Sandinistas declare wai on left opponents

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The FSLN Interior Minister, them have been threatened with Commander. Tomas Borge has prison and told that their leader publicly described the Trotsky- Ivan Soza Cerda is dead.

FSLN leaders with Panamanian president Royo Zimbabwe m Reprinted from Labor News, Pi (Democratic Centralist) i The Sandinista FSLN government in Nicaragua has begun a campaign against sections of the Nicaraguan trade union movement.

And it has taken steps to suppress the Revolutionary Marxist League, a Trotskyist organisation initially attached to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

This follows on the heels of the exputsion of the left wing Simon Bolivar Brigade organised by the Bolshevik Faction of the USFI.

The president of the Vendors Union of Managua, Ivan Soza Cerda and Armado Nurinda of the Milk Workers Union have both been kidnapped. ship, as popular disillusion with the regime increases.

The storming of the US embassy shows the extent of Khomeini's problems.

The army and Islamic militía dared not intervene to protect per of the Socialist n the United States.

ists as counter-revolutionaries equal to the Neo Somozists, and announced measures against them.

Ivan Soza Cerda who is reported to be a member of the RML was taken by armed elements from his house in the eastern city of Granada and has not been heard from since.

Petition

On October 3 according to a report from Managua in Diario Las Americas, a right wing Cuban daily in Miami, a petition by some 200 Nicaraguan Trotskyists said that they feared for their lives and demanded that the Sandinista revolution convene Constituent Assembly.

The Trotskyists according to the report said that many of el - ek. Sandinistas dejace picture of The petition signatories also said that they are a sympathising section of the Fourth International which stands for the elimination of the bureaucracy and the total removal of the bourgeoisie in the organs of the Nicaraguan state.

They call for the establish- estaniich nent of a Constituent Assembl' of workers and peasants that would have the capacity to express democratically what economic system should replace the system under Somoza.

The signers of the manifesto and petition finished their statement by declaring that the working class of Nicaragua has the capacity to fight for the uninterrupted revolution in Nicaragua and help in the formation of a World Workers Party.

The fact that these reports have virtually been blocked out of the American bourgeois press is an indication of two points.

First, "Diario Las Americas" is attempting to convince the Cuban community that. the Sandinistas are upholders of the capitalist order in Nicaragua.

Secondly, the US bourgeoisie and the International Monetary Fund want to force the FSLN to the right and into complete submission to the dictates of the bankers by attacking it from the left.

Many major American banks have already withheld loans and the IMF's conditions for future loans to Nicaragua will require that all monies and interest owed on past loans to Somoza be paid up.

These conditions will without doubt lead to severe attacks against the workers and peasants of Nicaragua if they are carried out.

In order to prevent omoza in his captured bunker opposition from the working class and peasants in the future, the FSLN is already ordering the disarming of "all persons not participating in the Army or Militias."

These are under the control of the FSLN.

Castro

The next move of the FSLN will probably be the banning of the militias and block committees, particularly if they receive any opposition from these organisations to their policies.

The FSLN has also had the complete support of Castro in its every move. Castro has lined up with Portillo, Mexican bourgeois president, and other bourgeois nationalists in Latin America in making sure that the revolution continues to have a bourgeois character.

According to Castro, socialism is not necessary in Nicaragua in order to carry the revolution forward.

Instead the FSLN should "do their own thing" whatever that means.

Castro has followed this up in his speech at the United Nations where he called for a redistribution of the wealth of the world-without a socialist revolution in the advanced capitalist countries.

Statesman

He then followed this up with a dinner for Barbara Walters and other "honest" TV and newspaper executives and announced that in his last visit to the US he was a revolutionary but "now I'm a statesman" Castro certainly doesn't mince words.

in the most grotesque display of degeneration, the American Socialist Workers Party in its paper, The Militant,