Re: [Marxism] British Government Refuses To Discuss Sovereignty of Malvinas

[J.M.P.Cloke@xxxxxxxxxxx]

When I was living in Monimbo in Masaya (Nicaragua), I was 
looking over some maps of the barrios in the Alcaldia when 
I noticed that there was a 'barrio Las Malvinas'. I asked 
my FSLN hosts why that was, and they said that they named 
it out of solidarity with the anti-imperialist struggle of 
the Argentinian people during the Falklands war.

I said: "But when you named the barrio Las Malvinas, the 
Argentine people were under a military dictatorship that 
had murdered thousands of the working class and not only 
that, but that dictatorship was responsible for arming and 
financing the Guardia Civil/Contra in Honduras and acting 
as a refuge for ex-Somozistas, while the Falklands war was 
actually going on, until the US got in on the act and took 
over as i/c counterrevolution."

A pause. "Si, pero no nos gusta el imperialismo.." Truly 
the solidarity of anti-colonial sentiment is a wonderful 
thing.   

 
Jon Cloke


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