Salvadorean dictatorship and of strengthening their military offensives against the forces of national liberation.
On 31 March 1982, Salvador elections 'Showed that there was a real desire for democracy' (US News and World Report, people will revolt again'.
the analyses made by the chroniclers of our own press! doubt thathe 28 arch sawa nonest could farce, televised were made by for reacwhich Lon. anyone i for being already.
published by the a stucy centra mercan universily in San Salvador proves what a farce Thomas Sheehan Catholic University denounces electoral carried out by the government. Fraud He reveals that D Hinton, the American allivassauvi, concocted an agreement velween parties so inere should discussion rontation of the elect raud (the Guaraian 4 June 1Y0L.
and reforms are only tactical to a single goal: military defeat on the FMLN.
of the United States in El Salvador is war. 1000 soldiers and 500 officers IN THE SHADOW of the British imperialist agression against the Malvinas, the combined forces of the Washington are Reagan said the 28 March same magazine, has a clearer idea as to the future: 'This will be the same dictatorship as before. They're This prediction is a little bit more accurate than trained in the united states — courses Panama bases of American The stralezy. numoci cadres in the 23,000 strong army will thus be doubled. Elite In June '82 according to a US official army will be able to change Since May, attacks situation by the elite killers have inreased the regions Morazan, Jsulatan.
Chaletenango, Labanas, pressure against the MEN While inere these offar being crowned with success growin direct military Intervention Takes place in the context of a growgrowing support for the Hon duran armed force: oï area de cance paramilitary operations President pontics Mangana, installec the United States, it could not be clearer. In order to reduce the social base the revolutionaries in 1979, a caricature of an agrarian reform was inIlalcu Profit Co-operatives were set on land belonging to latifundists.
But the co. operatives fell to the far right!
in second nase on alleged reform should have made the pole on land which they are cultivating. On Mav. consuluen Assembly suspended this law. Out of 172,860 families with the legal possibility of 34,000 have used this right. only uner centands are supPressed be tere according "Popular moderate Democratic Union more than Lu as nave been e irom newly acquirec and in the last two months Tribune 31 May 1982)
ornciay. the Salvadorean countryside 55.4 population complete the result of these elections before oDenine •enocacy torture have increased. Peasants In a small town near San Salvador peasants aged 19 to years, thrown out of their house during Ine nighl, and then ica le El Playon they were Christian which legitimated the elections and the power of the military assassinated. Among Victims of the repression them were four mayors.
Friday two aaron a in been nominated FrancIsco chinameld Evangelinc Gracia Lopez was killed in his kitchen with his 18-year old eroger eleven on AT June 1982)
representative or the appear characteristically assassinations carried out by es. For Thomas wing and securitv forces' who American bombing of Cambodia and for Reagan these are only incidents • nev cal son bye Amandan preten and who Cubstuls grave in El Salvador Will this dirty that solidartly with the MEN counter-revolutionary moo olased Cane ex. tended Reproduced Breche, of Party DOCTORIS section of the Fourth FMLN capture Defence Minister RADIO VENCEREMOS, the radio of the Cancestit savonorean guerreras rus unt nounced the capture of ColAdolfo Castillo, Undersecretary , of Defence in the new Salvadorean govern. ment Castillo was shot down in helicopter flying Colonel Luna ranking morne Salvadorean military figure and iner bodyguards. captur of Castillo growin the FMEN ana strengir ability defend the incl nipermer zones wom cerer ar tack Steadman Fagoth referwed Philip Age wo weren ago, teachonor tender or in anti-FSLN Miskito forces in Honduras has been injured b shrapnel in IT IS known r the sumerisin. ure responsible or me mack Socialist Challenge 24 June 1982 • page 13
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Caledo A NWI: Om entish Towe Eis; The Other Bookshop, BrixJune 3rd marked the Michael Gaughan's death in Parkhurst prison.
