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attacks on their living standards, their trade union independence or their political freedoms.

This is why the Padilla regime continues to maintain hundreds of troops in the mining areas and has enacted various laws to suppress strikes as 'antidemocratic' and 'subversive:

Yet the miners, who have an unparalleled record of struggle and militancy, are still in the process of reorganisation and the working class as a whole remains cautious and disoriented after seven years of vicious dictatorship.

Confusion

This has led to extensive confusion in the face of the Siles' policies of wage increases, nationalist agitation and reintroduction of The spate of strikes that have brought chaos to docks, telecommunications, iron ore mining and a range of other industries in Australia shows no sign of abating.

Last week saw the collapse of talks between the Australian TUC and the extreme right wing Fraser Australian papers are publishing daily lists of strikes to keep readers aware of the reasons for shortages and delays. prescriptions of the reformist wing of the capitalist class will be swept aside as the interests of imperialism return to their most logical and loyal servant-the armed forces.

Thus revolutionaries face two closely connected tasks -to deepen the offensive against the new regime through the multitude of basic demands thrown up by the grinding poverty and oppression of the everyday life of the masses and 1, at the same time, to mobilise for the fight against fascism. Such tasks are at the core of Trotskyism and it is only Trotskyist programme that can respond to them.

The trajectory of Bolivian history has made this clear time and time again.