FOLLOWING the defeated September 1978 deep-going self-organisation was started in Nicaragua.
In the neighbourhoods Committees (CDCs) were built in each block, organising arins, medical care, food supplies, and bomb shelters.
FSLN were strengthened by the hundreds of youth fleeing from the Guard.
During the insurrection popular militias were formed, not only in the cities, but also in some rural areas. The CDCs became organs of power in the Somoza's forces had been driven.
This led to a situation of dual power. In the final offensive the population of Managua rose up en masse to capture 'bunker', seizing thousands of weapons: undisputed leadership of this struggle was the FSLN.
The CDCs have become Sandinista Defence Committees elected by neighbourhood. Their extended to all aspects of social welfare, jobs, reconstruction, repait against pro-Somoza forces.
the countryside organising in the Association of Field Workers.
being workplace, and centralised Sandinista Workers NAC, the women's organisation that played a central role in the struggle, fight for women's rights as the Association of Women. The building their own organisation, the 19 July Sandinista Youth.
A Sandinista army has been established. It has drawn into it's ranks many of the militias which arose in the civil war. In addition to this a national militia is being built, 300,000 strong, to be based in the factories, neighbourhoods, ana rutal areas.
The Government Reconstruction announced a series of radical measures on coming to power, *The nationalisation property, a staggering 60% of the economy.
* A land reform, giving land to the peasants, and establishing cooperatives on the big estates.
*The nationalisation of the banks, all air, maritime, and essential land transport, and a monopoly of foreign trade.
*An illiteracy.
Employers are forbidden to workers without the permission of the Ministry of Labour, and have been forced to pay two months back wages for the period of the general SLIKE I But although the victorious insurrection tore apart the old bourgeois state structure and destroyed it's Callial Guard, there are still guarantees for capitalist property. The new government takes the torm of a coalition with bourgeois figures who opposed the Somoza regime.
It is this which has led to a debate in the Fourth International and with other Trotskyist Vizallsailulls Critics Secretariat of the Fourth International have centred the character leadership, and it's setting up of a coalition government with the bourgeoisie.
For the comrades of the Leninist Trotskyist Tendency the government's intentions were to safeguard bourgeoisie and imperialism, and maintain the subjection of the masses exploitation. The Bolshevik similar position, claiming that Fidel Castro also packeo me coveranen akire sucia coursc The OCI in France, of the OCRFI, stated that the FSLN were Socialist Challenge 15 November 1979 Page 8