Nicaraguan Socialist Party

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Nicaraguan Socialist Party
anti-fascist ally.[1]

History

In the mid-1960s the

FSLN
(which had its origins in PSN), PSN was gradually side-lined.

In 1967 a group of radicals who opted for armed struggle were expelled. They formed the Socialist Workers Party.

In 1974 PSN joined UDEL.[1]

From 1976 onwards there was a PSN breakaway group, called the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (de los Sánchez).

Towards the end of the Somoza regime, PSN constructed the Organización Militar del Pueblo (Military Organization of the People). OMP carried out a few attacks against the regime.

In 1990 PSN joined hands with right-wing forces in the National Opposition Union to topple the Sandinista government. PSN still exists, but is no longer a communist party per se.

PSN publishes El Popular.

For the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, it joined with the Sandinista Renovation Movement.

References

  1. ^ a b Foroohar, Manzar. The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua. SUNY Press, 1989. p. 101-102
  2. ^ Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H.. Communism and Economic Development, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 1. (Mar., 1968), pp. 122.