RONALD REAGAN's visit to Europe will demonstrations London and Bonn.
Britain the main demonstration will be organised by CND on 6 June. Ronald Reagan is rightly regarded as the person who has given the green light for a massive arming of US imperialism.
But the new and deadly nuclear arms race is only one arm of Reagan's military policy. In El Salvador the US is more deeply involved in a counterinsurgency war than at any time since Vietnam.
US involvement in CATESS against Nicaragua and Cuba, and its massive conventional re-armament, are pari of the same policy which leads it to boister its Imperialist chieftain Nixon are part of defending the American empire.
Here we attempt to explain the new rise of American militarism, and why Us imperialism is of necessity nuclear that t the US has come closest to using nuclear weapons.
Defending the Empire 1 - From Saigon to Teheran In the early 1960s President Kennedy decided to take the United States to war. He decided to draw the line against "international communism' in Vietnam, million American troops fighting the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese army.
At first sight this seems extraordinary. Why should the US go to such extraordinary lengths to save South Vietnam, a country of little economic significance? The answer has to be found in America's world role - that of international cop for capitalism.
In 1959 the US suffered a severe defeat. In Cuba, Fidel Castro's guerViotnamese leader Ho Chi Minh rillas came to power, overthrowing see mass in Rome, In nuclear rebelieves that COULLITE.
Both that And we show been during revolutions By 1964 there were half a terests. the US-backed Batista dictatorship. The revolution rapidly moved in a socialist direction. Elsewhere in the "third world: were challenging colonial powers. In Africa, movements in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea challenged Portuguese imperialism. The US became convinced that a wave of struggles was going to challenge the interests of capitalism across the face of the underdeveloped world In 1964 the US started bombing Vietnam. The most barbaric weapons ot war bombs, chemical weapons — were usLed against the National - Liberation Vietnamese peasants were indiscriminately slaughtered. The Us was saying that revolutions anywhere would face the full force of the world's mightiest military power. The war was intended as a demonstration the US would not movements which threatened its interests.
The ALICECEI broken on the rock of the of the ordinary people of Vietnam. Who was winning the war was made very obvious by the Tet offensive in January 1968. The United States was on the road to defeat.
The final debacle came in 1975. During April the NEF soldiers sent the South Vietnamese army reeling. The NLF entered Saigon on Day. As a final humiliation, maining Americans had to flee the country in a rapidly organised airlift, with helicopters taking off from the roofs of government buildings as gunfire echoed around Saigon.
After 1975. battered demoralised, American pulled in its horns. But the situation was turned around by new and rising threats to American shockwaves guerrilla movements guerrilla fragmentation Front. tolerate effort resistance May the realmost siege and imperial in In 1973, the Arab-Israeli war sen through the world, because for the first time the the oil-producing states decided to raise prices and supplies as a weapon against Western support for Israel.
The US especially consumption of oil products and vers expensive local oil, was hard hit An mentality developed the fear of "Arabs attacking US interests was widespread.
This fear of turmoil in the Middle East challenging TO HICCU bolstered by the huge movement in 1978 which eventually led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. The Shah, Wester then restrict with its huge official one of the faithful and third world"
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