Falkland Crisis 25 years on

This event was gifted to Thatcher 25 years ago. Her government was on the ropes, 4million unemployed, industry decimated and huge inner city riots, it was almost as if Galteiri was coming to her rescue.
Well right wing leaders do have a tendency to stick together and in a strange way the victory of Thatcher in the battles to retake the Island gave her the breathing space to go onto the offensive against the British working class, in particular the Miners and the Printers.

The Militant had a clear position during the crisis. It was completely correct to call for no confidence in the British Bourgiousie. They had no interest in the fate of the Falkland Islanders. A general election was needed on the back of the huge discontent of the british working class.

A Labour Government with clear socialist and internationalist policies , which had taken control of the commanding heights of the economy , would have been able to appeal to brothers and sisters in the Argentinian working class, who had gone through years of brutal repression, to overthrow the military dictatorship of Galteiri and replace it with a socialist, internationalist workers government.
The islanders were just pawns in this crisis.

As Marxist we were opposed to the war, a capitalist war.But we were not pacifists. We correctly recognised that we had to defeat the class enemy at home. There was never a question to support either side during the crisis. Our priority was to defeat the capitalist class in Britain and build a socialist workers state.

Only then could we have called for a socialist federation and directly appealled to and supported the argentinian working class in its classwar against Galteiri and his capitalist backers whose interests were exactly the same as the British capitalist class.