Democratic Palestine : 24 (ص 35)
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mandante Dora Maria, Minister of
Health and member of the Sandinista
Assembly, and with Patricia Alvir,
head of Nicaragua’s Soldiarity,
Knowledge and Friendship Committee.
The delegation met with represen-
tatives of liberation movements in Cen-
tral and Latin America. The most
distinguished meeting was with Shafiq
Handal, one of the leaders of the
Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front in El Salvador. The delegation
presented a full review of the latest
developments on the Arab and
Palestinian levels.
The Palestinian community in
Nicaragua celebrated the delegation’s
visit with a dinner party in their honor,
attended by the PLO’s representative.
Comrade Quba’ah spoke about the
latest developments
Palestinian situation.
VISITS TO DEMOCRATIC
GERMANY AND CUBA
En route to Nicaragua, the delega-
tion stopped in Democratic Germany
where a meeting was held with com-
rades Krause and Zimmerfield of the
Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee. The
talks concentrated on the war waged by
Amal against the Palestinian camps,
and the latest efforts to restore the
PLO’s unity.
The delegation also visited Havana
where a meeting was held with com-
rades Eloy, deputy secretary of the in-
ternational relations committee of the
Communist Party’s Central Commit-
tee; Abscal, head of the Central Com-
mittee’s Middle East department; and
Gueyard, head of the department for
Palestine. The talks focused on
developments concerning the Palesti-
nian cause and the imperialist-Zionist-
Arab reactionary conspiracies directed
against it. Also discussed was the con-
tinuous siege and war waged by Amal
against the Palestinian camps _ in
Lebanon, the heroic struggle of the
Palestinian masses in occupied
Palestine, and the dangers of the Jor-
danian regime’s division of functions
plan. The latest efforts to restore the
PLO’s unity were reviewed. The two
parties reaffirmed the necessity of con-
solidating and developing the bilateral
relations between the PFLP and the
Cuban Communist Party. e
concerning the
El Salvador
Approaching A Decisive Time
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While in Nicaragua, the PFLP delegation had the opportunity to
meet with comrade Shafiq Handel, Secretary General of the Com-
munist Party of El Salvador, a main component of the Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front/Revolutionary Democratic Front
(FMLN/FDR). The following is based on his assessment of the
struggle in El Salvador today.
Over the last two years, great
developments have taken place in the
revolutionary struggle in El Salvador.
after the lull in the mass movement of
1981-83. At that time, the confronta-
tion took the form of military opera-
tions in the countryside, while the
revolutionary movement was not firmly
based in the urban areas. The changes
of the last few years have marked a
great advance for the mass struggle in
the cities as well as in the countryside.
The Salvadorean liberation struggle
has been faced by a _ sophisticated
counterinsurgency drive worked out by
US imperialism in the wake of its
failure to head off the Sandinistas’ vic-
tory in neighboring Nicaragua. While
promoting President Duarte as a
‘reform-minded liberal’, the Reagan
Administration has pumped in massive
aid to the army’s brutal campaign
against the Salvadorean revolutionaries
and the population at large. To deprive
the reactionary government forces of
Comrade Shafiq Handhal-center, with PFLP
delegation.
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the initiative, the FMLN revised its
military tactics while undertaking new
political action.
On the military level, the FMLN
organized its fighting forces into
smaller units and spread them
throughout the country, covering areas
where the war had been non-existent.
The FMLN’s forces are now operating
in all 14 provinces of the country, in-
cluding the outskirts of San Salvador
and other major cities. Guerrilla units
were formed not only for military ac-
tions, but for political/mass actions as
well. The revolutionaries refined their
ability to carry out locally based opera-
tions with explosives and land mines
against government troops. Their suc-
cess with land mines has been par-
ticularly prominent, to the point that
these gained a status equal to that of the
government’s murderous air raids.
Duarte’s government has officially
demanded that the FMLN stop the land
mines. The revolutionaries in turn
demanded that the government cease
the air raids. This had an immensely
positive effect on the masses’ morale.
The FMLN’s revised tactics thwarted
the US-directed effort to transform the
Salvadorean army from a conventional
force, relying on large troop concen-
trations and fixed positions, to a
dynamic, instrument for counter-
insurgency, operating via mobile units
and air raids. The army’s new tactics
have not stopped the spread of the
revolution. Meanwhile, the FMLN has
developed its own ability to concen-
trate its forces when it determines to
launch major operations. The Pen-
tagon has expressed worry about the
revolutionary escalation.
The revolutionaries’ success in the
‘battlefield was compounded by a rise in >
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