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This issue completes the first calendar year of "International
The enclosed index shows the range of world news coverage and background articles that we have started to develop in our first eleven months of existence.
But since this issue comes in the midst of the year-end holidays, we decided to present a picture of some general developments in the labor movement in a number of the large industrialized countries and the work of the Fourth International
With the deepening of the world economic crisis, these politics. But the general lines tend to get a bit lost in the flow of everyday life, as is the case for the basic problems of working people. They tend to fade into the background.
The fact that we are focusing on the developments in the labor movement of some of the large imperialist countries that there are not vital things happening in the labor movement of colonial and semi-colonial countries.
This issue goes to press shortly after the massive reemergence of the Argentine labor movement, for example, one of the best organized and most combative in the more than two and a half decades of one repressive military dictatorship after another has tried without success to break
A few weeks ago, however, after nearly seven years of the most brutal dictatorship in Argentine history, a regime that 1.MAI liquidated thirty thousand labor, socialist, and human-rights activists in gangland style, the Argentine unions shut down the key centers with a successful general strike.
In India also, for example, hundreds of thousands of textile workers remain on strike in Bombay after nearly a year, challenging the growth of antilabor repressive legislation in the country that is supposed to be the model of democracy for the
"underdeveloped world." And the Indian Fourth Internationalists are playing an active role in building the strike.
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Some general themes of the radicalization in the past two decades. moreover, have taken on a new form as a result of the economic crisis. That is true for example of the question of
Front cover: Unemployment demonstration in West Germany 'Jobs for all.' (DR)
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Trade-union poster for shorter working week,
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women's liberation. And this issue has a review of the develophow the Spanish and French Fourth Internationalists are dealment of the movement around women's rights in Western ing with the special problems such regimes pose for revolu-
Europe since the onset of the recessions.
tionists and working class activists.
In the recent years, also there have been a few important experiences with reformist governments in the context of the resistance to the employers' offensive in North America.
Taken in all, the articles and documents that follow should economic crisis, even when they are put in office by a powerserve as a background to events that will continue to unfold ful wave of working-class support. One is in France.
in the coming years and be of great importance for the future one is now beginning in Spain in a more explosive economic, social, and political context. The material in this issue shows of the revolutionary movement.
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