Peru crisis

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LAST WEEK Peru's Interior Minister resigned from the government, and President Belaunde Terry carried out a major cabinet reshuffle. This crisis in the top ranks of the bosses' government reflects the underlying crisis of the bosses' rule in Peru.

The world capitalist crisis is having a devastating effect on the economy -inflation is at least 80%, and rising; manufacturing industry is suffering 8 severe crisis of profits, which has already led bosses to lay off thousands of workers (one in seven textile jobs have already been destroyed).

Mounting The anger, militancy and resistance working people is mounting. Union leaders have been forced to threaten the government with national protest strikes. Guerilla fighters have stepped up their attacks on the army.

It is clear that many other struggles and developments are not being reported in the capitalist press. In their increasingly desperate efforts to control the masses, the government has already declared martial law over some regions, and launched a wave of repressive attacks.

Opportunist

The Interior Minister resigned after the murder of a student by police, declaring that the 'incident' had 'caused repugnance to my democratic conscience' This opportunist, who has long been happy to serve the bosses in government, now senses that the tide is flowing strongly against Belaunde's regime.

The working people can never rely on such bosses' politicians - no matter how 'democratic' they try to appear, their first concern is always the protection of bosses' rule, which is the root of the poverty and oppression forced on working people.

Jim Farnham Policing The Presidium is openly becoming a policing agency for the bureaucracy within the workers' movement. The victimisation of militants would be a disastrous and morale-destroying enterprise, giving the initiative to the bureaucrats and their Moscow paymasters.

The Polish workers' movement must reject all such attempts by walesay and tell both the bureaucracy and the Parliamentarians that any passing of anti-strike legislation will be met with the contempt deserves.

However-and this is undoubtedly the gravest of all problems-the wildcat strikes and the new militant wave must be channelled and geared to the construction of durable, combative workers power, taking over the production, distribution and maintenance of industry and services.

Salvaging

Only by the eradication of bureaucratic parasitism and irrationality can a workers economic plan provide the possibility of salvaging the economy and preventing the degradation of our class.

So far, the power of the workers has been like a veto, checking all initiatives taken by the bureaucracy, and levelling to dust their most well laid plans.

If Poland is not to be taken down the road of bureaucratic salvationshackled in perpetuity to the IMF and the World Bank, this powerful veto must be turned into an organised democratically power, running society from local to national government level. Due to pressure of space, the third part of John Lister's series of articles 'Marxism and the Polish Revolution' has had to be postponed. alongside militant fascists who are responsible for murders and massacres of workers, leftists and democrats) should have meant that heavier charges were laid against the official party leadership as well as greater political discredit for the But it didn't go this way. After the first sessions of the trial, during which the prosecutor's 1,000 pages of documents were detailed, the judges decided that the 285 fascist killers should be excluded from the NAP trial.

Happy

Cumhuriyet (a pro-RPPEcevit paper with bourgeois radical views) reported that all the fascist leaders were quite happy with this decision.

Turkesh, the leader of the fascist movement then spoke in his own defence against the prosecutor's document and claimed it was prepared from a "Marxist" viewpoint.

He went further, and threatened the prosecutors, saying: "There is a tomorrow of today" and "l would not like to sacrifice the prosecutors. And I don't think that these views are their own product. I think that this documentation was prepared under pressure."

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RPP leader

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A revolutionary 1 ship is needed to these forces in the st to oust the junta, and throw the crisis-t system which the Ge and the fascists see defend

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