TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN SPAIN
[The following editorial, entitled "Unity: A Step Forward," has teen translated from the November issue of Frente Obrero, a Spanish workers! journal now being edited by a joint board of Frente de Liberacién Popular and the Juventudes Socialistas Revolucionarias.]
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‘Bipat: issue. of a new sequence for Frente Obrero. Why a new sequence? as
For some time we have maintained that the Spanish proletariat feels the need for a revolutionary organization of the vanguard, The creation of this revolutionary party of the proletariat has be-= come the fundamental task.
It is clear, certainly, that an organization based on ideologi-~ cal compromise can never become the revolutionary vanguard; and Marx-
ism constitutes the revolutionary theory of the proletariat, that)... . is, the science that studies the development of human societies, which: must never be confused with any of the dogmatic or "religious" deviations that have appeared, are appearing, and will continue:to © appears - ' The: creation of the Revolutionary Marxist party, vanguard of the proletariat, -we repeat, is the fundamental: task of the revolutionary. militants, The FLP [Frente de Liberacién Popular] cannot be this: party.: The. party cannot and must not be just one more group. The first: steps in its creation presuppose discussion and collaboration among all. the: revolutionary Marxists scattered today in various” organizations.
3 “The party can be built only on the basis of a program that reflects the hictoric interests of the working class; that is, the historic necessity of political leadership by the working class and the- historic necessity for the conquest of the entire political power by the working class. This program will be the platform for ideologieal unity, clarifying the political objectives, without which we will not be. able. to take a single step along the road of the Revolution.
“The: party can be created and consolidated only through political: action; by struggle against the repressive machinery of the regime, by effective propaganda, education of cadres and organization,
It is clear that the party cannot be built with a sectarian spirit, but only. on the basis of theoretical principles that reject Social-Democratic reformism as well as Stalinism and neo=Stalinism (that is, Khrushchevism, or what is appearing now... ).
With this first issue of the new sequence of Frente Obrero we have taken a firm step along the road of unification. In working up this number, comrades of the JSR [Juventudes Socialistas Revolucionarias] and the FLP collaborated; and this collaboration on the theoretical level reflects long and close collaboration in the daily repression under the Franco regime.
Revolutionary Marxist comrades, we are convinced that this is the road to the Revolution, The period of Francots "peace" is coming to an end and the Spanish working class is beginning to become conscious of its own strength. Big capital is uneasy, realizing that the police terror can no longer keep down the workers, It will try to use the tactic that has always given good results; i.e., widening the penetration of bourgeois ideology within the working class, creating confusion and divisions in the working class. In this enterprise, the Catholic hierarchy is actively collaborating through the HOAG: © [Hermandades Obreras de Accién Catélica] and the Joc [Juventudes Obreras Catélicas]. It must be recognized that certain elements in the: FLP: have not been very clear about this. Along with the hierarchy, appear the old currents of Social-Democratic reformism and
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some that are not so old such as the recently organized FUSE [Frente Unido Socialista Espanol]. The Polftica de Reconcilfacién Nacional and the Frentes Nacionales Antifranquistas are also a reflection of . bourgeois ideology in the workers organizations. fo L
Revolusionary Marxist comrades, today we are convinced more than ever of the correctness of the slogan: "Without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionar action, and without a van uard organization there is no revolution.
Long live the party of the working etasst
~ Long live the socialist revolution! |
HELP