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The first three pamphlets in the new Socialist How Can Labor Fightback? :40 pp., $1.25 ($2.25 Dynamics of the Nicaraguan Revolution Democracy in America 20 pp., $0.75 ($1.75 with postage) Sandinistas, on the other hand, have stated that they are willing to negotiate only with the real contras—in Washington, D.C.
In the name of "democratization," the U.S. government hopes to undermine the Sandinista majority established by democratic elections in Nicaragua.
If the Sandinista government can be forced to grant the Nicaraguan capitalists unfettered freedom to mobilize against the revolution, the U.S. government might be willing to put the contras in their back pocket—at least for the time being.
But if the Sandinistas don't make the concessions demanded by U.S. imperialism, the U.S. government has said it will not play ball. In fact, Reagan administration officials have floated the idea of putting the money for military aid to the contras in an escrow account in the event "peace talks fail."
Containing the revolution
While the Arias plan grants international recognition to the Sandinista government, it does the same for the reactionary regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This is an aspect of the Arias plan the U.S. ruling-class media has openly praised.
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By ALAN BENJAMIN MEXICO CITY-Some time within the next few months, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid-following a 50-year tradition—-will handpick his successor. The Mexican press is rife with speculation about which of the possible contenders will be Mexico's next president.
But these will be no ordinary elections. Five years of economic crisis marked by record inflation and spiraling foreign debt have greatly sapped the legitimacy of this one-party political regime.
A growing number of Mexican working people have begun to understand that no matter which candidate of the PRI (the Spanish acronym for Mexico's ruling party) is elected, things will not change for the better.
Indeed, in order to pay back its $103billion foreign debt, the Mexican government-following the dictates of the International Monetary Fund-has imposed government's "deviation from the PRI's revolutionary course" could spark further mobilizations and threaten the very foundations of capitalist rule in Mexico.
The Current is headed by former party president Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son of former Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas (the man who nationalized Mexico's oil in the late 1930s.)
Manuel Aguilar, a leader of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), Mexican section of the Fourth International, describes the emergence of the Democratic