in Spain.
Rebuilding He stressed that the central force in rebuilding the workers movement has been the Workers Commissions, organisations which were born out of the struggle for independent unions against the fascist vertical syndicates. Nevertheless, Montes strongly favours the unification of the trade union movement. We are aware of two very important factors, both of which point in the direction of an eventual united trade union for all Spanish workers. One is tnis great conscious" ness of the need for unity which is Labour Relations of six months wages, political reasons.
good reason to know this.
are a real challenge to all single and workers', is the suspension of Article 35 of the Law. fixed redundancy payments at a minimum and was desiSOD tO workers by establishing a measure of security in employment and therefore, so the reasoning went, industrial peace. Of course it never stopped dismissals for Basilio Montes, who lost his job in a Basque steelworks because or nis activity. has The suspension of Article 35 will result in a massive increase in unemployment, which is already running at more than a million. 'These measures Spanish sale Montes. 'and will be This is true, of course, implication which Montes misses is that this argues for a reliance on the independent self-organisation of the masses. He rejects the idea of class united front for the present. "A lot would have to change if this were to be achieved, 'polarisation is not so much between the working class and the bourgeoisie as between those who want a democratic regime and those who don't.' Montes sees the rise of the mass struggle as cementing the inter-class alliance of the Democratic ation. He sees the formation of the Coordination as flowing directly out but the since Coordinstating explicitly about the rev Interview with BASILIO MONTES, member of the Spanish Wor of the Vitoria murders earlier this year. *Faced with five savage murders no section of the opposition could avoid that ine IN would have to go. Otherwise would have been left naked in fro the masses.
This is a novel emphasis in in eting the Vitoria events, which marked by the advanced nature demands and forms of organis adopted. Their importance lay! fact that a general strike led b revolutionary left went far beyon bounds of the PCE and bour reform project.
Opposite significance of pr events would seem to be the opp of Montes' analysis. The Coordin is creaking under the strain of mobilisations Chancie viability of a 'negotiated break the dictatorship Demands like the dissolution repressive forces which have raised in many recent struggle rejected by the PCE, the main behind the Coordination, they threaten to scare away its geois allies. Montes unequiv supported this demand, but d seem to understand that it threa to tear apart the alliance of whi organisation, the MC, is part Clearly the MC strategy is subordinated to class collabor Asked 80OU OCSOCCEE building a revolutionary party, , N said that 'in the short term I doi possibility the diffe between the parties of the left a great".
Although the Coordination plays la secondary role in the s of the working class', he sees oration with the 'democratic b