Schmidt worried by Reagan victory

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Socialist Press Pamphlet ‹ containing analysis of the milit coup by the Bolivian gene Price 32p incl. p&ep from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX West German Bundestag But he, and the French president Giscard d'Estaing, are reportedly very worried by Reagan's win in the United States.

They fear the repercussions it could have on East-West relations-West Germany's "Ostpolitik".

Schmidt will be discussing with Reagan in Washington in the next week or so-recognising that West Germany is at the front of the firing line should Reagan trigger off a military confrontation.

Strike But there are worries for him even at home.

Next month the Postal Workers' Union are to hold a strike ballot, demanding more free time for 200,000 shitt workers.

The will not Germany's economic crisis, with a sharp rise in unemployment.

Outlet

The anti-nuclear lobby is perhaps bigger in West Germany than anywhere else and also provides an outlet for anti-militarist feeling.

This has shown itself in demonstrations of thousands against the "Bundeswehr" (German Armed Forces) jubilee celebrations, which the police have broken up with water cannon.

Earlier this year 250 police and hundreds more civilians were injured in demonstrations against NATO anniversary demonstrations.

Anyone who thought that the "liberal" FDP would be a restraining influence on the "socialist" SDP should look at the changes in the notorious "Berufsverbot" sam e reasons.

Although this vicious legislation against the left has sometimes proved an embarrassment to the SDP, it was the FDP who pushed for liberalising measures to draw distinctions between "'minor" public employees and senior civil servants.

The. FDP also want the abolition of SPD laws which forbid contact between "terrorists" and their lawyers.

Vulnerability

The SPD will not give way on this; but because of their vulnerability, they have had to agree to support FDP amendments to the law.

The Schmidt government, their confidence boosted by the election victory, will not hesitate to attack the working class as the world recession invades even West Germany's economic miracle, and an urgent necessity is the building of a Trotskyist West German cop films demonstrators Turkish bourgeoisie.

It was the strength of this tradition (to which present-day dictator General Even now claims to be loyal) in the ranks of the army officers which, combined with growing discontent of the masses, persuaded the top generals to overthrow the corrupt Menderes regime on 27 May 1960-with the demagogic pledge to repair and replace the full independence of the nation.

The same pressures forced the generals to put forward a democratic constitution that was supported overwhelmingly when put to a national vote.

The right to strike however was not recognised for another three years, and then only with limitations. Nevertheless throughout this period there were many strikes and occupations.

Impetus

It was this working class movement and mass radicalisation of the working masses and students that gave impetus and life to the last drops of Kemalist blood in the ranks of the army, forming the character of the 1960 coup.

But the "radical' phase did he Us for tre i lodis, in sewith for US bases on, Turkish soil, were started immediately after the coup.

A radical rebellion in a military school was smashed, showing imperialism that the Kemalist ideology was only the rhetoric that came from a regime that in practice ensured Turkey was a reliable and subservient "ally".

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