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North Socialist Challenge 24 April 1980 By John Smith in Managua 'PUNO en Alto .. Libro Abierto' -Fifst on high ... opened book - is the militant cry of 125,000 young Nicaraguans, organised in the 'Ejercito Popular de (EPA), the fighting 'cultural insurrection' sweeping republic.
Detachments are being sent to every forgotten corner of this land, to teach the illiterate 52 per cent of Nicaraguans, 2¼ million people. how to read and write -a prerequisite for their participation in Ambitious s This ambitious Crusade' has aroused extraordinary enthusiasm among the mass of the people. It occupies a central place in the present phase of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
The literacy crusade has as its central task the consolidation of the revolution. The mobilisation of youth around this task is the complement organisation of workers in the struggle to raise production.
In the towns, it has been the CDS (Sandinista Detence the Sandinista workers union that has played the principal role in recruiting for the EPA and 'Militias Obreras de Alfabetizadores'. In the country it is the ATC (Rural Workers Association) that has allocation and reception of the brigades.
Participation in the crusade is completely voluntary and without payment approximately youth considered eligible have enlisted: of the remainder, most have either failed to receive parental permission, or occupy too central a place in the subsistence of the family to be able to take part. Practical In organising around practical tasks in this way, the mass organisations are developing and consolidating their control over all aspects of the revolutionary piuroso, ao new surial laycis alc laugil now to read and write, so they too will be brought into the mass organisations, increasing their geographical strength over all the land In the word& of Ernesto Cardenal, the Minister of Education centrally responsible for the crusade, much pedagogical with political implications, but it is a political struggle with Alfabetisacion' army of which is this young revolutionary 'Grand National selfCommittees). .and Coll vicicile the organised the per cent of the anti-imperialist ever-present numerical and ignoran the task is not so organisations; The course content is militant Sandinism pedagogical implications!
The youth of Nicaragua played a central role in the guerilla struggle and urban insurrection that toppled the US-backed tyrant and smashed the bourgeois state apparatus last July. In the heat of the fighting the youth have developed a deep political consciousness, which the FSLN leadership have carefully cultivated from the very beginning of Classes are held during and at the end of the working day and they centre on the history of Sandinism and the FSLN; the struggle for workers and peasants control through thew own mass organisations; the struggle for production and the sweeping agrarian reform; the liberation of women; the anti-imperialist character of the revolution; and the struggle for popular education and health.
The teaching material explains the threat of Culle" revolution, in the forms of manipulation , economic dislocation, CIA filtration,' and military aggressio also explains the necessity of the active participation of all workers in the mass the need to consolidate the alliance between the workers and LUCHA CON MILICIAS OBRERAS ALFABETIZADORAS. MOA peasants; and the organic unity of the FSLN vanguard with the masses, so as to present a solid united front against the counter-revolution.
This, speech to brigades at the beginning of the campaign, Sergio Ramirez, member of the coventen keconstruchon marised the message of the crusade as follows:
* The course content is militant Sandinism * We are fighting for a democracy from below, not for electoralism * We are going to bury oppression and injustice.
The first stage of the 'cultural insurrection' will take five months, which time the brigades will return from countryside and their schools and colleges will be reopened. teachers will work inthe fields with their During students, and will be fed and housed by the rural workers. They have other tasks, including the animal and plant life; the teaching of elementary first-aid knowledge; and the organisation of a IMPERIALISMU the assembled summet with total failure "alfabetisation Garcia, after ricada on 21 March:
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