Nicaragua: Don't Mourn, Organize!

The international progressive community was dealt a huge blow when the Sandinistas lost the recent elections n Nicaragua. After 10 years of U.S.-sponsored terror and economic sabotage, the Nicaraguan people decided that they needed a break. The en tire Revolution is under attack.

What exactly happened? And where does that leave the solidarity movement here? The next installment of the Solidarity Discussion Series will feature Kathryn Savoie, longtime LASC member and current coördinator for the Detroit Central America Solidarity Commit tee, discussing these issues. Kathryn, who previously lived in Nicaragua for I three years, has recently returned from Nicaragua as a delegate on the Ann Arbor Sister City Election Observation delegation to Juigalpa, Nicaragua.

She will speak at the Guild House on Tues., April 3 at 7:30 pm. As always, installments of the Series are tfee and open to anyone who might be interested in the topic under discussion.

Solidarity is an organization committed to building a non-sectarian and radically democratic socialist movement in the United States. We are socialist activists who place a high priority on participating in an open and constructive manner in the struggles against racism and sexism, as well as the struggles tor lesbian and gay rights and national liberation. In Ann Arbor, our members participate in the Latin America Solidarity Committee, the Feminist Women's Union, the United Coalition Against Racism, and the Palestine Solidarity Committee. We firmly believe that any socialist movement worthy of the name must join in such struggles now rather than perpetuate the illusion that they can either be separated from or take a back seat to the class struggle.

We oppose the growing U.S. drive toward war, whether that be in the Middle East or Central America. We support the PLO and the FMLN in their struggles against Israell and U.S. oppression. We see the need for international solidarity among working people and the oppressed in a period of concessions, de-industrialization, unemployment and the growing debt crisis. We believe in a creative rethinking of socialism for the '90s in which an open environment and a variety of views is more important than engaging in pretenses of being "the vanguard."

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