Nicaragua: Building the Good Life (Buen Vivir) through popular revolution
NSCAG News | on: Tuesday, 30 March 2021
The following is the transcript of a post by Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, published here with her kind permission:- As I traveled in Nicaragua on the recent Sanctions Kill delegation, one thing was clear, social transformation (revolution) requires both political power and participation by the people. Without political power, revolutionary read moreNSCAG March update
NSCAG News | on: Monday, 29 March 2021
The NSCAG March update is now available! For the latest on forthcoming webinars, briefings and more see here read morePublic sector union UNE celebrates 43rd anniversary
NSCAG News | on: Thursday, 25 March 2021
On 26 March, public sector union UNE (Union Nacional de Empleados) will celebrate its 43rd anniversary. UNE was founded in 1978 under the slogan 'For the Revolutionary State Transformation′ for the purpose of defending the labour rights of Nicaraguan workers. UNE remains committed to affecting state transformations, being a socio-political read moreViolence Against Women: Lessons from Nicaragua
NSCAG News | on: Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Nicaragua under the government of Daniel Ortega and the FSLN is deeply committed to gender equality and is ranked as the world's most gender equal country and highest ranked non-Nordic country according to the World Economic Forum. Constitutional reforms implemented by the Nicaraguan government in May 2014 established a minimum read moreNicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples: Neocolonial ties, autonomous reality -
NSCAG News | on: Monday, 22 March 2021
Between November 11 and 16, 2020, between the passing of Hurricane Eta and the arrival of Hurricane Iota, the Tortilla con Sal media collective visited Nicaragua’s Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean Coast. There they interviewed representatives of different Indigenous and Afro-descendant territorial governments in Siuna, Bilwi, Waspam and community read moreNSCAG webinar 15 April: Regime change comes to the US: A Nicaraguan perspective
NSCAG News | on: Friday, 19 March 2021
NSCAG's next webinar will take place on Thursday 15 April at 6pm UK time. The webinar will highlight the parallels between what occurred during the failed attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018 and what happened in the US in January 2021 and point to how the reactions to both events read more