CARVER reports.
The MC is reckoned to be the fourth largest of the Spanish fa left parties, behind the two Macist organisations we lave discussed in previous weeks and were similar to those of the Basque Trotskyists The nucleus of the present MC was leaders of the expelled from ETA, the "liquidationism" - nor the sixties.
Still is implantation is uneven LIke ETA (Vl) irs grearest weicht continues to be Government working ists and the MC who carry the majority of the Workers Com Yet all these gains are now in copardy nons or convesion from Mod ism, its underlying politics have not changed from the days when 3е suppone bren coracoraton of workers' and parties in the MC is still a signatory detunet Democratic Coordina are POPULAR UNITY But the big change came with the Jube election campaign and the announcement of the Torma Doll or 8 Movement of Popusine Uniry. The reference to Alberide was deliberate → he real political model was th JDUPs of Orelo de Carvalho E The principal fault of the far left was suddenly diagnosed a movemenr, launched through the Few organisations can have had as many ideological affilitations as the Communist Movement [MC] in its ten year history. It has moved from Basque nationalism, through New Leftism and "Trotskyism', to Macism and thence to its present undefined leftism. Soon it will add another string to its bow: social democracy. RICHARD •Worker in the In the Class. It is the Trotsky Despite its protesta and organisations between uang clas Platform of MILLIST The Centrism to the For mample the nationnlities and rogions"
determination in the medsum to long term' there are many fundamental orifice.
AC leader Doronsore [eft now Ands /mae/ teemed up with the ma ho would be king: Carios Hugo de Borhon-Parma, the Carlist Pretende to the throne isfightly to his righrl. clections, which would draw in 'the broades popular masses involved in amme which borerod uncas capitalism And the supposed middle way beiween: reformisms can never Have heen more clearly stated rights of liquidationism . whil simultantously refusing them the The night to came in the The "socialist transformation of society" coldes democratic Govemtake place definition of democracy so subdi Not surprisingly the rag-bag of programme were pencrally to th to the right ofthe MC; the Carlists, th Spanish far left MC Socialist Movement (a split from the regional socialist parties), tbe tprmer Communist Party opposition and various odds and ends from the social democratio 1967 the accusation AeBise Basque chauvimm. 1h future MC argued for the unity of the working class of the whole polites ward which springs to mind Basque where the MC formed Euckadika Equenta (Basque Left), along uh a nuther of tender party se Everyone pretended not do notice the contradiction between state-wide position of the MC which denied the Basque right to self-determination, and the position of tbe Euzkadiko Equerra which represented a capitulation worst encesses of senti mencal particularism.
Only the MC iself missed the irony when its members made furious public defences of the politics of the very лане реоріс who had expelied them from The process of polstical liquidation was complete. All that remained was its logical corollary liquidation of the organisa tion itself. Popular Unity collapsed even hefore the cloction took pince. Unabashed, the MC set out on its mation of The MiR, The manuThe monurecocal cheekinese of pinching the Chilean name disguises what is really taking place.
After a brief flirtation with the ACH BE SOLIDE LI Suve kenners hal chosen their target: the regional The trousic. s thar after their cloctoral fiasco Jost of these have been swallowed un by the large social demos Tatie parties the PSOE and PSP.
Where this has not happened, as in Galicia and Valencia the courts thom assiducasly. In country its liquidation into ElA is almost a fore gone conclusion.
UNION WORK The turn has thrown the organisation into crisis, will the virtual work with the LCR in Workers Commissions in favour insede the unions. userged i anne po. sition has the rank and file which could quickly gravitate to revolutionary polilies. Many of ita members will py a crucial roie in the banish revolution. but the MC or MIR — itself can offer nothing. at is poly toe as organisation to confront the sark reality: centrists live in a limho between revolution and refore. They can choose to stay there and coodemn themselves SLDASEKUINE CHISELL -or they can move either way, The ingrained anti-sectarianise move. Sadly they went the wrong