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Spanish prisoners call for solidarity

· Red Weekly No. 86, 30 January 1975 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 792 words

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assist them technically. seed snake has found its way.

yaw for Heat of respect, in demands which attack capitalist property rights - all this confines that the van guard tole in the strugale to overthrow the dictatorship is being taken by a work- stamp out any response to the arbitrary working class which is oducating itself in socialist democracy and learning how to run its own future organs of power.

Alongside this working class offensive, other sections of the people are also beg inning to come out more clearly apainst the dictatorship. The oppressed nation alities are stepping up their struggle against the contralising oppression; in Euzkadi (the Hasque country) the struggle is of a particularly dramatic nature because of the ferocity with which che dictatordip liberation,, The university and school students are lighting against plans which unsalaried workers, to the profit of the capitalists. The Liberal professions - particularly doctors and young lawyers - are refusing to allow their actrities to he submitted to political control The peasants have shown, through their strugele over the price of milk and peppors, hew they view the dictatorship, which has negected them and done nothing to The sacking of Pio Cabanilias - Minister of Information- and the resignation of Horrera Irime - Finance Minister- are the most recent events in the disintegration of of the bourgeois polltical bioe, a process which was accelerated with the execution or Carrero Blanco - who was cospunsible in his mosstion as President of the Inhuna apainst Freemasonry and Communist, for the murder of thorsands of workers. Thi process do costne aton goes super WiEn cach event which rocks the country. The capitalist class, united in the past under the today like a chicken-run into which a The execution of Salvador Paig Antich (anarchist militant sentenced to death by the dictatorsdip last your and executed by garatting the murders of revolotionary nationalists in Euzkadi, the attacks (with fire arms) against popular demonstration - snow the too or the mean. to dictates of the capitalists, and liquidate all those who oppose the class rule of the bourgeoisie.

But if bullets are the last resort of Depression, they ane not its only tools: prison sentences of 12 to 20 years for the Jeaders of the National Coordinating Committee of the Workers' Commitions [underground trade unions] a body which the working class forged in the course of its strugeles; the monatrous sentences which military courts impose on those who resort to direct actior aguinst a state which uses the methods number imprisoned for political offences, requiring the opening of new prisons and the packing of political prisoners into the old ones.

The conditions of political prsoners in the jails of the cletatorship are another Link in this chain of repression: monstrou penalties, had treatment, censorship bs the prison authorities in addition to the Spanish state censorship, denia of any modical troatment, denlal of any privat contacts with their families, All these repressive policies, in the dictatorship's grave even deeper. The murders, the imprisonments, the pers ecutions, only add to the debte of the dictatorship which, we are sure, will have to be paid very soon.

Faced with chis siluation, the politica prisoners consider it their duty to take part in the offensive against 25 years of dictatorship in the struggle for:

*The rights to freely amerble, dem onstrate and slice *Freedom for the peoples oppressed by Francoist centralism *Freedom for political prisoners and TWO DEA OTHE *Dissolution of all spocial repressive state forces *The overthrow of the dictatonship ANDONI ARRIZABALAGA

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destruction ol tuc cunEurope dunng Wat left Linited alism in a position I-domination over the The American ull of statements to t that the coming decades ¡thie "American century'.

very size and speed of the ion of US capitalism, however, rat economically necessary for mited States to rebaild the econs of Western Europe and Japan i capitalist basis. This would ide outlets for trade and, above mestment of the massive sums plas capital generated inside U5 ссолоту.

At the same time, vast areas of vorld in Eastern Europe and passed out of the world market ag hammer blows-both econoI political-to the shrinking ist world, This situation banking, insurance, the special role of sterling and so on, centralised in the City of London-was particularly hit. For a considerable time these invixihle" items of trade had carried the balance of pay ments-now they were also beine being undermined.

It was this forced shift from financial to industrial capital and to the concentration and monopolisation of industry that led decisive sections of big business to support the return of u Labour Govermment in 1964.

COUNTE BEFORE PARTY

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