opposition its leadership this opposition is both national and local porters. ALAIN KRIVINE reports. THE background of the emergence of this opposition is the crisis that the PCF has been suffering for over two years. There are four chief reasons why this LISA has emerged openly:
Firstly the the Left' Socialist tarianism.
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Thirdly, the PCF support the Soviet questions such with Jaruzelski's bureaucratic Malui c of Alternative La revolution, document represent alteropposition dared to write renovateurs emphasise they for revolution, the country.
struggles the Nicaraguan South signincantly, describe as the fights •SUcalled socialist Culunes. plunged into internal crisis by the emergence of an grouped around manifesto entitled La Revolution, camarades! ('The revolution, comrades!') The best known leader of Pierre Juquin. Entitled the "renovateurs' (renewers) the oppositión has support not only among the PCF's individual members but in the trade unions, its local council members, and in its Central Committee. The renovateurs have taken the unprecedented step, for the PCF, of organising coordination of its supby there of unclarity •CAample, unclear about what the bourgeois of reform which is the question Hasterr Solidarnosc. explains that in a certain soulse puts Gorbe. this is both because reasons; the renovateurs about Jai ly can be significant have They have set renovateurs, with departments (counties). They hold tional dinations, also The discuss revoluwill organise debates all the main towns of France, as well as internal discussions French Communist Party leader, George Marchais open only to PCF members.
Despite their lack of political homogeneity this is a current going in a left direction. They CreeL unt Socialist Party as an alternative. Moreover, ther have declared openly in total support for the recent strike waves or students. railworkers, electricity workers in rrance.
where all dination.
filiation of cells factory the east cells tany communist worker cell at in France. the components that make Com- eecle• •|ficials, look at cies inside senes regional leaders; unionists - including even some leading members of the French Communist trade union the CGT; intellectuals; and a development various structures of the CP joining the coordination. cluding some workers' cells The opposition has taken initiatives which inCalle themselves an alterHalive POF leadersh the used tol example the official sign an appeal for an antiracist demonstration on 15 March against the new nationality laws until a few The PCF turnaround only the march. Havocucu •ecause pressure the renovateurs, who had declared their support for the two weeks carner.
Two other initiatives taken by the opposition threaten speed developments.
Alain Amicable has been put forward openly as a member of the opposition, with the support of cells and PCF members locally, canadale by-election in the steelworknorth-east Amicable was previously first secretary the departmental federation of the PCF, is a worker who is well-known and respected for his leading role in the fight against redundancies and closures in the steel industry in 1979 and 1984. The official leadership does not recognise him as the PCF candidate but has decided not present their own candidate against him, which is clear indication of the existing relation of forces in the area.
In Brittany around 300 members OI the most of them workers and let received s, hir have not received PCF membership cards. They have now split, separate Communist Party in Brittanv. with their owi newspaper, dues, and so forth. They have decided to construct their organisation locally on the basis of the renovateurs manifesto. Moreover they are officially members of the national coordination, wilch means me opposi tion is also organising people who do not blay, vi walliot stay. Ill lilt Undoubtedly these developments accelerate processes when the coordination is not ye well politically unclear about its importance is clear. The crisis within the PCF will be a central feature of the decompositon and recom position the French workers' movement. The emergence or me opposttion has created hope tor thousands people on the left - who have become disenchanted will lue party and offers the possibility for building a really credible mass revolutionary alterNative here real climate of attente, (waiting), in France today. • Edited from International Viewpoint.
The new tide of industrial is couraging greater unity within the Spanish trade movement. The unions in Spain are divid along ponuca. Ines with two principle federa LUIS the Communis Party led Workers' Commissions and the Socialist Party dominated General Workers Union (UGT)
The elections last December significant shift. towards the Workers' Commissions as well as umonisa tion of firms signalled potentially going to be a rough one for the govern ment. Workers' Commissions leader, Marcelino Camacho deserted the results as 'a plebiscite on the COll omic policy which been backed by the UGT. Philippines have been killed in new clashes with the 750 kilometres south of Manila.
IMF. President Aquino suggested that members of the military, loyal to deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos, could be behind the planting of a bomb in the military academy which killed four people two weeks ago. She denounced Marcos supporters as being bent on destabilising the government and also rejected a US defence secretary's claims that her government is not seriously fighting the Communist guerrillas. Eighteen government soldiers were reported to Communist guerrillas in the Misanis province, Meanwhile, the Philippines has reached an agreement with international banks to reschedule a $13.2 billion debt package. This means sterner austerity policies and closer cooperation with the