"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, SW16 INN. erialism. It is imperialism which stands behind the ruthless regimes when they come under challenge. It is imperialism which stands behind the murderous counter-revolution which seeks to bring down progressive regimes like that of Manley in Jamaica, or the revolutionary Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
ary told me in Havana, if Washington's intervention in El Salvador could be halted, the military dictatorship would not last a month.
And the legacy of decades of imperialist domination bequeathes of the region and rushes to their aid As an El Salvadoran revolutionwere many casualties, including those who adapted to Stalinism, hoping that there would be more Chinas, Yugoslavias and Polands - countries where the overthrow of capitalism was accomplished (albeit in a bureaucratic fasion in which independent workers' initiatives were repressed) by Stalinist-led movements.
But the most significant casualties were those who reacted in a sectarian fashion to the breakthroughs in revolutionary leadership, first in Cuba in 1959 and then in Nicaragua in 1979, because these events didn't fit their preconceived XIsts. of leadership will be unnecessarily more bloody and bitter. But it will be travelled.
From this standpoint, the doubly important character of our solidarity work with the Central American revolution becomes more clear. Helping to mobilise the working class to blunt imperialism's wat drive against the revolutions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada and Cuba is our most important task in advancing the objective march of the world revolution. And it is crucial to linking up with this new generation of revolutionary MarSocialist Action
At the centre of the class struggle in Britain is the battle of the Irish people for control over their own destiny. This is most sharply posed in the Northern Ireland statelet created by the British ruling class against the wish of most Irish people.
The focal point of this battle over recent months has been the hunger strike by the Irish prisoners whose real "crime" is that they fought, in the only way they saw possible, against the exploitation and oppression the British rulers have inflicted on their country.
Northern Ireland was set up by the British ruling class to ensure their ability to continue dominating ialism. trade union issues, such as wages and conditions, in the fight for socIn Ireland, this means that any unity between Catholic and Protestant workers on economic issues will be a temporary unity as long as Protestant workers are bound to Loyalism. This has already been proved concretely over and over again in the past decades.
The most intense struggle must be waged against Loyalism, and in defence of the most oppressed on the big political issues of the day -the hunger strike, the British occupation, the colonial status of Northern Ireland, the second-class status of Catholics in all areas of October 1981 Today, the stakes are higher than ever. The struggle in Ireland has reached new heights, making it increasingly possible to intlict massive blows against our class enemy and their murderous tyranny in Ireland. Irish freedom fighters have made extraordinary sacrifices, most noticeable at present in the martyred hunger strikers and the fight for political status. Tens and tens of thousands of Irish people have mobilised in support of these battles against the British ruling class Around the world, people on every continent have demonstrated in support of the Irish struggle. Trade unions from the United
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