Clear submarine have yet to be fought.
regime to overthrow bre one co-ordinated dinistas as devastating blow first large agua from weeks later.
'pacification' of Vietnam, military been cleared from its waters. The major battles in the Central American war The determination of the Reagan the Sandinistas stems essentiallv from the failure of L'S policy in El Salvador. In February 1983 the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Jean Kirkpatrick, was sent on a 'fact finding' mission to El Salvador. Her report to the President was a som• that the Salvadorean regime was in dire military danger from the left wing rebels of the FMLN. The response of the regime was to elaborate a new, Central American strategy, of which the centre-piece was the decision to bring down the Sanmeans of striking the Central with American revolution as a whole. The scale incursion into Nicar.
Honduras followed just Other elements of the new strategy were a huge build-up in arms supplies to El Salvador, the beginning of a US troop build-up in Honduras and the ment.
project the Salvadorean province of San Vicente. This scheme, based on the experience attempted to concentrate firepower to drive the guerAT THE LAST Labour conference Denis Heal y, summing up on the Central America motion moved by David Blunkett, made a blistering attack on US policy over Nicaragua. He said that Labour should be 'proud to stand with our Nicaraguan comrades'. Neil Kinnock has associated himself with such sentiments, through writing troduction the Kissinger's Kingdom by Donald Anderson Stuart Holland, and by having his very public argument on Central Secretary State Schultz during his visit to Washington.
These welcome step forward - it is difficult Deny teredo Harold Wilson or a James Callaghan. But they are of limited value so long as they remain at the level of worthy sentiAs we detail on these pages, policy towards Nicaragua is not just a matter of brutal and unjust policies.
throw the Nicaraguan government. It is unfolding slowly, like a slow-motion movie, before our eyes.
statements after the event, as occurred over Grenada, but to provide the maximum solidarity here and now to prevent a repetition of the Grenada invasion.
How can Labour pact on this terrain? First, a delegation MPs, Healey and Neil George Next November the first elections since the Sandinistas came to power are being held. The US and reactionary oplegitimacy of these leadership Nicaragua and investigate the fairness US of the arrangements of the elections themselves.
The Labour Party should run a campaign explaining the elections and the support of the Nicaraguan people The point is not to make outraged ty.
maximise its imincluding Denis Kinnock must go to The HalOna le are in power Sandinistas challenging elections. The ingful should food revolution for the Sandinista government. The Parliamentary Labour Party should invite leaders of the FSLN to visit Britain on a tour organised by the Labour ParThe FSLN is formally part of the Socialist International, as is the Labour Party. So far the European Socialist parties have expressed their opposition to US policy in Central America, but i. The concret pesty or use istrategic position in the Socialist Interslep up the pressure for material aid for the Sandinista revolution. In countries where the socialists • for example Spain and France - the governments are in an ex cellent position to make their aid mean sending aid in the form of technology Meaningful solidarity is not the solidarity of tears when a counterhas been victorious, but solidarity with a revolution in progress Socialist Action 27 April 1984
Socialist Action 27 April 1984