IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

American strategy in crisis

Socialist Challenge No. 212, 7 September 1981 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 594 words

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Vigilance Captain Sheehan also spoke with a reporter from the Pacifica radio network of the United States. sieve', Sheehan told Pacifica. damn guerrillas in and Concerning "the helping the guerrillas. cordoned off Sheehan's ominous statements served to corroborate earlier warninos bv Charles Henry Bazoche, Honduras director of the United Nations High Refugees. duran government, that Salvadoran refugees were being kept 'under constant vigilance and military control. It gives the impression that they are prisoners.' Sunday 20 September 2.30 pm Speakers Michael Scargill, Alex Kitson, representative of the FDR, Ken Livingstone and Ron Hayward. vesoile the police ban demonstration will go anead as a rally. soclalist Challenge urges all its readers to turn out to struggles Organised by the Chile and El Salvador solidarity campaigns.

Socialist Challenge 'This border is like a 'The god ths, out as they my refugees, Sheehan ma ority or unem are They should all be Commission In a 21 July letter to the HonBazoche complained Foot, ATLAUT Madame Allende, this marches of the Latin American & 10 September 1981 Page,4. Guerrillas hit another pylon • Metapar • Santa Ana FIC OCEAN Pugliese areas over the past month. were murdered by para military forces May killed in 1981. Corpses The night-time murders have taken on a grisly new icature, over lne past couple months hunhave been found, the result of the activities of the government 'death squads The new 'weapon' of the dead squads is the elecWhile the military and for the Duarte junta, it has suffered a severe political reverse in last week's joint statement of the Mexican and French governments recognising the opposition forces as the legitimate pontical representalives ol the Salvadoran people.

All these features are leading to sharp conflicts within the country's ruling circles. The main private enterprise grouping, the Productive Allance (AP) has been leading a campaign political forces against the government. They have accused Duarte of being 'little better than a marxist tyrant' (!).

Right wing plots İs in no-one's backyard SALVADOR Above map shows conservative estimate of FMLN activity. Fighting has been reported in many other against the regime among employers army ficers are nothing new. bu speculation now rife about whether the Duarte junta will survive until the planned elections in 1982, or whether the Christian Democrats m the will be replaced by military The United States anc its international allies are presenl backing the project holding elections in an attempt to give legitimacy to continued right-wing governnell But the head of the electoral commission Jorge Bustamante recently admitted that rural areas — some 60 per cent or ine populaton — are unlikely to be able to vote. Of course, the political co-ordination of the the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) would be banned from participation in these Even if the elections go ahead, it is most unlikely that they will constitute a successful political manoeuvre. will NICILIC de-mobilise resistance isolate the internaLionaily.

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By a supporter of the Namibia Support Committee AS WE GO TO PRESS, the latest reports of apartheid South Africa's invasion of Southern Angola (Operation motorised column is pushing north in the sparsely populated south Protea) indicate Least province i South attack aimed

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SUPPORT THE STRUGGLES CHILEAN AND SALVADORAN PEOPLE National demonstration

EL San Salvado

Support Revolutionary GRENADA

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