relied on in the fight for democratic rights. The experience of workers in the rest of Spain will rapidly teach them the same lesson.
CLASS WEAPONS Thus the Spanish working class is already adopting its own class weapons of struggle - mass strikes, mass assemblies and democratic strike committees, self-defence of workers' demonstrations - and not holding back as Carillo would have them do. In contrast to the class collaborationists, the revolutionary militants of the Fourth International in Spain are basing themselves on these class weapons of struggle and fighting to unite the workers' struggles into a general strike which could bring down the dictatorship and conquer the democratic rights which the Spanish workers so desperately want need.
But the policy of class collaborumnist' spying for Franco!
has changed sides in the class war.
interests.
pro-Nazi General Munoz Grandes.
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of democracy will be granted in Spain? A limited democracy that will leave intact, or even strengthen, the main props of capitalist rule; or a thoroughgoing conquest of democratic rights that will strengthen the power of the workers movement to control its destiny?
The capitalists clearly want the first. And the programmes of the Democratic Council and Democratic Platform, based as they are on unity with these capitalists, offer to limit the working class struggle for democracy to those changes which are acceptable to the capitalists.
For example, they would give the capitalists time to organise their political parties and manipulate the electorate; they would leave the police and army of the dictatorship substantially intact; and they would leave reactionaries in key political posts. Such a democracy' would not meet the needs of the Spanish workers, and it would leave the capitalists with enough power both to defend their class interests and to plot a new defeat of the working class which would open the door to a counter-revolutionary return to dictatorship (as the capitalists in Portugal are busy trying to do today).
NEXT WEEK Next week we will look at these points in greater detail, examining the programmes of the Democratic Council and the Democratic Platform, and taking up the question -what sort of democracy for Spain?' with friends like Among the leaders of the Democratic Council and the Democratic Platform who could be sitting on the platform of the 14 February conference are Rafael Calvo Serer from the Council and Ruiz Jimenez from the Platform. The Labour and TUC bureaucrats would Jack Jones, who served in the International Brigade during the Civil War, might find something familiar about Calvo Serer. For the latter spent much of the war in Albacete, the main training centre of the International Brigade: he was there as a 'fifth colBefore the war he had been president of one of the main fascist student organisations, and during the Second World War he edited El Escorial, a fascist newspaper notable for its pro-Nazi views.
Today Calvo Serer is a 'liberal monarchist'. The Communist Party think him a worthy ally of the working class, but there is no reason to believe that this veteran enemy of the Spanish workers Another of the 'stars' who may pop up on 14 February is Joaquin Ruiz Jimenez, leader of the 'left' Christian Democratic Platform.
A former President of Perkins Hispania, subsidiary of the Massey Ferguson multinational, he is a capitalist with wide-spread financial During the 1930s he was a leader of the Catholic far-right and was one of the first Catholic students to join the fascist Falange after the Popular Front won the elections in 1936. During • the Civil War he served as an officer in Franco's forces under the After the fall of Madrid, Ruiz Jimenez became a senior official in some of the 'legal' bodies concerned with carrying out Franco's repression of the working class. He was also involved in the column of veteran fascists that escorted the remains of Falange founder Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera to Madrid, reportedly carrying out executions of political prisoners en route 'in honour of Jose Whatever his political affiliations are today, we can be sure that they are motivated by the desire to protect his financial interests, and Spanish capital as a whole, from the working class.
miles On Saturday 31 January, Lionel on the campus and placed in detor trial while investigations' are carried out and it is decided will be made.
That such arrests were likely to take place nad been oovious from events 25 January, President Kaunda had addressed a demonstration of Lusaka onstrate their support for Zambia's stane on Antold a big campaign afoot to change the course of our revolution. The people aries have infiltrated a number of insututions and companies to cause confusion.
Frank Chitambala, told a similar demoppose une covernments stand on Angola.
Zambian media to a demonstration upied for the entire day by students ition on the Angolan war and render full support to the MPLA. The entire campus was ringed by police, and traffic was diverted in order that travwhich decorated the gates declaring solidarity with the MPLA on radio and TV to declare a 'full state of emergency with immediate ication of Part IT of the Constitution or any literature, ere directly referred to in the statement: •We have saboteurs and subversive VICTORIA FALLS • BOTSWANA export lifeline-the Benguela Railway-his prospects have taken a further turn for the worse. Cliffe, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Zambia, was taken by police from his house ention. The 28 day order allows the detainee to be held without charge whether a further long term order Cliffe's wife Doris was quoted by the Sunday Times of Zambia on 1 FebTuary as stating that the house had been searched for "any literature on Angola".
over the past week. The previous Sunday, secondary school students who marched to ms resacnce al stale House to ucmThere Kaunda declared that there was involved want to upset the revolution.
I know the big powers behind this campaign. We are going to reveal them very Mesa ane In Anom On the same day a member of the Central Committee of the ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP), onstration in Ndola that some "misguided Marxist lecturers' at the University of.
