Children's crusade 1980: teaching 900,000 adults to read and write

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Deepening into practice in a way that testifies to a deepenmg or te class struggie The FSLN is encouraging the organisation of the working masses through Enem arming the workers into militias, promoting mass mobilisations and advocating verter' CULLO. revolution is on the march.

1LC SeCOnd ICLEAL event maportance was te decision or te US goverament to freeze a loan of 'Literacy to liberate 900,000 will campaign Nicargauns by the end of July. This is the estimate number of people over the age of 10 who do not know how to read and write. It represents half the Many of the illiterates adults; many of the 'teachers' organised literacy brigades are youths of 11.

Plans and preparations for the literacy crusade began in August '79, two weeks after the over Somoza. The ready to bezin work but they need materials. They need Hons. casettes: They need 650,000 books can ot print because they do not have the paper. They need $20m.

French of LAC youth organisation, set itself a target of 50,000 francs Liberation', launch of the population.

are 180,000 into for the crusade by the end of April.

In Britain we have been slow off the mark but ordinating Committee in London victory brigades Education in Nicaragua which has tapes by the end of July.

Nicaragua met

the international departinent of the revolutionary National Union of Teachers and SUDOUIE VC enthusiasm the Yorkshire NUM.

CONSORECE importantly, Necarasual educational system, La Campaign text-books set itself the task of raising £20,000 problems In February a delegation from Will nOE Ann Sutherland of received from her a commitment to crusade. One of the delegation also met representatives from the Inner London leachers Association; they agreed to support the erusade and to help organise a "international department of the Labour Party has shown for tar Scargill has campaign and Arthur committed himself to raising it ir These offers of support need to But ever youth youth organisations in Britain must com into the campaign and make it their ownne literacy crusade is not a traditional repressive and The old text-books of Somoza have been replaced Iby organisco around the revolution. those who learn to read and write only and words, but will also acquire a new social and political conscience. The literacy campaign is integral to the consolidation of the Nicaraguan

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