ASSASSINATIONS, beatings and torture are daily events faced by El Salvadoran workers and peasants. Whatever Carter might say about human rights, it doesn't tally with the vast US support for regimes in Central America.
In a film shown at a meeting in London last week leaders of Democratic Front currently on a European tour, one scene strikingly depicted this grim reality.
am learning to read,' Salvadoran peasant, 'because sooner or later I will be jailed and I will need legal help. But this will involve paper work. something could be done against my wishes.' This scene in the film Who is for liberation? shows not only how imprisonment is a fact of daily for growing Salvadorans, but it also indicates the enormous social tasks in store for the people when their revolution is finally victorious.
The message put forward at the meeting by the main speaker from the Front, Rafael Menjiver, was the need for a vigorous solidarity movement of all people 'to support our historic struggle for freedom.
'Our struggle is not a matter for the El Salvadoran people alone, because the crisis created in our zone is one which affects the murders, of the most barbaric the Revolutionary says an El can't read, meeting.
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Democratic _peasalils, of the land. tions of the workers and peasants), to the social democratic MR, and the recent split from the Christian Democracy. There is also a unified military command The roots of the war being fought by the El . masses todav are not ditticult to find. With its population of 4.7m it is the most country in the Salvador has other telling statistics. For instance, its people have the lowest calorie intake per person in Latin America. Three quarters of El Salvadoran children aged under five suffer In a country where three out of five are the overwhelming majority don't own any of the land they work on. Ninety-two per cent of the population owns just 10 per cent The price of food has trebled in the past rounds up peasants.' Ogueli where, after many appealed to them to refuse to obey.
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include: Cuban chargé d'affair, students are liable for conscription into the army, the regime doesn't want them. Instead the army takes trucks into the countryside and explained that the assassination of Archbishop Romero occurred after his sermon queries by peasants as to whether they should obey their command, he EI Salvadoran struggle depends not only on the continuing resistance of the masses. It will also be determined by the ability of the international workers' movement to mount solidarity against US threats to the Time after time the platform speakers at the El Salvadoran Solidarity Campaign meeting compared the way the struggle in their country is unfolding to the war in Vietnam, rather than This process of 'Vietnamiis what needs to be rolled back, and solidarity work can again play the vital role it did in defeating US imperialism in Indochina.
One immediate event that British socialists can support is the rally being organised jointly by the Nicaraguan Solidarity Campaign and the Nicaraguan Embassy on 19 July to celebrate the The evening rally will be at the Logan Hall, Bedford Way, London WCI. Speakers invited Vietnam ambassador, Grenadian High Commissioner, plus leaders of the British labour movement.