up a machine gun post. A: 2pm the garrison commander declared martial the demonstration. During the afternoon four demonstrators were shot dead and fifteen were wounded.
The military junta was Several HECHHOCTS emerged from a meeting stating that 10 pe handedover torna civilians. The Minister of television to call for calm and assure country shat the military were still in control.
The day the government resigned and announced that the ConWE WILL WAS COOLE 1980 would be reconvened. The Democratica Popular, coalition of left parties in the Congress. announced that it would accept the responsibility of being the next legitimate There was some ficulty in reconvening the Congress since the unte had destroyed the records of the clection and many members had gone into exile to avoid the repression following the coup. However the Congress was WHEN the revolutionary Russia began to seriously develop in the 1890s and 1900s they immediately found themselves confronted with a fundamental strategic and tactical problem. This was what attitude they should take to the reformist working class and capitalist forces which confronted them?
Marxists. Marx and Engels confronted a similar one at the very beginning of their political ac tivity in the 1840s. organisations were only a few hundred people very large capitalist parties and movements. There were also working class organisations much larger than the revolutionary ones.
Marx outlined clearly in the Communist Manifesto the answer the question of what attitude to take to these oner oreos. as always Lie answer which Marx gave was a class one. As we can tion of The working politics working class very simply, 'Communists ...have no infrom the working class as a whole as the Communist Manifesto put it.
But Marx pointed out that this defence of the interests of the working class organisations in This was however not a new question for At that time the Marxist in the whole of Europe. They were faced with involved two interrelate but different problems the interests of the working class in the immediate strungles it is pursuing and laced with. These includ example SUCH questions as the struggle to de fend wages, to defend the welfare tight nemployment, to comb tions, to gain the right to abortion, and to achieve reforms within the existing system.
Secondly however the revolutionaries have to defend not only these immediate interests of the working class but also it historical class goals as a whole. These include such internatonal working class terests and all the issues and struggles leading up to and including the socialist revolution Marx explained the relation between these immediate and overall historical. needs of working class very simply "The Communists do now set up ans sectarian principles of their own which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
Communists are other working class partics by this only:
(1) In the national struggles countries, they point and bring to the front the interests of the dependently of all паtionality.
(2) In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working, class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
Therefore. The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.
From this flows a fundamental question of working class politics. On TCVOILTONETCS would defend the interests of the working class right up to and including socialist revolution. But cumstances other force might struggle whatever reasons ano matter how hesitantly for similar immediate goals to those the working class was struggling for itself.
In these circumstances revolutionaries had to seek the maximum forces this clude, necessary, entering into united action TOTES: achieve immediate objectives of the working class Liberals Thus for example in relation to the German Iiberals who WETC the Nasser's and Khomeini's or his dav Marx wrote that revolutionaries must "never cease. even for a single instant to instill in to the working class the clearest possible recogntion of the hostile antagonism between the bourgeoisie and Ene proletariat.
But nevertheless, 'they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever acts in the absolute monarchy, the feudal squierarchy: and the petty bourgeoisie.
This necessity of united action, the united front, was lo become a decisive part of Marxist politics.
*All quotations in this week's article a from article the Com-