SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Integrity

Socialist Action No. 32, 4 November 1983 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 422 words

The scan: 032-nov-04-1983-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

saying that 'if they touch Cuba or if they touch Nicaragua, then they touch Comrades, as the people who own this region, as the people who belong to these countries, it is for us to decide what we want to do with our lives in our countries. It is for us, the people of the region, to demand whether or not we want to have military bases on our territory. It is for us to decide whether or not we want other peoples' planes to fly over our countries. And one of the most contemptuous and arrogant acts of imperialism is todav to presume that in 1980 not only do they have the right to have a base in Guantanamo but that they also have a right to operate military manoeuvres on the very soil of free and revolutionary Cuba.

That is an insult and a piece of contempt that the people of the region wil never forgive or forget. And the people of this region are going to continue in our demand demand an end to all mitary 2sk forces and air and sea patrols of our region. We demand that the people of the region must be free from aggressive military harassment of any We demand an end to the Monroe Doctrine and to the Carter Doctrine and all other Today we insist that there must be and end to the invasions, an end to the landing by marines, an end to the gunboats, an end to the Playa Giron, an end to the slaughters and massacres of our Sandinos, our Ches, and our Allendes We call also for an end to the arming and financing of counterrevolutionary and anti-popular, antidemocratic or anti-progressive regimes. There must be an end to the manipulation of regional and world tension for electoral purposes. The future of the region and the future of the world, the question of world peace cannot be compromised because of any election, no matter whose There must therefore be respect for the sovereignty, legal equality, and territorial integrity of the countries of our region.

It is clear today, comrades. cha: the desperaie Jars a:

Cariodea die Centrai American region continues to go forward with We salute you, the freedom-loving people of revolutionary Cuba. , We seader, Comrade Fidel Castro. salute your and revolutionary Socialist Action 4 November 1983

page 10 of the scan

CAROL DAVIS left Socialist Action 4 November 1983 leadership.

for the party. And even if they manage to set uj some kind of government it will not

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