New rise in movement against
Reagan's war policy
"No NATO! Yes bases out!" Shouting these slogans, more than a million people came onto the streets of the main cities in the Spanish state on the weekend of May 4-5 during Reagan's visit.
Jean-Louis MICHEL
Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo, Saragossa, and
Seville in particular, huge marches formed, showing that the turnaround of the ruling Social Democratic party - the
PSOE — toward support for NATO has in no way diminished the capacity for mobilization of the peace movement.
of the march on the US base at Torrejon the perspective for a new advance of the entire European peace movement, with a more and more conscious radical anti-
After the Easter demonstrations in Great Britain and West Germany, after the May 4 antimissiles day of action in the Netherlands and the anti-Reagan demonstrations May 4-5 in West Germany the tone has been set.
The outery everywhere against Star Wars and its tragic implications in terms of austerity for the European and American peoples, the affirmation of uncondi-
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tional solidarity with the national and mobilizations against the militarization
Nicaragua to Kanaky, including Africa provide the framework for new and decisive antiwar and austerity programs of the European capitalist governments that are grouped in dominant imperialism.
6 meeting, the Paris business daily les wrote: "In almost every case, the aim is to contain inflation, control public spending, promote unemployment, develop technology, and create conditions favorable to private enterprise."
For the Third World, a large part of which is now facing conditions of virtual economic collapse (i.e., the sub-