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though this may be. Even more important, as Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop recentlv pointed out. is the ex. ample they have set for all the oppressed ul Lall HInCHICa "But most of all," he said, "you have given the world the example oi a small country and a small people in number being able to dereal United states imperialism at Giron."

Bishop was referring to the Cubans smashing a US-organised invasion of their INTERNATIONALIST country in April 1961. The attempted invasion came after the Castro leadership, armed with a burning desire to ena poverty and corruption, had overthrown the Batista dictatorship and the US corporations and established a workers state in Cuba.

It is that example which served the sandmastas wnen they toppled ine the vices that cripple US-dominated regimes from Guatemala to Chile.

As Maurice Bishop pointed out: "Over the past 21 years, you have wiped out illiteracy. vou have removed drug-taking as a problem, you have built a strong system in education and health care. and vou nave expanaca ana aversea your eco nomy."

This is the attraction of the Cuban road.

Another thing that marks out the revolutionary Itaders of Cuba is their internaUnlike the Kremlin bureauhonausin.

encourage anti-imperialist struggles arouno mae word.

Cuban troops fought alongside the government of Angola to beat back a South African invasion. Cuban troops than ever before cond Congress of the Cuban CP, on December 20 last year:

coles. prestige is the confidence that all the words revo monames must nave unal Cuba can be counted on...

are people in the world who negotiate with principles, but Cuba will never negotiate with principles."

It is Cuba's refusal to negotiate with principles wnien is way It las won lne unbridled hatred of the imperialist posses in washington. should win the unbridled respect and solidarity from workers the world over. Its fight is our fight.

And, far from waning, those principles are today being applied with more vigour As Fidel told the Se"Our revolution's prestige derives from our loyalty to prinAnd more important than the "Principles are not negotiable. There It is also why it SW16 INN "Revolt in El Salvador" gives both a background history of El Salvador and traces in depth the current freedom struggle which is shaking the Duarte regime -and its backers in Washington.

Available from: Socialist Action, P.O. Box 65, London,

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