into Havana, the 26th movement, was radical and democratic.
labourers and the urban dispossessed the economy both American imperialism to socialism.
whole of Latin America. direction.
insurrectionary Sandinista Front (FSLN).
leftward-moving direction.
During the insurrection money.
begun. people's militia Nicaragua is following the Cuban road.
For the worse by the insurrectionary which is supported by millions. Castro regime's moderate Oscar Romero, gave the signal for open civil war.
The military junta repression. Thousands of political assassinations by the right-wing death squads and the army have been carried out. The rulers of El Salvador are trying to drown the revolution in blood Imperialism will not surrender El Salvador without in Grenada or Nicaragua, But the millions o heard the words of Fidel Castro: 'Bombs can kill the hungry, the poor, the ill and the illiterate, but they can't kill hunger, illness and ignorance. The fight against hunger and without social justice.
bean need our maximum solidarity in that fight. ON 1 January 1959 the Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marched capital, toppling the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. A new era had opened in the Caribbean and The movement of the revolutionaries, the July It sought land reform and justice: a new deal for the impoverished Cubans masses - the agricultural Fidel and his comrades were not Marxists, but in their struggle for democracy and justice they came up against a problem. To even begin to transform the country they had to break the stranglehold on local capitalism and In his second declaration of Havana, in 1961 Fidel announced the only way forward - the road For twenty years the United States has tried to the Cuban example, and its eradication of poverty and illiteracy, and stood out as a beacon in the The grip of the American ruling class on the area received two savage blows in 1979. First in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada the local dictator, Eric Gairy, was overthrown by the radical New Jewel Movement. The movement and its leader, Maurice Bishop, have subsequently evolvediin a socialist Much more serious, in July 1979, the US-backed dictatorship in Nicaragua was overthrown by the strategicaly vital country.
Stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it cuts the Americas in two. The evolution of the FSLN government since that time has been in a rapidly Before the Sandinista victory huge sectors of the country were run by Somoza and his family.
immense was wrought to the country. Sections of the ruling class fled Nicaragua with their suitcases stuffed with Since the victory of the FSLN a massive literacy campaign has begun - adult illiteracy is on the verge of being abolished. An immense effort at national economic reconstrution and land reform has has been created.
United States the position is made situation in Salvador, a country ruled by a tiny oligarchy of 14 families. They face a united alliance of three revolutionary groups, the Peoples' Revolutionary Bloc, The assassination last March of one of the opponents the archbishop replied savage In Central America nothing has been settled.
a fight. Neither will it accept a socialist revolution Of poor and dispossessed have poverty will not be won The people of Central America and the CaribSocialist Challenge 23 October 1980 Page 9