Captured T.54 tank supplied to Morocco by Egypt, and taken by Polisario near Labouriat, South Morocco Photo: GEORGE LEVANTIS
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Their struggle declaration, is stil of various ETA(Military), Yet if Herri THE first elections to the Basque have resulted spectacular defeat for the Union of the Centre (UCD), the governing party in the Spanish state, which shows that its policy of limited autonomy' cannot satisfy the national aspirations of the Basque people.
The run-up to the elections was marked by a new rise of national and social struggle in Euskadi, as the Basque country is known, with strikes against factory closures and the 'social pact' (a version of Britain's social contract) and demonstrations for the release launched an offensive in an assault on a military convoy and the death of five civil guards. The government responded with an 'antidecree and massive repression The result: UCD lost over half the votes it received in the elections to the Madrid relegating the party to fifth place, with less than 10 per cent of the votes The socialists and the Communist Party, which openly supported the government's anti-Basque policy, also lost a significant votes. They had furiously attacked the left nationalist parties and the 'the industrial bourgeoisie in achieved an impressive victory, allowing it to form a government on its own.
A few weeks earlier it had withdrawn from the Madrid parliament in protest at the limitations Basque At the same time, the negative character of ETA(Military)'s armed offensive and the divisions among the left nationalists allowed the PNV to appear as the only 'responsible' Herri Batasuna (The People United), the second beneficiary in the elections, is a front parties linked ideologically to which during the campaign that it wouldn't take up its seats in the Basque parliament.
Batasuna maintains this boycott, much of the political capital that it has gained will be lost, giving a margin of manoeuvre to the PNV and to the UCD LKI, the Euskadi Trotskyists, pointed this out in its election campaign, calling on Herri Batasuna to defend class and national intersts in the Basque parliament.