Sandinistas turn away from socialist path
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Sandinista fighters hold guns aloft: but socialist programme now necessary (FSLN) last week chastised his deputy Eden Pastora (Commandante Cevo who led the attack and occupation of the legislative palace last year) for suggesting that Nicaragua might seek arms from the 'socialist bloc'.
Why? Because this might give "pretext to feelings that we are aligning ourselves with them politically.
Arms will not be brought from Israel or Chile either 'for moral reasons' Instead Borge, the 'Marxist' goes straight to the dominant imperialist power because "there are serious indications that the US wants to change its attitude."
Uşeless
It surely does. Since the battle cruisers off Nicaragua's Atlantic coastline and Marines shipped to Northern Costa Ricà from Panama proved to be useless in buoying up the Somoza dictatorship or cowing the FSLN the State Department has adopted another course.
Mass uprising
It is a course forced upon it by events, by the mass uprising within the • country which proved uncontainable, but it is also course that is greatly facilitated by political developments since the overthrow of Somoza.
The popular frontism of the ruling Junta and the FSLN leadership feeds off the strength of the masses and their extended struggle against dictatorship.
That struggle cost tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands hungry, homeless and destitute.
400,000 are now close to starvation. 300 tonnes of food is needed daily to keep these people alive. National Guard), Alfonso Robelo, millionaire member of the Junta, announces the imperialists to be "the greatest source of help"
The point needs to be laboured: within weeks of the overthrow of Somoza: the hunger of the workers has become the plaything of Washington.
Impossible
This sad fact has as much to do with politics as hunger. The Junta, which was never capable of anything else, and the FSLN leadership have turned their heads resolutely away from a socialist path for Nicaragua.
The capitalist and 'social democrats' proclaim the demo-. cratic revolution in a country: where democracy is palpably impossible under imperialism.
Vargar, the President of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, announced that the Stalinists will now fuse with the Sandinistas because "we believe that (their) victory has