AROUND THE WORLD faxed to 2 86 89 26 or 2 86 89 76 with prior notification to Sr. Raul Escobar, telephone no: 5 78 15 56. Alfonso Moro * BRITAIN "Outlook for Socialism Over 400 people attended Socialist Outlook's main event of the year, organized around the theme "The Socialist Outlook for Europe" in December 1989. People came to a series of workshops and plenary sessions that focussed around the momentous events in Eastern Europe and the process of European integration around 1992, featuring speakers from all over Europe
The weekend opened with a rally, "The Crisis of Stalinism". An impressive platform of speakers - including Gunter Minnerup, editor of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe; and a speaker from October Review, journal of the Fourth International in Hong Kong — dissected the crisis of Stalinism. The highlight of the rally was the closing speech from Ernest Mandel, recently returned from a tour of meetings in East Germany and Poland.
While those attending the event were able to hear a series of speakers in the plenary sessions: Socialists and gay struggles in Europe; women's struggles in Europe; they were also able to discuss particluar aspects of these themes in greater depth in workshops.The event finished with a debate between Socialist Outlook and left Labour MP Ken Livingstone. * expelled them from the factory and detained three of
İNTERNATiØNAL them, leading to the outcome mentioned above. Now the workers are occupying the two plants that the multinational company has in the Valley of Mexico, and is getting
MARXISTREVIEW ready to put up a firm defence of their source of work, their economic demands and their control over
The conflict had its origin last December when the plant announced an (illegal) cut of some 70% in the Christmas bonus, and, furthermore, that there would be a very low profit share, even though Ford Mexico is the third largest exporting enterprise and has a high rate of expansion. The firm argued that the reduction in Christmas bonus corresponded that had not been remitted previously, in this way making the workers pay for its own mistakes. This was the origin of the increased when their leader, instead of
Special issue on the national question in the USSR
- The national question in Soviet
— Antonio Moscato
• National questions in Yugoslavia
- Catherine Verla
• Stalinism, the national question and separatism in the USSR
— Oliver MacDonald
• A social and universal question
- Ivan Dzyuba
• For the independence of Soviet
Ukraine - Zbigniew Kowalewski
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tified the firm's actions.
Before this open betrayal by their leader,
Please make cheques payable to "PEC". Bank transfers to PEC, BNP Robespierre the workers had already taken steps to get rid of him. But from the first moment they have run up against the open collaboration between the firm and Uriarte, who has done everything he could to restrain the workers, with the sorry results previously
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Unjust Cause
International Viewpoint #177 • January 29, 1990
PANAMA THE invasion of the Republic of Panama by United States troops, ordered by George Bush on December 20,1989, has dealt a heavy blow to the aspirations for peace of the peoples of Latin America. With this new act of interference, the US has shown clearly that it has no respect for the accords reached in Central America aimed at assuring self-determination and represents a serious threat to all hope of a durable peace in the strife-torn region. ALFONSO MORO
T HE invasion is a continuation of
the "big stick" since the time of President Monroe in the early 19th century. The US proclaimed itself the "guardian of democracy" and took upon itself the right to overthrow and replace according to the interests of big capital. The name given to the Panama operation — Just Cause — is not an empty formula. It contains an enormous ideological make acceptable something that everybody who understands democracy should reject: the intention to decide for other people who should govern them.
Tenth imperialist agression of century