fortnightk, mo. 50, 02 juh 19% of INPRECOR fortnightly information Make sure vou ger vour copy regularly bi £.30, $.25,30Г) other, leads social democracy into genuine consent of the bourgeoisie and respect for the bourgeois state apparatus is partially compauble with the survival of June masses only DEUS OCLUES periods for bourgeois society. When social crats in race or suen a situatiolls to leucal ingly, social contradictions sharpen in such a way that the bourgeoisie seeks to crush the freedom of action and organisation of the HOVCHECHL including that of social democracy itsef. Towards this end, the bourgeoisie uses the permanent state apparatus, of which the repressive apparatThe only means by which to avoid the advent of bloody dictatorships when the objective basis for parliamentary democracy disappears is the extra-parliamentary mobilisation and action of the masses to break the conspirators and their inspirers in reDressIc apparatus of the bourgeoisie. But for the social democrats this is to depart from the terrain of legality" and "consent'. Fixated parliament until five minutes past midnight, they stand powerless before the liquidation of democratic and even breaking this mobilisation during a period of inevitable general class con frontation, the social democratic leaders dig their own graves as well as une grave or democratic rights. The tragic examples of tne rise to power or muel, rranco ane Pinochet attest to the price paid in blood by numanty tor tHis barnamentary creums 'But this can't happen here, where the army has a deep democratic and constitu tional tradition, reply the Williamses and the Callaghans, just as Allende replied in Chile. Really?
Williams's speech come from the 22 Janu ary 1977 issue of The Guardian. On page 24 of the same issue of the same newspaper. under the revealing headline of Unions Helped to Avoid Coup', following report of a speech by trade union leader Jack Jones: years ago we could have easily faced a coup in Britain. The fear of hyperinflation was strong. There was talk or private armie, being assembled. There was talk of the end of democracy..
Mr. Jones insisted that there had been loose a king around unc too concions D. society. He maintains that the people then - "colonel this and captain that" still around and were not concerned about Germany in particular All our quotations from we read the "Two Questioned arterwards take the road to Samar litions for work is grave, this is the surest road to a coup.
Granted, Britain is not yet at that point But Chile in 1973, spain in 195o anc arrived there, in because parliamentary cretinism and refusal to defend democratic rights effectively, thus clearing the way to Under similar conditions which could develop in the future British General Kitson will not be any better than the Chilean General Pinochet An old Arab legend retold by the British author W. Somerset Maugham recounts the story of the servant of a Baghdad merchant who was frightened when he met Death in the market. To escape, he hurries to take the road to Samara. Why did you frighter my servant, the merchant asks Death. didn't mean to frighten him", replies Death. It's just that I was surprised to see him in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him in Samara tonight. Shirley Williams wants to defend democracy'. • AL Ine salO time, she does not want to break with the consent of the bourgeoisie and wants at all costs to respect the law and order" of big capital, upheld by a repressive apparatu which is anti-democratic by nature. Let her
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