HANDS OFF | Socialist Action 1983

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HiL We welcome the American invasion• what else can I say in the circumstances...? cede that their figures for the number of Cuban workers on the island was grossly inflated - there were about 800 and not the 1100 they originally There were more Americans in Grenada LIE FIVE:

LIE FOUR: The airport was a 'secret' military installation.

airport, which US running on was neither secret nor military. The Cuban ing construction workers were supervised by engineers from the British company Plessey. The EEC funded the airport to aid Grenada' tourism.

The Grenadian people were repressed by'dic tatorship for four years.

This is the really big lie.

The New Jewel government which replaced the dictator Gairy, raised the livstandards of ordinary Grenadians organised Tree medical aid and educa tion. Bishop's government was immensely popular, and organised mass organisations of popular participation. THESE ARE just a few of the lies which your television screens are bringing Socialist Action will nail more of them in the weeks to come.

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