after back-street abortions The main chang exected from the PSOE vi tory is on foreign policy. The Socialists will organise a referendum on Spanish member of NATO, which they oppose. But Gonzalez is precise: •We have never been opposed to NATO we are COLLIS L Spain's joining NATO which is different. And he insists: in hurry tion taken by party leader Carrillo led the PCE to en dorse the various social notably the Moncloa pact, whích im posed wage restraint.
Equally the PCE has order rather workers' militancy, endorsing the repressive police against Basque nationalists.
this situation, policies have often seemed none-too-different those of PSOE.
How then should we assess the overall meaning the PSOE victory?
Unable to go forward on the economic front, faced with all the problems that recession inevitably bring the working class, the Spanish workers have reached for a governmenblems. The middle clas have SECULICU by consolidating the hard righ Thatcherite-Reaganite AF led by Fraga Socialist experidisitsionmenly ter in disillusionment the WOTKCIS The danger that Gonzalez's failure will ultimately become Fraga's victory. Revolutionaries in Spain have the task of continuing to light for rea socialist policies to solve the crisis, to build a left wing alternative "socialist austerity.
FOLLOWING the diplomatic success achieved by the revolutionary government of Nicaragua in getting onto the UN security council, the USA is trying to cover its hostile intentions The us has completed, ma rica arole ri that their efforts to simply harass and undermine the Nicaraguan out of hand with the attempts to disassociate itself from responsibility for the thousands of armed men with the aid of 50 CIA agerits, dozens of retired military and intelligence officers and 20 Argentine military Plans have also been drawn up for the creation 500-man paramilitary force.
Any military intervention uto Nicaragua will be the direct responsibility of Reagan and his henchinen in the CIA. Any pretence that Somocistas have taken over is utter baiderdash. needs your support now.
solidarity Campaign, Compton NI Tel 01-226 6747 Socialist Challenge 5 November 1982
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recruitment of former Somoza troops into the US backed and trained counter-revolutionary
it has put in military camps in Honduras. Florida and California must strike a warning