FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2008
Interesting English Language Articles on Nicaragua
In this space the Nicaragua Network will post links to recent important and/or interesting English language articles on Nicaragua or by Nicaraguans in the publications of other organizations.FSLN on the Fifth Socialist International: Globalise struggle and hope!
By Carlos Fonseca Terán, deputy secretary of the International Relations Department of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
First published in Correo de Nicaragua, No. 7, diciembre 2009--enero 2010, Managua. Translated by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer and Kiraz Janicke
Arise the poor of the world, rise up slaves without bread, Let's all rise up to cry: VIVA LA INTERNACIONAL!
So begins the Latin American version of the hymn sung by revolutionaries of the world throughout history. It is the anthem of the International, written while the organisation was still taking its first steps. Over and over again since 1864 it pledged to convoke a united and organised struggle by the revolutionaries of the world, carrying out the call first made by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the Communist Manifesto: Workers of all countries unite!
A little over ten years ago, walking down a Managua street, I noticed on a large wall a sign in huge black letters with the famous phrase launched in 1848 by the first two great maestros of the revolutionary movement, but with an appendix inscribed in brackets: “Final Warning.”
Indeed, this is the last opportunity for the proletariat (or what is the same, the lower classes) to free ourselves from the exploitation that determines our existence as an oppressed class, but also to assure the survival of the human species, because under the conditions of capitalism it is not possible to resolve the ecological crisis that has pushed humanity to the brink.
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From the monthly journal envio November 2009
The Caribbean Coast: Independence or Desperation?
By Salvador García Babini y Juan Carlos Ocampo Zamora
Last April, 400 delegates of the Council of Elders of the Moskitia, representing more than 300 Miskitu communities, met for four days with over a thousand indigenous people in the port town of Bilwi, capital of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). At the end of that protracted gathering, they declared the independence of the “Moskitia Community Nation” and elected Reverend Héctor Williams, a pastor of the Pentecostal-influenced Christian Assemblies Church, as the wihta tara (grand judge).
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