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years. The Nicaraguan economy is in a shambles. In 1987, the inflation rate was 1800 percent. But despite the constant pressures of contra attacks and economic embargoes, the Nicaraguan people and their revolution have not yielded. dea The aim of the U.S. ruling class is to pressure the Sandinista government back to the name the negotiating table with the contras, where, it is hoped, the Sandinistas would make all the political concessions demanded by the contras. Leon The Vich One contra official told the U.S. press that the approval of contra aid would send a clear signal to the Sandinista government that it should "open up its political system" and resume peace talks beginning in September.
Talk peace, wage war The contra-aid plan just passed in the Senate is just one more indication that the U.S. ruling class is unwilling to let the Nicaraguan Revolution live. While hypocritically talking , about "peace" and "democracy," Democrats and Republicans alike keep propping up a savage and criminal mercenary army• Even loyal Democratic Party supporters are beginning to see through the sham "debates" between the two twin parties.
"The Democrats are no longer trying to Esteban Volkov, Leon Trotsky's grandson (continued on page 5) (continued on page 7, in “OCAW convention reflects pressure of rank and file”)