New threat to Salvador masses
Socialist Press1981 1981-03-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Last week saw the bizarre spectacle of Dennis Healey arguing against American action to stem the flow of arms to the freedom fighters in El Salvador.
Healey, like his colleagues in the Second International and a number of bourgeois governments headed by the Mexican regime, sees US intervention as a dangerous and open ended action which could only destabilise capitalism in El Salvador.
They seek instead a negoti Santeen Tre a Dou crats bleat, there are ominous signs that the Nicaraguan junta, under economic and political pressure and direct military threats from Washington, may be weakening in its support for the guerrilla war being waged by the forces of the FLN.
'Mistake'
One "high ranking" Sandinista leader reportedly told the reactionary Newsweek magazine:
"We have realised that our apport for El Saltador could cost is more than we could Moad do pay. It was a painful miaiz le vit not the outy ones who were tricked into believing that a Marxist victory was at hand in El Salvador.
Yet the fact is that if there is a setback in El Salvador, the Nicaraguan regime itself will stand threatened.
The guerrilla forces in Salvador are in the front rank of the struggle against US imperialism. They must be actively supported by the British and internațional labour movement.
US Hands Off El Salvador!
Saturday 4 April at 2.30 pm.
Assemble The Plains'
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