Nicaraguan situa- and could induce a rupture in the anti- oligarchical revolutionary bloc which the latter point, Orlando Nunez, a lead- operate together hut any new assemb ly of such a kind would he a step for. together while opposing the counter- tondencies within it (from landless peasant, unemployed woder, street patriotic bourgeoisic" which the FSLN has insisted is a part of its project) which at the overthrow cither supported the FSLN or accepted its leadership against Somoza. It is these contradictions within the FSLN and the anti-oligarchic bloc, combined with the contradictory tendencies in the economy, alongside the clec- toralist nature of popular power in Nicaragua (which has witnessed a required to assure the socialist charac- With the defcat of the contras al- will become an internal affair backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States state depart- This bloc itself has contradictory ter of the revolution. revolutionary war. will operate." organisation planned and mobilisation and those in and society of the most will have to "The FSLN oppressed depend on interests a socialised and mass economy historic the self whose Page 16
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