Statement by FMLN ganizations.
The MOR represents Marcial's poWe think that its place is in the FMLN and not outside it. consider them counterrevolutionaries or agents of the CIA, since they have not committed any counterrevolutionary act. What is more, the press has reported reagainst the MOR, and so we are obliged to offer it our solidarity.
It is true that the MOR has broken with the FPL. But to be a counterrevolutionary today in El Salvador you would have to go over to the side of the government and the imperialists. The companeros of the MOR have not done that.
So, we are convinced that the best place for revolutionists is the FMLN, since we remained convinced that the FMLN is the vanguard of the Salvadoran revolution, we think that the MOR should be in the FMLN.
6. The FMLN has accused Cayetano Carpio of murdering Ana Maria. Carpio, however, is one of the best known leaders of the FMLN. Therefore, the evidence for this accusation should be presented to the entire revolutionary movement. Charges of such gravity cannot be made without proof.
However, if the accusation made is true, we would have to say that this is not the first time such a thing has happened, either in the world or in El Salvador. We repudiate such methods not only because we have been the target of them but because we are convinced that they lead to the destruction of the revoluas the split in the New Jewel Movement in Grenada and the murder of its leader, Maurice Bishop, show us how disastrous the consequences of these methods can be. Revolutionists cannot allow violence to become the basis of relations among the organizations of the mass movement.
For this reason, we are convinced that workers democracy is not some sort of luxury that should be left to workers in the imperialist countries. think that workers democracy is something that you can decide arbitrarily when to apply and when not to apply. After what has happened in El Salvador and Grenada, that is more evident than
We reaffirm our commitment to the Salvadoran revolution and to its vanguard, the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional and the Frente Democratico Revolucionario. International Viewpoint 13 February 1984
The General Command of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front — in the name of all its member organizations, its leaders, combatants and political and mass structures - addresses the Salvadoran people, the brother peoples of Central America and other peoples of the world to indicate its full support to the People's Liberation Forces (FPL) in the face of the emergence of a group that is trying to divide the FPL's ranks and oppose the FMLN. This group is raising the image of Salvador Cayetano Carpio (Marcial), the murderer of the beloved and lamented Commander Melida Anaya Montes (Ana Maria). Carpio's crime and subsequent suicide were unanimously condemned and then courageously exposed to our people and world opinion by the Seventh Plenum of the Revolutionary Council of the FPL, which brought together representatives of the FPL's ranks and is the FPL's highest au-
This exposure of the facts befits true revolutionaries who are faithful to the truth, to their ideas and principles, and are faithful to their unshakeable commitment to the workers and to the people
Salvador Cayetano Carpio, Marcial, caused temporary damage to the process of the unity of all the Salvadoran revolutionary forces in the FMLN. His corrosive sectarianism even transcended the borders of our country, affecting the cohesion and confidence of the international solidarity movement toward our struggle. But the maturity of the leaders of all our organizations, including the other leaders of the FPL, made it possible for the FMLN to preserve its unity, which is the primary element for the advancement and victory of the Salvadoran revolution.
Comrade Ana Maria made decisive contributions to the defense of unity, particularly in the most tense moments of strife, and as a result she brought upon herself the hatred of Marcial, who finally took her life. Ana Maria died as a martyr for the unity of the FMLN, and the Salvadoran people will always honor her
Marcial cannot break up the desire for unity of the organizations in the FMLN as a whole, nor the desire for unity of the People's Liberation Forces in
The murder of Ana Maria, committed under his orders, and his subsequent cowardly suicide were desperate acts at the moment of his political and moral isolation and defeat. The last lines he wrote before taking his life were his final attempt to embitter the revolutionary ranks, to sow lack of confidence and confusion among them. But he failed in this attempt as well.
Today the FMLN is more united and
Its present increased capacity to make more rapid advances in the military and political spheres as shown during the campaign called "Independence, Liberty and Democracy for El and "Yankees Out of Grenada and Central America," is based on a greater degree of coordination and cooperation among its forces and a higher level of morale and combative enthusiasm. are the fruits of the consolidation of our
The martyrdom of Ana Maria struck at our hearts and brought us closer to-
The suicide of Marcial and the knowledge of his crime aroused in us feelings of loathing and indignation, but also brought us closer together.
group, contaminated by they turn up, scattered in various coun tries, raising the name of Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and are linked to the emerthe so-called Revolutionary Workers Movement (MOR). There are also some equally fanatical individuals who are enemies of unity and will try to peoples toward the MOR so that it can survive. It will not take long for the CIA to dress in sheep's clothing and use its money to give a shot of oxygen to this group, and its existence will permit the CIA to step up its propaganda about a supposed split in the FMLN.
