Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 142, 4 August 1983 · scan p. 7 · about 259 words

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The Cuban attitude to the struggle in El Salvador has been even more tentative: repeated efforts by the CIA to produce proof of Cuban arms and advisors being supplied to the FMLN guerrillas have failed lamentably.

Recent speeches from Castro have been directed increasingly towards procuring negotiations between the on offer from the US and its sponsored junta in El Salvador, the value of such talks can only lie in the adoption of a softer line by the FDR - with potentially lethal results for the FMLN guerillas in the field against the US-backed Salvadoran army, and for the workers and peasants of El Salvador.

Meanwhile a similar climbdown has also come from the Sandinistas, with the unveilby the 'contras' to overturn the Sandinistas.

The reality of course is that no 'negotiated settlement' acceptable to the USA would resolve any of the crushing problems of the workers and peasants of Central America: the quest for such a solution, or for 'peaceful coexistence' between a radical petty bourgeois regime such i as Nicaragua and brutal right wing dictatorships such as wing regimes in the teeth mass opposition would pro ise an open ended nightm: for US imperialism into : next century.

Hard though the opc are for those in the front li the only way to combat : Reagan offensive is by sta: ing firm and fighting • to ra the widest possible popu resistance amongst the wo ers and peasants of La

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