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Bloody tip

The trial of Garmendia and Otaegui is just the very bloody tip of the iceberg. If the regime is successful in murdering them it already has its other victims lined up: five militants from the Maoist group FRAP, left wing activists Eva Forest and Antonio Duran, and eight Basque militants, including Pedro Beotegui (Wilson'). The sweeping powers and new penalties of the repressive anti-terrorist law

Mass strike

But this repressive policy is not going unopposed. The opening of the trial was greeted by a strike of 60,000 workers in the Basque country; when the death sentence was handed down a further 100,000 came out in protest. Demonstrations have broken out in Basque cities, brutally attacked by the police who have fired on unarmed demonstrators, wounding two.

In 1970 a wave of international and domestic protest prevented the regime executing a group of Basque militants tried and sentenced to death in Burgos. Today the die-hards of the regime mav be more determined to carry

Brutal

Broad sections of the labour movement have demanded that the Spanish Government halt these executions - Jack Jones, Harold Wilson, Michael Foot, the TUC General Coun cil, and the Labour Party Executive.

The regime could carry out the murder of Garmendia and Otaegui at any time within the next few weeks. If - by ruthless and rapid action - it should succeed in catching us off guard and completing this bloody deed, then we must fight to make sure that it is its We must sieze on the wave of revul sion and indignation that will sweep the work ing class movement to mobilise every force possible in solidarity with the other intended victims of the dictatorship.

In one corner of the Iberian peninsula -Portugal - the working class has already smashed the fascist order and embarked on the road'to socialist revolution. If their strug gle can be reinforced by the mighty power of the Spanish working class the socialist forces in the Iberian peninsula will be in an immensely favourable position. This - in the midst of the present capitalist crisis - would not only open the door to the Iberian socialist revolution, but strengthen and inspire the working class forces throughout the continent. paving the way for a socialist Europe. For the sake of our Spanish and Portuguese comrades - and for the sake of our own struggles - - we must mobilise every force at our disposal to solidarise with them in the coming weeks

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WE WE red weekly 4 september 1975

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TUC THE NOOSE - see page 3