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far, proved worthy minions of the State Department.

They have not hesitated to kill workers in clearing occupations of factories in and around In last week's Danish elections the workers' parties received a majority of the votes but because of the way the seats are allocated, ended up with a minority of seats.

The Social Democrats are forming a minority government. This will not resolve the crisis of Danish capitalism and certainly will not resolve the problems of the working class-since the main plank of leader Anker Joergensen's policy was a social contract with the unions similar to Callaghan's.

The election took place after the breakup of the Social Democrats' coalition with the Liberals. The result is only a slight increase in each of these parties' seats-four extra to the Social Democrats and one for the Liberals.

There can be no doubt that the Joergensen government will enter its crisis long before the four year social contract with the unions is completed.

The major event of the election was the loss by the Danish Communist Party of all seven of its seats.

This comes because of the development of a major crisis within the CP.

The leadership have taken an extreme rightward course and on town councils like Copenhagen have voted with the Social Democrats in such measures as increasing nursery places by 10% with no extra staff or buildings.

There have been a number of splits and expulsions of leading figures who have, often only half-heartedly, opposed some of the CP's actions.

Clearly the Danish electorate did not see the CP as any alternative to the self-confessed reformist workers' parties. every day in clashes between the army and popular demonstrations. colonels have sought a demo cratic" face by announcing "radical reforms" , establishing a civilian cabinet and stocking it with eminent bourgeois 'democrats.

CP Ministers

The new government of Roman Mayorga is composed mainly of Christian and Social Democrats drawn from the PDC and MNR-but it also contains two ministers from the Communist Party.

The open enthusiasm of the Stalinists to enter the bourgeois government, assisting a regime that is totally reliant upon the military and which is daily executing militant workers, is the legacy of the Communist Party's explicit ten-year alliance with the democratic' forces of capital in El Salvador.

Washington

Not a word of consternation has been voiced about the role of these "Communists" by the, mandarins of Washington.

But the CP has incurred the wrath of El Salvador workers. The new CP Labour Minister' Gabriel Gallegos, has begun his term of office in uncomfortable BELIZE EL SALVADOR Pacific Ocean style by being held hostage in his own Ministry by some 100 members of the BPR (Bloque Popular Revolucionario) who are demanding the release of all remaining political prisoners.

The government claims there are no political prisoners left. If this is true it means that hundreds of militants have been summarily executed in the last ten days.

The issue of political prisoners is the only one upon which the popular organisations are united.

Caribbean Sea Managua COSTA RICA FAPU, despite having had several members shot by the army in the last few days, has issued no public statement on the government, but is reliably reported to be in discussion with it.

The Bloque, on the other hand, has announced full oppos ition to the regime-but produced no concrete demands or programme and has limited itself to its traditional guerrillaist tactics of kidnapping and occupation of the cathedral in demand for the release of the prisoners.

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