Fascists bomb students

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Party as a mass workers' Local branches of the party do not meet. The party organises no mass actions even of the most diversionary character.

Soares and his henchmen are a leadership without a base.

This is why in the government crisis of December and January, the Socialist government, well aware that it had lost the confidence of the working class, turned for assistance to the right wing capitalist party, the CDS.

Unity of purpose

Soares and his fellow traitors now see their role as hanging onto power with the CDS for as long as they can stick it out. until they are forced into holding elections in which they would inevitabSix students died and 44 were left wounded last week as fascist gangs staged a bomb attack on Istanbul University.

Immediately afterwards the university was occupied by thousands of students, who wete joined by thousands of workers in mass funeral demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara.

Restricted protest

Abdullah Basturk, leader of the 'left' wing trade union confederation DISK has condemned this latest fascist atrocity-but has restricted His main message wa to call on the bourgeois stat to take "measures" against the fascist party.

Collaboration

Basturk's refusal. to mobilise workers in independent struggle against the fascists has been supported by all the reformist and Stalinist parties.

Their calls for bourgeois Prime Minister Ecevit to take action are a clear continuation of their line of Popular Front class collaboration.

Ecevit's response, predictably, was to do no more than enforced by the army if necessary.

Behind the fascist attacks are the preparations of the big capitalists for a major confrontation with the working class as the only way out of their desperate economic crisis, which has already led to a 32.5% currency devaluation, price increases and cuts in state spending.

The devaluation, combined with legislation demanding importers pay an extra 30% to the central bank has hit companies hard.

Defence squads

Ecevit is now planr on credit.

But the latest provocations in Turkey show that the sharpening crisis demands the establishment of workers defence squads to wage armed resistance against the fascists.

The Stalinist and reformist parties must be forced to break trom • ¿cevit. The demand must be for them to form a workers and peasants government independent of the bourgeoisie and its parties.

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