ple shouted anti-Russian MNR slogans.
FORMER control has been shot dead.
He was the general BOLIVIAN tin miners, secretary of the counter- who have a long history revolutionary Mozambique National Resistance gle, have been on strike Movement (MNK).
support of demands for The MNR is backed by the South African nibbl mines are an.
has been responsible Ior a fected by the strike. series cross-border raids aimed at sabotaging key Mozambican in- resume production under Cristina shot dead at a farm outside Pretoria. nounced that the union generally regarded as the military Wone y00 oOS• ble officials to supervise political leader of the the running of the mines. MNR, former member of the PIDE Electrical the Portuguese secret police, dissolved resistance after the 1972 revolution.
AMERICA's death row sage goes on.
The latest iudicial killing was that of John Evans in Atmore, Carpio originator of the strategy which brought dictatorship and El Salvador to realOl its knees. The formation of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and the development of a strategy ordinating mass work and struggle, many respects the result of Carpio's genius.
Sixty-four years old at the time of his death, Carpio was for many years a leading of the Salvadorean Communist Under She impact of the Cubar revolution, ce bols exoosve broke the Party on armeo strug gle.
In 1969 Carpio, by then the party's general secretary, agreed with his supporters the necessity to La split.
UraaNc In 1970 they announced the formation of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Forces (FPL), to this day the most influentia] organisation of the resistance.
In embarking on armed struggle, ColrOd jected the 'foco' strategy adyocated by Regis Debray which stressed the role of the small guerrilla nucleus in the countryside. The foco theory, said Carpio, 'was the result of the experience of some guerrilla groups in her murder, and South America In other countries that were removed from the people, that failed to reach out to them, to organise them, that succumbed to militaristic desions.
Instead, Carpio put forward the idea that the FPL would initiate military actions, carrying out bombings, ambushes assassinating the hated killers of the fascist ORDEN and that these military actions would act as the starting off point for mass organisation.
"That conception took us away from the idea that a guerrilla force on its own can make a revolution, 1118 solated from the peopl wHert HOTCH can reo ace the people in their task of carrying out their transformation,' said Carpio. In 1974 she FPL launced worked. the Peoples Revolutionary Bloc (BPR), a mass front which organised in the towns and countryside. Fronts While the FPL itself took on the structure of a party, the BPR organised worKers. students, shanty town dwellers and peasants.
The strategy of armed struggle combined with mass work was soon followed by the other main organisations of the Salvadorean left. Sectarian detractors contend capitalist social relations, but most of the country's infrastructure.
emptied and a policy of rillaist' originality ception armed COHUCHCIL weakness LOCaaLe The responded ideas of revolution stressllg an country, 'Peoples anemaet tasks. agriculture The grasp the the soon imporwhich the these himself economic based on Millions died For most of the period of the war Carpio remained in El Salvador. But by 1980 the danger was too great, and he spent most of his time abroad, living in Cuba. paneros lost many children murdered.
'One of my strongest Tecolecio. 311N visits to the war zones are the CHlOEN SUICICIC where villages are completely with UVaUV!
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