MADRID — Some 2,300 miliTants arcooco tre rurst tracc union conference of the LCR Fourth International. The LC, another Fl group which is in the process of unifying with the LCR, also participated.
In the build-up to the conference, which took place on 1l December, a text outlining the main ideas of the LCR's programme had been discussed by members and sympathisers in hundreds of workplaces. Then they come to Madrid to share their experiences and mark out a clear line of action against the wany aacks on workog cas living standards MOw onen up the way lo a ren. Change in society.
CONTINGENTS The attendance showed that the LCR has the beginnings of a serious implantation working class. Contingents came from all parts of Spain, despite transport problems. About 30 percent came from the Basque country, some 25 per cent from the central region around Madrid, and 15 per cent STRATIOnIS Thirty-six per cent were wofrom satisfactory the per centCOL WOOLLINS IN BE SC against women with jobs outside the CARERS SES AUSTERITY PLAN The background to the conference was the ruling class au infarous Moncloa pact, and ections, which are more or less controlled o the Coveromicat With the former having been signed by the major workers parties, and the latter having already produced a debilitating inter-union rivalry, the conference dealt with the need for class independence, class unity and workers democracy.
Not Jong ago millions of wor kers witnessed a television de bate between the general secre percentage of taries of the Workers CommUGT, which degenerated into a