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Oil war is 'now distant and that then is no plan more reasonable, than that of the restoration of the democratic state'.

Among the parties which the Declaration credits with opposition to the dictatorship' are both the Carlists and Opus Dei.

The Spanish CP's policy, therefor is far more than a repetition of the Popular Front with which Stalin destroyed the Spanish revolution in 1936-9. The "Junta Democratica' already embraces capitalist parties far to the right of those in the Republic's government on the eve of Franco's revolt in 1936.

The class essence, however, remains the same - to check the independent movement of the masses and strangle the worker's revolution in the name of 'unity with all supposedly anti-fascist elemer This is the Spanish CP's concept of the "peaceful road to socialism - an alliance with the representati ives of the bourgeoisie.

Not even Franco's officer corps is excluded - the declaration appeals to the patriotism and professional honour of the armed forces. Thus the tragic lessons of Chile are kept from the Spanish worker, and the class nature of the army is obscured.

The fascists too, have learnt from the 1930's and they know that the defeat of the Spanish Social Revolution will require not only armed repression, but treachery in the leadership of the workers' movement.

The most urgent task facing class conscious Spanish workers and socialists is to ensure that the lessons of the counter-revolutionary tole of Stalinism in Spain in 193639 are learnt to the full. This mear it is necessary to build a revolutionary Trotskyist party to lead the fight against fascism on a class basis.

Luis Echeverria is President of Mexico. Last week he was standing on a red carpet at Mexico City airport weicoming the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on their state visit to Latin American countries The week before Echeverria was the keynote speaker at the third session of the International Investigative Commission of the Crimes of the Chilean Military unta, being held in Mexico City hundred and thirty delegated largely Stalinists and Social Democrats - from thirty-live countries were in attendance. The American press carried photographs of Echeverria embracing Mrs. Allende widow of the murdered Popular Unity Chilean president.

Opening the investigation', he said for reasons of ethics and of survival itself, Latin America cannot remain unmoved by situations such as those which have arisen from the overthrow of the regime headed by Salvador Allende, whos memory 1 exalt today before you and the entire world.

What's odd about this? Only that, according to former CIA officer in Mexico Philip Agee (author of an expose of the CIA reviewed in Socialist Press of February 20th) Echeverria has also had other. 'unofficial responsibilities.

According to Mr. Agee he was or the CIA's payroll (with the codename LITEMPO) in 1968. In October of that year he was Minister of Internal Security, directly responsible for the Army intervention against left-wing studen demonstrations in which several hundred were killed.

Even the CIA chief of station in Mexico at that time thought that Echeverria had 'overreacted' on trades unionists, teachers and students, and the sacking of shops whose owners were suspected of left-wing sympathies.

One dead and twenty-nine woun ded was the toll in Malatya, ir eastern Turkey, and similar pogror whipped up with the aid of Muslim religious fanaticism and anti-communism, took place in the other cities of the Anatolia region The moving force behind the attacks was the fascist National Front, formed last year by the merging of four extreme right-wir tendencies, and unofficially encot raged by the Irmak government.

But while the fascists ran not in the more backward eastern areas of the country, massive marches and demonstrations took place in the western cities, mainly led by the Stalinist-influenced TOB-DER (All-teachers" unity and solidarity association).

In Izmir, on the Agean coast 20.000 marched gainst inflation and unemployment in mid-Februar There were similar demonstrations in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.

The Irmak regime is finding itself unable to use the occupation of Cyprus as a diversion from the economic crisis now gripping Turkey.

The cost of living increased by abou 30 per cent last year, and urban baemployment rose to about 2 million with a further estimater 3 million in the countryside.

It is to deal with this situation that the governmert continues to enforce laws a curfew in the major cities.

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Right-wing violence erupted in over fifty Turkish cities during February, with attacks