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RED WEEKLY 28 October 1976 BASILIO MONTES was Britain as part of a joint coming to delegation from the Spanish Workers Commissions and the USO, one of the two socialist trade reported last week, Jose Torres, other delegation member, was denied a passport by the Spanish authorities. Therefore the schedule of the tour had to be pared down, and only Montes arrived in Britain.
Comrade Montes is a member of the national secretariat of the Workers Commissions Heater Movimiento Comunista (MC), an organisation which had its origins in the Basque nationalist movement which now has significant influence in the workers movement as a whore The MC participates in the Democratic Coordination, a body which involves many of parties in an alliance tions of the 'democratic bourgeoisie' in order to win a 'negotiated break with the dictatorship.
Montes explained to Red Weekly that the principle objective of the tour was to have been to establish contact with those sections of the labour movement which attempts of the Labour Party and trade union leaderships to single out the UGT for support. The UGT is a trade UnION one naily UGT As we Canship'.
Valencia, but class sec- out any cedures have been frozen.
British reject the Suspension PSOE, would be difficult to maintain development of these united rank and file bodies at a national level if USO, and the sections Workers Commissions dominated by Party (PCE) were actively hostile to them, seeing them as a threat to their continuing leaderHe agreed that the leadership of the Workers Commissions does not accurately reflect the balance of forces within them. The PCE holds 21 out of 27 seats on the national secretariat: in for example, from a 44-41 vote in their favour, they took all three delegates; in Zaragoza, with a 330-320 vote in their favour, they also managed to walk off with all three delegates.
We talked at some length about the new package of economic measures just announced by the regime. WithCOUOT InCY are the most savagely anti-working class measures since those taken in 1959 and 1967 which were distinguished by the level of repression needed to enforce them. Wages and collective bargaining proBut perhaps the most serious threat accompanied by the stepping up of repression.' When Labour Minister de la Mata offered USO, UGT and the Workers Commissions a 'social pact' made up largely of these same measures, some two months ago, the Workers Commissions secretariat decided on a 24 hour general strike, whether or not the USO and the UGT would support it. And here Montes stressed the importance of 'support and sympathy' for the workers' objectives inside the Democratic Coordination:
It is small, but this support puts the regime's policies into question... for the small worth that the support of these bourgeois parties may have, it is still better that they should line up with us rather than the Government.
The 24 hour general strike is now fixed for 12 November, and could be an important step forward towards that general strike which will finish once and Tor Comrade Montes is less certain tha this is how the regime will be disp laced. However nobody would dispute his statement that the dictatorship is not at stake in this type of strike.
Pressure Yet he seems to have a singular lack of confidence in the capacity of the class to win rights for itself: "Apart from the odd leftist, everybody understands general strike as a means of pressure in order to achieve the democratic oreak. We aren't talking about the revolution.
*If we workers could impose own demands there would heading for democracy, would there? If the army decided to block way, would we be without guns in our hands?' Asked about ine moortance workers self-defence, Montes said: 1 think it is legitimate for the masses to take whatever measures are necessary to defend themselves. Unfortunately he seems to relegate this to a future struggle for socialism.
Montes sees the bourgeois allies in the Democratic Coordination as important to the workers' struggle, even though they agreement with the regime: "The uggle of the masses is pushing this option further out of their reach. Independent democratic our be little bourgeois where of str"Dissolution of the repressive bodies'-a central demand of the recent Basque general s these forces since the death of Franco. Every town listed bears the scars of their crimes
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...FERROL ELDA TUENTERRADIA, MADRID
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