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At the recent Congress of Force Oiyrlere (tha refornist trade unions) the Left was divided. One faction, led by Hebert, votet for the "neral" neport of the Right Wing buresucrat, Sothercau, ami for a resolution hostile ta united from action with the Confederation Ganersla du travail (CGT); the other faction voting against the report and the reaclution. And anong the lebert minority, who voted with hin for the bothereay report, were what the Editer of France Gbservateur calle “the ex-Trotelyiste, Renard and Lacbort" Several years ago the Trotslyisi novernent in France suffared a heavy aplite Ever since, until about six vwonthe ago, the Lasibert group put iteelf forward under our name, styling itself Farti Coumuniete Intarimtionaliste, French Section cf the Fourth Interretiomal. The ooufusien was creat, a! and many people teok a long tines to grasp the differences. With the. Algerian revolution, the situation began to, clear, The Larbert group, itr months and years, constituted itgelt the-chanpion of Ueseoll lid), presenting the latter as 4 proletarian leader and the ifMA as being clcee te a bolahavik Forty, Even the Delleimis affair did Tet suffies ta calm the pro- LMA peseions of the Lacbert aroup. Then, when it was no longer possible to ‘defend Messali and his néo=Gallist preposals, ths Laubert group chaerved Bileme on the Algerian revolution, as if it did not exist and as iz it did not donstitute tha nurber ona quastian in Fromh politica. And now the cyele le completed. In Fores Ouvriere the tenarde and Lanberta, whe refused so iuch ee te work-in the Stalinist-led organisations, heave voted for the report of Dotheromi ssees Uanoaforward the eltuation is, alas, all too clear, and ons underetandia why tha Editor of Freanes Observatatur did not hesitate to write: the EX- Trotehyiste eee We my at this stage upefully take a baclward glance at “the copitalation to Stalinien" of which we were suppesedly guilty. We have said sime 19451, long before Stalin's death, that the moveuents directed by the Stalinists would experience great crises - which hive, in fact, been ssathing inside these orgenisations over a Leng periods We Imve aleo :mintained that the currents aceking a revolutiormary solution would hava the tendency te atay im eide the Comamist Farty. From this we concluded that we ought te assist, with all possible means including the presente of revolutiomry Merzists im the Comminist Fertiss, the formation and the develonmient af Left Winges Lacking such an amalysig <= which sventa are daily confirming =- the Benards, shot through with Stalin wophebLa , Inve Preferred to lodga thecselves in the bosou cf an organisation like Force Giyriere. Noy they celebrate the "deuecracy" agaarded then by se.e. voting for the moral report of Botherenau who, like his dsacassel uaster Jouheuz, is the faithful servant of capitalisu.
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The eventa in Brasil cenbime to acecntuate thet rdyres » in Seisivpag, 5
* suburb of faa Poule, there weeson.a amaller scale a rep&tition cf tha epiadde of iiterci, with the sane genera] retreats, ond with = clear aenae shah. tha cl inate w , r iy Lier OG is Fei te Eee 4:63 of revolt Tp appronching the Sloe.
rned mcolpitately to massive arms of rermression. In thie case , the popilation protested apeinat the abeurd inorens in the price cf railway tickets (2ee0n 200 to 750 Cr). he train Lines were bloeked, and the govarmuwnt sent military police to re-establish order. The Ziret attitude of the pelioe forces waa to shoot - this time in the air - and te charge the dencenstraters with oper. bayaonsti.s
fo the growing intensity of the people , sack tins nore inclined te undortaln violent actions, 2140 corresponds an unéadiness anf segresaivensas fron the side oe the qubheritdices es, Which turng to forua of Pepees@ion which ean now Cnly Serre tocrsaocerboete aml intensify the-strucel eo.
Thie an be explaiied by the siniltangoug sgravation of to cieucslus fer wapo dcenamds, with an inerenade Sn the mauber of strikes, growing disturbances in the countey cide , and s critical political situation, pertioulerty since the mitionelisation cf “Zon? ang Shere" of Forto Alegre. An dittediate reperouacion of this censure her beon the-agravation of the national ctrugele for the axproprintion of the: sclectricity trust, especially in [Snas Gerais ard Ferané where tha sarviees are poor. Tha goverment hat not hidcen in slither case it's conplete hostility: toward oo ezpeopriat iong, whilet proposing contiliatoey solutions, But un the case of lime Geralc even the severnmerdal sonmtlict hes ocuplicated itsel?, owing to tha intention of the govarnor tc Intervercin the eoMpany,; and the consequent poplar support raking use of its
Sha ortsis in the sdlitics] sttuation now affeots the whole apparstua of tha state and of tha parties. The eventa ef Witurci hava had a bread political repercuseidn, and weakesad the pesition of the rore radieul nabionalipt Wings 5
the hourgacieic. The deminsal setters observe wits growing aletrust any oo wlthin form of électoral canpiign whish-oould serrs te ntbiliae, eren in-a tinited yay, the masgeea. Fron this flowe the ‘infisned reaistaioe Which met the canieideture ef Lott dn the govermental poriy( Fsn) hatrarchy. Sines the syaats of Hitercd aleotoral support for Lett tae declined in ell perts of the country. On the one hand the popular rage aguinst tha repression and She goverment bas tocled theaa who peadiebed = mage sucears te the bershols canpeigne Evan. the
@ OC. Piha ,once again, withtrow it's support for lin « though leaving the door open for a possible elenge of line at sanc future cates Oo the cther hend haying accentuated the distrust of the nore respongible bourge cisi.gectors toward even a moderately natiomlist mnpelpn - as Ind te be Lott's, The
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+ the sane tine as the Cirs with onee nore proclaiued hinsel? od a candidate , hitcing considurably the Zorcea which had calculated on eupporiine the marehell.
n the other caup there ig no doubt that Janio Quadros beefite by thls erigia, and tends to present hinsel? as .the only vigble carttre for the bourgeciais.
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But one should not forget , that the evolution of the situation dees not favour in ary way the perspective of clections, and that a solution by fores therefor :
. not attenpt- te should not be excluded. There ia ons bourgeois wing which does hide it's intentions for a Coup dlétat, and cives emtouragencnt te a sector cf eb tbs
the trade wilen field = and wlih a tendency to bea cf sbional inportancathd dookers strike in sertbos oontimies, amd has
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engined considerable poliderity th the Tal . beaurceracy, but whet is wore ijuportant, ich nore Topertant, ie outta rat of another ginilar, but rmuéh broader, strike, thot ef the dockers of Lloyd and tha cossteal navigetion af Blo- acne 2000 vorkearee
ae they are the tain pelinte of the economy = the prt of cantes has Been
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tinn one nontheand de.théy considerably agitetce working Tery badly for more tha couttry thecestrikes have great repergussians
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ver by the offerts undertaken batecre thse intermotional monetary fund. Eus fer it will not‘advance fer on this on thie path, as the Di imposes doncitions o: it
that they can nob be applied in the presem altuaticn,
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