A government so concerned with keeping the imaginary bourgeois allies of the Popular Front on its side ignored a basic truth: civil war is won not by arms alone but by political weapons ine peasant army or rranco could nave been undermined by tne granting of land to those who till it; the rebel base of Morocco could have been snatched away by the granting of independence. Instead the reformists courted in vain the capitalists of Britain and France. who stayed aloof, and the capitalists of pain wno were the real victors or ine As the writer Georce orwer. wne fought in the POUM militia, observed: "A government which sends boys of fifteen to the front with rifles forty years old and keeps its biggest men and newest weapons in the rear, is manifestly more afraid of revolution than of the fascists." version of 'shuttle diplomacy' in a personal attempt to reconcile the Syrians with the PLO and imoniv severa hundred more Svrian of 'tens of men' Jalloud himself.
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Workers at St Matthews hospital in mpts to close the kitchens (Photo: News Line) died. will bury Il WEEKLY The Prime Minister of Spain, Arias Navarro, was sacked last week by King Juan Carlos. But his replacement by Adolpho Suarez spells out no good news for the working class.
Suarez was appointed as Minister of the Falangist National Movement late last year just before Franco Nice try, Will. Perhaps if you start now vou mieht be able to get something organised for the 50th anniversary.
-Kulthe vancnester conterence was not all sorry apologies and empty speeches.
Carlos Elvira, representing the Spanish Workers' Commissions, explained to the delegates what sort of solidarity the Spanish workers really need. Telegrams and collections of money were