socialist organisations to give the greatest possible moral and material support to the struggle for Eritrean national self-determination against its imperialist and Stalinist enemies.
Only a socialist leadership committed to the struggle for permanent revolution and the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth International can secure and extend the gains made by the heroic Eritrean workers and peasants as part of the struggle for international socialism.
We hope to be able to discuss these important political questions with your organisation.
*Victory to the EPLF against the reactionary Derg and its allies!
*For a workers and peasants government in Eritrea and Ethiopia!
* For world unity of workers in the struggles against imperialism and Stalinism! Victory to the socialist revolution! This assinine statement must