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Halt imperialist intervention in Central America!

May 1981 (IEC meeting) · The Eleventh World Congress and after (1979–1985) · 316 words

Central America Cuba

Published English text: Intercontinental Press, vol. 19 no. 31, 31 August 1981 · International Executive Committee of the Fourth International.

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The following resolution was adopted at the May 1981 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International.

The Reagan administration is continuing its counterrevolutionary intervention in Central America and the Caribbean. Today its intervention is concentrated against the heroic people of El Salvador, while it maintains its blockade against socialist Cuba and increases its menacing moves against Nicaragua, Grenada, and Cuba itself. U.S. imperialism is trying in this way to roll back the revolutionary process opened up with the victory of the Nicaraguan revolution, in a region of strategic importance for its objectives in Latin America.

To carry out this reactionary offensive U.S. imperialism is massively increasing its support to the military dictatorships of the region, especially to the bloody Christian Democratic/ Military Junta in El Salvador, and is trying by all means possible to prevent international solidarity and aid with the Central American and Caribbean peoples.

The exemplary struggle of the workers and peasants of El Salvador has inspired significant international solidarity, within which sections of the Fourth International play a vanguard role. Now more than ever workers of the whole world must make the cause of the Salvadoran revolution their own, along with the defense of socialist Cuba and the revolutionary processes in Nicaragua and Grenada. They must support all the peoples of the area.

The International Executive Committee of the Fourth International calls on all organizations of the workers movement, anti-imperialist and democratic organizations, etc., to build an international anti-interventionist front, which can protect the peoples of this region, holding back the intervention already being carried out by the Reagan administration, stopping it reaching even more serious levels. This is today the best way of helping in the victory of the peoples of Central America and the Caribbean. All sections of the Fourth International will commit themselves to the struggle for this objective with all their forces.

Yankees out of El Salvador!

Stop the aggression against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada!

End the blockade against Cuba!

Forward to the anti-interventionist front!

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