Urban unrest has been increased by influx of peasants from the countryside, forced to flee by fighting as result of Saigon incursions. tinues to spread.
ing people of Spain and the repressive dictatarship that rules the country conIn the wake of the recent wave of ar rests of left-wing actlyists, it is the hospital interns (trainee doctors) who hake beee put on the firing line. In an effort problets.
to break a protest soverent among the interns, the Government has locked out all inters from the public hospitals, denying medical care to thousands.
For some time now the inters have movement.
of the repressive conditions under which they have to work. At the moment they are roquired to obtain a "good conduct' centencate tom the police. This system, of course, is used to blacklist medical The training of elliciear civil servants de dicated to the now political situation:
Their conomic policies seem to be a cross between Sir Keith Joseph anu Har. old Lever. From Joseph comes their sol uticin to inflation: restriction of the rate of issuing money" / From Lever their policies for industry: support and aid through crens and olner incentives for small or large firms who make a positive contribu hon to econome developnient.
But the CP has no real plans for winning way. even these limited reforms In the pust it has continually refused to use the bip mobilisations of the working class (sach as that againse the right-wing offonsive in September) to win any practical gains and it doss not propose to do so now All if can do is wait humbly for handouts from the Armed Forces Movement and the capitalists. But these will be a long The only thing that was new at the Congress was a decision lo semove the students whose political views are not море to сл reense The interns want this systems scrapped. and are also calling for higher pay, repres entation on the boards which select interns for the hospitals, and the right to con vene assembles to discuss their cocon The interas have clocted delegates to negotiate on these demands. But so far the Governmicot authorities have refused to meet them, and instead have adopted these repressive measures to crush the This most recent struggle is another sigh of the real weaknes of the Span ist dictaporsbip, and show the tremendous range of groups that are involved in the Light against is expression dictatorship of the proletar iat" from the CP's progratune. This was dons on the excuse thut the term "dicta torship" would be misunderstood and equated with the years of fascist rule But the simple fact is that the phrase was removed from the CP's programmine because the Party coased to struggle to wards that goal years ago. Today they simply scratch their heads and wonder Cerrainly, the militant Lisbon shipyard workers saw things quite clearly when they marched through the steeets with the sio san repression for the reactionanics-donocrucy for the workers'. The Portuguese CP may have abandoned the dictatorship of the proletarist, but cbe Portuguese sorking class will be driven by the logie of its own struggle co fight for it