COSTA RICA | IMGpapers 1980

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United States can be prevented from intervening to crush the The El Salvador regime's counter-offensive has come unstuck. By the middle of the year, industry in San Salvador was grinding to a halt as the FMLN sabotaged the nation's power supplies. The liberated zones remained intact, subject only to occasional government airborne attack.

The guerillas renewed their military attacks in the summer. Mexico and France severely dented the US's attempts to get international support for the junta by recognising the FMLN/FDR as a legitimate political current.

Meanwhile in Nicaragua, the revolution has been subject to internal sabotage and economic bockade. The cutting-off of US credits dealt a hard blow to the economy while the Sandinista government was forced to take emergency measures against the sabotage of the bourgeoisie.

Capital flight and an effective investment strike forced the government to intervene against more and more private enterprise. The struggle against imperialism and the local bourgeoisie is inexorably forcing the FSLN to take power -political and economic - from the bourgeoisie. A workers' state is emerging.

The war in El Salvador and the struggle in Nicaragua has tended to overshadow the revolution in Guatemala. But in 1981 the war, led above all by the Guerillas Army of the Poor, left thousands dead on both sides.

1981 concluded with the threats from the United States to take military action against Cuba and Nicaragua and the heroic revolution in nearby Grenada. The whole of Uncle Sam's 'back yard' is under threat from the revolution. In these decisive hours international solidarity is more vital than ever.

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WHATEVER the language, two million marchers across Europe were saying the same thing: no to Cruise, no to Euroshima, no to the US war drive.

Their voices made the White House tremble. Reagan scrambled to regain some degree of credibility in the propaganda war with his 'zero option' proposals.

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