The FSLN and workers struggles | IMGpapers 1980

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Socialist Challenge 1 May 1980 THE FSLN has adopted a contradictory attitude towards workers' struggles. wage increases has been conducted in a violent way using crude polemical methods.

The basic argument has been that the kind of demands for higher wages which have been put forward by some sections of the working class tie in with the 'destabilisation' campaign launched by imperialism and orchestrated by the CIA. On the other hand, it is recognised that wages really are very low therefore justified.

In certain cases, such as f'abritex, increases have been conceded (of around 10 per cent) as well as improvements in working conditions, the organisation of canteens, etc. But this has gone hand in hand with a campaign to denounce the CAUS and PCN (see above) as agents of the Its campaign against and that the workers' demands are organisations.

by the police. Trials are being prepared. CIA, the organisation of demonstrations leading to the seizure and ransacking of CAUS offices (including the burning of journals and documents in Managua and other towns), and the re-assignment of such offices to mass Worse still, there have been a number of arrests (55 to date) and the PCN's leader, Altamirano, is being sought The fact that a distinction is made between a base which is 'misled' and 'immature' and leaders who are 'ambitious' with 'suspect' connections in no way justifies this repression, which in effect is aimed at the organisers of strikes. One can agree with many of the criticisms made of the PCN and CAUS, both as to their past and their present activity, but this cannot mean approving of the use of repression to resolve real problems of the workers moveNEVER HAVE LET

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