CENTRAL SANDINISTA A DE TRADAJADORES.

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PEOPLE'S ARMY BOACO had ruled the country. The revolution was led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), who formed the new government OPPOSITION Right from the word go, the Sandinistas took measures which benefited the majority. And they organised the masses to start to take conLand was taken from the big landpeasants. Trade unions were form- culture. ed; Somoza's property was seized; the old army was destroyed and a new revolutionary army was formed. Committees were established to help run the neighbourhoods 1980 has seen further steps taken by the Sandinistas to consolidate the gains won and push the revoluA literacy campaign has been launched, with the aim of teaching moaning. more than half the adult population, who are illiterate, to read and economy.

On 2nd March, the government took over more privately-owned SABOTAGE Having constructed a professional Sandinista People's Army (EPS), This came on top of the effects of world-wide inflation, the 1972 earthquake in the capital Managua, the corruption of Somoza's regime, and the disruption of industry and agriculture during the civil war.

Also totally opposed to the direction that the revolution is taking, are those bosses and big landlords who have remained in Nicaragua This tiny minority still controls key sections of industry and agriThey have formed the Superior Council for Private Enter prise (COSEP)- the equivalent of of the CBI in Britain.

COSEP has denounced the 'anarchy and social disorder', the 'takeovers of enterprises' and has warned of the 'grave consequences of the new government's measures to spread more equally the resources and wealth of the country.

But they are doing more than just They are deliberately trying to sabotage the Nicaraguan Coffee growers have refused to complete their harvests, and cotton producers are threatening not to plant crops. Industrialists are illeg. ally smuggling out equipment, raw materials and money, and are slowPATHFINDER REVOLUTION "We represent the immense majority of „ humanity.

Fidel Castro at the UN

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Socialist Action