borrowed time and villages government troops Guatemala against any arracks military — brought about as a workers' movement have been assassinaled. In many towns -- diplomatic, ссолотс, ог: collaborate with armed anti- communist vigilante groups, movement socialists should Salvador and the URNG in Within the solidarity result of the accord. arrested, tortured While defending the right of and therefore in the long tun survival, socialists must also since President Cury Aquino the Marcos dicratorship, ber popular rebellion that ended IN LESS THAN two years measures necessary for its was swept to power in the Nicaragua to pursue any Philippines on a wave of defend the FMLN In El for Nicaragua incIf. In the 1980-83 period when it of the fifteen thousand deaths More people (one hundred under a civilian regime than FMIN/FDR have been calling military operutes as if it was still in power — and has not been held to account for any and had been refused four officially ran the country. 'disappear' in Guatemala under the junta in Chile. Despite the clection nf a civilian government, the per month) currently In El Salvador the titties.
repay interest on the country's imposed by the government to debt. The resniting explosion new boost to the left, uniting of popular discontent gave a Monetary Fund and help to crippling 526 billion foreign appease the International in fuel prices suddenly fringing the sugar plantations. the mass of the people, as in unions or who simply try to The miserable poverty of Togerher they terrorise and grow food on strips of land murder people who are sympathisers, who join thought to be NPA also applauded by many in the final coup. In August this year dismissal of her closest cabinet she paid for the support of the generals who, belatedly, came most serious coup attempt of But che price hard-liners. Now the military government is virtually held officers have lightened their grip on the regime, a move The scene looks ser for a "progressives") in favour of Cory Aquino survived the hostage by the military. advisors (the remaining her presidency. of the masses with a war which now: The dipiomatic offensive rebuild mass organisation and proposal for a government of lives. It has been used to help corresponds to the exhaustion Duarte regime for some time of the FMLN/FOR around the accord is both a response to the pressure brought by the has claimed sixty thousand broad participation' (GAP) diplomatic offensive of the miss struggle. A wave of Duarte's signing of the for negotiations with the labour struggles is now sweeping El Salvador.
has failed to keep the loyalty of Bayan (New Patriotic Alliance) the military reformists in the workers from the KMU radical Just as Aquino has failed to maintain her mass base, she Congress of the Philippines. in action the Trade Union won federation and the coalition of mass US troops on manoeuvres in the Philippines Pie Cavendish Rain. organisarions. the days of martial law, gues promised land reform, a piece unalleviared by social reforms. progressively watered-down of draft legislation currently and deprived of substance.. Gongress. "Aquino's laric reform scheme has been lost in the labyrinths of contention is the long: A particular bone of politics are now coming home enjoyed considerable personal the rebound from the horrors Aquino. As late as May 1987, elections showed that she still mass base and her bourgeois rose up against ex-president her success in the legislarive oust him: it bad illusions in popularity with a peuple on The mass movement that Marcos hot only wanted co contradictions between her of a 14 year dictatorship: From the outset Gory: Tlowever, the built-in The FMLN/FDR, in response will step up the struggle. They will attempr in use the accord October a meeting took place recognition of his regime and co the accord, have said they regime to negotiate but have means of forcing the Duarte emerged in this context: He said they will not lay down. welcomed the accord as a their arms to do so. On 4 between the Salvadorean discredit the FMLN/FDR mobilisations that have EMLN and the mass
represent then, Tele cheated by SOCIALST OUTLOOK no 4 November/December 1987 rise of the big families. Many were deeply dismayed us well May which heraided the new Aquino's electoral success in divided, the various military Partido ng Bayan (