USIUD troops out!
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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IT WAS revealed last week that the Spanish government has sent 1000 combat troops to Equatorial Guinea, which is a former Spanish African colony. The Spanish government, and the bankers and bosses behind it, were involved in the military coup that toppled the bloody dictatorship of Macias Nguema in 1979.
The new military regime under Lt-Col Teodoro Nguema set out to stabilise capitalist control over this impoverished country. As the sending of imperialist troops shows, this task of disciplining the oppressed masses, of crushing resistance to terrible (and worsening) poverty, cannot be left to the neocolonial puppet regime alone.
For the Spanish working class, the task is to mobilise the maximum supporting action to help the working people in their courageous