Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981
Alliance Against the Junta
Alliance Against the Junta
Almost all of the groups opposing the ruling Junta and its manipulators, the '14 families' and US investors, are united in a strategic alliance under the name 'Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR). This alliance includes members of almost every social class; students, intellectuals, workers, peasants, small businessmen. All these groups have their own separate organisations but work to achieve, firstly, the revolutionary programme of the FDR, the basic points of which are; national independence, political non-alignment, support for private enterprise, freedom of religious belief and legislative, economic and social reforms.
Because the fascist Junta, along with the Right Wing terror squads controlled by the oligarchy, are conducting such a brutal campaign, the FDR recognises the need for armed overthrow of the present regime. In line with this, the FDR supports and works closely with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), an umbrella group unifying the principal guerilla groups.
The FMLN recently launched what was hoped to be a final offensive, but although it succeeded in the destruction of a large air-base and capture of large quantities of arms it did not succeed in toppling the Junta.