reporting from Managua ALL THE Nicaragua's bosses' the Superior Council Enterprise (COSEP) and of capitalist parties staged a walkout from Nicaragua's. here on 12 November.
Joining them were the delegates from two small trade union federations whose leaders identitv with the canitalist forces.
The walkout was planned well in advance. KORe representative Montealegre even read and distributed a printed document that explained why the bourgeois delegates bureaucrats were leaving the council.
The Council of State is a consultative and legislative body, subordinate to the executive branch of the revolutionary government, їле Junta Reconstruction (JAN). forces were allocated a minority of seats in the council when it was set up last May.
and UNON the US ment of up by The capitalist troops America.
They operation overnments November session of the situation the week's correspondence time when struggles Conflict The tion Alvaro Jerez subsequent floor for an immediate This was that the in El In the wages tionary struggle.
the cratic Lu lous There By Paul Lawson DISSIDENT officials in State Departrevealed week that contingency plans have been drawn the American government to use US in Central disclosed this would be done in counnamed In Central America in the event of the Sava on 'getting out of control'.
This revelation came at a the revolutionary LIC reaching a turning point.
sections walk-out by ine bosses' federa- private COSEP from the country's Council of State and the shooting of COSEP leader Salazar, bourgeoisie is now coming into inGovernment creasing conflict with the Sandinista government.
At the same time the junta is making a Sabotage Salvador determined effort to drown in IevOllweek Two they murdered key leaders of Revolutionary Demo- operation.
Front which
brings together all the opposi- of struggles WORKON are daily Ganes around between the junta's army and the revolutionary guerillas.
It is above all the events in will deter- peasants. mine the course of the Central revolution in the bourgeoisie Following the victory of least the dictator Somoza in July 1979, in the FSLN adopted a policy of FSLN. including in the government were ruling class which had fought Somoza.
This involved important concessions to the interests of industry and agriculture, in an attempt to involve these sectors in the process of reconstructing the badly-damaged economy. Various bourgeois politicians were given positions in the National Reconstruction.
developments saboted the Sco The forced to take sides in a series by agricultural and poor peasants demands for better extension of state control. The FSLN the workers and up Secondly, it became increasingly apparent that the Was not in bit interested in the 'reconstructing' the economy conjunction the Government plans sabotaged by private enterp se.
time the FSLN pushed ahead with the formation of militias and vast political mobilisations which accompanied the literacy dominance of the FLN was litical 'consolidated This conflict came to a head last April, when leading bourgeois politicians Chamorro and Robelo, walked out of the Government of National Reconstruction. But the Council of State set up the following month still included representatives of the employers' federation and small trade union grouping. which sided with the bosses.
In recent weeks the capitalists have the intensified their attacks the FSLN. The mouthpiece of bourgeoisie, the daily paper La Prensa, has stepped its attacks on the FSLN and the revolution in Central America and she Caribbean.
The mair a purgeois party, Natior Democratic Movement N, planned a Olg pollica government on 9 November, was banned by the FSLN.
Much more seriously there has been a series of incursions into the northern part of the country from Honduras, carried out by former members of Somoza's National Guard which was broken up and destroyed at the time of the revolution. Invasion Honduras has recently signed treaty EI Salvador 'defence'.
no that Panama the United States has assembled a force of 10,000 including former members of national guard, Cuban exiles, and ever disatfectec Vietnamese which could be used as an inforce against the revolution in El Salvador or There are two crucial factors in determining how far the bourgeois opposition to the FSLN will go. lo wha degree will it achieve unity, and will it be prepared to b associated with a Somocist come revoluonal in bringing down the FSLI government?
So far the opposition ha been split into several group: including the COSEP th MDN, and the Democrati Conservative Party.
If these forces were unite project counter-revolutionary inva north, serious trouble The FSLN might then b brought down without tor the direct use American troops.
There is every sign that th FSLN awale possibility of a link-up bet ween revolution and the bourgeoi opposition Nicaragu itself. Everything points to consolidation and systematis ation of the power of th FSLN To defend itself the FSLA government is having to mak break bourgeoisie. A , new stage o the revolution is opening
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