El ascenso y el ocaso de la revolución nicaragüense

by Jack Barnes

Lecciones para revolucionarios de todo el mundo sobre el gobierno de trabajadores y campesinos que llegó al poder en Nicaragua en julio de 1979. Basado en diez años de periodismo socialista desde Nicaragua, este número especial de Nueva Internacional recuenta los logros y el impacto mundial de la revolución nicaragüense. Luego describe el repliegue político de la dirección del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional que llevó a la caída de la revolución a fines de los años ochenta. Documentos del Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores.

368 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

Reviews

[Marc Lichtman · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was very little written on why the Sandinista Revolution, starting with socialist goals gave them up after winning the Contra War. To some people it was a topic "not to be discussed in polite company." But every serious activist needs to know what happened and why.

The 'Militant' newspaper kept a bureau in Managua from a few weeks after the revolution and for the next ten years. This is based on their reporting as well as visits by Socialist Workers Party leaders. Earlier, in 1983, the Grenadian Revolution had gone down to defeat, overthrown by a Stalinist faction headed by Bernard Coard. The story of that is told in New International no 6: The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop and in Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83.

Let me also recommend a biography of Carlos Fonseca, founder of the FSLN by Matilde Zimmermann Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution, who was a reporter for the 'Militant' newspaper in Managua for some years.

For the Nicaraguan Revolution while it was still alive, Sandinistas Speak: Speeches, Writings, and Interviews with Leaders of Nicaragua's Revolution and Nicaragua: The Sandinista People´s Revolution.

[Nate]

very dry, but it does include the FSLN's historic program. other than that, its just the SWP opinion of what happened in Nicaragua, not a history of the revolution