mach-beralded "General Strike' in last Friday has done little to deflect Seat from its plan of reform10C200210. cadline writer summed Koen sinke leaves adamaged'. These to maintain the E an Article in the Labour al Marcelino macho. be PCE, stressed that 'we will any clor to meet the grave tuation, but we want it to be is approach on the part of the caders, and their failure to raise for the low turnout and relative re of the "day of struggle'. The most optimistic estimate put the number of strikers at 1½ million - not an impress. ive figure when it is considered that there nave been total snutoowns in tne basqut country alone in recent weeks.
BUL Ine Basque general actions which are worthy of that name -involved the democratic organisation of the workers in mass assemblies, and the raising of demands, such as that for the Lessons There are many lessons to be learnt from the recent defeat of the Madrid bus workers strike. but the leaders of the Workers Commissions and UGT [Socialist Party union] do not want to be taught anything. For example, the bus workers' use of "Unitary Platforms" which bypassed the traditional structures of the fascist unions hold an important message for the democratic organisation of strike action.
Even more strikingly, the bus workers were defeated by the armed intervention of the dictatorship's police. But the reformists drew no lesson for the building or sell-cerence or workers struggies. [m result was that a further 470 workers were arrested last Friday.
against the attacks of the police, and to raise «emanas tor me end or the cheteror ship, would upset the relationship which strikes the Stalinists and social democrats are developing with the Government.
necessary part of the strategy of convincing the Government of the 'seriousness' of the reformist parties in their desire for class collaboration. Equally, building unCh O1 ited action on the admittedly foundations of this strike must be a first step towards the general strike which will bring down the dictatorship 'realism'.
Above all, to argue for democratic to defend it visible than the The failure of last Friday's strike was a modest Jack the regime, une trade union militants.
Socialist leaders -The PSOE is quite happy to accommodate the government - even at its own expense. The government banned the party conference earlier this month sc as not to prejudice the passage of its reforms' through the Cortes. Foreign