Solidarity with the People of
Central America and the Caribbean
It too is intended to intimidate the work- of the FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ing people of Latin America and teach May 1982.
An imperialist war against the people of Central America and the Caribbean has begun!
Since the revolutionary overthrow of the hated dictatorships in Nicaragua and Grenada three years ago, led by the FSLN and the New Jewel Movement, the workers and peasants of Central America and the Caribbean have been on the
Each day they are deepening
As the May Day celebration in Managua proclaimed: "We will defend the revolution, building Socialism." Faced with these new advances, imperialist aggression against Nicaragua has already reached a qualitatively new level. Daily battles are now being fought with imperialist-armed counterrevolutionary units operating out of bases on two fronts: Honduras and Costa Rica.
them that they dare not assert the right to control their own lands, their own resources, their own destinies.
The Anglo-American imperialist aggression against Argentina and its consequences throughout Latin America has created difficulties for the war plans of the imperialists and their allies in the region. But the certainty of an ever larger and more direct Yankee intervention in march.
their struggle against the imperialist domcounterrevolutionary govern- Central America and the Caribbean has ination that has brought nothing but dement-in-exile is being put together, try. not changed.
cades of misery and suffering.
Faced with the revolutionary advances throughout the region, the U.S.
ing to establish itself on Nicaraguan territory, where it can "legitimately" call for open imperialist intervention.
U.S. imperialism will not renounce the use of a single weapon in its arsenal for blocking the extension of the socialruling class has no choice but to use its Economic strangulation and sabo- ist revolution in what it considers to be massive military power to protect its diplomatic isolation-all weapons its own "backyard." imperialist interests.
In El Salvador the people in arms, led by the FDR-FMLN, have continued to strengthen their political and military capacities and expand their international diplomatic offensive. Following the electoral farce of March 28, the new government of Alvardo Magana was put together by the Yankee embassy. The numbers of and tortured has increased. Even the miserable Duarte has been annulled. trained in the U.S. have returned. level of U.S. aid has increased to the point where today only three other coun tries in the world receive more aid than the dictatorship of El Salvador.
In Guatemala the newly unity of the revolutionary forces and the broadening popular imperialist struggle amongst the Indian are being used to try to weaken and di-
Nicaraguan people and bring down the first workers and peasants government in Central America which is moving to abolish capitalist exploitation and oppression in Nicaragua.
In Grenada a similar process is unfolding as the working people of that isnation deepen their economic and Destabilisation efforts and other counterrevolutionary operations financed and directed by various imperialist interests have been accompanied by massive naval maneuvers in the Caribbean, carrying out simulated landings on Grenada. In fact, the last months have seen a total of four naval maneuvers involving all the principal imperialist powers of NATO. Their goal has been not only intimidation but a dress rehearsal for a blockade and
We are living through a decisive moWe must fight to prevent the imperialists war drive from achieving its
The revolutionaries of El Salvador, Grenada, and Cuba have not retreated a single step. On the contrary each day their authority with the people and their capacity to take initiatives on all fronts increases. New revolutionary victories, new workers states are being born in Central America and the
United, fighting international solidarity with this forward march of the revolution will play a decisive role in the struggles that are coming. and sisters on the front lines of battle in Central America and the Caribbean are fighting in the interests of working peolandings wherever in the region imperial- ple the world over; our struggle is one! majority of the Guatemalan people, has been met by the coup of last March that brought to power the military junta headed by General Rios Montt. While the demagogic declarations about the necessity for (Christian love and) "civil peace" have multiplied, they have served only as a cover for the resumption of imperialist
With this support, General Montt is carrying out new and even more brutal massacres in the rural areas, especially against the Quiche Indian people, and stepping up his military offensive against
The problem for Washington is Behind El Salvador and Guatemala, Nicaragua and Grenada, stands Cuba.
Imperialism's military escalation is aimed at crushing the rise of revolutionary struggles throughout the Today it is the Salvadoran people who are suffering the harshest imperialist aggression in the region. But the ultimate objective must be the Cuban workers state, because imperialism knows that Cuba will support the struggles of the people of
The solidarity committees must be strengthened. The World Front for Solidarity with the Salvadoran People shows the road to follow for the coordination of solidarity work.
The mobilisation of the broadest forces in action against the escalating imperialist war moves in Central America and the Caribbean must be a central task.
The Fourth International commits its entire forces to continue and deepen
NO IMPERIALIST INTERVEN-
Central America and the Caribbean to the TION!
While the revolutionary forces of
El Salvador and Guatemala are today fighting to overthrow bloody pro- imperialist dietatorships, the workers and peasants of Nicaragua and Grenada are mobilising to fight to the last drop of blood to defend their revolutionary governments and the social, economic, and political advances they have achieved over the last three years.
end. While the Cuban revolution lives, the current reactionary offensive cannot
The war which is today being waged by Anglo-American imperialism against Argentina is intimately tied to the imperialist offensive in Central America.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
WITH THE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL
AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN!
International Executive Committee