By Harry Sloan
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-07Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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ON EL SALVADOR 29 Islington Army's Southern Command.
This body gives orders to . a second tier' , which embraces members of the Honduran army, a military representative of the Argentine junta, the CIA station chief in the Honduran capital, and Colonel Bermudez, a former National Guard officer under Somoza.
From this intermediate body, the orders from the US war chiefs are filtered down to the 'contra' commanders, and translated into low-risk night-time guerilla raids, acts of sabotage and murder.
The objective appears not to be any attempt at a short term overthrow of the Sandinistas -whose armed forces and militia appear to be too strong for a mercenary force with little if any popular support among Nicaragua's workers and peasants. Rather, by harassing and disrupting the Nicaraguan economy and the regime, the US imperialists hope to weaken the Sandinistas and strike a blow at the liberation struggle in nearby El Salvador.
As one cynical Washington official told Newsweek reporters:
'If the leftists win in El Salvador, with help from Nicaragua, there is a danger that others will perceive the inevitability of leftist victory throughout Central RUNWAY intended for?", he asked.
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elding the workers of the Paris Commune: a glorious harbinger MARX lived most of his life in London. He came as a political refugee to England in August 1849, when he was 31 years old, the working class for struggle"
'Its aim was to weld together into one huge army the whole militant working class of Europe