which is why That evening and the following day mass demonstrations took place all across the city Chrysler car plant in the industrial suburb of Villaverde, thousands of engineering workers demonstrated in the city centre, 3.000 demonstrated in the industria suburb of Getafe. 1,000 mobilised in the street-market. and 4.000 workers and students demonstrated after a football these demonstrations was brutally attacked by the dictatorship's police, using tear-gas grenades and baton-charges.
the death of Franco when workers from a number of multi-nationals, including Chrysler and the ITT subsidiary Standard Electric, started strikes protesting ahamst me wasc recte decared Dy Juan Carlos and demanding a total amnesty for all political prisoners..
workers on the Madrid underground. who struck for a 50 per cent rise in their mis erable £28 weekly wage. Workers from WHAT TO DO ON SPAIN ers organisantons in Britain are needec above all. Branches of the railworkers must support the Madrid Metro workers, car workers' shop stewards committees the workers in struggle at Chrysler, and S0 On in Spain - Chrysler, Standard Electric, Kelvinator etc. - are part of multination al companies. Messages of solidarity, and if possible concrete solidarity action, is particularly important within these comanties.
sion in Spain (AGARIS) is circulating a statement throughout the labour movement concemnio te reoression or thE dictatorsnip. copies or me statement can be obtained from AGARIS c/o 49 Chippenham Road, London W.9.
AGARIS is calling for a week of action for 9-15 February.
4. Get delegated from your labour movement organisation to the solidarity conference called by a number of members of the TUC General Council for 14 Fel DEMONSTRATE IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS Join the Campaign for the Release of Indian Political Prisoners (CRIPP) contingent in the demo on Sunday 25 Janassemble 1pm Speakers Corner -release all political prisoners -end the prison killings -halt the torture of prisoners and detainees. *demo organised by Alliance Against Dictatorship in India CRIPP address: 22 Boundary Road, London NW8 (328 2332).
fice as a newspaper. Published by Relgocrest for Red Weekly, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. (01-837 6954) struggles that have rocked the capital city of Madrid over the past week 5,000 marched from the This wave of struggles egan just after beginning of next week.
Last week they were joined by 4.000 VINCE OF AMUCH al weapon 1. Messages of solidarity from work2. Many of the factories in struggle Once again the jails of the Spanish dictatorship are starting to fill up with working class militants as the regime of King Juan Carlos tries to halt the current wave of working class struggle sweeping the country. In a series of dawn raids on Saturday, the dictatorship's police rounded up more than thirty militants involved in leading the industrial Standard and Chrysler mounted hig solidarity demonstrations with the underground workers, inspiring thousands of oler Maunu workers to come ourIn sor idarity. Many employers responded by locking-out their workers.
Altogether some 50,000 engincering workers are either on strike or locked out in Madrid, and bank, construction. textile, and chemical workers are alse fighting for wage demands and threatenground workers nave resumce work. but have announced they will come out ag ain if their demands are not met by the Nor is the movement contined to the capital: important strikes and demonstrations have taken place in Barcelona, Seville, the northern Basque country, and among annicatural workers in tae soutnern pro As the dictatorship fights back against this growing movement with its tradition rising mass indig ICOPCAHOR nation will strengthen the upsurge and deepen the political demands of the masmunist and Socialist Partics, and their competing class-collaborationist fronty (the Democratic Junta and the Democratic Convergence) will seck to restrain this movement in order to avoid righten ing the Spanish capitalists, and place their faith in cautious 'pressuring of the capitalists to secure a few limited material and political concessions.
butterortionary murants in span particularly the militants of the Fourth International, will be fighting for a united front of all workers organisations to coordinate and strengthen the present upsurge into a general strike which can bring the dictatorship down, break the power of its brutal police forces once and for all, and enable the Spanish working Case wear then wateral and poutie Such a resounding victory would immensely strengthen the power of the Spanish working class, and represent the first step towards a Socialist Spain • All branches of the International Marxist Group must place on the agenda of their next meeting the steps thei can take in solidarit with the beginning of the Spanish revolution Concrete plans should be drawn up her getting messages of soldarit tron the labour morement to Spain. building local sonuatel moremenis, circulating the AGARIS statement, holding local solidarity meetings, and preparing for the werk of action. All details of INC and writed lahour morement meetings pickets. demonstrations. solarit mess ages, ete. must be sent to Red Weekly