Wing for the June strike to be extended to the whole of Spain. now believes that Franco must resign.
a king but by the beginning of a working class revolution in Spain. this repression can stop the coming tall of the dictatorship. political consciousness in Europe.
country in Europe.
REPRESSION Tension in Spain has been rapidly mounting with the approach of the 11 June General Strike in the Basque country. All the indications are that this strike will involve even more workers than the 200,000 who participated in the day of action last December. Revolutionary organisations such as the LCR-ETA (VI),Spanish supporters of the Fourth International, are campaignIn the face of the rising workers' struggle the Franco dictatorship is falling into deeper crisis. Franco himself is already half dead, and as the Observer reporter in Madrid put it, even the regime was shocked by the appearance and obvious senility of the dictator during the state visit of President Ford'. The Government itself is tottering. There are conflicting reports saying either that the Prime Minister Arias is about to resign or that the majority of the Cabinet Meanwhile the dictatorship's insane scheme to replace Franco with a monarchy, whether led by Juan Carlos or the "liberal' Count of Barcelona, trundies on. In fact this whole policy is a fraud - Franco won't be replaced by TEL But even in its death agonies the Spanish dictatorship continues to lash out in all directions. The 'state of emergency' in the Basque country has led to the imprisonment of thousands and the torturing of many hundreds of Bomb attacks have been carried out by the Spanish secret police against Spanish nationalists living in France. A fascist group called the Guerillas of Christ the King' has continued its assassinations of opponents of the New political trials have been taking place in Burgos, and the frame-up trial of Eva Forest and Antonio Duran is imminient. But none of There should be no doubt on the British left that the situation developing in Spain today will usher in the greatest events in European working class history for forty years: In Spain the working class has a far higher social weight than exists even with the militancy in Portugal. The Spanish working class has launched gigantic struggles, including town and regional general strikes, even under the dictatorship. It also has the highest level of The forces of the revolutionary left in Spain are stronger in relation to the reformist parties than in any other The downfall of the Francoist dictatorship will without doubt open up Spain to the working class revolutionary process.