EL SALVADOR's struggle against military dictatorship is spearheaded by four revoluEL SALVADOR SOLIDARITY tionary organisations each of which has its own armed DEMONSTRATION wing.
To coincide with the gove mment's The armed forces of the revolufraudulent elections Marti National Liberation Front. The non jointly make up the Farabundo Sunday 28 March three strongest revolutionary organisAssemble Speakers Corner 1 pm which have carried the main March to rally in Trafalgar Square responsibility for the struggle, are the Revolutionary People's Bloc (BPR), United People's Action Front (FAPU), and the Popular Leagues of 28 January (LP-28).
Their armed wings are respectively the Farabundo Marti Liberation Forces (FPL), the Armed Forces National Resistance (FARN), and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The fourth. smaller revolutionary organisation is the Central American Revolutionary People's Army (PRTC).
In addition to these forces the National Democratic Union, the legal front of the Communist Party, is integrated into the FMIN after having previously supported the Duarte junta. The most prestigious leader of the FMLN is Cayetano Carpio, one of the signatories of the letter to Reagan published on these pages The FMLN has formed a political front against the dictatorship with other forces including the democrats and progressive sectors of the Christian Democracy called the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR). But the forces doing the fighting are the revolutionaries of the The revolutionary character of the Salvadoran leadership is confirmed by the main points of the FMLN'S These include the nationalisation of the main means of production, the disbandment of the army and the creation of a people's army, expropriation of the big landea estates anacine democratic self-organisation of the masses edom fighters of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front alist Challenge 11 March 1982 page 8