fighting imperialism have without exception lent their support to Argentina. This includes the guerillas fighting under threat of a US-sponsored proxy invasion by Argentina.
regime in Argentina, the people owe their misery to imperialism. guerillas understand something our own Labour leaders have not; that a victory for Britain will strengthen the hand of reaction in Argentina, and that a British defeat will allow the Argentinian people to settle accounts with their rulers. revolutionaries themselves also understand this.
prints reactions to American and Caribbean revolutionaries, SO that our readers themselves: whose side are Thatcher and Michael Foot on? in the South Atlantic countries ratified the understanding they reached on the Malvinas during the Havana summit. Unce again, got the sona vacking or most or the world's countries, which make up the movelical.
As Cuba's ambassador "The Malvinas are an in- said: alienable part ot Argentina, and Cuba has always maintained clear position on this point.
of El Salvador, The reason is very simple; whatever the The Salvadorean The Argentinian On these two pages Socialist Challenge the crisis from Latin can judge for our president, Fidel Castro, urged the restoration of the Malvinas during his student days.' The situation is clear enough. Colloltd tion is between a Latin American country.
belonging to the NonalignLed Movement. ana a col onial power who had been controlling part of Argentina's territory for vcals. Declaration United Secretariat of the Fourth International A STATE OF WAR exists around Tine Malvinas islands. The conflict is not between 'democracy' and 'military dictatorship . It between an imperialist power and dependent country that is still semi-colonial.
The Malvinas WelC sente Britain trom part of its Cas of armed colonial expansion. They were used by British imperialism as chief naval base to guard the passage from the Pacific the Atlantic oceans. They also provided a base for military ac tion against the Latin Argentinians demonstrate against the English and the junta FOURTH INTERNATIONAL American mainland.
What is at issue in this conflict is not the right to self-determination inhabitants of the Islands as Mrs Thatcher claims. It is: • the survival and credibility of the tionary Thatcher govell ment;
Antarctic; • the strategic position of the Malvinas in the South Atlantic;
discovered har lind bete discovered around Islands.
That is what British imperialism wants to keep hold of. blatant hypocrisy is demonstrated by the fact that it has sup. plied the Argentine military dictatorship and in part even helped bring it to power. To a large extent it will be British-supplied arms which will be firing British ships.
VIl In this conflict the international workers' and revolutionary must give their full and enArgentinian over the Malvinas Islands must be definitively established and tionally recognised imperialism's war totally war. We must work for it to end in defeat.
The Fourth International calls on the workers of all countries to give their support to the Argentinian nation in this con The imperialist war drive must be fought head-on by the working masses everywhere and above all and the Falklands • mar force Argen tina to establish control over Equally, we reject the in Argentina and in Latin America.
The Fourth International calls on European workers force their governments to end the blockade measures . In the present contlict these measures ac not target the military dicinev are almed against the Argentinian Lalol. The Argentinian For the victims of repression will not benefit from them The benefits are arawn by the imperialists. The European working class has no interest supporting any way whatsoever the inalliance, the alliance of its own exploiters against the Argentinian nation.
The TOUTE! tional calls on the British Rex Hunt, appointed governor of Antarctica -threat of the United Kingdom to use force to restore the colon 3 workers and their organisations to resolutely oppose the chauvinist should Astena Cuer demonstrate in tens of thousands as thev did dur. ing the Suez conflict in 1yso to stav the crimina City's warmongers. Not drop blood should be shed for the cause of the Falkland Island Company sordid interests the piunaerers or lne uccal The people who are leading this conflict are those who are responsible for million unemployed in Great Britain, for dismantling the social security system and causing a large increase in poverty levels throughou The natural allies of the workers are the Argentinian workers and the Argentinian nation, the British capitalists.
The Fourth International calls on the Argentinian workers to defend the just cause of Argenti sovereignty over the Malvinas by sustained class action and by class struggle methods. While working for the victory of in this war, workers will not give ut for an instant their intransigent oppositiol bloody military dictatorSIlID hey will continu their efforts to overthrow and replace workers' and toilers' which Bovertil alone capable of finishing the task of liberating the country the imperialists' hold, of definitively ensuring democratic rights for the broad masses and resolying the serious economic working masses, by taking the socialist road.
1 May 1982 United Secretariat Bureau of the Fourth International Organisation Americar States. therefore have deep interest in the achier settlement in the South Atlan ment of a Just dilu tic.
be clearly understood tha supporting country's claim does not sug gest support for non-peacelu means of settling the claims.
support justice of the claim, we would WIsh SIeD to be taken to en sure • transmon. realisation of Argentina's just proceed without resort to force and violenc Our policy the Falklands (Malvinas) DE U Dased two principles we have long defended: we support Argen over the territories as use of force to press or selle What Clail Ministry Foreign Af fairs, Grenada Socialist Challenge 6 May 1982 pago