Nicaragua: new regime shuns
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With money still coming in for the f2,500 Special Fund which officially closed last week and £127.40 in already for the August Monthly Fund, it has been a good week for our finances. But with inflation once more beginning to spiral upwards we are certainly going to need every penny we get. We will need to increase our income by 15-20% Castro-approval for Popular Frontist course of FLN tion of a 'Marxist' orientation Minister for Agrarian Reform, within the regime by visiting Jaime Wheelock la leader of the the US Ambassador and asking Proletario tendency of the not only for "better relations' FSLN) can in any way be All the members of the new sympathies. named. Of. the eighteen 'Marxist' • of yovernment nave now i Deen But what members, only. Borge and the geois press is Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd., London Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. year just to stand still, financially.
So there can be no room for question of fund raising. Let's see if of the £600 target this month.
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Socialist Press Monthly Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR can this complacency on the we can go over the top ly crippled financial system from. the shoulders of. the capitalists who have welcomed the move.
Foreign banks, of course, remain in private hands and Robelo reiterated that the regime offers "full guarantees for the activities and property of the private sector."
US Embassy At the same time the new Minister of the Interior, Tomas Borge, a founder of the FLN but also for arms. and now leader of the Guerra Popular Prolongada tendency, confused those who considered his appointment to be an indicaaccounted to have 'Marxist' does this tag of which the bourso fond, mean?
No lessons These currents have undoubtedly stemmed the tide towards integrating old Somocistas into the army-but at the same time they have clearly failed to draw political lessons from the first weeks of the Junta's rule.
Revolutionary Marxists do not serve in bourgeois governments.
Revolutionaries in Nicaragua should be struggling against this regime by counterposing socialist measures to its capitalist policies and by working to impose such measures through the building of workers and peasants soviets.