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Everyone to Arms!

· Socialist Challenge No. 181, 22 January 1981 · p. 3 of the scan · 503 words

The scan: sc-n181-jan-22-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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10 January.

command of all the the FMLN of El Salvador:

and women, democrats and patriots ment destroyed once and people's struggle.

destinies mand calls on all the people:

On workers, teachers, employees, sectors everyone;

regular troops and guerillas;

combative masses: The following is the full text of the call issued by the revolutionary forces in El Salvador on THE Unified Revolutionary Directorate of the National Liberation Front which has assumed the general revolutionary armed forces of the five organisations that make up • addresses all the heroic people Workers and peasants, revolutionary men The hour has arrived to begin the decisive military and insurrectional battles for the taking of power by the people and for the formation of a revolutionary democratic govern Decades of suffering and more than fifty for all through the At this historic moment, crucial to the salvadorar and Centra American people, the Unified Revolutionary Directorate of the FMLN — the general compeasants, students democratic sectors, progressive solalers and omnicers, rengious On the men and women fighters of the On the revolutionary militias and on the To immediately launch the military actions of the people's insurrection in order to We call on the entire people to rise up as one single person, using all possible means of throughut the le grand bread of the d tional territory. We call on the entire people to Borders of their imune oppressive genocidal regime of the privileged oligarchy and of imWe call on all progressive and patriotic soldiers and officers to join the ranks of the This is the moment to identify with to turn your arms against the bloody chiefs of the high command and general staff of the conterrevolutionary army. The hour of the revolution has the hour of liberation has arrived!

The final victory is in the hands of this who for so many years have spilled their blood for the right to be free, to enjoy democracy, for genuine ind soclal progress. sovereignly At this historic moment in which the entire people are rising up to conquer freedom we can affirm with emotion that the people o not alone: All oul • Central American brothers and sisters are with us. The masses of the entire To total combat until the final victory, to the decisive military battles, to popular insur Prepare for the general strike until Reagan made known that he intended to bring back the pomp and ceremony (ie waste of public money) of the presidency restore pride. And he brought in arch-mafioso Frank Sinatra organise the showbiz side ot the week tor him.

Sinatra currently under a cloud of suspicion over his links with mafia leaders America. Jimmy Grattiani better • known as "Jimm Weasel' was a high flying Mafia boss who has now grass ed on his former friends.

And sinatra is among those he has implicated Kumours that Sinatra Is to be offered the ambassadorshit Sicily were being discounted in Socialist Challenge circles last night.

Socialist Challenge. 22 January 1981 Page 3

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