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U.S./OAS Hands Off Central America! Defense of Cuba and USSR Begins in EI Salvador! Break with the Democrats- for Workers Action to Bring Down Reagan! A Spartacist Pamphlet $1.00 1 U.S./OAS Hands Off Central America! Defense of Cuba and USSR Begins in EI Salvador! Break with the Democrats- For Workers Action to Bring Down Reagan! Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377, GPO, New York, N.Y. 10116 2 reprintedlrom Workers I~"angy!!.!sl !I/O. ]00, 5 March 1982 Table of Contents £\ SQ\vador: EI Salvador' Military Victory to Leftist Insurgents! .................. 2 EI Salvador: "Negc,tiated Solution" Means Bloodbath Smash the Junta, - I\,\\tarl · Workers to Power!. ................. 4 May 3 EI Salvador Protests Anti-Imperialist Contingent Draws Class Line ................... 8 Speeches at D.C Anti-Imperialist Contingent Rally "Anti-Imperialism Abroad Means Class Struggle at Home" , ........ 9 Which S1de They Were On ents PAM Marches for \nSBrg . Imperialist Doves .................. 11 Militant LA Phone Workers Say: U.S. Hands Off EI Salvadorl .. 14 Longshore Militants Say: "For Military Victory to the The hlood'y civil war in FI Salvador is ~ l.F is Going to Win!" Today the ex­ Salvadoran Leftists!" ............. 15 raging at white heat. Lehist guerrilla radicals call for a "political solution" in The First Communist-Led Uprising fighters have got the hutcher Junta on II Salvador-a coalition with sections in the Americas the run. Reagan has proclaimed Central of the military/Christian Democratic EI Salvador 1932: America the front line of his anti-Soviet junta. It is a dangerous illusion to think La Matanza .......................... 16 Cold War. Frustrated hy the hlow to that the massacre, can he stopped hy Front Line EI Salvador their "roll hack" plans in Poland. the talking with the hlood-crall~d military Smash Junta Terror! ............. 19 warhawks in Washington want to hutchers. For the hrutally oppressed Revolutionaries Said "All Indochina "teach the Russians a lesson" hy working masses of EI Salvador. the only Must Go Communist!" drowning the Central American masses just "political solution" is workers EI Salvador: New Vietnam?.... 26 in a sea of hlood. Which ,ide are you on? revolution. WV Exclusive Daily. Reagan and Haig escalate their A decade ago the ;-';ew l.eft marched Salvadoran Insurgents threats to usc a Hig Stick to stop to chants of 'Two. Three. Many Speak ................................. 27 Communism in "America\' hackyard." Vietnam,'" Hut as the Repuhlicans talk Leftist G uerrilias Say: Helicopter gunships. Cin:en Heret tor­ of falling dominos in Central America. Win the War in EI Salvador! ... 29 ture training for Salvadoran troops. the Democratic Party "doves" are Pop Frontists in NYC Anti-Red Attack CIA hit teams of Cuhan gusanos and flapping their wings in fear of heing YAWF Goons Beaten :\ica~aguan exiles. now talk of a drawn into "another Vietnam." Today Attacking SL Demo .............. 30 Carihhean blockade and sending in the the reformists call for ";-';0 More Chicago SL Campaign Exposes Marines. Yet the reformist organilers of Vietnams." appealing to the liherals' Stalinist Exclusion the "official" EI Salvador protests, eager fear of heeoming mired in one more CP Nailed for Calling Cops for an alliance with Democratic losiflg imperialist adventure. On March on Revolutionaries ................ 32 "doves." refuse to call for leftist rebels to 27, only the Sf-initiated Anti­ Letter to the win the war. Imperialist Contingent will say "Viet­ Communist Party.................. 33 Last May 3 w(. marched on the nam wa., a Victory" over imperialism. SL "Defense of Cuba, USSR Pentagon calling for the leftist rehels to I he reformist, try to hide from the l Begins in EI Salvador " win the war in EI Salvador. protesting Cold War and the class war. On FI Reformists Call Cops ~;.S. imperialism's anti-Soviet war Salvador they arc in cahoots with the on Reds ............................... 35 drive. :\ow more than ever' The Democrats (who hrought u, the "human CISPES Sabotages Asylum for Spartacist I.eague and Spartacus Youth right.,"' junta). Over Poland many of Salvadoran Refugees them join the oh,cene hypocrisy of No Deportations! .................. 37 I.eague are calling for an Anti­ Imperialist Contingent to march in Reagan. who crus he., PAl CO and "Revolution or Deathl" proclaim., "solidarity with Solidar­ EI Salvador Fact Sheet.. ........ 