Things don't look good from the other side, lowever. Almost every week since Iviarch a new 'counteroffensive' by the Salvadoran armv has beer announced. But not even the elite Brigade' trained and advised by Us Green Berets, has been able to make headway against the same time the MLI and tne Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) have taken the of6256/7/8 for details. illegal incite governments and international lending institutions carry out actions make decisions that cause to the national Ortega declared: "This revolution is not going to be turned around.
In response to the arrests Newsweek reported on 9 November thật *the almost abandoned its last faint hopes that Nicaragua's Sandinistas could be persuaded to Torow a vraisi •a -and the hardline US policy toward America has turned even harder.' Cuban and Nicaraguan leaders have made it clear that their to come to the popular forces in El Salvador in the event of a direct foreign intervention. Cuba has also reaffirmed solidarity with the Nicaraguan and Grenadan revolutions Since the Cubans sounded the us m the response of government officials has only served to confirm the charges The Guardian reported on 13 November that Haig had 'refused to rule out the possibility that America might attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.' Britain To extent the bourgeois press has sought to portray the situation as a policy dispute between Haig and the Pentagon According to this version 'it is highly doubtful that the American public and Congress would support military intervention' Certainly, military intervention would not be popular. Despite protests from the Administration. the US Senate recently voted by 51-27 to attack a conditions future aid to El Salvador But ed to halt one a dance mined to the advance revoltor Caribbean and the range of ophion on nares then to those who desend only 1 COVE right selfmobilise immediately and massivel against threat of US military tervention.
An Anti-Interventir n Front was launched al a press conterence In Lol joint initiative of the de a don on 30 October tral American and Cari,bean solidarity campaigts.
Its aim is the creation an anti-intervention movement of the greatest possible breadth and unity in Britain. It calls for a halt to US political, economic and military against the people of CenCaribbean and for an end to British government support for US policy in the region.
The Anti-Intervention Front can be contacted at: 29 Islington Park St., London N1.