Trotskyisn and the Mass Movement

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JULY 20-27 1980 *TROTSKYISM AND THE TRADE UNIONS: USA in the 1930s. France in the 1930s. The postwar struggle to build *TROTSKYISM, STALINISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. The struggle for the Fl against Stalinism in the 1930s. Lessons for the period of entry into social democracy in *TROTSKY ISM AND THE FIGHT AGAINST SEXUAL THE FIGHT FOR A TROTSKYIST YOUTH MOVEMENT •RECONSTRUCT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL The school will be attended by delegations from the organisations affiliated to the TILC and members of the WSL. A special invitation is being extended to supporters of the WSL to take part in the discussion and learn more about Details are available from any WSL branch or from: WSL, Cost: £12 including accomodation for the eight days. A cheap meal will be provided at lunch time and there will be Eight days of lectures uestions of Marx ism and 1 ourth Internatior ral.

Trotskyist parties in the working class.

France and the USA.

TROTSKYISM AND THE FIGHT LIBERATION OPPRESSION. "TROTSKYISM MOVEJENTS Evening events. the WSL and the TILC.

BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX.

a pooled fare arrangement. Creche facilities.

and discussion o he fight to reconst additional presence in the disparate and still largely uncontrolled peas antry (which continue to derive its leadership principally from the priesthood since there is a vast shortage of rural administrators) and to discipline and militarise the youths who have gone to teach them to read and write.

But Robelo's departure was not spurred by mere individual whim. It comes at a time when the domestic bourgeoisie, encouraged by US imperialism, is increasingly coming into conflict with the Sandinista apparatus. growers have deliberately held back from sowing in March and April, and there have been great shortages of beans, eggs and meat, with many traders indulging in speculation.

A major industrial dispute has developed in La Prensa, the liberal daily owned by the Chamorro family, who have fined the pro-FSLN business manager with the result that the workers came out in demand of his reinstatement.

The dispute is politically important since the bourgeoisie is making it an issue of 'freedom of expression" and COSEP, have a record no better than that of their • counterparts throughout the world, but the CAUS-led strike of 2,000 factory workers for a pay rise last month reflects the very real pressure on the regime from the working class.

The FO itself, although small and under constant threat from the FSLN, has led an important sugar workers' strike and even the Sandinista-sponsored peasant union (ATC) held a major demonstration to demand formal expropriation of land 'intervened' after the overthrow of Somoza. bound up with the struggles in El Salvador and Guatemala in particular.

But it is also directly determined by Carter's cold war policies as imperialism searches desperately for means to maintain its offensive.

The departure of Vance may well allow the 'hawks' of the Pentagon more space for their designs in Central| America. But this will force the bonapartist FSLN regime into an increasingly tight position from which it will be incapable of extracting itself.