"historic compromise Spanishestyle", writes AGUIRRE.
rogramme, the new Spanish nol Inlike the French Commo nALER NARS buwRuC maIaE parties and the Covernmene. And unlike the talian name lo the social pact y pum модю oly cul ver their dead bodies, The mor portant points are the agro ent (with estimased 40 per cer Nation for 1977) and a Turin islation.
'ANTI-TERRORIST LAW This agreement coles straieat anct the workine pares had acocprod a stringent "anti-terrorise" law pro posed by the Covereneot in reactioa to the killine af th For te elene od tn Te petar oe the release a nrsoners - Tor that is why the was killed ODvcunly less important thac répres sion of the 'ultra-lel".
The compromise (or betruyal) i: adeed bistone. Ir is por Juse the VICIOIL SEIL WOrDE SS300 lot of the WOKETA parties, the bourgcols nationalt, the governing Einsei Lof the Erl CANE Centre (UCD) and the far tighe Popular Alliance which given the event it sig півсавос T log heen prin TC has long heen pushing severument of national coboenguard againsc a Spanich Pinochet fonse Manuel Frase orte 'democratie TOTEESPopular Allianee and his Francoist cavenen were explicicy exciuded trom chas curegory. The press has rolled out the familiar vocabulary of Eurocommunism to describe the Moncloa pact between the Spanish Government and opposition parties. It was gleefully presented as a 'common programme' or a But the strange logic of para Pinochet-watching i that with Pinochet to try to huy him off. So the PCF signs the same that he will keep liis side of the rudiously resiste ment. Geperal secretary" Gonzalee is reluctant to take on ministeriug thie coonoanic crisis uatil he can command a parliaIOC HAREMERS from-his point of view. Bat the decioa austerity is a nett w LANAICE LEISTY AUN overnment, bur still Spanish capitalism of lis seriou: TIC BHU EESa!
For the ruling class the deal is indispensable. It bas a choice of revitalise the Spanisti demands either a continuation of the present inflationary strategs or austerity mensures designed ne pat the cost of the criss onto the WOrkIn SaNS VERYLATE The problem with the feener is coines thirty years too late. 1 ne intiationary stratery belong lo a period of sconamic boom.
capitalism a time retrenchment, ar the most canU3 DERUEUHEA EELOVCEILS The problem with the alterna tive strategs arking class living standards SCENELIE BESTE movemenr has shown its readi oca lo delend ill position ASE AuSTTaniEEE more successful than the working class os ather country in resisting recent alteipes at austerity.
So the only chance of success for an austerity policy is the co.
operation of the majority partic s the workine class the Com: unist and Socialist Parties. And this is just what the Moncioa pact dots.
JUAN unions has been mixed. celino Camacho, a PCE lede and general scretary of the Workens Commissions, gave th sent, political parties and trade "gentleman" unions to arrive at a solucion ro Dar compa ponto social problems...' He promised his union's support in implemFelipe The nitirnde of the main objecton content ol the accord bat the faci a AE TRave. that they had nor been consulted convince to respect a pact that we negotiate : Sine PSoe and Te las osae Since the UGT i The need to anIcU 0000500] cconom sithin the union), it can be safey 835000 AE moises are just for show. But the union leadersbips will neverhe s find themseives in a qua y. The rank and rile is in mood to decepi such an attack on its living standards, regardless o enn ls CHinLarsar sav.
Tưo weeks ago 800,000 Madrid workers lemmonsrated by all the main union Pederations apar from the anarcho-syndical BL CNT considering that Camacho and can afford high company mast have kopan thai Alhaugh the sated nm of the recession.
masch was a limiced one. doasunds of workers quickle tick the sicgans of Dow with the attack Goveratem and For a WorkCEAUuCEaCI worker Sice there i a highle competilive race ment al tl have been anxicus co show their sconomic militancy and intranburapean she mapr ution to the uat the major unions Bed H orkers Commissions strongly rellect Lie bnes oi thei political parmasters, they bave herween the covern was not lendencic:
1C9C B8E3Sosl «gans LbC BILEIg mass unita recruit als Inns narc CEre rnBRI best militaots to join another union. Camacho's unequivocal rosition on the ract is likely to create another hemorrhage The UGT will want to be in a ронюв to canc agranmgs 9 Camacho's discomtiture, but it can only do that by opposing the Pacl - ano that woujd bring it 80.000 Madid workers answared the call by the trade oniona for an anti-austerty demonstration. Now the wn/an leagers stand porsed lo sapporttheGovernmen/ seconomicpolicy. into conflict with the PSOE. So tbe mose keis concluson is that after their initial protests, all thre major unions will be prepared to ACE URLEAr BEmDL Living standards The PCE and PSOE will argue that austerity is necessary defend democracy. Millions of workers will begin to think thai they did not wage the long fight for democratic rights just so thar the busses could cut their pay and lay them aff. lenoers 01 Enc Communist P9sk the informatin omen excouted by Stalin in recently smuggled out of the USSR. Bu to rehabilitate Bukharin woubd be to admit the political and burcaucratic character of the 1930k murRes PUERTO RICO: Andres Figneraa Cardero, a Puerta Rica political prisoner held for 2 years in the Linited States, has EccI Bncoauas-EC-isE The Puerto Rican independence mavement has greeted th Is a VIctory but Hieneronsuffering from cancer and has only a lew monchi to live Nobel Peace Prize wienners, have consistently rake up the case of the Puerto MICaO pOnca prisoters. although they are the longes standing in the world.
ICELAND: 8,000 state emdocrors, went on strike last week for the fiesi finbe ever DEVIS ATILL which only won the right lo strike two sears apo, bas put in a 35 cent with 35 per cent inflation inprecer THE SPLIT in the French Linior the Lette enstyseo in dopt UE-Lorne 00102101 Series].
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