EDITORIAL The final months of the 1980s have brought some exciting, historic developments, full of promise for the new decade soon to open.
We have seen the Brazilian Workers Party poll over 12 million votes to come second in the first round of the general election; we have seen the insurgent liberation forces of El Salvador step up their offensive, striking new blows against the ARENA regime; we see the strength of the black working class force political concessions - İncluding the liberation of veteran ANC leaders - from the isolated apartheid regime in South Africa, and the victory of SWAPO in the Namibian elections.
The unbroken resistance of the Palestinian movement continues to thwart their zionist oppressors. Even at home there is bright news, with the resurgence of working class militancy, flying In the face of the 'new realism' which still dominates the labour
But perhaps the most dramatic and unexpected of the movements, and the most promising for socialists, is the mass mobilisation of the working class against stalinist rule in e