THE-UNITED STATES is cur rently the tras States ships with Libya.
The US rocatively ested weapon despite unilateral moratorium and his appeal for a joint US-USSR halt to nuclear testing.
fact such started.
The reasons warrovoked a Duvalier was as pI Asia. There the ACTION If course there must not b armism. The United States i thrown, not about to launch World Wal IL. But it is preparing for direct military attacks on third world countries which displease it. In attacks have already power. for the war preparations are simple. The US today is facing revolt after revolt. The dictatorship of Baby Doc' overthrown in falling Haiti. Marcos was overthrown in prices. the Philippines. There is instabili- such ty in a large part of South East is a rising tide of black revolt in South Africa. Far government of the FSLN in Nicaragua being overon the contrary, it is defeating the contras.
Two years ago, with the invasion of Grenada, peared to be at the peak of his Today, for all the talk of United States 'successes', whole sections of the third world are threatening to explode under the weight of international debt and oil raw material Desperate US moves as replacing Duvalier in Haiti, or the last minute switch of support to Corrie Aquino in the Philippines - are going to make the situation worse, not better.
So the Reagan government is turning to the one thing it knows best: brute force. backing of Thatcher, the United States is pareparing for its biggest ap- military actions in the world since the 1970s. If that was not clear before Nicaragua should be now.
In Britain the labour movement has two key tasks., First to out solidarity under attack from States and its whether it be in Central America, Libya, or any other country of the world. Second to expose and attack the complicity and direct role With the full and Libya it from NATO.
with those the United the supporters of our own government in the wars Reagan is preparing British role which extends across everything from the huge British investments in South Africa to Thatcher's direct support for Reagan's funding of the contras and his attack on Libya.
It also means fighting for the removal of all US bases from Britain and for British withdrawal As Reagan prepares for war, British movement must step up its solidarity with those who are picked out to be its victims. It should start by total opposition to Reagan's war drive against Nicaragua.
Socialist Action 4 April 1986 ACTiON SOCiAList
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