event ol revolutionaries everywhere. merely did it bring down one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world, but it challenged imperialist interests in an area which Washington regarded almost as its own property.
However, organisations have been cuck condemn the course taken by revolution under the leadership of the FSLN. Here FRANCOIS OLLIVIER explains the position of the Fourth SECTARIANS, while they generally recognise that a revolution has begun in Nicaragua, refuse to take into account that it is a living process with own TAYLOSI Instead mechanically counterpose their own schemas to reality and denounce the FSLN | leadership. reconstruct the bourgeois state and repress the mass movement.
1 nis ieaas to a alterent response to the administrative measures which the FSLN has taken against sections of the far left.
Frente Obrero The most important of the latter is the Movement of Popular (MAP) which leads a trade union current known as Frente Obrero (FO Workers Front). This started off as a Maoist-inspired split with the FSLN in the early 1970s, but changed its line on China when Peking lined up its foreign policy with US imperialism.
MAP has a dominant influence in the editorial team of El Pueblo, an important daily paper in the capital, Managua.
There also sectarian organisations allegiance to Trotskyism. the Revolutionary Marxist League (LMR); the Socialist Group (GRS), formed by militants of the Costa Rican OST, which split with the Fourth International along with the Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency; and members of the Bolshevik Faction (which has also split with the FI) who remained after the expulsion of the adventurist Simon Bolivar Brigade.
From the start of the revolution these sectarian groups developed a conception of the transition workers state as taking place through sele decrees nationalisation of the economy, total agrarian reform, etc.) which the actual represented mere pious wishes.
hope revolutionary the strengthens confusion international workers movement and makes it more difficult militant solidarity with the Nicaraguan revolution.
It would appear, however, that the FSLN has begun to modify its initial positions. In a speech on 22 October, minister Nicaraguan revolution. FO the confronted ELFSEN *In addition to the release of the militants reported above, Argentinian member of the Bolshevik Faction, Carlos Petroni, was released and deported on 9 November. LMR members who were being held were freed on 22 November.
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