different Their sentences were FERMENT 71-11-74 - it is the workers move ment which is on the offensive: The past lew months have been an almost unbroken period of industrial struggle over both material and political demands. Throughout the "Basque region hundreds of thousands of workers have taken up the cause of the politica. prisoners in the dictatorship's jails, many of whom are on hunger strike demanding an immediate amnesty for them all. Despite the personal risk involved, almost a quarter of a million Spaniards havc signed a petition in solidarity with the political prisoners, and calling for an immediate amnesty, This ferment is affecting all sorts of different social groups. Just inst week, Madrid's theatres were shut down as actors and actresses went on strike to back up demands that they be allowed to freely elect their own trade union representalives la demand raised carlier this year by striking Barcelona car workers) Just prior to that, some sou civil servants including several top officials -presented a petition to the Government calling for political reforms.
However, there are several signs that the regime is launching a new in this manifesto, al the main element of Marxist thought were brought together in a simple, popularised form: che theory of the state- The exccurive of the modern common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" international division of labour- The bou warld market given a cosmopolitan charac ter to production and consumption in every country and the necessary growth a the proletariat as the next revolutionary class - Not only nas the bourgeoisie forger the weepions that bring doath to itself:
who are to wield those wapons the mod ern working class-the proletarians.
The secand main advance of this revol utionary manifesto was its evolution of a theory of the revolutionary perty ar the in ternational generator of revolutionary konileden and the centralisinn fodus ol working class interests on a world scale. Lastiy the manifesto stressed the recessin internationalism of the working class, its which has struck foor into the ruling clas of the world whenever it has neen acted upon: Workers of the World Unite!"
1S FEBRUARY, 1839: TOO rOsE TanHesto of the Chartist Convention wat issuad which demanded Universal Suffrage ione man, one-votel for the people of Britain plus other radicat reforms of Partement. This Charter and the unsuccessful ten yea struggle for its ecceptance was one of the most exemplary periods of nasr revolut ionary struggle of the British working-class In 1832, the workers had been betrayed by the Whigs, a bourgeois party whose Refor seror cat poor soled none or the workers' problem, Ata rescht, the Chart ist movement was on independent working