Labor's turning U.S. OUT OF EL SALVADOR!
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Vol. 2, No. 3 Vol. No. March 1984 AS WE GO TO PRESS: The U.S.
government has sharply increased its military advisers and combat troops along the Salvadoran-Honduran border under the pretext of defending the elections in El Salvador scheduled to take place at the end of March.
State Department officials said that the United States would be doubling the number of U.S. combat troops in Honduras to 1700; providing "more powerful weapons" to the Salvadoran army through its trainers; and conducting a series of military maneuvers aimed at "intimidating" the guerrillas from imposing "terror" at the time of the elections. Also, for the first time, the State Department has announced that U.S. pilots are flying reconnaissance flights over the guerrilla-contolled areas of El Salvador.
The FDR-FMN has refused to participate and thereby give a cloak of legitimacy to these fraudulent and undemocratic elections.
Today, more than ever, it is necessary for a massive protest movement to develop against the war plans of the U.S. rulers. U.S. out of Central America and the Caribbean!
(More on El Salvador pp. 3, 11-13)
goods required by Philippine industry. Layoffs and factory shutdowns have followed. The decline in exports has made it nearly impossible for the Philippines to repay its loans to • imperialist banks. Short-term borrowing has been the result, expanding the foreign debt to some $24 billion, 52% of which consists of loans maturing within one year or less.
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have, as a condition for extending credit, required the imposition of austerity and a massive devaluation (34% over 1983) of the peso. Unemployment, which in 1982 already stood at over 26% in metropolitan Manila, has been exacerbated. Despite these short-term "quick fixes," the Philippines stands on the brink of bankruptcy, forcing world bankers to choose between possibly throwing good money after bad or suffering severe losses should the government default in its payments.
The anti-Marcos opposition The imposition of martial law and the relative economic stability (for the rich) of the middle 1970s cut the ground out from under the traditional ruling-class parties. The only organized opposition during this period came from the National Democratic Front (NDF), led by the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). The strategy of the NDF and their New People's Army was the classic Maoist one of encircling the cities through the development of peasant war, a strategy presently being carried out in 47 of the 72 provinces of the country. For its part, the MNLF did not aim its armed struggle so much at toppling the central government as at achieving self-determination for the 3.5 million Muslim (continued on page 13, in “Carpio's speech to FPL”)