satel 1a a Cn pe WORLD Our goal is one party, one army, says FMLN Important steps toward political and military uni- fication were announced recently in a communique from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front of El Salvador (FMLN). In it FMLN commander Leonel Gonzalez reports on a regular meeting of the FMNL general command held in Morazan ‘“‘to assess the ad- ~ vance and development of our political and military forces and sketch out plans to confront not only the Christian Democrats’ and the High Command’s counter-insurgency program, but also the growing ag- gression of the Reagan administration against the Sal- vadorean people. “Without a single doubt,’’ the communique says, “‘we are now closer to total unification of our organizations in One single organization and one single revolutionary army.”’ : The general command then outlined the following Situation in the country: “The Salvadorean crisis is part of the struggles of all the peoples of the world for peace and social progress and against the war-mongering policy of the Reagan administration. It is part of the worst economic crisis in Latin America to date — a crisis made most dramatic by the serious foreign debt of $360-billion, which obliges Latin America to pay $40-billion in interest payments alone. This phenomenon is a product of the crisis of development within the dependent capitalist system and of the imperialist domination which robs our peoples of their resources and affects Latin America’s vital in- terests. To avoid any solution fitting the interest of the peoples of Latin America, U.S. imperialism is enforcing a policy based fundamentally on military aggression through use of the International Monetary Fund. As a result, it violates international law by means of direct or covert military aggression, blockades, eco- nomic blackmail and refusal to recognize accepted inter- national methods for regulating state conduct. These common problems for Latin America, derived from U.S. export, promote popular confrontation against imperial- ist domination, further deepening its crisis. The Central American region is the most urgent point of confronta- tion, which is why the Reagan administration harasses, blockades and invades the newborn Nicaraguan revo- lution and intervenes on a growing military scale in El Salvador, within the counter-insurgency, political and military program of the Christian Democrats, led by Napoleon Duarte and the fascist High Command of the puppet military. “The FMLN is successfully confronting the Yankee’s plan in the political-military field, and we can affirm that after a year and some months of government by Duarte, results are favouring us, revealing a clear failure in the enemy camp. ‘*The large mass of workers in the cities and country- side, who must endure the consequences of the grave economic and political crisis of the region, see how impossible it is for the Duarte government to resolve and satisfy their just demands and so they are developing higher levels of organization and combative solidarity. That is to say, they have been forced to use strikes, work-stoppages and mobilization to make their rights and demands known. Their just demands have shown up the false and hypocritical policies of Napoleon Duarte and his government. The people weaken his policies by unmasking their real character: anti-popular, repressive, genocidal and subservient... ““The General Com- mand defines its principal resolutions in view of this situation as follows: ‘‘Advance to the conversion of the FMLN into a single organization. Every year since the military pro- cess began in 1979 and 1980 we have been working hard to achieve unity of political and military thinking, in tactics and strategy, by correcting our errors and weak- nesses which provide us with a chance to overcome obstacles and so reach even higher levels of unity. In political thinking we have reached a level of unity in which there are now substantial differences in strategy. We can affirm that we have one single political line and .one single historical analysis of the process in buidling and developing our military policy. We understand the laws that govern our war policy. Therefore we can affirm that we have one single military line, in tactics and in strategy. In this context we are making firm steps toward ideological unification, trying to educate our militants using the same strategies, program of struggle, and, through exchange of experiences, establish common: lines in the political and ideological programs of our revolutionary schools. All this is leading us quickly to- ward party unity that will connect us into a single organi- zation ... “Our proletarian and revolutionary values are stronger and we have shown this in practice and will continue to do so even more until we become one single party, one single army. The only division which the enemy can expect of us is division of work, responsibil- ity and action to ensure our attacks are more decisive and our advance more solid and indestructible. Our goal is to build ourselves into one single revolutionary party, and we progress to this goal surely and irreversibly . . . “‘War must reach everywhere. There must be no place safe for enemy troops and their affairs. We must cover every highway, every region, every city, every town, every vital point so that this country cannot be run by anybody but the people