BRITISH HANDS OFF THE MALVINAS!
Declaration of the Fourth International Bureau
The forts to overthrow it and replace it by a workers and toilers gov-
A state of war exists around the Malvinas Islands. conflict is not between a "democracy" and a "military dictatorship." It is between an imperialist power and a dependent country that is still semi-colonial.
The Malvinas were seized by Britain from Argentina as part of its policy of armed colonial expansion. They were used by British imperialism as its chief naval base to guard the passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans. They also provided a base for military action against the Latin American mainland.
What is at issue in this conflict is not the right to self-determination of the inhabitants of the Islands as Mrs. Thatcher ernment, which is alone capable of finishing the task of liberating the country from the imperialist hold, of definitively ensuring democratic rights for the broad masses and resolving the serious economic crisis in the interests of the working masses, by taking the socialist road.
DOWN WITH BRITISH IMPERIALISM'S DIRTY WAR AGAINST ARGENTINA!
IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL WITHDRAWAL claims. It is:
* the survival and credibility of the reactionary Thatcher government;
* the resources of the Antarctic; * the strategic position of the Malvinas in the South BIG CAPITAL WITH THE CITY OF LONDON! Atlantic; * the oil that has been discovered around the Islands. That is what British imperialism wants to keep hold of. Its blatant hypocrisy is demonstrated by the fact that it has supplied the Argentine military dictatorship and in part even helped bring it to power. To a large extent, it will be Britishsupplied arms which will be firing on British ships.
In this conflict, the international workers and revolutionary movements must give their full and entire support to Argen-
OF BRITISH ARMED FORCES FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC!
DOWN WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF DOWN WITH IMPERIALIST ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS AGAINST ARGENTINA!
NO ARBITRATING ROLE FOR THE USA, NO INTER-
VENTION FROM THE UNITED NATIONS! WASHINGTON
HANDS OFF THE MALVINAS!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS SOLIDARtina. Argentinian sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands must be ITY WITH THE ARGENTINIAN WORKERS AND NATION! definitively established and internationally recognized without any reservations. British imperialism's war is a totally reactionary war. We must work for it to end in defeat.
The IVth International calls on the workers of all contries to give their support to the Argentinian nation in this conflict. The imperialist war drive must be fought head-on by the working masses everywhere and above all in Argentina and in Latin America.
The IVth International calls on European workers to force their governments to end the blockade measures and economic boycott against Argentina. In the present conflict these measures do not target the military dictatorship. They are aimed against the Argentinian nation. The Argentinian masses or the victims of repression will not benefit from them. The benefits are drawn by the British imperialists. The European working class has no interest in supporting in any way whatsoever the international imperialist alliance, the alliance of its own exploiters against the Argentinian nation.
The IVth International calls on the British workers and their organizations to resolutely oppose the chauvinist hysteria. They should demonstrate in tens of thousands as they did during the Suez conflict in 1956 to stay the criminal arm of the City's warmongers. Not a drop of blood should be shed for the cause of the Falkland Corporation, for the sordid interests of the plunderers of the ocean beds.
The people who are leading this conflict are those who are responsible for three million unemployed in Great Britain, for dismantling the social security system and causing a large increase in poverty levels throughout the country. The natural allies of the British workers are the Argentinian workers and the Argentinian nation, not the British capitalists.
The IVth International calls on the Argentinian workers to defend the just cause of Argentinian sovereignty over the Malvinas by sustained class action and by class struggle methods. While working for the victory of Argentina in this war, workers will not give up for an instant their intransigent opposition to the bloody military dictatorship. They will continue their ef-
May 1, 1982
United Secretariat Bureau of the Fourth International
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