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...Juan del Sur, "Rodrigo," 27, told TIME that his neighbors have been warned to vote for the Sandinistas or risk losing their food ration cards. "It's not a fear of repression, as in Somoza's times," says Domingo Sanchez Salgado, presidential candidate of the small Socialist party. "It is a fear of repercussions...
...communist Spartacus Youth League (SYL) stands out on the left, because it has adopted the slogan. "You can't beat Reagan with Democrats" and instead focuses on working class organizing. SYL seeks to form a workers party to raise class struggle to the heights of socialist revolution. Accordingly, their Harvard component, Friends of SYL, works to persuade students to become working-class partisans...
Just this week, a new socialist discussion group was born when D. Joseph Menn '87 received approval for a Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Forum Says Menn, "I think there is only one serious left voice on campus--the Spartacus Youth League. And so I wanted to bring more groups from the Left here, give people an opportunity to hear more views." Menn says he plans a first forum on "the Socialist Left and Democratic elections" for the weekend before the national election...
Nicaraguan battle lines of a different kind seemed to have been drawn irrevocably at a meeting of the 58-nation Socialist International in Rio de Janeiro. Politicians at the meeting tried mightily to broker an agreement between the Sandinistas and their foremost democratic opponent, Arturo Cruz Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed...
Greece these days seems to be of two minds about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Though Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has questioned Greece's place in the alliance, the country remains a member in good standing. Indeed, a government spokesman said last week that Greece would take part in NATO's surveillance of Eastern Europe by U.S. AW ACS radar planes. Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces...