fight racism FASCISM cobble together some capitalist alternative to Franco which can sabotage the mounting struggle of the Spanish masses to destroy the dictatorship.
There is only one force on the con tinent that can sweep aside these dirty manoeuvres and slap the sort of isolation on the Franco dictatorship that will bring it to its knees and allow the SpanEuropean workers movement.
Already the European working class has displayed a real spirit of international solidarity and mounted mass demonstrauons. work stoopages, anc blacking of Spanish trade and communicanons. Aware or me anger or tel members, the leaderships of the entire European trade union movement have supported such actions. For the first time since they were split apart by the cold-war manoeuvres of imperialism. the World Federation of Free Trade Unions (made up or communist rarty led unions) and the European sections of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (based on social democratic unions) engaged in joint actons to protest the executions In Spain. This demonstrates the sort of impact the struggle in Spain can have on the European labour movement and gives the capitalists even further reasons for seeking to cool international action against the Spanish dictatorship.
BUREAUCRACY But the trade union bureaucracy is not prepared to launch the sort of massive intera donat movement necessary to bring the Franco dictatorship crashing down. One reason why the bureaucrats are happy to take up international issues like Spain is to cover over the class collaborationist policies they are pursuing But a fighting movement of industrial action in solidarity with Spain would raise awkward questions, such as: Why not use our power to deal with our own problems and our own capital Thus T&GWU leader Jack Jones, in between speecnes backing tne to norm, caned for maximum narassment of the But he and the T&GWU executive did nothing officially As a result, the two-day protest called by the International Transport Workers it receives official backing. Trade un ionists - particularly in the T&GWU - should immediately begin to organise to ensure that this call is fully implemented in their localities; but they should also demand that the union executives make the call official and launch a mass propaganda campaign to explain to their members the need for this sort The full mobilisation of the trade union movement behind this boycott must be seen as just the first shot in a fight to win the British labour movement to a poncy or bicak au maks wiw rran co's Spain' - forcing the Labour Government to break diplomatic and political links with the dictatorship, and imposing a total boycott on all economic relations tion of the dictatorship and all its instru ments of anti-working class repression.
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