themselves. ‘‘We must organize and mobilize the people against the counter-insurgency plans of the United States and Christian Democrats, completing the link of making Pesala. Soe ‘fk im The army is the people, the people is the army. “No single place must remain unorganized or unawakened where our forces stay or pass through,” the FMLN says. every one of our combatants into a people’s organizer. We must organize the masses everywhere in all possible forms in order to achieve the integration of all the people into the war, fighting in every possible form. No single place must remain unorganized or unawakened where our forces stay or pass through. ‘‘We must maintain the initiative in the political strug- gle against the enemies of the people: Duarte, the Christ- ian Democrats, the army High Command, the U.S. Ad- ministration. Our workload is to bring the war to all the people. We will combine organization with ideological and political education within our organizations to strengthen our militancy, preparing it for new political and military directives and for the process of unity in our forces. We must work to fulfil the program of cohesion: and correction of ideological errors. ‘‘We must move to strengthen solidarity ofthe peoples _. of the world against Ronald Reagan’s war mongering policy, for the defense of the Nicaraguan revolution and for the struggle to defeat the growing intervention in El Salvador ... ‘‘We call on the international community, solidarity and progressive forces to strengthen the common inter- national front for the defense of the Nicaraguan revo- lution, to stop the increased scale of aggression against El Salvador, and defeat the militarist, war mongering policies of the present U.S. administration which threatens world peace and solid progress ...”” international Focus Tom Morris Violence combined with racism If you’re a white American, a recent U.S. government - Study says, your chances of being murdered in your life- time are one in 133. The study on risk and violent Crime points out, however, that your chances of being murdered this year are only One in 10,000. This last es- timate, supposedly, is added to make you feel better — if you’re white. A Black American male’s _ chances of being murdered in his lifetime are one in 21. In- advertently, the study turns Out to be not only of risk and Violence, but of racism. It’s quite a commentary on present U.S. values that the Same government can. blandly teveal such figures while its Tesident publicly extols the virtues of Rambomania. The Rambo series titilates Reagan, it makes him feel ma- cho. The President has made several references to this latest American hero whose stock- in-trade is murder, mayhem and revenge all wrapped up in the Stars and Stripes. And, one more big plus for Reagan — Rambo is white. Like junk along the highway In the years following World War Two, the cafes of Europe seemed filled with deposed royalty. A sorry lot, like junk along the highway, assorted pr- inces and kings would yearn for the good old days and curse the rude multitudes who had the temerity to believe they might govern themselves. One prince touted Hatha- way shirts (*‘Fit for Royalty’’), another, an Albanian King broods in Paris plotting his re- turn. These melencholy scenes come to mind reading the To- ronto Sun’s resident “‘Solidar- nosc’’ columnist Zygmunt Przetakiewicz who writes about the fifth anniversary of the so-called ‘‘Gdansk Agree- ment’? and the hey-day of Solidarnosc in a tone reminis- cent of the Albanian king. Przetakiewicz describes the ‘‘Polish underground”’ as wait- ing for that Great Getting-up Morning when ‘‘some kind of - economic disaster in the Soviet Union’’ will lead to revolution and, he muses, the re- appearance of Lech Walesa Walesa “and. that Getting-up Morning”. leading his Solidarnosc to power. Another scenario, quoted from a ‘‘clandestine publica- tion’, is of a Soviet attack on western Europe. ‘‘We must be ready for an uprising’, writes someone called Aleksander. Przetakiewicz’s column is ti- tled: ‘Polish activists prepare for war’’. What a symbiotic relation- ship Zygmunt and Lech have — one breathes life into the corpse of Solidarnosc, the other provides copy material and a steady paycheck. 35 months of democracy Fifteen years ago, on Sep- tember 4, 1970, Dr. Salvador Allende and Unidad Popular, a broad coalition of left and left- centre forces, won the presi- dency of Chile. Immediately the destabiliza- tion process began. Deposits were moved out of the coun- try, disorder and panic were PACIFIC TRIBUNE, SEPTEMBER 11, 1985 e 9 sown, the Chief of Chile’s armed forces was assassinated and all preparations for a coup d’etat were set in motion. Democracy was not to capi- tal’s liking. But Allende did become Chile’s president on October 24, 1970 beginning an era of far-reaching and needed changes. These included bank nationalization, repatriation of copper, land reform — some 40 major programs aimed at plac- ing Chile’s wealth in the hands of its people. Allende’s presidency, and his life, were to last but 35 months. The Sept. 11, 1973 fascist coup murdered both Chilean democracy and its be- loved president. Capital once again ruled supreme. Copper, banks and land were again privatized. Thousands were murdered, thousands more jailed and tortured. One million Chileans were exiled. The dark night of fascism, now 12 long years, had de- scended.