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STIMULUS
For their own reasons the leaders of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) are discussing the creation of one or another form of organisation based on these local workers groups. Their aim is to harness them to support the MFA leadership, allowing the MFA to lean less heavily on the political parties, whose political squabbles are seen as obstructing the MFA's plans.
But, despite the intentions of the MFA lead ers, their discussion of such schemes (which, in any event, they are unable to agree on) has given a big stimulus to their actual creation inside the working class. It has, for example, given a big push forward to the Revolutionary Councils movement which was set up before the elections by a small revolutionary group,
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red weekly 2o june 1975 ties'. The regime's response was to bar Don Juan from enBut such comic interludes cannot hide the fact that the real challenge over the succession to Franco is coming from the working class movement. Despite the vicious repression in the Basque country under the 'state of emergency, 100,000 workers responded on 11 June to the call for a one-day strike against the regime. A few days later several thousand turned out for the funeral in Plencia of a young Basque militant shot dead by plainclothes police, although the police had sealed off all entrances to the town in an effort to avoid disturbances.
GROWING STRENGTH
The latest indication of the growing strength of the workers movement came with the announcement of the refor the coming offensive. declared:
spain/italy To this project the LCR-ETA(VI) counterposed the building of an 'active boycott' of the elections through the holding of mass assemblies etc. to develop the strength and co-ordination of the Workers Commissions in preparation Such independent workers' organisation, based on real workers' democracy rather than the farce of the trade union elections (where, for instance, militants who had been sacked within the last two years were automatically barred from standing), has reached its highest level in the Basque country, where the CP is in a minority in the Workers Commissions. Here a Co-ordinating Committee of delegates from all the Basque Workers Commissions was formally established at a meeting on 20 April. In a communique they •By the establishment of the Basque Co-ordinating Com mittee of Workers Commissions we also wish to express our desire to strengthen by our presence the general co-ordina-