WEEKLY Areilza is a veteran Francoist. When the fascist forces captured the key Basque city of Bilbao in 1937, Areilza was hand-picked to run the city for Franco. From 1938 to 1940, a time when tens of thousands of workers were being murdered in cold-blood, Areilza was Franco's Minister of Industry. After the war he represented the dictatorship in key overseas positions - serving as ambassador to Argentina and then the USA at times when these countries were playing a central role in saving the Franco regime from international isolation.
His planned visit comes as the Spanish working class is reaching out to wipe away the remnants of this bloody dictatorship and take into its own hands the means of determining its future. Areilza is a leading figure in the gang of cutthroats who are trying to rob the Spanish workers of this opportunity, backed up by the European capitalist class and their agents in the workers movement like Schmidt in Germany and Wilson in Britain.
DEMOS Thr British left must organise to force the Labour Government to cancel this visit. If it goes ahead, we must ensure that mass demonstrations dog the footsteps of this Francoist butcher wherever he dares to show his face.
ssion in Spain (AGARIS) is calling a meeting of all solidarity committees, political organisations, labour movement bodies and concerned individuals to discuss the organisation of a united campaign in the London area against the Areilza visit.
January at 7.30 p.m. in the Board Room, St. Bride's Foundation Institute, Bride Lane, EC4 (just off Fleet Street).
The International Marxist Group has written to all the major organisations and newspapers of the left suggesting a prelim inary meeting to discuss the organisation or a uniea campaion acainst the Arenzd visit.
movement delegate conference against repression in Spain called by 19 members of the TUC General Council. The Conference is on 14 February from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. at Friends Meeting House Euston Road, London NW1. Credentials ouD are ootainable rom sondarity with the Workers of Spain, National Union of Mineworkers, 222 Euston Road, London NW1 DEMAND the reinstatement of Cartaxo and Ribeiro, the two Portuguese journalists sacked by the BBC.
PICKET their final appeal, Tuesday 27 Jan from 12.45 to 2 p.m. at Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W1.
Organised by the Media Support Group of Portuquese Solidarity Campaign. A direct challenge has been issued to the entire labour and socialist movement in this country by the Spanish dictatorship and the Wilson Government. Jesus Maria de Areilza, Count of Motrico and Foreign Minister of the dictatorship, is planning to pay an official visit to this country next month. This is part of a European-wide jaunt designed to drum up support for the dictatorship from the governments of capitalist Europe.
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