Young Socialist branches.
for the IMG (shown speaking in photo). More than 3,000 anti-fascist militants staged a counter-rally against the National Front Front's march throug Hackney last Saturday. The counter-rally, organised by Hack Hackney Trades Council and the Hackney Cormittee Against Racialism, was supported by a large number of trades councils, union branches, and a delegation trom the shop stewards committee of Yarrows shipyards in Glasgow. Large contingents from the various left organisations, also marched together with several Labour Party The large number of speakers included Sid Bidwell MP, two local councillors, Stewart Maclennan — who spoke on behalf of the defendants arrested following the police riot at Kingston Halls, Glasgow- and Julian Atkinson mass mobilisations in a number of centres tions organised by the Eva Forest collective and an occupation of Notre Dame cathedral.
continues. Demonstrations against the death penalties in many places have been broken up by the police (Guardia Civil), and a young militant -23 - was shot dead in Bilbao. At least five other demonstrators have also been shot over the past few days. These militants never even had a 'trial. They were simply shot down in cold blood for demonstrating.
But even in the face of such vicious repression the Spanish workers are defiantly keeping up their fight against the dictatorship in a determined effort to free Garmendia and Otaegui and thus call a halt to the regime's wave of terror. More than 280 political prisoners in eight Spanish jails have gone on hunger strike. In Algorta, an industrial suburb of Bilbao, more than