IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 142, 10 April 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 297 words

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page 11 of the scan

Nicaragua found the US unable to make a military intervention. more revolutions threaten in the neo. colonial world.

These developments in politics have combined and interacted with the onset of huge recession. apparent without end is already leading to signs of frenzy and panic in the ruling class. For world imperalism there is only solution - a defeat workers' movement on a world scale leading to a boost to profits.

Events like the Nicaragua and Iran are a direct threat to American interests, and explain the developing war hysteria inside the US itself, the attempts to counter-revolutionary policing role of the US forces, and the moves to set up highly mobile counter-revolutionary forces in the US army what can De shuttled to 'trouble-spots' anywhere in the world.

But they do not explain why the US needs to build up arsenal. The target of armaments programme in the US is beyond dispute — Il Is me UssK.

The leadership of the USSR is an extremely conservative seeking peace ul coexistence, and anxious nosulues wiln Ine Uo. bur tne soviet bureaucracy cannot isolate itself from imperialism today, than could Stalin. different social system in the USSR inevitably leads it into conflict with American imperialism.

Soviet backing regime, on the US's doorstep, helps ensure the political instability of the whole of Central America. strength of Cuba - also strengthen and deepen the colonial Inexorably, Iran and over the lasting years.

And tension the ideologues of way out of the crisis SECONDE for the thinking.

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bomb, which Carter for the Cuban without substantial environment. primarily The capturing helps to of the attackers.

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