[The following debate on the character of the Nicaraguan revolution was printed in a joint supplement to the October 21 issue of Rouge and the October 22 issue of Lutte Ouvière.
[Rouge is the weekly newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), French section of the Fourth International. Lutte Ouvière (Workers Struggle) is the weekly newspaper of the group of the same name, an organization that describes itself as Trotskyist. Both newspapers are published in Paris. Together they publish a joint supplement monthly. The translations are by Intercontinental Press.
(The first article presents the standpoint of Lutte Ouvière, and the second that of the LCR.]
Sandinista leaders stood fast against imperialism. They also invoke the fact that faced with the desertion of a certain number of representatives of the bourgeoisie who went into opposition, including armed opposition, the Sandinista leaders have not been afraid to mobilize the peasants and the workers. They invoke the fact that the regime has an unquestionable popular consensus behind it.