Ecevit wins Ecevit by 10 vores

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A right wing motion of no confidence in Ecevit was narrowly defeated by 216 votes to 226 last week.

This gives a temporary respite to the crisis-wracked regime which both the fascists and the right wing parties are determined to see overthrown and replaced by direct military rule.

Massacre

Despite their talk, the fascists have no intention of removing Ecevit by peaceful, parliamentary means.

The recent fascist massacre of religious and national minorities in Karamanmaras shows the scale of the determination of imperialism and its chosen agents to secure a stable foothold in the Middle East as the upheavals in Iran continue to escalate.

This is why the latest trip by Ecevit's Finance Minister, touting an empty begging bowl around the western governments pleading for an emergency fund (between $1 billion and $15 billion per year for five years) to stabilise the economy has no chance of success.

Ecevit himself has met total failure in repeated similar tours.

The IMF and the imperialist nations-themselves confronting major aconomic crises-regard demoratic rule in Turkey as an expensive luxury which they are not prepared to finance.

Fascists

Rather they look to the fascists and the military as the means to maintain capitalism in Turkey, by attacking the powerful Turkish mobilising politically and organisationally against Ecevit's bourgeois government, its reactionary martial law crackdown, and its anti-working class policies.

The demand must be for a united front of working class parties and trade unions against the fascistmilitary onslaught, the building of defence squads to protect the working class and its organisations against violent attack, and the struggle for a workers and peasants government in Such a perspective is opposed by the existing leadership of the workers' movement-who remain in a bloc with Ecevit and the bourgeois RPP.

The building of a revolutonary party in lurkey based on the independent strength and interests of the working class is the vital task of the hour.

After six weeks of localised strike action, the Steelworkers of West Germany are now facing the latest and most serious threat of a sell-out by their leaders.

Last week Eugen Loderer and the other officials of IG Metall called a further 20,000 workers out on strike.

But they went on to a new round of intense negotiations with the employers with the eager mediation of the Labour Minister of the North RhineWestphalia state government.

In 15 hours of furious searching for a compromise, the union leaders completely abandoned their demand for a 35hour mock-supposedly the heart of the diapute on which there could be no compromise!

But Loderer came out of this session confident that he could sell the deal to his members.

The proposed settlement offers a tiny wage increase, with even sailer increases holidays in compensation for unsocial shifts.

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ICIALIST PRESS, Wednesday January 10 1979