Zambia were inciting students there to атет in use same speech Be made the first ever reference to appear in the which took place on 15 January on the University campus. The latter was occ- zup, all welcome demanding that Zambia change its posFor phone 01-730 5396 ellers would be unaware of the posters Then on 28 January, Kaunda went enect since une country nas been unaci a 'partial state of emergency since Rhodesian UDI in 1965, it was difficult immediately to assess the actual legal implications of the move. But the total eradeffectively suspends civil liberties, allowing the autormies to cheer any premises (TASS) E search any persons, ban the circulation Once again the University was inelements sowing seeds of discord. These RHODE Bulawa This map shows Zambia's vulnerable position in the face of the changing relationship of forces in southern Africa which is emerging out of the Angolan war. With the MPLA on the verge of recapturing completely Kaunda's copper are foreigners or Zambians either working separately or in collaboration to infiltrate institutions... some of our institutions of learning have been infiltrated. Some student groups are like an orchestra with an invisible conductor on the pay roll of a social imperialist power (incidently the first recorded use by Kaunda of the Chinese characterisation of the Soviet Union, which has recently become a stock element in the vocaband Zairean President Mobutu).
Anti-detente Despite the fact that Kaunda's speech also contained reterences to varous economic crimes, involving hoarding of scarce commodities to the detriment of the consumer, it was apparent that the venom of the state was about to be directed against that tiny section of the population which has openly expressed opposition to the whole trend of Zambia's detente policies in southern Africa for the past two years. These have involved a more and more open collaboration with the apartheid regime in South Africa both economically and politically, and have been expressed most clearly in Zambia's attitude to wards the struggles in Zimbabwe (RhodIn the former Kaunda has supported -WHAT'S ONWORKING WOMENS CHARTEH Campaign nationa conference, 10/11 April in Coventry. Open to all boc ies supporting the campaign. Discussion of perspectives lendments to Charter, structures. Credentials tr Lowther Hill, London SE23 1 YS DAY SCHOOL on Portugs: Tam-bom. saturday 14 reb, at North London Poly students Union Tim theatre Holloway ha, London Nt. rims and speak ers trom PVCC, AsC. socialist Charter, workers Action, and LrYs London Hegion Citee. Adr BROADSIDE Mohile Workers Theatre need versatil: • actor, and administrator with trade union experience Committed socialists with long-term perspective. Write 58 Holbein House, Holbein Place, London SW1W8NJ PEOPLES NEWS SERVICE has recently celebrated its Ireland and the world. We include liberation movements. PNS is affiliated to no partici lar political organisation, has no paid staff, and keeps costs to a minimum. Send 22p for sample copy or thou for 1u issue suo. ir you are invoived in a strug gie, send a report for pubication, to rio 19t sing Cross no, London Wol01-00/01021 LUNDON SOCIALISE FORUM: NamiDia-the strug In. Conway Hall, Red Lion Sa 'STOP CUTS-Save Jobs': demo organised by Wes lidlands TUC, Sat 21 Feb. Assemble 10am Digbet/ fic Heter Man Fisher INUPE), Ken Gil BIHVINGHAM ING public meeung on tne Lebanes ENGINEERING VOICE dance, Fri 13 Feb, 8pm, th Golden Eagle. Hill St. Birmincham ENGINEERING VOICE meeting, Weds 25 Feb, at the Beira Special report for Red Weekly by T. NKOLE the efforts of the leader of the tiny petty-bourgeois section of Rhodesia's African population, Nkomo, to reach a constitutional settlement with Smith which cannot conce vaoy emorace me conwar nauon alist demand for 'one man, one vote. In Angola mere nas been a systemalk policy of first ignoring and now playing cown the involvement or soul AlIca and US-backed Zaire in that war. Instead ever increasing attacks are made on the support given to the MPLA by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Nor is Lionel Cliffe the first victim of the consequent purge of foreigners resIdent in CamDa Even Toren our alists of the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times were held in Lusaka under the same emergency regulations.
Lionel Cliffe has a record going back over the past fifteen years of principled support for the liberation of AtTica tom colona me. and was i particular a leading activist in the Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guine in Britain. The urgency of a massive international campaign for freedom for all political prisoners in Zambia is underlined by the sinister implications contained in the following words from Kaunda's 28 January speech: "If you engage in diabolical activities against the state, spoiling and corrupting Zambians... then l pledge to deal with you very firmly and absolutely without mercy. Deportation will only be part of the firm action. GAY WORKERS CONFERENCE: 14/15 Feb at Leeds Pochouse Lane, Led formation Centre, 1534 AGAINST HEALTH CUTS-For a Socialist Health service. Socialist Medical Association conterence. Sat 14 reD, 2-bom, AEU Hall, Holloway Circus, Birming FOR CHEAP. renable iom typesetting witn Tast tur BENGALI FRIENDS in Europe and elsewhere, fo Bengali books and "Srani-Dal-Biplab' (Fourth International paper) contact: Bengali, c/o Internationalen Box 3274, 10365 Stockholm, Sweden DEFEND THE RIGHT To Work badges- 17o includ ino postage from: Jo-Ann. 97 Caledonian Road London N1. Bulk rates on enquiry (01-278 9526). GLASGOW Socialist Forums-every Thursday in the munity Centre, 7.30pm.
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