Frente Obrero

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FO poster. Slogan reads 'Negotiate with the workers - not the contra!'

Frente Obrero (Spanish for 'Workers Front'), a national trade union centre in Nicaragua. FO was founded circa 1972-74, as the trade union wing of the pro-Albanian MAP-ML.

When the National Reconstruction Government was formed on July 19, 1979, FO had one of 33 representatives in the Council of State.[1] As of 1983, it was mainly active in the construction and sugar cane sectors.[2]

Adopting a hardline, anti-revisionist policy on the Sandinistas, starting in 1980 strikes led by the Front occurred in the private sugar mills of San Antonio and Monterrosa, while the Front called for 100% salary increases, started a series of occupations of privately owned lands and industries, sabotaged government-led economic efforts, and advocated the development of "another civil war, this time against the Sandinista Front."[3] Its base of support, however, gradually declined from thereon.

It was dissolved in 1986.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.asamblea.gob.ni/opciones/constituciones/democraticas/democra1.doc
  2. ↑ Revista Envío - El sindicalismo nicaragüense frente a la agresión y la defensa
  3. ↑ George Black, Triumph of the People: The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, New York: ZED Press, 1981, p. 337.