A SHARP exchange took place.
Reagan and Fidel Castro at the beginning of lasi week over Reagan's ludicrous charge that five 'terrorist' states — Nicargua — were banding together in an international conspiracy to 'commit acts of war' against the United States.
These states, according to Reagan, were led by the 'strangest collection of misfits, loony tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the third reich'.
Fidel Castro, speaking at a press concrete Havana, immediately Reagan's cusations labelling him *the biggest har oi all the American presidents' and the 'worst terrorist history of mankind'.
Calling 'a madman, an imbecile and a bum he locused attention on the USA's war drive against colonial "It who suoports th genocidal. army of El the rapists of American nuns. ordered the mining of the harbours in Nicaragua. was who sent troops little Grenada'. He went onto Tenerle Cuban government's call for peaceru. solution to the 6 months 88;
between Ronald - Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and conflict Central America.
Reagan's speech had two related aims. It was designed to cover up his administration failure to live up to its retoric over the Beirut hostage crisis and his willingness to get assistance Syria and simultaneously to swing US and world opinion behind direct military attacks on the semi-colonial revolution, particular the revolution in Central Amen 27 June the US House of Representatives voted by 312 votes to 111 to give Reagan five possi ble reasons to send troops ed responding to attacks on the US embassy or US citizens through intervening 1t Nicaragua was giving support to 'terSUBSCRIBE Daniel Ortega, Sandinista President, denied Reagan's charge that 'ter1ULISL Li als bases' exest him to terminate his ed him to terminate ched by the contras against Reagan's definition of tisan. It any state 'opUS policies that aim to dominate and control other people.' Terrorism cannot defined hijacked planes, _planting bombs. assasinations kidnaps. The most form of terrorism in the world today is the 'state organised ter rorism' of the US and their imperialist allies against the semi-colonial countries fighting for freedom economic self-determination.
The fact tht we are living in a nuclear age where these state terrorists have the means blow the "protect"'. in order to their interests makes it all the more vital that the labour movement mobilises on all fronts to oppose the imperialist war drive.