Trotskyists launch Danish paper
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Moroccan coast.
Little to it Suarez has so far profited from his Sahara campaign the French imper¡alists have very little to show for their more costly investment.
French military training has built up the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies, and last year jets from the French armed forces bombed and strafed the Sahara to strengthen their war of aggression.
But the military involvement of French imperialism in Africa (Sahara, Chad, Zaire) has provoked growing resistance from the French working class. At the same time, . President Giscard could derive little comfort from the progress of the war.
Far from being obliterated, the Polisario has been able to extend its military activity into southern Morocco, and inflict considerable defeats on Hassan's army.
This situation The Trotskyist Workers League, a newly-formed Danish organisation in political solidarity with the League, chose May Day for the highly successful launching of their paper Trotskistisk Synspunkt (Trotskyist Viewpoint).
Issue number one-containing articles on the Danish government's intervention into the new pay contracts; Iran; the Danish CP and Stalinism; an interview with members of the Danish Left Socialists; and an analysis of pay struggles by brewery workers-sold rapidly on the large Copenhagen May Day March organised by left groups outside the One feature article called for a boycott of the coming EEC elections while another examined the splits and divisions that had emerged within the Pabioite "United" Secretariat of the Fourth International over the wars between Stalinist states in South East Asia.
Fortnightly
The Danish USFI section, the RSF, has recently been forced to pull back from weekly publication of their paper KlassenKampen to a fortnightly schedule. and to postpone the planned transformation of the RSF into the Socialist Workers Party.
RSF members showed a keen interest in the new Trotskyist paper.
Emerging at a time of growing militancy in the Danish working class, and a profound crisis in both the Social Democratic and Stalinist Communist Parties, the Trotskyist Workers League has real opportunities for political work in the coming period.
And by challenging the political confusion among RSF and other left groups, it will play an important role in furthering the struggle for the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth International.