call for a dialogue without preconditions The FMLN will continue to struggle to concretise a dialogue which seeks a negotiated political soluton lo our COTHECU We oppose any dialogue which continues to be used by Duarte and Reagan as ulauucuvic against the Salvadorean people, as blackmail against the Nicaraguan people.
The United States is contemoald govell ment without Duarte US efforts to support FUSADES (thẹ Salvadorean development foundation), and to promote the PCN (National Conciliation Party) as a 'centre right' force can be seen as part of the US attempts to develop aernasves lovuarle As Duarte's crisis deep the FMLN-FDR strengthening its politicalmilitary apparatus by unifying its work. 1 ne different organisational components of the FMLN are now taking part in joint SuL alveS FMLN-FDR also veloping its political work in the areas its units work The aim is to bulld more support at a LIllES when Duartes image more clearly becoming identified with failure and broken election promises.
dictator Park Chung Hee in 1979.
college system used at present.
The severe problems. deThe regime of South Korean military dictator Chun Doo Hwan faces risins opposition after mass demonstrations against the government in the city of Kwangju on 30 March An estimated 50-100,000 demonstrators marcher to demand the removal of Chun - comparing his regime to that of Marcos in the Philippines.
The demonstration was the biggest in South Korea since the uprising in Kwangju in 1980 -which was suppressed by the army. This followed the assassination of the previous Riot police attacked with tear gas a second student demonstration held on 30 March two demonstrations being part of a campaign to demand direct presidential elections next year and the replacement of the rigged electoral The demonstrations are particularly serious not only for the South Korean regime but also for the United States beause of the general worsening economic and political situation in South East Asia. The US economy is slowing down, and the Japanese economy is entering its most serious recession for ten years. The 'miracte economies' of South East Asia, which depend ou the US and Japan, are therefore now all facing The fall of Marcos in the Philippines, and the demonstrations in South Korea, have been accompanied by a major economic crisis and scandals in Singapore and cabinet resignations and rioting in Malaysia.
Socialists should be looking very carefully at developments in the whole of South East Asin, and now at South Korea in particular, for the knock on effects of the crisis in the Philippines.