40 Washington. D.C. for"1\-lilitan Victon to I.eftist Insurgents in EI S~lvador!;' nose." the company union for the CIA "Defense of Cuba/ISSR Begins in EI and the hankers. The l·.S. imperialists Sal\ador!" and "Break with the arc taking aim at :\icaragua, Cuba. Poland, the So\iet Union. We sav: Cover photo: Democrats-For W'orkers Action to May 3 Anti-Imperialist Bring Down Reagan!" Dcfeme of Cuha/USSR Hegins in Contingent. A decade ago the :'-iew Left marched Central America! (Credit: AP) to chanh of "Ho. Ho. Ho Chi Minh. Reagan has brought the Cold War 111----"--''''"';' II 3 Washington, May 3: Anti-Imperialist Contingent marches for victory for Salvadoran leftist insurgents. home. Auto plants arc closed while war On'" collaboration abroad means class col­ prod uction booms. Race terrorists in Last May .I, the SL/SYL organi7ed a laboration at home. For us, anti­ white sheets and blue uniforms are on SOO-strong Anti-Imperialist Contingent imperialism abroad means class struggle the rise. Desperate Haitian refugees are to march for military victory to Salva­ at home. As we chanted on February 20, put in concentration camps, while doran leftists. The reformist Workers "We Call for Rebel Victory, They Call Polish anti-Communists are welcomed World Party/People's Anti-War M obi­ the Cops'" with open arms. Anti-imperialism li7ation (WWP/PAM) tried to seal us There is a fundamental political abroad means class struggle here. off with a line of goons: a month later in contradiction within the FI Salvador Military cargo to right-wing juntas in New York they attacked a Spartacist protests between those who want to Central America must be stopped by protest outside a PA M meeting with pressure imperialism and those who labor boycotts. But this will never be planks and broken bottles. When such fight to defeat it. Genuine anti­ done by the Cold War giveback gangster tactics didn't work, the imperialist militants must be for Salva­ bureaucrah, linked to the Democrats. reformists-including the Communist doran left-wing rebels getting a\ many When half a million workers marched Party (CP) and Socialist Workers Party guns as they can, wherever they can, on Washington September 19 it showed (SWP)-called in the cops to keep out certainly, if they can, from the treacher­ that labor has the power. Class-struggle the communists. They did it on May .10 ous and reluctant Soviet bloc. Revolu­ militants fight against the anti-Soviet in Chicago, in New York on 1\0vember tionaries say: F[)R/FMl.~ attempts to war drive, against Reagan racism, for 21, and on February 20 provocative placate Yankee imperialism by begging workers action to bring Reagan down. attempts by goons of the Committee in for a "political solution" will leave lhe retormists look not to the Solidarity with the People of EI Salva­ oligarchic-landlord capitalist rule in­ working class but to the Democratic dor (CIS PES) again brought in the tact. ;-";0 popular-front illusiol1\-Hreak Party. Ihe imperialist liberals want to armed fist of the capitalist state. The with the bourgeoisie' Sweep away the "stop Communism" too, but worry that WWP/CP/SWP/CISPES resort to murderous generals and their death Reagan's shoot'em up methods could anti-communist cop exclusions because squads through workers revolution' backfire. The reformists want to get the red flags and revolutionary politics The line is drawn in Fl Salvador. movement "ready for Teddy" Kennedy threaten their alliance with the Demo­ Those who fight for a victory of the (just like they kept the Vietnam antiwar era tic "doves." Salvadoran masses over their oppres­ movement "clean for Gene" McCarthy). Today the slogans of the Anti­ sors, who oppose Reagan's anti-Soviet And so they do everything possible to Imperialist Contingent are more urgent war drive, will march in Washington on exclude the reds. After all, they don't and obviously necessary than ever. March 27 with the Anti-Imperialist want their speakers to be embarrassed Salvadoran leftists, P ATCO strikers, Contingent initiated by the Spartacist by chants of "Remember Bay of Pigs, black welfare mothers-we're all on League/Spartacus Youth League. In EI Remember Vietnam-Democratic Reagan's Cold War hit list. For the Salvador the choice is revolution or Party, We Know Which Side You're reformist thugs and betrayers, class death' Which side are you on') Join us'. 4 reprinted/rom Workers Vanguard No. 283, 19 June 1981 EI Salvador: "Negotiated Solution" Means Bloodbath Smash the Junta, Workers to Power! JUNE 15--hghting ha, ,harply in­ newski met with governments through­ forces, the Salvadoran military has been crea,cd in EI Sahadol\ hlood) ci\ il war out the region to push for mediation. No unable to inflict serious dam~ge on the as leftist guerrillas arc mounting a rainy dice. The latest S I maneuver sent leftist insurgents. The "liberated lOnes" season offensive that ha, huilt in Canadian New Democratic Party leader controlled by the FM LN fighters have intemity from week to v.eek. hom the Ed Broadbent on yet another regional reportedly been expanded since the northeastern province 01 Moradln to junket, which predictably brought no January offensive. Rebel sources now the western hills of Chalatenango. the better results. report that 50 percent of the northern entire northern tier of the country has Among the advocates of a "political departments of Moranin, Chalatenan­ been the scene of coordinated guerrilla solution" in EI Salvador are the populist go and Cabanas, as well as large assaults on the forces of the lJ .S.-hacked regime of Mexico's Lope7 Portillo, portiom of other areas.
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