Spain | Socialist Action 1983

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THE Spanish Socialist Party leader, promised one thing before his landslide election in 1982 -El Cambio, 'change. But workers and national minorities change has all been for the worse. In addition to continuing charges of torture and repression against national minorities, the Gonzalez government has introduced open and severe auster!Ly nicasures Since last autumn however a wave of militancy has struck the country. As in France and Britain coal miners have been the forefront, the stronghold of Asturias, fighting against proposed mine closures.

Also involved in have been the steel workers in Valencia and shipyard workers in Galicia. Since the advent of the Gonzalez government there has been a dramatic fall in trade unionism. Now this fall is most marked in the pro-socialist UGT The more combative workers commissions have begun to grow again.

eventually called the decision of the tions with for the which they got nothing.

defeats, a new StriKes has been February and March of this year.