The key guestons of land. purging of Somocismo, the formation of the new army ano reorganizaton of production will not solely in the cabinet but affected by the relation of forces in the mass movement. atri the northern towns there is a high evel of popular organisation. Radio Sundino talks of these committees as focal expressions of the government of national reconstruction', political level of this self organistion, and the terms of the debate going on, cannot be easily assessed.
Orthesouth, in Cardenas, there has tready been distribution Somoza's land and the organisation hewcooneratives Commandate Alvaro, leader in the Mothern front, however, lalked of y a very limited reform of the land e Monde, 18 July).
sor fit debate are me saltients many of the fighers like Triewed by the Colombian paper new regime the El Socialista:
he decided will be A nev the workers. so the Constituent of government sort revolution ries be On the other *Dissolution Tania to defend the revolution.
•We can only_guarantee that the government carries out what we are fighting for if we continue to struggle.
governed waica gives some liberties is not a guarantee for the people. The only way of defending democracy and our liberties is by government of the workers and only The new government is pledged to call municipal elections and later a Assembly. The possible outcome would be if those forces within the ESLN favouring a socialist solution formed an electoral front based on the fight fora workers' based local committees and the armed militias.
of tasks should putting forward now in Nicarague in order to ensure the permanent victory of the masses?
of the National Guard, formation of popular militia *Freedom for all the prisoners.
*Establish full democratic rights — free freedom organise.
*Denunciation of all economic and military pacts with the imperialist powers and the OEA.
*Annul the external debt. Break vith the IMF Expropriate all Somoza's holdings the imperialist interests and national capitalism.
*C'arry out a true land reform.
*For a workers government based on lhe mass organisations Only the winning of the masses to such a programme will prevent a repeat of the tragedy popular revolutions in Latin America such as the Bolivian MNK-led revolt of '52, which defeated a dictator and Then degenerated into a pro-bourgeois regime in which the interests of the masses were not met.
It is not the first or last time that the massesia, Latin America have fought an armed struggle side by their own bosses and then allowed the latter to control the new situation — neighbouring Gautemala through a similar experience in the 194Us and the masses lost the second round.
Nicaragua appears to the faulty intelligence reports or other • subjective errors. mental cause of the Us malaise is a of the colonial masses.
Added to this is the growth competing imperialist powers, such as Germany or Japan which order later of the US.
role as a "relay' West unco-operative dictators exposures.
Kissinger as succinctly the move to replace Somoza moderate element. but this have required the action so much decried today... My impression 1S put alternative if there is one.
Whirtwind the Sandinistas, dominant in political Mexico will feel the pressure.
should alternatives tudes like 'sticking to Somoza'. to nave no mission an outcome values and responsibilities."
of very difficult human rights policy with other imperialist powers, dependent capitalist there.
Unstable The side wiln expenience revealed all these problems. The US stopped arms sales a year ago when went the regime became unstable as far as US interests were concerned, but then it supported Somoza's crushing of the September 78 insurrection because no AFTER Angola, Vietnam and Iran, be another bungled foreign policy disaster for US resistance weakened.
The American press speculates on But the funda- split opposition growing structural weakness caused by the recent anti-imperialist victories of the US - while not Organisation breaking with the overall interests of will support certain Somoza out, popular front liberation movements lucrative al dily development contracts at the expense Cuba Social democracy often plays a key for this imperialist German SOCC democracy has been instrumental in trying to resuscitate social democratic and that It is no longer possible for the US to send in troops whenever it wants - it would have to contend with massive internal and world wide opposition.
Similarly it can't so easily remove in covert CIA operations after all the recent gringos and usual expresses dilemma in a recent Guardian I could have understood a decisive Finally would government kind of covert Somoza's we did enough to unsettle the existing governent but not La moderate 'If the sole alternative to Somoza is may whirlwind. If the radical left becomes that the new Central America. ever define by platichange every Soviet bloc. unpalatable ruler; but if we attempt it we must assume the responsibility for compatible our our The dilemma for the US is that it is implement and to get moderate alternative that can hold down social explosions when it cannot the intervene freely, when it is competing guarantees when the colonial masses are moving, when regimes Results oppose particular US plans and when the world recession means the money for reformist experiments is just not there between interests. of democratic | adequate alternative was available and it was advantageous for the mass and the FSLN to be In fact the defeat had the reverse effect. The US redoubled their efforts off the HOIC moderate forces like the FAO (Broad Opposition Front) from the FSLN but this failed mainly because of Somoza's intransigence.
Faced with the June insurrection attempted get the States (OÉA) to impose a ceasefire and force preventing an FSLN victory by the intervention of an OEA For the first time in its history the OEA decisively defeated a US plan voted for the unconditional resignation of Somoza Unlike when the OEA voted for a bovcott of Cuba it is no complete lapdog of the US. It shows . The national bourgeoisie dependent capitalist countries will • still from time to time take positions against US imperialism This is the : case particularly where there is populist pressure within their own countries to stand up to the the liberation movement they are supporting is not clearly socialist and therefore not a threat to their own regimes.
the US forced to negotiate directly with the Provisional and the didn't stop them privateły welcoming genocide in Managua prevented rapid and dangerous FSLN victory.
The original US proposals, for extending the provisional government with the inclusion of several moderate figures, was rejected. A day later it was reported that there was now an agreement. The US appears satisfied government does no represent an embryonic Cuba, and they intend to back up this agreemen with significant aid — the lessons of Cuba was that the boycott helped push the Cubans into the arms of the Ramirez, a member of the Junta has said that either the US gives aid or The US intervention will not be restricted to aid. Their hopes about the "social-democratic" credentials of government that the process of permanent revolution can be halted.
The US navy is off the coast and still great danger of intervention if the inevitably split the pro-socialist and social democratic forces threatens US Intervening to defend a "social government against a Cuba inspired revolt is much easier than intervening to save Somoza.
But will the new government drift toward a Cuban solution or will it stabilise a new bourgeois regime...? Socialist Challenge 26 July 1979 Pare 7
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