reign of terror on Grenada ders!
the same position is at the very least uncertall.
week it was Kendrick Radix, one of the NJM WIu sided with Maurice Bishop, had taken refuge in the Cuban embassy residence. With departure of the Cuban diplomats, his fate is unknown. Radix and his complete freedom to fight for their political ideas. Scale Two weeks after the in'US attack , clear. While the US has released figures for its own casualties and those of the Cubans, there have been figures released for Grenadian dead. Some reports from NJM sources speak of 1200 dead and lease NJM wounded - getting on for 2 per cent of the population.
The valiant resistance by the Peoples Revolutionarv DOUCHE down on the island the full fury of US military might, raids ingy terror bombing raids the ultra-sophisticated F-15 fighter bombers which responsible for the bomb1ng raid the mental hospital near St. George's in which nearly 50 people were killed.
While US casualties were whisked away to the super-moaern medical facilities on board US aircraft carriers, wounded Grenadians were allowed to lie in the sun for hours.
Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe announced last week that British*. troops would be offered to take part in any interim Commonwealth 'peacekeeping' force. refusal to support the invasion can now be clearly seen as a purely tactical question. Britain is quite prepared to be complicit in rolsung a pro-imperialist puppet regime on the Grenadian people. Rebuild To ensure that the peoble of Grenada have the opportunity rebuild politically, to prepare for me next wave or tne strug gle against imperialism, vital that the British movement mobilised around the defence of NJM leaders, for an end to the concentration camps, for complete freedom of the NJM function as a legal against any to send British troops to the island. IN THE WAKE of the events in Grenada, the 'United States has despatched another huge battle fleet to the seas off Cuba - to add te the scores of ships and hundreds of planes it has off the coasts of Lebanon, Grenada and The 'Cuba fleet' consists of an 80,000 ton aircraft carrier, three guided missile destroyers, three destroyers, frigate and other ships.
The new threat follows the harassment of Cuban diplomats on Grenada, the ill-treatment of Cuban LIC deliberate and unprovoked murder of Cuban constuction workers during the first hours of the US assault on Grenada.
Ever since the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959 the United States has tried evervining to OVCI throw Fidel Castro and the Cuban Communist leadership. In 1961 at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), a CIA-trained mercenary army attempted land and overnrow une revom tion. But the counterallack was easily defeated.
Since that time economic blockade of the island has military been coupled with bizzare CIA plots to assassinate Castro. Quited rightly, the Carol Reagan (NUT - personal capacity) and Tony Benn. United States sees the example of Cuba, huge social and economic gains which this country has made as compared with its Caribbean neighbours, as a perma nent threat to imperialist domination of the region.
Now gigantic be campaign against Cuba The US is making the absurd claim that was being turned into huge Cuban base: that all the resistance against their Invasion Was by 'hardened Cuban battle hoops, that be renadal people were lorded over by Cuban 'supremos' even that Cuba plans attacks on US installations world-wide. All these claims u als Dal cult Workers The 800 Cubans on the island were overwhelmingly construction workers, medical staff, cuba, righting its owns bas- economic advisors. tle against underdevelopment and desperately short of resources, nonetheless has sent doctors economic construction workers to many countries in the 'third world' - not to get any economic return but as an 'internationalist duty'.
Such things of course are seen by Reagan and his cronies as immensely sinister. From their point of view it is: it shows the different Vastly morality of revolutionary country which in the middle of its own gae or economic development understands the need nigh im perialism world-wide. Of course there were Cuban military advisors weaDol sue let in sion s LICi invasion show:
Attack The attack on the Cuban construction workers at Point Salines airport was reco one of Evaristo Garcia, the coan workers wounded and repatriated to Cuba. He explained how he and a dozen others had been asleep in quarters at the airport on the morning of the invasion. WICE they were fired upon. Being unarmed, they ran into the woods. When some of them returned to try rescue a wounded com rade, two were killed and Garcia received through the lungs. This is the morality of imperialism: to fire on WOrKerS murder those who try to wounded rescue CONrades!
Cuban attitude during the whole Grenada crisis has been exemplary. As the Cuban statements show (see last week's Socialist Action) the Cuban leadership disaporoved or am denouin ed, the murder of Mauric used by the faction that used the faction that opposed him. But they treated the matter as an inSocialist Action 11 November 1983 ternal atta They did not even threate. to withdraw economic anc military assistance.
And when the invasion occured, their workers and fought side by side with those they disapproved of More.
the conduct of the OVCL Cubans in Grenada in face of the invasion was principled courageous Overwhelmingly civilian workers. fought the last . against the penalist Invadets The Cuban attitude to the division in the New Jewel Movement and the actions of its workers show the distance between the Cuban Communist leadership and the Stalin ists. The Soviet leadership greeted the seizure of power an apparently pro-Stalinist faction with barely concealed glee. Despite all the adverse cir cumstance: despite Cuba's heavy material dependence on the USSR, the Cuban Communist leadership has managed to maintain its political independence In spite of Reagan's propaganda barrage, the Grenada invasion has only enhanced the prestige and influence of Cuba. With the Cuban revolution directly under threat, now Is the time to act, as i the slogan, which he advanced Cubans Fidel's to the leaders of China and Russia during the Vientnam war: "division in the face of the enemy was never all intelligent revolutionary tactic.
Socialist Action 11 November 1983
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-ACKNEY PEOPLE BAY HANDS OFF NO PUPPET POVERNMENT 500 people attended a rally last week in Hackney to protest against the invasion. On the platform Tony Jewel (NJM),