reatened by the or death battle is ta and left-wing of article by ter of the Gerilla rated the governnated the importance he capital.
wasn't the heral strike comtely successtul?
Guadalupe MareZ: Because there were few gerillas concened around the capital iney coula nol orer d tary defence the However SCS all for a general strike launched. and that kened the military ggle.
The masses telt that were too unprotected onduct a general strike and thus the general ke was too limited to w the politico-military anisations to transform strike into a genera ment, and, below, leaders of the El Salvador rebels. They are Ana Guadalupe Martinez, Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP), and José Ramon Medrano, a member of the leadership the FMLN (Farabundo Liberation ront), military wing of the rebel forces.
uprising.
So now we have to consider the general state of morale of the masses. If no victories are won. then the masses won't take part in Thus the military side of the strugThe leadership of the movement has to nave the capacity to accurately assess the morale of the masses. The appeal for a general strike was launched in San Salvador when ane asses ere nosredıy convinced it was generalised offensive.
They didn't know of the severe losses inflicted on the junta forces. From that point of view, the call for a general strike was a political mistake. The triumphalism which prevailed in the description of the military situation led us to think that the masses would take part in une strike.
Has the enouah arms to arm the population?
Tose s he question way pose the question. ust limit ourselves to considering the capacity of the FMLN to arm the population, then we are makıng an error because the solution isn't just military, but political.
at stake isn't SITICLV mutara the political death of the junta. It we were oniy to see the struggle as a conflict another marmy an interview with two a leader of the Marti National the co-ordination would be a disaster — we can't militarily match up to an army equipped by a militarv DUWCI like the USA.
are waging. revolutionary war in which military questions play role, but that is not the important that belongs to the masses. Q. In the zones controlled by the FMLN, will a revo uuonar cratic comed g verment be AGM: This depends on the evolution of the struggle. presen ll is nol possible to install a regime of dual power.
The strikes didn't achieve all Ine expected results. To be sure, in the Morazan region there are villages where there are popular political TICW structures but still on limited scale, W CE WC to spread to the whole countrv Only then will we be able to form a new government. It has to be set up in the country itself, not in exie, ana represent a rea! alternative power.
Because of this, we are having difficulties in convincing other countries to oreak arpiomauc telduons insofar as LC e alternative government.
Our principle task now is to form a bloc of countries wnicn oppose Am acan intervennor EI Salvador.
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