the Nicaragua Co-ordinating Committee is formed and plans a national conference. The Labour Party agrees tp be a co-sponsor.
December: The economic plan is announced. It sets aside 62 per cent of expenditure for health, education, and housing, compared with 17 per Somoza. This is an underveloped country, the expansion is planned at a time when rich countries like Britain are destroying their social services.
The plan also aims to eliminate the 32 per cent unemployement rate. Six hospitals, 200 primary schools, and 2,500 housing units are planned. But where will the capital come from?
When 20 percent of industry and 40 percent of agriculture are in state hands. The FSLN hopes to use the JUVENTUD SANDINISTA 19 DE JULIO power that made the insurrection to ensure. that the sabotage the plan.
An implicit trade-off-comply with the plan and your gam perty . with the government. plan ofters no comfort at all to the rich.
At the end of the month there are sweeping changes in the members ministers, changes which reflect the growing strength organisation.
100,000 out of 240,000 wage-earners The youth -thousands of members. The Defence Committees are centralised nationally and by district.
TODAY most of the revoluforgotten.
uncomalong argue that opened the EURO-COMMUNISTS and the workers' Western Europe has no use for the methods employed by Russian workers in 1917. In the West the red cock of revolution, to borrow a social-democrats movement of century Europe. phrase from Trotsky, does not crow.
This we do not believe. In the first of a series of occasional articles, DAVE BAILEY discusses the history of revolution in 20thSpain).
Spain resistice. against fascism tives are ignored.
filled which tion. suffered either a revolutionary situa-