Spain | IMGpapers 1976

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The TUC delegation was a deliberate attempt to put the weight of international reformism behind these ailing bodies. As Murray puts it: This visit is a symbol of our support for the socialist UGT and its members.' He also attempted to resolve the POE's political problems by announcing that democracy is firmly on the agenda.

But it was Jack Jones who was the real show-piece. "We are all brothers now', he proclaimed, embracing a Francoist veteran, while talking about the evidence of freedom' in Spain today.

This is just what the UGT wanted.

Jones and his friends only spoke to meetings of the UGT and the STV, the trade union wing of the bourgeois Basque Nationalist Party. By simply ignoring the Workers Commissions and the other mass SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: £7 per year £3.50 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mail £12 per year airmail organisations of the Spanish legalise vast bulk of the workers movement.

of the Spanish working class.

SOLIDARITY PSOE and UGT European workers.

suffer the utmost repression. FIRM

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