On the night of March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot through the heart by killers, carrying out orders that came straight from the reactionary oligarchy that rules over the country. He was killed because he was giving voice to the needs of the oppressed. To this day justice has not been done and the masses are still waiting.

A major clash between the classes has taken place in El Salvador. One of the most reactionary ruling classes in Latin America has been kicked out of office. The masses once again defeated the scandalous electoral fraud that was being prepared by ARENA, the reactionary right wing party founded by anti-communist death squad leader Roberto D'Aubisson. The ruling class, reluctantly, had to concede the victory of the left wing FMLN in order to prevent a revolutionary explosion.

We would like to send revolutionary greetings to the comrades of the Peoples Youth Block (BPJ) in El Salvador for the publication of the first issue of their paper Militante BPJ.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the website of the Peoples' Youth Block, the International Marxist Tendency's group in El Salvador. Anunciamos la publicación de la web del Bloque Popular Juvenil, el grupo de la Corriente Marxista Internacional en El Salvador.

In 2009 there are presidential elections as well as mayoral and deputy elections. El Salvador has a history of electoral fraud. The working class together with the poor from the cities and the countryside must be alert to take the necessary action to fight every attempt of fraud in the forthcoming elections.

As we have already informed our readers Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón of the BERS-24 was assassinated on June 26. We invite our supporters to send protest letters to the El Salvador authorities, the addresses of which we provide here together with a photograph of Ángel.