Minority Mundo Obrero' published Moving Moscow conspires against Spain CP

electrical firm regime, the Soviet Party splinter g Czechoslovakia.

NO HOPES RHODESIAN premier Ian Smith answered a Tory invitation to open talks on a settlement of the UDI dispute, by saying: 'I still believe there is little chance of a settlebureaucracy is also backing a Spanish Communist roup which defends the 1968 invasion of This pro-Moscow group is led by General Enrique Lister, a Stalinist military commander during the Civil War. Lister originally voted with the majority of the Spanish Stalinist leadership against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, but TUC still holds back some form of national strike action to defeat the Bill, he said that this was 'a hypothetical thing', he was not 'a crystal-ball gazer', it's not ruled in and it's not ruled out'.

In a statement on Chancellor Barber's cuts, the TUC General Council announce themselves 'shocked by the regressive nature of many of the government's proposals...

'Following so soon after the proposals on industrial relations, the government's economic measures can be seen to form part of a clear pattern,' the statement said, 'one which by conscious intent reverses much of the progress made over the years in the struggle to create a just society.' But no action has yet been considered-even joint action with the Labour Party - by the union leaders. w a S persuaded to change his mind during a visit to Moscow in 1969.

He walked out of a Central Committee meeting on the subject and was expelled along with two other leading members, Eduardo Garcia and Agustin Gomez.

The three men now head a group opposed to the leadership general secretary Santiago Carillo, accusing it of adopting an anti-Soviet' line. The Lister group called Mends a newspaper 'Mundo Obrero'-which is also the name of the official Spanish Communist Party paper published in Paris.

Tuesday's edition British Stalinist paper 'Morning Star' carried a report of the Lister paper's arrival in London, but failed completely mention the Kremlin's backing for the group.

Accusing Lister of publishing phoney "Mundo Obrero"', the 'Star' finds it too embarrassing to mention that his split from the Party was procured by the Kremlin.

The Kremlin's attitude 'to the Spanish CP may be judged the fact that the Party leaders learned of the invasion of Czechoslovakia only from newspapers in Moscow.

When Carillo went to proleading bureauçrat Mikhael Suslov, he was toid:

'When all's said and done, you're only a small Party.'!

The British Communist Party itself, of course, seriously divided on the question. of Czechoslovakia. The •Morning Star's' thoroughly opportunist glossing over these vital issues reflects crisis at the top in British Stalinism too.

AGITATED

The Carillo group in the leadership the Spanish Communist Party is closely tied to the liberal", Republican wing of the bourgeoisie.

This leadership is becoming extremely agitated by the friendly relations opening up SPANISH dictator General Franco has banned the wearing of blue shirts-the Falange (fascist) uniform— at the Madrid rally to commemorate movement's founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera today.

The move is regarded as a calculated insult to the Falange who have been systematically shifted out of positions of influence over the past few years to make way for the Opus Deirepresentatives of the monopolists and big bankers who despise the more plebian Falangists.

between Soviet and E European Stalinism and the Franco regime in Spain.

When the Polish Stalinists sent coal to break the Asturian miners' strike last year, Carillo's group protested.

The split also reflects the growing fighting spirit of the Spanish working class, which is organizing illegally despite Franco's repression and has unleashed an unprecedented wave of strikes.

These developments are symptomatic of the crisis in the Stalinist camp caused not only _by Czechoslovakia, but by the Soviet bureaucracy's own attempts to woo Spanish big business.

At the same time as it supports the Lister group against Carillo's 'official' party, Moscow is moving , closer to full diplomatic relations with Spanish fascism.

The Madrid monarchist paper 'ABC' carried an interview last week with Spanish THE FIRST PHASE of negotiations on Britain's application to enter the Common Market has ended in Luxembourg with both sides agreeing to speed up the timetable for the remaining negotiations.

The chief negotiator for the Six, Walter Scheel, said on Tuesday night the aim is to have the British membership agreement initialled by the end of 1971.

The main political decisions must be taken several months in advance of this date, he added.

Tory negotiator Geoffrey Rippon has approved in principle the document submitted by the Six as a basis for negotiations. The document lists the main outstanding points as: 1. The overall transition timespan for the adjustment of the British economy to the community system. 2. The solution of problems stemming from Britain's financial, economic and monetary situation. 3. The need for a global approach to the problems involved in the transition arrangements. 4. The Six ask Britain to present its position on protective measures for New • Zealand farmers and Commonwealth sugar producers as early as possible.

Transition

Rippon has accepted that there should be one transition period for both industry and agriculture, as the French negotiators have insisted.

He has also agreed • to accept Common Market rules Negotiator Rippon for pricing eggs, bacon and milk-all of which will mean steep price rises for British housewives in the coming period.

Other food prices will also rise-by as much as 25 per cent-when plans go through to turn over British agriculture to an import levy system by 1974.

Abolish

The Tories have agreed to abolish the farm price subsidy and impose a levy on imports from, non-Market countries.

Scheel welcomed this declaration of intent to raise the cost of living with the remark that it was the 'first practical step in the creation of an enlarged community.

Unspoken condition of all the Common Market talks is thạt the Tories forcibly attack living standards and discipline the trade unions. willing to do, as their budget and anti-union plans clearly indicate.

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