The deformations in Salvador Cayetano Carpio's ideological and personal character, his chauvinist ambitions, his unhealthy self-glorification, his aberrant conduct in the last years of his life, were already analyzed and made public by the
This analysis contains valuable les sons that enrich our revolutionary thinking, and from which all the revolutionary movements of our continent can benefit.
The vile and cruel murder of Ana Maria by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and his cowardly suicide, cannot be justified in the name of revolutionary ideas. In-
voking the name of the working class and peasants in order to try to sanction the and legitimize his poisonous sectarianism is an offense to the working people who fight and spill their blood inspired by the highest ideals of justice and national and social liberation.
Only the enemies of the Salvadoran people and their revolution can gain from
We categorically assert that in El Salvador there are not and cannot be revolutionaries outside of or against the FMLN, precisely because under its leadership the revolution is advancing and winning.
Anyone who truly wants the victory of the revolution must not cast aspersions on the FMLN, but rather must aid it, or that person is not revolutionary. through use of its puppets, Yankee imperialism, led by Reagan, is preparing to invade us and step up the destruction and the genocide. At a time like this, those who put an obstacle in the FMLN's path and seek to weaken it with pseudo-revolutionary allegations place themselves on the side of the enemies of the Salvadoran people and nation and are consciously or unconsciously acting as counterrevolunot and cannot be a Instead it is group acting blindly, led by individuals whom Salvador Cayetano Carpio backed. Like him, they moved away from the revolution and, we would like to believe, unconsciously, are playing into the hands of Yankee imperialism, the genocidal dietatorship and its puppet army, although in reality it is too late to salvage the rule of these butchers.
The obvious and incontrovertible truth of the advance of the revolution led by the FMLN has rendered this type of oband we will see even more, propaganda enemies of the Salvadoran people around this question. They will put out all kinds of false versions and supposed eyewitness accounts. circulate Carpio's most insidious writings against unity. But none of this will stop our advance toward the victory of the
In our country, where the people have close knowledge of the butchers and their lies, only an insignificant number of people will be confused. No one should be confused outside the country either. The only ones who will aid these maneuvers are those who, from shortsightedness and sectarianism, have ended up opposing revolutionary unity in their own countries, as well as the enemies of the revolution disguised as revolutionaries who are on the CIA's payroll.
we Salvadoran aries, loyal to the principles that govern those who give their all to the cause of the people, want to reiterate that we are not afraid that the people and the world should clearly know our problems and
Revolutionary truth and the capacity to recognize our mistakes and criticize ourselves before the people are the reaffirmation of our capacity as a vanguard and is also something that fully strengthens the people's confidence that the FMLN is made up of people of a new type, forged with new values that will in the future be the guarantee of our exercise of people's democracy.
That is why the FMLN fully backs the explanations, motivated by revolutionary truth, that the FPL has provided the people. We fully support the procedure and the steps taken by the comrades in the struggle against the deviations in the thinking of Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and in the thinking of those who are now trying to damage our people's struggle whether through naivete, lack of understanding, or because they too have been afflicted by the unhealthy sectarianism of Marcial.
The FMLN joins in the FPL's appeal made to those who retain their revolutionary sense of honor but are confused by these disturbing events and support this hopeless and useless effort to uphold the image of Salvador Cayetano Carpio. They should rethink what they are doing and step back from it. Salvador Cayetano Carpio's image was destroyed by his own blind personal vanity, his ambition for authority and fame, and the unforgivable murder of Comrade Melida Anaya Montes, the unforgettable Commander Ana Maria.
The enemy wants to confuse the people by saying that there are divisions and internal battles inside the FMLN. But through purging the sectarian think• ing of Marcial, and through the heroic example of Ana Maria and her sacrifice for the unity of our forces, we can re-
FMLN fighters in Villa El Triunfo in eastern Salvador (DR)
10 affirm that, contrary to what our enemies say, today we are more united than before. Today we are delivering more shattering blows. Today as well, the position we put forward to the international community is a single one. Today we can demonstrate and prove in practice the need to advance further toward the unity so urgently called for by our people, the international solidarity movement, the democratic and revolutionary forces.
If the enemy of our forces should detect any divisions among us, it will only be a division of labor and combat missions in order to insure that the forceful and crushing blows that await them have the greatest possible coordination, cohesion, effectiveness and scope.
Higher forms of unity are being worked out in the FMLN. Little by little the reasons for the existence of different revolutionary organizations are disappearing. The eagerly awaited objective of integrating all revolutionaries into a single party is already clearly looming on the victorious horizon toward which we are marching.
Unity in the fight, until final victory!
Commanders: Leonel Gonzalez Roberto Roca Schafik Jorge Handal Ferinan Cienfuegos Joaquin Villalobos El Salvador December 16, 1983
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over a myriad of issues, the Assam and Punjab agitations.
This record of turmoil over the last 15 years easily matches and possibly outstrips that for any other country. Scan any national newspaper in India on any