Last week Red Weekly spoke to a comrade from the LCR, a Spanish sympa thising organisation of the Fourth International. who had returned from Madrid following his participation in the Day of ne contace exoamne now une reron project approved by the Cortes on 18 November represents the continuation of ine overal pointical plans of the spanis! ine Government Hence *The reform project represents the way in which the Spanish bourgeoisie tries to solve the problem of the continuation of ine suke came tom above witour dis Pine sting without changing the important aspects That means wmour ovine an oooonuny fe the masses, for the workers to give a real far greater.
We discussed now the central econo mic and political plan was to gain entry strike. into the Common Market, which involve certain 'democratic' measures to head off and thus satisfy the covernments and capitalists STEP of the Common Market that the workers of Europe would not be 'infected' by the attitudes of the (PCE) and Socialist Party (PSOE), the comrade remarked on the increased willingness of the PSOE to overthrow the dictatorship onecuy win une Governmen •Platform of Democratic Although the PCE also Dancipates in mis booy. it nas made a demagogic left response to the reform proposals in order to win over some of so on.
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The call for the Day of Struggle against the austerity measures has to be seen in the context of this 'left manoeuvWorkers Commissions had actually op posed the original call to action. At the same time as wishine to demonsud that it was able to mobilise workers, the PCE did not want a massive fight against Workers Commissions leaders insisted on the passive character ot the strike, and tne rot in many case: failed to mobilise its own members for "we believe that it tne Day of struggl had become a real general strike, linking the fight back against the Government' economic measures wiin solutions 10 al the problems facing the masses today, then the mobilisation would have been Since ine cean or rranc there have been many millions of workers on strike, far more factories on strike, paniculany in me nort ano inine Basque country, than there were in this 'Nevertheless, we maintain that this day was an important step forward demonstraung that the masses are be coming prepared for the general strike to The call for the strike by the workers Workers Commissions UGT. USO - tailed to take up the que: tion of the political rejection of the regime. The other point is that the call fo 4 nicket of the Cavion Hiah Commiscion in London cunno cussion in Workers Assemblies, without discussion on how to build and organise the strike, how to organise soldanty anc on trial The comrade was quite clear where the responsibility for this defeat lay: It was betrayed by the Workers Commissions the UGT [PSOE union] and the DemocTane coorelation oy men tanute to bunc any solidarity action in the factories of Madrid and in the Metro.
The point which was stressed agair and again was the failure of the reformist parties to understand the central imporTance or boltical cemanos mame November strike. They simply wished to limit the day to a protest action.
SCALE A recent editorial of the LCR DaDe Combate explains how it is only demands such as that for a sliding scale of wares basee on a worKers Cost or VInG index and for work-sharing with no loss of pay which could protect the working class adainst the attacks on their livind standards. These have to be tied to political demands which break with the Tamework or me octatorsno. a tota amnesty for political prisoners, legalisation of all working class organisations immeciate elections o a constuen Assembly and the formation of a Repub lic, and the dissolution of all the repres sive apparatus of the dictatorship FOUGHT analy we aiscusse now sucha ore gramme could be fought for in the referCHOUH constitutional ICTORTIS caree tor to vecember -Ine position o the PCE and the PSOE towards the referendum is not clear are they calling for an abstention, which would be acceptable to the Government, or for a boycott?
We call on the PCE and the PSOE to form a working class front in the whole of the Spanish state to organise boycott of the referendum. The LCR iS organising a mobilisation against the referendum, against the Government's reform plans and for the unity of the class and for working class solutions.