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Socialist Challenge "23 April 1981
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•NARAGUA RICA A revolutionary leadership EL SALVADOR'S struggle against military dictatorship is spearheaded by four revolutionary organisations, each of which has its own armed The armed forces of the revolution jointly make up the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Marti was the founder of the Communist The political co-ordination of these organisations, which has brought together the social democrats and progressive sections of the Christian Democracy, is the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR). The controlling interest in the FDR lies with the revolutionary The three strongest revolutionary organisations, which have carried the main responsibility for the struggle, are the Revolutionary Peoples Bloc (BPR), United Peoples Action Front (FAPU), and the JOIN THE FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM If you would like to be put in touch with Socialist Challenge supporters in your area or would like more Send to: Socialist Challenge, PO Box 50, London N1 JAMAICA COLOMBIA Forces Peoples Revolutionary smaller revolutionary addition junta.
offs from the The revolutionary propriation Their armed wings are, respectively, the Farabundo Marti Peoples Liberation Force (FPL), the Armed of National Resistance Army (ERP). organisation is the American Revolutionary Workers Party (PRTC). Democratic Union, the legal expression of the Com- forces, munist Party, is integrated into the FLMN and the FDR, after having previously supported the Duarte The revolutionary organisations tend to be splitCommunist Party, and their prestigious leader, Cayetano Carpio, was previously a central leader of the Communist Party.
character of the Salvadoran leadership is confirmed by the main points of the FDR's programme. These include the nationalisation of all basic means of production, the disbandment of the army and the creation of a people's army, the landed estates, democratic self-organisation of the masses.
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being workers, (FARN) and the terrorist gangs.
The fourth, Central tries Nationalist domination Luly most who do not hemisphere and the Chalatenango San Salvador La Libertad La Paz ON July 19, 1979, the workers and peasants of Nicaragua led by the youthful fighters of the SanNational Liberation Front (FSLN) brought down the Somoza family dictatorship.
Washington backed Som. oza, and the Pentagon provid- of ed the tyrant with what help it could, short of sending in the But the Nicaraguan people wol. did uc suck waves ali felt Latin Salvador, Guatemala, and elsewhere.
In El Salvador there is now a civil war, with the masses of students, and pea sants lined up against the US backed repressive regime and fears that its domination of El Salvador and other Central American coun could ending; nasted that has through nearly all of this cenIntolerable These years of US support reactionary геоніс. have brought intolerable conditions for the masses of El Salvador, have even the minimum necessities of food, and housing Hunger stalks El Salvado which ranks of the Western countries most severely affected by malnutrition t least 75 per cent of the Honduras Cabañas San San ) Vicente Miguel Usutalán children under five show signs malnutrition and related diseases before their first birthday.
Corporations There are fewer than three doctors for every 10,000 inhabitants. Illiteracy runs to 40 per cent in the cities and 60 per cent in the countryside.
The average yearly income is 450 dollars, but even this miserly misleading. While a small number live in luxury, the vast majority of the population is impoverished About 2 per cent of the people control over 60 per cent of the cultivatable land.
Most industry is foreign owned US corporations precominate, raking in huge protits the sweat and of the Salvadoran workers.
Exxon, the International Basic coffee company, Westinghouse Electric, Alcoa. Texaco, US Steel and others are involved, as are the First National Bank and the Bank of America.
These US corporations have everything to gain by keeping their good I friends in power. In 1979 the military Morazan La Unión
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