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specific discussed that aittees in each region coulu example, sern Nicáragua been asked hospital ritain is being Committee, bulletin Then Comntacted at 20 London local Above: Managua's Santa Rosa neighbourhood in August. Below: An FSLN demonstration.
THE ANDRUSH militant incident number of As part of its contribution to building solidarity, the IMG is organising a speaking tour of all the major cities to win the widest possible support for the Nicaraguan revolution. Conit your arca is not covered in the list below.
Speakers are available for trade union and Labour Party Resolutions calling schools, be sent to union executives, the TUC and the Tory government.
Her: Edinburgh. 31 Vin LOYCRUNCH organisations have redoubled their efforts to put stop counter-revolutionary following the murder on 4 October of FSLN Marcel Pallais Checa. bullet-riddled body was found near the Central American University campus in Managua.
Pallais had been in charge of an effort to stop sabotage at the Villa Fontana Telecommunications Complex. It is thought that supporters of the somoza dictatorship dismissed from their posts may have had a hand in his death.
resurgence revolutionary terrorist activity September. On 24 September an armed rightist group shouting pro-Somoza slogans ambushed a militia patrol in Managua and killed 19-year-old Oscar Rivas Gallard. Over the previous few days, snipers had fired on the headquarters of the Sandanista Workers Nicaraguan Film Institute in Managua.
In response, the FSLN has 'Control Somocismo, Defend the Revolution' campaign through the Sandinista Committees (CDS) - 'the eyes and ears of the revolution': The CDS are being organised on a block-by-block basis to gather data on suspicious incidents ant on tne wnercabouts ana acmvines of known Somocistas who may be involved in counter-revolutionary crimes.
In the face of internal and external threats to the revolution, the FSLN has also announced its intention to expand the militia to increase the masses' preparedness for self-defence.
As Interior Minister Tomas Borge explained at the Rivas funeral: "Those militiaman do not know that the revolution gives concrete answers to each problem.. instead 01 destroying the militias, we'll multiply them. So in ince montns tnere will be swoooo militia Nicaragua. The workers, the students, the high In a population of about 2.3 million, 700,000 economically active, the project 300,000-person militia shows the San Antonio sugar mill reconstruction needs.
and mass terrorism Pallais's Pallais had countersince late Federation (CST) and launched a counter-revolutionary Defence FSLN Somocistas, who killed a be LCYOUILISIA organised of a body called for seriousness Government representatives soups.
after Somoza's fall.
• an example of Above: Their aim is a with which the FSLN is responding to the rightist Comandante Jaime explained at a rally in Managua on 3 October that the efforts of the army and the Ministry of Interior are 'not enough' to defeat the counterrevolution. Victory will come only if the workers and peasants 'prepare themselves to control the productive wealth of our country'.
In the workplaces confiscated from Wheelock said, 'we need to have unions with full participation in power...There must be neither exploiters nor exploited. There must be last and coulladic relatons. lne workers must know their jobs in order to govern their production. The task of the state is solely that of administration. The workers are the true owners of the national wealth.' There are growing signs that the bourgeois forces are looking for ways to put a brake on the The Chamber of Commerce orgaoking the Council or State, a preislative several the programme of National Reconstruction published just prior to Somoza's fall.
This council was to be made the bourgeois Chamber of Commerce and Industry, FSLN, trade unions, the Catholic Church, and other proposed composition disproportionately weighted towards the most conservative sectors of the anti-Somoza front. • The bourgeois forces hoped it would serve as a check on the social and economic measures taken Since that time, however, the Sandinista-led government has charted a course that shows it to 300,000 strong militia alongside a regular army (top) to discourage Wheelock have made up the "Council of State' the 'Council of State'.
event composition to have seats no longer exist. the of 33 parties, was rightists be far more representative of the interests of the workers and peasants than the forces that were to No date has been set for the convocation of Junta member Moisés Hassan pointed out on 5 October that in any would have be reconsidered, since a number of groups that were F5LN Socialist Challeige 25 October 1979. Pazi
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