“Use dictatorship smashed the Franco regime in its death…”

Use dictatorship smashed , the Franco regime in its death throes and the working class increasingly militant and organised.

Faced with this situation, international capitalism is in no confusion as to where “Mits interests lie. The withdrawal from Spain of a number of foreign Ambassadors following the murder of five anti-fascist militants recently was a gesture aimed more at satisfying liberal opinion at home rather than hitting at the dictatorship. The Ambassadors are, indeed, now trickling back to Madrid even as Franco promises further repression.

The reality is that these supposedly "horrified" governments are economically supporting Spain while at the same time are engaged in massive economic sabotage in an effort to break the momentum of working class struggle in Portugal. And of course, they are carrying out these policies alongside and with the support of those Governments which did not feel it necessary to make even token protests against Franco, such as those of the USA, Britain and the 26 counties.

The policy means; SPAIN: A new agreement on cooperation with the US signed at the beginning of October. The US Government stated support for the Spanish regime was a "highest priority for Western defence’. The deal included the sale of arms to Spain worth &375m.

The suggestion that the EEC should reconsider its relations with Spain following the executions was quietly dropped.

PORTUGAL: The US based ITT multi-national has cut off all finance to its Portuguese subsidiaries. The British firms, Leyland, Gardner, Lucas, and CAV have refused to sell essential spare parts for buses and trucks. ICI and Massey Ferguson are demanding cash in advance for all orders to Portugal - an unheard of practice in international dealings. a government which can contain and break the struggle of the working class The recently announced package of*£100m ®assistance" to the current Government is strictly on the assurance that it will be able tocarry this out.

At the same time the EEC has brought into force prohibitive tariffs against Portuguese textile and clothing exports, a major sector of the economy.

did in the lead up to the coup ing to dump Franco because it to working class struggle.

NO ISOLATION and of Portugal need not be isolated as international capitalism intends, With international working class solidarity countering these intentions, the Iberian struggles can be given impetus and open up a revolutionary situation in Europe.

manouevres by the bourgeoisie have not defused the struggle against capitalism.

NO SUPPORT FOR FRANCO:

FORWARD TO THE IBERIAN AND THE La & ship.

In Portugal, sections of international capital are following the same policies as they in Chile. In Spain it is unwillfears the boost this would give The workers of Euzkadi In Portugal, right wing violence against the workers movement and be extended SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS IN STRUGGLE OF EUZKADI AND THROUGHOUT THE SPANISH STATE.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS OF PORTUGAL The repression of Franco has far from broken the spirit of the workers of Euzkadi, the Basque country. On no less than three occasions within the past year, general strikes of up to 150,000 workers have br brought Euzkadi to a halt protest against the dictatorIRISH SUPPORT Following the execution of the five anti-fascist militants, limited protests took place in Ireland. But while some of these were small, they were exemplary in showing how the working Class can hit at Franco.

Ground crew at Dublin Airport refused to handle Iberia aircraft that Sunday. The previous day in Limerick a picket of the Spanish Consulate was held by the Spanish Solidarity Committee, supported by the RMG, Sinn Fein (Kevin 5t.), the IRSP, Sinn Fein (Gardiner Place), and PD.

Actions such as these, united demonstrations by anti-imperialist groups, anti-Franco boycotts, can shorten the death agony of the dictat-orship and forward the workers struggle. But they must not be restricted to isolated one day only actions. The boycott must

Had Eamon de Valera died ten years earlier, the event would have been less relevant to the time, even though he would still have been President. Then, it seemed clear that ‘there was on the agenda a peaceful but major qualitative change in Irish polities and society such as would sweep away partition and the dominant place of religion in the Irish consciousness. through major politics of economic development based on foreign imperialist monopoly. Capitalism in Ireland could and would out-grow the settlement To-day the fragility of trish capitalism is all too apparent: Partition has not proved susceptible to being reformed out of existance. The “economic miracle” of the nineteen sixties can now be seen to have been done with mirrors. And, faced with the threats government is falling in behind the Church whilst the British administration in the six counties is preparing to hand state power to Orangemen who are if anything even less progressive than those who were Dev's opposition numbers during his career.-Dev's alive and kicking and will probably continue thus as long as Ireland remains capitalist. associated with the man who had administered for so long. to their authority that these failures have produced, the twenty six county bady has begun to moulder in his grave, his soul may not be marching on but it is