opposing strip-searches and calling for a broad discussion on withdrawal, it stressed that this should involve the representatives of the majority of republican opinion in Ireland.
his victory is imoortant, It wil further the dialogue among feminists and anti-imperialists in Britian and Ireland.
The next initiative planned in connection with this dialogue, is a delegation of relatives of strip-searched organised Labour women's committee. backed Dy Camden committee, who are writing to women's committees calling similar action.
• The NLWC pamphlet is available from: Homen's Officer, The Halworth Road, London SEIT (price 75p inc. papi. • Labour Women for Ireland can be contacted by ariting to: L WIc: o Feminist Library, Hungerford Hone Vatoria Embankment, WCZ.
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THE BOOK Nicaragua: The Sandinista People's Revolution, is by far the most comprehensive collection of speeches and interviews with FSLN leaders available in English. For that reason alone it belongs on the bookshelf of every socialist. No serious debate on the politics and strategy of the FSL possible without reading it. Despite its length, 398 pages, it consists of 42 separately readable pieces.
This book should knock completely on the head any idea thai the policy of the FSLN is 'empirical' or 'unconscious'. Reading such as Jaime Wheelock's 'The Great Challenge', which is undoubtedly the centrepoint of the book, reveals a perfectly coherent and worked out political strategy.
The key point of that strategy is undoubtedly the primacy of politics. social and economic questions are placed within the • tramework politics and, in that optic, subordinated to them. The FSLN's is an application Lenin's dictum that 'Politics comes before economics, that is the ABC of Marxism.' As the issue is clearly put in the declaration of the third congress of the Sandinista trade union federation (CST), 'the fundamental achievement oi the revolution is the maintainance and defence of revolutionary power,' " he natomenta step taken Nicaraguan workers to carry out the article of by of Women from the FLN militia — just one of the pictures in 'The Sandinista People's Revolution' Socialist Action 14 June 1985 ship of forces is based on a reality. We have the arms, and the people are with us.' The core of the FSLN's policy was the alliance of working class and peasantry — not any strategic alliance with bourgeois forces.
. UnIs framework the much discussed question of the FSLN's tactical relation with bourgeois forces also becomes clear. Daniel Ortega ex plains clearly the FSLN's policy of hegemony in every alliance it created did not negotiate with the bourgeois forces. The FSLN oulined the programme it considered correct in the objective situation and ap proached all forces to carry out its programminic. there is no reason to disbelieve his account, 'at no time was any agreement or political pact made with another political force: even the composition of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction was not accucu as we result ol any pact o agreement made with anothe political group Rather, we called upon persons who were well known nationally ... They were asked: 'This is the Sandinista Front's programme, do you support it?""
Alliances This framework of alliances with the bourgeoisie on specific questions, on terms dictated by the Sandinistas, 1s in way incompatible with classical Marxist positions. Critiques