Thatcher's victory in expelling Argentina once again from the Malvinas-Falklands is potentially the biggest set-back for the working class came into office.
Fortunately, to the likely continuation of the Argentine challenge to British possession of their territory. The Argentine workers and peasants on the junta is intense.
the political face of Latin America.
longer can Argentina play the counterrevolutionary proxy had in mind for it. Instead of sending its troops to invade Nicaragua, it now finds itself in the position of having to send 7000 tons damaged Nicaraguan economy.
islands into a permanent one it will have to impose its political and economic will on the Argentine mainland.
better position to impose demands than before. British and US imperialism are in a worse position to impose their own will in Buenos Aires.
hostility to Britain and the US aroused in the rest of the continent.
augur badly for Thatcher. As with Israeli Zionism, every expansion leads to more problems.
have is for a permanent and strong garrison on the islands.
whole adventure has put Thatcher more in hock to Reagan.
quid pro quo in terms of more British involvement in Washington's war in Central America. This will be especially the case because of the failure of the proxy option.
The real prospect now is for the Malvinas-Falklands to turn into a British Vietnam, with Britian getting more and more pulled into especially true with the Michael Foot leadership of the Labour movement having kow towed to every bellicose twitch of Thatcher's nose.
Politics will not now revert to what they were before. It will not 'go around' this new British involvement in Latin and Contral America. The Thatcher and Foot which has develped in the unions and Labour Party must press on. It must continue to demand the immediate withdrawal of Britain occupying force. And it must link this to a fight against Thatcher's policies here.
In all this we need to remember that those, like Michael Foot, give Thatcher victory abroad, will do the same in the war at home. They have to be removed.
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