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Delegation of National Education Union (NEU) second language teachers from the UK arrives at Augusto Cesar Sandino airport in Managua on 8 August where they were met by ANDEN officers Bernarda Lopez and Indiana Lopez. A joint project based on two-way international solidarity This exchange, that started in 2017, is part of a joint project […]

“Our concept of education is not just about process and exams. It’s about human development, social justice, values and respect for the environment.” Salvador Vanegas, Ministerial Adviser to the President on Education 1990 – 2006 State education the neo-liberal way In 2025 Nicaraguan teachers’ union ANDEN celebrated its 46th anniversary and its unwavering commitment to education as […]

‘Fairtrade is both the bridge and the vehicle that helps us to transform the wellbeing of small scale producers and their families. But there cannot be climate justice without social and economic justice including a fairer market for our products.‘Fatima Ismael, general manager, Union of Cooperatives, SOPPEXCCA. Rosibel González Ruiz, a Fairtrade coffee producer and member […]

Joint statement by Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group. The Trump administration has invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act as a thinly veiled legal pretext to justify the mass expulsion of Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and others. Some deportees have been sent to detention facilities such as the notorious internment camp in Guantanamo Bay – many were […]

After the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, the key priority was building ‘a new model of society based on equality, well being, solidarity and social justice’. The literacy crusade expressed in an integrated way all aspects of this model: eradicating illiteracy; building understanding between Nicaraguans of different classes and backgrounds; gender equality; raising […]

If you asked 100 people in the US or the UK to name the country leading gender equity in the Americas, it’s unlikely anyone would correctly answer Nicaragua. This lack of awareness reflects the success of a decades-long imperialist campaign to discredit and undermine Nicaragua’s remarkable achievements since the 1979 Revolution. The U.S has continuously […]

In 2006, the Nicaraguan people elected a Sandinista government which inherited a country where nearly 50% of the population were living in poverty, the consequence of 16 years of US-backed neo-liberal governments. Since then, Nicaragua has made poverty reduction its top priority, investing in free health care, education, and infrastructure improvements that have clear results. […]

On 22 November, President Biden decided that Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” In doing so he repeated this annual designation from the last Trump administration and will now continue with greater ferocity. US exceptionalism: if the ICJ finds you guilty walk […]

For the US regardless of which administration is in power in Washington, the ‘sin’ of the Nicaraguan people whether in 1984 or 2021, is to elect Sandinista governments. If they choose to do so the punishment will predictably be attempts to use all means possible short of direct invasion to strangle the country, oust the […]

Morning Star, 26 November, 2024. Click here for original article Challenging critics of the Sandinista government, young trade union leader Flavia Ocampo speaks to Roger McKenzie about the nation’s progressive health system and how trade unions have been at the centre of social progress. Flavia Ocampo has an infectious revolutionary spirit. I interviewed the young […]

With the election of Donald Trump as US President and the subsequent appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State,(pictured above) the need for international solidarity not only with Nicaragua, but also with Cuba and Venezuela, is greater than ever. Although the Biden administration continued the US policy of aggression against Nicaragua by imposing a […]

Delegation of National Education Union (NEU) second language teachers from the UK arrives at Augusto Cesar Sandino airport in Managua on 8 August where they were met by ANDEN officers Bernarda Lopez and Indiana Lopez. A joint project based on two-way international solidarity This exchange, that started in 2017, is part of a joint project […]