We energetically support the revolution in El Salvador.
First of all, I would like to convey revolutionary internationalist greetings in the name of my organization, the Revolutionary Communist League, the French section of the Fourth International, to the 300,000 workers who mobilized in that glorious day of protest January 22, despite murderous repression.
Your magnificent unity in struggle shows clearly that we are nearing the overthrow of the exploiting classes, which are tightly linked to capitalism, and of their ferocious repressive apparatus. The hour of final liberation is approaching.
Only six months ago the Nicaraguan masses, under the leadership of their vanguard the FSLN, overthrew the Somozaist tyranny and opened the road to a revolution that neither imperialism nor the bourgeoisie can hold back.
Today the Salvadoran revolution is under way, with the irresistable strength of a working class and peasantry that has a much stronger tradition of struggle and organization than in Nicaragua.
In the decisive battles that are approaching, international solidarity can play an important role in staying the murderous hand of imperialism and providing the Salvadoran masses and their vanguard with all the support they require.
In its World Congress held last November, the Fourth International voted to commit its forces to an international campaign in support of the Nicaraguan revolution. We are going to broaden this campaign to include the Salvadoran revolution.
We are convinced that what is at stake is not only the future of the Salvadoran revolution but also the socialist future of all Central America and the Caribbean. For the working people of Martinique and Guadeloupe, your struggle represents an immense aid to their efforts to free themselves from the yoke of French imperialism.
The Fourth International has no section or sympathizing organization in El Salvador. Two small, sectarian groups—the Socialist Workers Party (PST) and the Internationalist Socialist Organization (OSI)—falsely claim to speak in the name of the Fourth International. They have no right to do so. They were never recognized by the Fourth International.
These groups, which are affiliated with sectarian currents that split from the Fourth International four months ago, condemn the FSLN, accusing it of betraying the interests of the Nicaraguan masses, aiding the bourgeoisie in its efforts to rebuild its political power, and repressing the mass movement. This blind sectarianism has no place in the ranks of the Fourth International.
We give our support to the revolutionary organizations that have demonstrated in practice that they are the real vanguard of the masses in struggle. The BPR as well as the FAPU and the LP-28 have all clearly rejected reformist and pacifist illusions and have demonstrated their ability to organize the working and peasant masses against the bloodsoaked dictatorship and the exploiting classes.
The unity they reached January 11 gave them even greater strength and authority to carry out the revolutionary struggle to its final victory, for it brought together all the forces genuinely committed to defending the interests of the working class and the peasantry and installing a workers and peasants government.
In this struggle, we give our firmest support, as is the duty of every genuinely internationalist revolutionary.