ON 19 February, the workers at the El Caracol food processing factory in Managua took over the plant and began control of production. The following day Liberation (FSLN) representative, Carlos Nunez, and Niearagua's attorney general, Ernesto Castillo.
After four hours of discussion the factory Placed Manee Since then they goverlien. held daily assemblies and comila JulI managing to increase by 66 cent in only 12 days The takeover of Él Caracol was a response to private CANCESES refusing to participate in the 1980 National Plan of economic reactivation.
Sabotage Private companies are involved economic saborage, their investments from production units. By the end of February, a comane taken over by the workers and five them maintaining productioll The FSLN has used takeover of El Caracol as a model for all workers to follow in cases of capitalist sabotage.
of Sandinista exemplary, adding: control must be carried out so as to prevent a halt in production or the destruction of enterprises by their These beginnings of workers' control are a vindicanon of tne words of the inspirer of the FSLN, Sandino, that only the workers and peasanis in mcaragua wil connue to the end.
These words are now being put 75m dollars to Nicaragua. loan has been pending for several months and on 27 Februarv. in an extraordinary secret session of the House of Representatives narrow majority of five votes gave approval to the loan under strict conditions.
Although much of the loan was earmarked for the private sector Ol the economy, the loan has since been frozen. could previousy have been described as willful hesitancy the by US plant, nave have . nardenca Into opci nosulity. il l directly aids coincides the canitalists aim of destabilising the есопоту.
Consequently the to the Soviet economic aid and has just sent a ILIONCICU Moscow, headed by Tomás Borge, founding member of the FSLN and OCCI This Despite the many advances 01 faces enormous costing session in the schedule.
The FSLN has workers: If acts of sabotage take place auring the coming monts. thousands of workers could face unemniovment. thus provoking the instability that the 1980 Economic Plan aims to avoid.
now exploit the devastation inflicted by with and Somoza;
hope of dividing and demoralising the people, favourable conditions to drown the revolution in blood at a later stage.
indirect intervention, mental drive of the Carter administration is towards the nightmare of another The themselves Nicaragua today difficulties.
like warned the devastated by task. backed difficult.
The aim of US imperialism is to capitalists the economicaly the everything the fundapowers. solidarity, Chile Centrai Nicaraguans are conscious of this •which is why one of the main slogans in Managua today is:
will Building socialism in a country that nas been : civil war is no easy up by both the Carter Thatcher government in Britain which is also refusing aid, will do anything they task Unlike British and American working people Britain have nothine to lose tron reconstruction economy. They have building of socialism in Nicaragua and the weakening of British and Imperialism as solidarity, COnCele strenarien the fight for socian ly enormously