exhibitions. Speakers from CND, Turkey, Chile Attila Sat 5 June Cruise around called by Stop the War committee. THE UNITED STATES is preparing to to war. The enemies it targeted for attack are the growing movements for revolution and social justice in Central America and the Caribbean.
Since the proclamation of the 'Monroe doctrine' in the 19th centurv the United State has considered the whole area as part of its 'back yard' • under its exclusive domination. American multanona corporations 11ke wic United Fruit Company, have long dominated the economies of the countries in the region making huge profits at the expense of mass poverty among the people.
The United States has specialised in sup noring rotten and reachonary real wine ac the region, politically militarily.
In line with this policy of domination of the region the US has been willing to intervene directly to put down any threat to its rule. In the left-wing Jualcilala 1734. regime was overthrown by a ciA-organisec invasion. Some 40,000 American marines in Republic in vaded the Dominican overinrow me covenmen or Jua bosca. c moderate left winger of the Cuban revolution in lysy signanea inal the peopic or le regiol were beginning to fight back.
States bolstered its clients in the region, supporting vicious military repression to prevent further revolutionary victories.
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has on une deodies equipment ne endouring and inforced, Nicaraguan border Arbenz other parts States continues its Guantanamo in Cuba The . But the United But two recent events have changed all In March 1979 in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada the dictator Gairy was over. thrown ov the vew Jewe Movement. Ane Nicaragua the Sandinistan reputart revolutionaries overthrew the Somoza dictatorship.
The Nicaraguan victory in particular spur red on the revolutionaries in El Salvador and Guatemala presenting a regional challenge to the Us-backed dictatorships Reagan's response has been to declare wa of the region. Hundreds o millions of dollars have been poured into backing up the dreadful dictatorship in EI including US officers and advisors and millions of dollars worth of military US military personnel in Honduras have beer and they assist the counter revolutionaries in carrying out raids across the nese same counter revolunonary croud. received training at camps in rlorida and of Central America The United for direct orcarations military intervention inrougn seeking new al bases in Colombia and Honduras, with a series of naval exercises which have involved marine anna me us tava base a clear Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig do not intend to allow further left wing victories in the region. And thev are orepared to go to war to prevent them. Our task is to stop them. lorry drivers working the base.
The demonstrators leafleted the workers entering the base morning and about fifteen They heard Tony Woods southern region organiser of the building workers' union. UCATT 'UCATT wants you all to have jobs but building houses and schools rather than nuclear bases which are only there to be used to launch an attack and get us exterminated process.
Later Tony had a lively discussion many of whom workers. said that they would prefer elsewhere WORK simply had no choice expressed support for the demonstration others that they didn't fee strongly enough about the issue and that they didn't work there, others surely would Claude black
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