anist officers. The Regulation on Military Discipline, dating from the the barracks those won by the workers in the our places of work.
ands. An example of the demands Francisco: The mobilisation of the soldiers, along with the mobilisations outside the barracks (in the factories and on the land) have succeeded in imposing a relationship of forces whereby strict military discipline has been ditched in a number of barracks. Everywhere there have been purges of reactionary, Caet- create anarchy in its midst.
fascist period, still exists in writing but cannot be applied because the balance of forces today favours the soldiers in Antonio: The political rights and democratic freedoms won by the soldiers are, we feel, all too few compared with factories. When we were called up for nat- sion with red flags ional service we lost some if not all of the rights and freedoms we had won at Only through struggles inside the barracks will we really succeed in forcing the top brass to agree to our demwhich they have been forced to accept increasing As for political rights inside the barracks, they hardly exist. If there is now a certain freedom of political discussion it is because we imposed it, and not because the AFM granted it to us.
According to the AFM, we should leave Gastao: our political ideas behind when we ally stal join the army: the army cannot take units it ha sides because political differences would just talke and how But the struggle in the barracks has above all made definite progress in spite of this 28 Septen The AFM claims that the soldiers are going to be enrolled nearer where they the relati live, although that has yet to be imple- improved mented. As for the right to take part in port, diet demonstrations with the workers, that's The te obviously not sanctioned by the top brass vived in 1 But it was possible on 1 May: the sold- to lessen iers were able to take part in the proces ation, as had any e It was on Forbidden ary offen above al!
For meetings we're forbidden to take in the Al part in uniform. But in uniform or not iers as a many soldiers have spoken at meetings That c and some have been jailed for taking part composit in political activities outside the barracks. Before 1