country has been created through the committees to defend the Trotskyist comrades. This defeat is an indication both of the strength and maturity of the Basque working class and of the dramatic gains made by the LCR in recent months.
Since the CALy I 19r3 me organisanon s mem bership has multiplied by six. This year, in particular, the organisation has experincca consacrabic growin and is now a league of several thousand working class militants.
In the Basque country, especially, our comrades play a leading role in the Workers CORHSSIOIS bodies of the working class. It was this development which led the Spanish Government to single out the Fourth International for attack. It was this also which ensured the failure of the Government's plan.
RICHARD CARVER lliga comunista Catalan poster demands release of Basque comrades. revolucionaria A central factor in the weakness of the Stuke on november was ine anure o the Madrid bus workers' strike. This was the most important strike to be lost in the La cereat wnich is ex tremely demoralising for the mass move.
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