Stephen Marks

  • NICARAGUA: 'Every pig has its Saturday'

    MANAGUA — “Every pig has its Saturday” is a popular Nicaraguan saying, which refers to slaughter of fattened pigs on Saturdays for the weekend cooking pot. For former right-wing president Arnoldo Aleman, Saturday seems to

  • NICARAGUA: Sandinistas back to red and black

    MANAGUA — The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) returned to its anti-imperialist symbols and messages at the celebration of the 1979 revolution here on July 19. Pink and yellow, which had been the FSLN's colours in

  • Nicaraguan workers globalise solidarity

    Workers at a maquiladora (foreign-owned assembly plant) in Nicaragua's Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone have defeated an attempt to break their union after a year-long struggle. On May 10, as the result of a court order, the

  • Nicaragua: US fears Sandinista victory

    US government officials have reacted with hostility to the possibility that Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) may be re-elected president of Nicaragua on November 4. US ambassador to Nicaragua,

  • Socialist Alliance launched in Newcastle

    NEWCASTLE — More than 40 people attended the launch of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance on June 15. Participants included students who had taken part in the M1 stock exchange blockades, trade unionists, Latino workers,

  • Latin America's rising anti-globalisation movement

    In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies

  • Workers entitlements: good news, bad news

    NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10. Colrack's parent

  • Steelworker candidate: 'Nationalise BHP'

    Steelworker candidate: 'Nationalise BHP'NEWCASTLE — Geoff Payne, a rigger at the BHP steelworks, is standing as the Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Newcastle. Payne will "challenge the racists who are

  • FSLN vows to continue struggle

    MANAGUA — The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) has dismissed challenges to Nicaragua's recent elections. On November 22 it formally declared Arnoldo Alemán the next president of Nicaragua and announced the composition of

  • Sandinistas call for new elections

    MANAGUA — Thousands of Sandinistas converged on the tomb of Carlos Fonseca, the founder of the FSLN, on November 8, and transformed the anniversary of his death into a protest against the electoral fraud. Sandinista Front (FSLN)

  • 'Virtual reality' in Nicaragua

    MANAGUA — Nicaragua has lived a form of virtual reality since the national elections held on October 20. Widespread accusations of fraud have delayed the final declaration of the results and the "virtual" victory of Arnoldo