- The Worker' Commissions have raised What is behind it? Is it a tactical turn by the CP to back up its political manoeuvres through a controlled mobi lisation of the masses?
The "poneral coordination of the Werktrolled by the C7. has launchod a call for a peneral strike for the end of September or the beginning of Ocober, but has not yes sit a definite date, Ir's intended to he a twenty-four bour poncral strike for limited objectives. There is no question of taking over the work places on that ilay The demands advanced lave to do orship Thus initiative by the Cl is a res ponse to the real alitiney of ine worker PeT WeCk) for all and an attempt to channel that antitancy the dictatorship us on the control bourprois sectan in order to force them in to a political agreement. Dul in any cuse will have trouble controlling pompletely A lot depends on the ability of the evolutionary organisations to mollese the workers vanpuand around militant fiscad inobilination apainst the dictatorship since the strugeles against the Bur gos trials in December 1970.
-What will he the LCR-ETA(VI)'s res ponse to this worsening of the crisis of the dictatorshsp, to the sickness and imitical offensee of the CP:
But in the current situation. our political The most remarkable thing about the almost without a murmur.
It was remarkable. and yet at the same time entirely in keeping with what had gone before. For every step taken by the mulitary since the original mutiny at Asmara on 26 February has been marked by a cautions determination to avoid any kind of open clash.
There are, of course, very pood political rcasons for this, What is taking place in Ethiopia today is nothing less than a gradual shatt in political power from one away from the feudal landowners towards the tops as or on coetn' bourecoisie. The last thing either side coloradan, when could provide a cus tor The masses to crupc anto the stage of events ant alter their ding lion TRUMP CARD The fact that the masses, both peasants and workers am way an Ine wigs 135 indeed been the trump card used by the mallary to force the old negine slowly up.
milant demonstrations by striking workers and stucet in Addis Ahaba in mid-February which tingly persuaded the than ripe to tsue a first cautious challenge Latd Then it had seemed from the aursue last the elabolite and impressive State apneratus bull up over so many years by Haile Selasse might still be able to cope. sut in reality its base of support had been laresly worn away: hy the unsuccessful attempts lo put down the revol in the prownce or Hatrea, wacte the Eriteen Liberation Front claimed to This has provided an opportunity for the Communist Party to launch a new project for class collaboration - the Junta Democratica (Democratic Council!. The aim is to form an alliance with a substantial section of the capitalists, assuring them that as in Portugal this will be the best way to keep the working class under control and protect their profits.
So far only a fow insignificant bourgeois remnants have joined the Junta Democratica, however. So the CP is proposing to put pressure on the others through some limited industrial action this autumn. Below, a leading member of the LCRETA (VI), a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International in Spain, explains in a recent interview how innuence and our capacity for unterven the slogan of a general strike for this aut tion are not at all neptipible.
Obviously, me support the calling of the pencral strike We are poing 1o try to convince the workers to organise guneral asscmbles and cleesed commines in their serk places in order to condines Commssions, which is anentially cod the organs of struggle that have emergod amang other sectors Istadents, loacheb high schoolers und with the workers organsations, so as to construct a rep resentative leadership capable of making the pencral strike as powerful as possi Ne and of carrying out street demon strations in all the big cities.
We will propose a platform of strep across the board wage increase of forty-hour work-week. rcintegration of fired workers.
Ircedom for political prisoners. freedom of ascmbly, strikes and one acil dctermination in Euzkadi (the Basque country) and Catalonia, dissolution of the specialised repressins Moreover, we are wacing a campelon around lie arransomon or scipuciery 0l struggles and demonstrations. for the over throw of the dictatorship through a revolutionary general strike, and for the establishment of a worker government.
With the impending genecal strike, a united policy is sure than ever necessary: in the first place within the Workers Com missions, hur also antone the revolutionary pending death of Franco, and to the pol organisations to detend a class struggle position against the reformists This cer Our organisation stil har limited farce the workers organisations against the die- tainly means fighting for the unity of all Istorship. control twithinds of the territory in 1972: hy the effocts of world-wide inflation. particularly on the urban masses; and mast recently, by the totally inadequate 0a331 sponse characterisco man Dy it corruption and mismanagement-to arcas of the country in 1933 On 26 February the military made its first moves, Just two days fator the Cabinet madcu by akia Hapte Wold respmed aller fourteen yous in office The step vot the reine 02s alain for alta sd US IMPERIALISM Yet the mititary had to cread delicarely On the one hand, the most enthusiastic backer of the feudal order has always been L5 imporialism: Ethiopia recenes 505 of al Usad to since and L5 ilerest contrel 75% of coffee exports as well as emportact holdings in the mining and industrial sectors, So while quietly arresting individuals of the aristocracy, the mos was carctul not to make any outright attack on their position, or to
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for the succession has ensued. revolutionaries are responding to this development.
fall of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie last week was that he went
Spanish dictator Franco appears to have recovered from his recent ill- nass, but his death cannot now be far off. A frantic scramble by dif- ferent sections of the capitalist class to get into position to challenge
with the struggle spainst the high cod of de inchilinz demand ike Isit for annely, and against the dictat 5,000 pesetas a month tapprox. 29