issued through the daily papers by the COs, the 'unitied trade union bod bureaucratically set up in July by a pact between the leaderships of the UGT and USO (the two Socialist trade unions) and the national secretariat of the Workers Commissions, which has a disproportionately high number of Communist This bold self-assertion by the mass movement - with the prodigious weight or tne maustral proletantal al is nead -has had its repercussions within the class. collaborationist Coordinacion Democra tica (a pact between the Communist and Socialist Parties and a number of bour geois ponticians). ine cos rejeenon o the Suarez terms cannot disguise the emphasis placed by the bourgeois fractions within it on the speech's "positive aspects", while the CP reiterates the absolute necessity of a 'national pact with the "democratic sectors' of the regime, and the centrists naively call for a general strike to force the regime into a 'democratic pact with the opposition.
The general strike that will smash the is, now more than ever, within reach of the Spanish working class. Its success will depend on unity in the factories and work places, in university assemblies, and in the neighbourhoods a unity which poses a clear choice to the relormist workers' leaderships: prepare the final push against the crumbling edifice of the dictatorship, or else make way for those who will.
David Gardner NEXT WEEK: LCR/ETA VI, Spanish sympathising organisation of the 'goes public rourn nematonal. with conference report. the factories once again. And to those