SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Impregnable

Socialist Action No. 102, 17 May 1985 · p. 3 of the scan · 406 words

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*Washington because the could serve as a school European countries where the pacifist current is strong' reports Le Monde.

No referendum Spain's Minister Fernando Moran has already called openly for general elections inof a referendum.

for other Will the government drop the Spanish Foreign Since the period.

Germany prepared Bitburg visit, world protest.

Bitburg visit, West Germany have strongest would render obsolete the against Star French partrade and Star Wars As the rise of the German Greeens shows, the SP cannot regard itself a impregnable. The growing vitality of the movement on the streets is a sure sign they will not accept this.

'Now our job', explained oppositionist philosopher Javier Sabada to French daily Liberation, 'is to ensure demonstrations like Sunday's terrain as such, favouring a restructuring of the Spanish left.

ensnared in the Star Wars build up against the Soviet Union, then it must be turned once more into a fortress of anti-communism. That rahabilitating German right wing na tionalism and spring cleaning the Nazi If the price of integrating West US plans is that the butchers of Hitler's SS have now to become 'honest soldiers' then Reagan take that decision That's why he went ahead with his riding the storm of Stone-dead For anyone with eyes to see, this visit should kill stone-dead any illu. sions that there is anything pro. gressive in the EEC or in European capitalisms clashes with the United States. The real problem for Reagan's plans doesn't come from his stitched. up deals with Kohl, but from the op position of the West German working The attempts of Kohl's backers to rahabilitate the Nazi SS has led to a ware of demonstrations throughout West Germany. Encouraged by the ment policies, Nazi veteran's groups increasingly openly held their traditional reunions.

Sunday's elections in Nord Rhein Westphalen, West Germany's industrial Kohl's Christian Democratic Union suffered stunning defeat. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which had attacked both the Bitburg visit and the moves to rehabilitate the SS, had an electoral triumph — gaining an ab. solute majority of the vote.

Reagan's visit to the Bitburg cemetery was no error. It was a sym bol of the American administration's willingness to work with some of the most reactionary forces in Europe.

Read between • the lines of what happened at the Bonn summit, and you'll discover quickly enough why rotting remains perpetrators of the most barbaron crimes in the history of Europe

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