RIOT POLICE, carrying machine guns and tear-gas rifles, on the streets of Madrid in preparation for the general strike of First Spanish worker: 'Have you seen "Sovereignty"? They say it now resides with the people."
Second Spanish worker: in that case, don't bother looking any further. They'll have shot it down already.
This cartoon appeared after the recent discourse by Frime minisice suarce on "democracy' and "reform'. Its grim realism has since been confirmed twice more with the murders of a worker in Tenerife and a 21-year-old student in Madrid.
They bring to 33 the number of militants 27 September protesting the killing of a 21 year old student. shot down in the streets of Spain since the death of Franco and the installation of his successor.
But the example of the workers and people of Euskadi (the Basque country) is there for the mass movement throughout September the killing of worker and the maiming of three others set off a general strike.
Impact In some places — notably the province What is the one young nonary mintants.
during the general strike in of Vizcaya, whose capital is Bilbao - its impact was so deep that the gap was almost imperceptible before the seventh and most total general strike since December 1974 shut down Euskadi on 27 September - the first anniversary of the murder by firing squad of five revoluFor the workers of Euskadi - and their comrades throughout the Spanish state -don't forget. Following the shooting of five workers and maiming of 73 others -Vitoria in of crimes March, the whole of Euskadi and thou- grows. sands of workers in other regions rose in outrage. From then on the cry of Vitoria, opposition to the Party members.
•DISOLUCION DEL APARATO JUDICIAL FRANQUISTA (T.O.P. Tribunales Militares...)
• ANULACION DE TODAS LAS LEYES REPRESIVAS •RESPONSABILIDADES A LOS CRIMINALES FRANQUISTAS LCR ETA VI our brothers, we shall not forget you' was to be heard in every major demonstration throughout the Spanish state, with only the name of the town changing as the list against the mass movement The workers are showing implacable fascist armoury repression, and in the process are imposing their own "Sovereignty'. In Bilbao, more than 70,000 workers stayed out to fight for the release of five strike leaders arrested on 14 September. In doing so they ignored a plea to return to work rate as this final assault on the dictatorship begins to take shape. The demand for forces, for the annulment of fascist legislation and the dismantling of fascist tribunals, and for the bringing to justice of the fascist criminals — these are now taking their place at the head of the mass movement's objectives, inseparable from the struggle for amnesty, for a labour amnesty, and for full democratic rights.