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Although Western Europe is not at the moment a major hotspot in world politics, it is an area where the major international crises today converge in a particularly full the working people are creating a more and more general mood of scepticism and rebelfion, as the strikes in Belgium have shown most notably in the past weeks.
All these elements can come together in the demonstrations against Reagan.
The antimissile demonstrations last fall give an idea of the potential scope of these actions. The
Finally, the example of the Polish workers recent El Salvador demonstrations throughout and acute way.
Reagan's planned visit to the European capitals in the early summer also provides an extraordinarily compact and dramatic focus for these various crises--the crisis of the world capitalist economy, the crisis of imperialism confronted by mass uprisings of the oppressed, and the crisis of the bureaucracies in those countries where capitalism movement has had a major impact on the vanguard throughout northern Europe and in France on the rank and file of the trade unions.
Thus, the mobilizations that will greet Reagan when he comes to Europe in June will have been prepared to a certain extent by the experience of Poland and the demonstrations in defense of the Polish workers
Western Europe are also promising signs. Ten thousand people marched on the U.S. air base of Tempelhof outside West Berlin on March 27. On March 28, 15,000 people marched to the U.S. embassy in London; on March 26, five thousand people rallied outside the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen.
All the articles on Europe in this issue describe growing tensions and frustrations has been abolished. pected to greet Reagan when he comes look- Western Europe also represents a combination The giant demonstrations that are exing for support from his imperialist allies will reflect all these crises.
There continues to be a massive youth radicalization centered around opposition movement.
The movement against the missiles in of major explosive contradictions in the world.
A weakened U.S. imperialism wanted to try to deter the Soviet bureaucracy from givamong broad layers of the population in Western Europe. And the Reagan visit offers an excellent opportunity for expressing them.
Contrary to the truculent U.S. president's intentions, his imperialist junket should project a very graphic picture of the state of ing aid to the colonial revolution by threaten- international capitalist society--crisis and to oppression and the imperialist war drive.
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