He died as a result of force feeding after 23 days on a hunger strike. He wanted to serve his sentence nearer home, in Ireland.
Unsurprisingly, this has not been recorded in une Dress. WISe pages after all have been filled debates about the decor of Loren's ¡lallall prison cell. Meanwhile hundreds of Prisoners of War have been subject to appalling conditions in Britain's sheep-shed prison camps on the Malvinas.
The penal svstem is a vicious form of class oppression, especialIv reserved tor those who stand up to the imperialist state: particularly the Irish nationalist prisoners, of which Michael Gaughan was vlic Due to last year's hunger strike, the whole world learnt of the dreadful conditions suffered by Republican prisoners in me n slocks ano Armada But in many ways the conOutons dre wosse orlaOse kept in English jails.
rrom outset the odds are stacked against them. After their arrest the prisoners face a massive campaign of media lies And the wall of 'security' surrounding the trials guarantees the Dri bring Ittie chance being found not Little evidence produced against them, and they often face charges such as biased judges, police ana juries - the type of conditions now being copied in trials of black nationalists, such as the Bradford 12.
Every one of the 100 Irish political prisoners in England classified 'Category A' high security, an extraordinary 25 per cent of all such prisoners in English jails eighth anniversary of in Britain. No one could claim that 25 per cent of 'serious violent crime' in this country consists of IRA campaigns.
The prisoners receive constant verbal abuse and threats of physical violence from warders.
This year Owen Carron MP toured English jails visiting Irish prisoners. Paul Norney beaten up in every prison he had been transferred to because he refused to accept that was criminal.
The denial of adequate medical treatment is also a cause of great Marion and Dolores Price (on hunger strike Gaughan), although sucressfully repatriated, wer 'eleaser prematurely because of their acute state of ill health engendered by force feeding and criminal negligence by Guiseppe Conlon and Sean O'Connaill died shortly after being released, due to diseases that the authorities refused treat. And Noel Jenkinson met an unexplained death in 1976 in Leicester prison. On grounds of his wife was refused an independent autopsy.
grievance concerns visiting conditions. After saving make olne England and being subjec to special Branch vetting. relatives face strip searches, harassment and arrest under the Prevention of Terrorism Act But worst of all, the prisoners constantly moved from jail to jail by George Lennox, outside Wandsworth jail in 1975, was framed after exposing Army torture in Northern the authorities no warning Ray McLaughlin, for example, was moved the day before his brother arrived the way Australia for a visit. And there's Paul Hill: held in 10 different prisons between 1975 and 1977.
The other main instrument of repression is solitary continement, im posed for up to a year and more in whitewashed and solDe Drooled cells for even minor breaches of discipline. Out 6½ years served by Liam Baker, 4 have been spent in solitary Naturally the prisoners' main demand is for the right to be transferred to jails in Ireland: repatriation. Over Marx son o a previiss generation Irish politica prisoners England, that they were held 'as hostages for the good people outside'. This tac tic backtired. as it onlv lec to increased agitation and massive protests that Marx himself was involved in leading.
No such situation exists today. Owen Carron has pointed out that, while refusing transfer the Irish prisoners to jails ir the government has readily transferred 74 British soldiers to British jails, who have committed and murder in Northere offences (including Carron summarised the prison situation in Britall being 'without question, inhuman as far as Irish P.O. W.'s are concerned' But he also emphasised that spints wert : high. These prisoners have ance. Pat Hackett - miss WIARD for 2½ years refused to wear a uniforn , and at least : one other is known to be 'on the blanket Irish republicans have ANDREW been to the fore in ever ressance in English ison major Jalis (especially Hull 1976 escape Gerry from Brixton in December 1980, aided by two ordinary prisoners was graphic illustration of the increased solidarity fron other prisoners With a new Tory lav and order home and war mongerins abroad, the oppressive penal system will play an increasingly important role in clamping down on those wne resist The defence of these prisoners is an essential first task for socialists and trade unionists in backing that resistance.
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