Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:01:12 -0600
From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar-AT-marx.econ.utah.edu>



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COMMUNIQUE #1 of the Proletarian Revolutionary Tendency (T.P.R.) of El 
Salvador

To the workers in the countryside and the cities, to the youth, to women, 
to the inhabitants of the neighborhoods of El Salvador and to the entire 
world, we wish to make known:

1.That the F.M.L.N no longer represents a different alternative from that 
of the exploiters and oppressors  of our country. It is taking the 
positions of the right wingers, becoming one more part of the legitimization
of a society based on injustice, exploitation, inequality and oppression. 
In exchange it is receiving positions inside the government and a few 
crumbs from the booty that capitalists obtain through the savage  
exploitation of the working class.

We have passed from the period of wating and discussion to the formation 
and building of the Revolutionary Proletarian Tendency (T.P.R.) in order 
to contribute to the construction of a Class alternative which is 
revolutionary, Socialist, and in solidarity with the struggles of the 
peoples of Mexcio, Peru, Cuba and all the peoples of the world.

2. In El Salvador the elections have proved to be a political project 
that has failed -- where neither right wing, nor Left, nor "center" 
together have been able to revitalize it, at least till now.  We do not 
believe in elections; we mistrust them and all those political parties 
that are trying to revive that cadaver. Elections were, are, and will be 
an instrument through which they want to fool us, impose and sell a 
democracy that does not exist.

3. The struggle for a system without classes, of equality, where all live 
decently, with adequate housing, with education and free medical care, 
where everyone has food, continues to be valid and necessary.

4.No one, absolutely no one can take away from the oppressed y exploited 
the right to revolutionary struggle.  At such time that the people again 
decide to do so, we will be their side unconditionally.

5. Our project has nothing to do with desperation. We have plenty of 
patience. The evidence of discontent is still partial, confused, unsure 
and disorganized, but that is where we begin: from the simple to the 
complex, discussing, clarifying, grouping together  and organizing on the 
most elementary level in order to reach the levels that will hurt them.

6.  Finally, we wish to base ourselves on the struggle and ideas of 
Salvador Cayetano Carpio. (Companero Marcial).  The 12th of April, 1997 
which is 
the 14th Anniversary of his death is the day we formally constitute the 
Revolutionary Proletarian Tendency.

              REVOLUTION OR DEATH      WORKERS TO POWER

                               T.P.R.

Earl Gilman <giltapia-AT-igc.apc.org>
translated by El Nuevo Topo magazine  
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