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Workers Press no. 193, 23 June 1970 · scan page 5

Topics: Spain, Portugal and Greece, Communist Party and Stalinism, Soviet Union

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TWENTY - FIVE thousand building workers in the area round Seville, in SW Spain, were on strike at the weekend for wage increases as part of a new national labour contract.

The strike, which started a week ago, spread rapidly and by Friday involved three-quarters of the workers in the area.

Police intervened against a demonstration in the centre of Seville, arresting 14 Three policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators were injured. to Stalin'.

Stalin's corpse was removed from the Lenin mausoleum after the first public admission of his crimes against the Bolshevik Party and the working class, made during the 1961 22nd Party Congress.

The • year following campaign and persecution against leading dissident intellectuals.

STOOD GROUND But unlike the dark days of the three Moscow Trials, when the entire international working class hac fascism fascism ten to stalinists be and ROBERT BLACK trayal, those put on trial stood their ground and refused to withdraw their charges against the bureaucracy and its repression of cultural freedom.

Over the last two years, the anti-bureaucratic movement has moved on to a higher plane.

Groups of workers have been drawn into the opposition, and strikes have been reported from key industrial areas like Kiev.

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Union has also been openly upheld by other antiStalinists like Kosterin and Grigorenko. And despite intensified persecutions, the movement grows stronger and cuts deeper into the youth and working class.

The bureaucracy realizes that 1970 is not 1937—the year of the 'Great Purge'. Its return to Stalin has to proceed by a series of manoeuvres.

It is not yet able to stage massive 'show trials' either in Moscow or Prague-so it builds a monument to the mahnique pioneered untere man of counterrevolution and repression instead. • Another aspect of the Kremlin pro-Stalin. campaign is the recent release of a set of gramophone records on Lenin, with speeches by his wife and This is the first set of records to reproduce Stalin's voice since the 1956 20th Congress of the CPSU.

(As a final artistic touch, his bust is currently being displayed in a Moscow Academy.)

Stalin is being revived and honoured at home while the bureaucracy extends a hand of friendship abroad to the Greek colonels, to the Spanish fascists, the Portuguese colonialists and the pro-US regime in Cambodia.

Their strategy is counterrevolution all along the line.

But this time, with revo lutionary leadership, the Soviet and international working class can win.