In the wake of the declaration of martial law in Poland, the United States has been quick to seize on the events to whip up anti-communist sentiment. shows this clearly. degrading spectacle was made clear when the filmed contribution by the pop group Abba was taken out because they tervention in El Salvador as well as the clampdown in Poland.
bellicose response to Poland are the developing revolutions in and have tions of the Polish bureaucracy.
Immediately. after the Polish coup both the and Cuban press confined themselves io reprinting the. despatches from the Soviet news agency Tass. But the Cuban paper Granma of December referred to ...measures adopted by the Council of State of the Popular Republic Poland, conforming to the constitution, OUCI get the country out of the economic crisis in which it finds itself, defend and re-establish leganty public order' This quote reters LIC military takeover!
An editorial published in the weekly Bohemia, written the official Cuban press agency Pren Latina talked of the 'subversive CULILCI revolutionary activities of that "parallel union • manipulated by cabai or extremists to provoke economic, social and political chaos the single and obsessional aim of seizing power'.
crude TV spectacular The meaning of this denounced US inMenaced most of all by the United States' Central America.
Jaruzelski's military coup makes it easier for the United States to take military action, even Chosen firmly ally themselves with the counter-revolutionary acjustified phrases reminiscent If this aCuUll.
2nd Party in Havana of Poland, he argued that:
provocation directed and that about ShoutesI inCOSTS onslaught.' The Fidel Castro the lead trom Cubans in adopting line on of tation by Fide 2nd Party Congress sees the 'camps' the tries, the 'progressive countries national liberation and other hand led by the United At the revolu Bloc Among the countries which 'opted socialism CongoBenin, Sao Tome. Algeria, South Iraq, Syria The optic seeing or thin struggle two "camps' to the of regimes led by bourgeois or petty. bourgeois tions and countries'.
is no He chose them pro-Soviet, most Aims policy two-camp theory, They albeit best way. break their own the region.
tradiction the framework of Soviet peaceful coexistence • which aims back The the upon and the ideological have adopted as their ideological framework the two-camp world outlook It is also they have adopted positions on major questions of the world revolution that are the Kremlin.
But because the Cuban sortership is area thratised bureaucratised leadership that exists in the Soviet Union. or Eastern European states they take positions favour of the promotion of revolution in Central America which they see as the best way of extending and defending the revolution in Cuba.
Therefore the Cubans take a revolutionary posttion in relation to Central America, seeking to defend and extend revolution. But same time do not take a revolutionary position relation to all questions of the world revolution. They do not provide a revolutionary leadership on a world scale.
Since the Cuban leadership is not completesuborallale Soviet bureauracy, and inoleec supports socialist revolutions in Central America against the line of the Soviet leadership, would be quite wrong to define them as Stalinist. Nonetheless, they have internalised a crucial of ment of the Stalinist work view the two camp' THE Salvadorean junta hold elections on 28 March.
toll in that country. the far right Democrats over the electoral law.
tion commission and that this, identity the army, perpetuate a fraud.
results never even announced!
that any in The proposal to the the ta.
which the and in particular tion of the FMLN the the to discuss put forward by the FDR/FMLN.
Wing for a impossible to midst of a civil war.
to legitimise its operation.
ele- Our government to elections fraud are planning to But no one should believe that these elections are honest or fair, or that they will put an end to the grisly daily death The only parties 'campaigning' in the run up to the elections are the ex. treme right wing parties led by people like Major D'Aubuisson, notorious as a leader of El Salvador's death squads. Some squabbling is going on between and the Christian details of the The far right complains that the Chris. tian Democratic Party dominates the elec. with the decision not to use the 1978 electoral register but instead to rely solely on leaves the way open to massive fraud by Christian democrats Other observers have pointed out that which will be supervising the position to El Salvador has a history of electoral manipulation the of the last election in 1977 were The present electoral system requires ponucal party wishing to participate in the electoral process must pre. sent a list of 20,000 members. For anyone but the extreme right wing this amounts to giving over a 'hit list' to the death squads.
hold has clearly nothing to do with any 'transition to democracy'. It is an attempt to convince community BENE the situation in El Salvador is 'returning to nor. mal', while at the same time the US pours in massive military aid and re-arms the jun.
The only resolution of the conflict in United States is interested is one in which the popular organisation -the guerrilla organisas are destroyed. Thus the United States has consistently refused all proposals for negotiations The United Nations general assembly voted on 3 December for a resolution callnegotiated solution to the Salvadorean conflict before elections are held. Even the former US ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has said that it is discuss eiections in the Britain abstained on the UN resolution, and it seems likely that the British govern. ment will send official 'observers' to the elections - which will be used by the junta aim must be to force the Tory end support for American foreign policy in El Salvador and
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if by proxy, in that region. It is therefore ironic and tragic that both the governments of Cuba