Stop Reagan! | IMGpapers 1980

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Miskito indians: used as a pawn by counter-revolutionaries ON 7 JUNE Ronald Reagan comes to Britain.

This is the man who is trying to save El Salvador from communism -pping up the most barbarous and corrupt military regime in Central America and, as he made clear in Wednesday the American states, by flattening its people with American military might.

This is the man who has launched a new arms race on the world by boosting American military spending by seven per cent each year, 1984 his administration will have spent one and a half trillion dollars on arms 34 per cent of its entire budget.

This is the man who is demanding that American Cruise missiles should be used to turn Britain into the biggest aircraft carrier in history, and who wants to make Europe the cockpit of a horritying nuclear conflagration.

This is the man who has launched monetarism on American working people, imposing curs as vicious as Thatcher's and boosting unemployment to seven million.

Reagan, like Thatcher, is a rich perby pro Tribune. his speech last Organisation twins of tion. Hers to the point where by phony solidate the ments -cis nas Socialist Challenge son's ruler. 86 per cent of the tax benefits he enacted through Congress will benefit families earning more than $20,000 and two thirds of his cuts in social benefits will be taken from families poorer than this, according to the New York Herald Thatcher and Reagan are the terrible Thatcher has Britain four square Reegan's proposals for a Rapid Deploy ment Force to but down world revolu the only European government to lend support to the elections being sponsored by Reagan in El Salvedor on 28 March.

Reagan's visit will be used to con 'special relationship" between the British and American governBombs not Jobs for hundreds of millions of working people the world over.

Give the man a warm welcome. The Greater London Council of Trades Coun called for a demonstration against him on 7 June in London.

Let's make it the biggest demonstration visiting head of state has ever seen.

4 March 1982 page 7