Militants call for national strike, SMASH THE TORIES ON ALL FRONIS that the Warming continent close cictatorship was in indigenous IMG TO FIELD 3 CANDIDATES on the regimes that the The reverses a self- NOW one-sided oI Ine PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION ALL OUT AGAINST THE SPANISH SMASH States.
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working class saw influence.
order.
right-wing re-elected to years of the new decade.
mass unemployment contain in the samé way.
From 1970-74 the undeterred by majority many workers abetted every inch of the way by the United Within a fortnight thousands of trade unionists and leftists had been butchered in cold neighbouring Argentina a state unleashed a bloodbath Brazil, however, the phenomenal increase in the size of the urban the birth Illas. oppositions, which continue to grow in size anc It was the instability of capitalist Europe which worried the general staff of imperialism. For if the fortifications were breached anywhere in Western Europe the effects on a głobal scale would be catastrophic for the capitalist socia defeat Portuguese revolution in November 1975 inaugurated a temporary stability. In country after country governments were elected office: Spain, Italy Sweden, Britain, Portugal. A victory for Straus: in West Germany would (if it occurred) cast long shadow over the whole continent in the firs The hold of bourgeois democracy and mas: reformism proved to be a winning combinatior for the Western European ruling class — thougt and the continuin economic recession are bound in the next ter years to create fissures which it will be difficult te In Britain the beginning of the Seventies saw : build-up of steam inside the labour movemen against the policies of the Heath government working class constitutional niceties, led sustained struggle against the Tories. The fall o Heath in 1974 led to two general elections, fron which Labour emerged victorious, but the smal secured disappeared Nonetheless the election of a Labour governmen on the heels of a mass working class upsurge le to believe that the Labou would at least implement som They were to disappointed. Neither the Wilson nor Callagha
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