Jack Jones, Len Murray and other 1UC worthies have just returned from a visit to Spain to promote the Socialist Party's trade union adjunct, the UGT.
Great stress has been laid on the emotional significance of the visit for International Brigade veteran Jack Jones. More important, however, is the specific intervention which this visit made into the politics of the spanish workers move ment. This comes al a ume waen we political options of the PSOE [Socialist Party] and the UGT are narrowing.
The government reform plan supported by the Cortes last week poses for the PSOE the problem of how to give support to the Government without losing its base in the werking class. The UGT, similarly, has been growing far more slowly than the other union organisations.
NAME... class, Jones was able to dodge the problem of how the social democrats should respond to the Government's failure to organisations representing This was a diplomatic way out of a tricky situation, but it does not begin to answer the question of how to build solidarity in Britain with all the organisations Anon, £5.00; S.
Any solidarity movement must start from the fact that the present reforms are no more than window-dressing on the old Francoist regime. The regime and the TO Common Market governments want the to legitimise these 'reforms" in the eyes of Spanish and given By giving sectarian support to these A/C to be debited organisations alone, Jones and Murray are playing the Social Contract game all Payee over again. They, too, are trying to legitimise the orderly transition to a strong state in which the political organisations of ine working class will connue to *Sorting Code No The fight for solidarity in the British labour movement will be a fight against First Payment Due the sectarian plans of the TUC leaders.
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