includes assault ships.
Reality with Soviet troops.
cronies. It raised the prospect of a new quo which ensures imperialism's profits.
As Carter himself said:
breakdown of a common effort to preserve peace' Kremlin the "peaceful:
debate to add to his lengthy lișt of failures. about 'foreign troops' and 'military encroachment', one of the first of these exercises will take place on Cubaitself! Two thousand Marines will stage a landing at the US base at Guantanamo Bay backed up by a naval task force that In reality, the reason for this 'crisis' has nothing to do It can be spelled out in one word:
The revolutionary overthrow of Somoza by an armed and organised people scared the pants off Carter and his mass upsurge throughout Central America and the Caribbean which could deal savage blowsto US strategic interests in the area.
This is why the Cuba crisis' has been so closely linked to the question of the SALT treaty with the USSR. Nicaragua isa threat to detente, to the maintenance of the world status "The bicatest, danger to American security is certainly not the 2,000 or 3,000 Soviet troopsin Cuba. The greatest danger to all the nations of the world — including the US and the Soviet Union - is the Carter's aim is to isolate the Nicaraguan revolution by stopping other outside aid and using the promise of US aid to blackmail the Sandinista leadership into reaching an accommodation with imperialism. He rightly calculates an policies of the Kremlin bureaucrats will make them see things in the same light.
Buthis current moves are above alla sign of weakness — offear at thesolidarity mobilisations which the Nicaraguan revolution can inspire among the downtrodden masses of Latin Americ and the world. And those mobilisations, if pressed home, can make sure that Cartersimply has another
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Santo Domingo San Juan to Ayatollah Qom, Mehdi Puerto Rico Tehran Avenue, TGWU and Iran A COPY of the petition circulated at the TUC Congress calling for the immediate withdrawal of the death against Iranian Trotskyists and the dropping of the against them been returned by the Transport & General Workers Union with the signature of organiser Ron Todd and twelve other delegates and officers.
Another boost to the campaign to lives these and other militants in Iran has come with the circulation of an appeal to Labour MPs against Khomeini's programme of executions by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. This has so far been signed by Tony Benn and 28 other MPs, including eight members of the Labour Party NEC.
Protest telegrams should be sent Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran; and to Prime Minister Bazargan, Tehran, Iran. Copies should be sent to the daily Baamdad, Hafez Zartoshtian Alley, Tehran, Iran; to Ettela'at, Khayam Tehran, Iran; Kayhan, Ferdowsi Avenue, Tehran, Iran; and to Socialist Challenge.