The Inst week has seen further moves by the Carrero Blanco government to step up the repression in Spuin. Last Saturday it was reported that six leading members of the Revolutionary Communist League (a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International) had been arrested, while at the same time the regime was claiming to have smashed the Communist Party in the southern province of Andalusia. On Sunday a further 100 people This repression forms the basis of the government's policy, since the depth of the economic crisis prevents it from making the sightest concessions to the demands of the working class. Central to this policy is the case of the "Curubunchel 10, leaders of the Workers Commissions fillegal trade union bodies) who have now been held for many months. The prosecution at their trial is expected to demand sentences totalling 162 years in prison. The left in Spain has been mobilising around this issue for some time. As a recent statement signed jointly by the Revolutionary Communist League and ETA (VI [the Marxist wing of the Basque liberation movement| points out, "the trial is intended to make an examplc of the Carabanchel 1O in the repression against the Workers" Commissions, and as such constitutes a threat to the entire mass movement," Below we print extracts from this Marcelino Camacho, one of the Carabanchel 10 suspected of attending a Calalan separatist meeting in Barcelona were also taken into custody. statement outlining the perspectives for the campaign put forward by the RCL and ETA (VD). "Only a powerful mobilisation throughout the country. with the support of the international working class, can drag the Carabanchel 10 from the claws of the dictatorship, and thus open the way for a further advance of the mass movement towards the overthrow "Strikes, mass meetings and demonstrations outside factory gates and colleges, mass flying pickets moving from one factory to the next, massive street must adopt *Every struggle, strike, meeting or demonstration must be protected by defensive pickets made up of the militants who have shown themselves the most determined in struggle.. the organisation beforehand of large picket squads, well armed with clubs, iron bars, etc, will enable us to defend our public demonstrations and allow them to take over the stroets during the trial in defiance of the repressive apparatus *The greatest possible co-undina lion and unity in action of all working class and revolutionary func sions must bo at the head of the stragele in defence of their leaders, which requires the unity in struggle of all the existing Workers' Commissions without any exclusions for sectariant reasons. This activity must be coormater with that or a me workers para and organisstions and with the bodies set up to campaign against the trial among tenants, studeats, This co-ordination of the activity of the working cass and its real allies in the strapele against the Franco regime, in oppasition to any collaboration with sec Lions of the bourpoisie or the Church, can make it possible to take the struggle forward effectively ... "In each residential area, college, university faculty, etc, constittees to campaign against the trial must he it up, grouping together all militants prepared to struggle against the Franco regime, and co-ordinating their activity with the Workors" Commission... "The tasks of the Workers" Cormissions must be: to emphasise the democratic organisation of struggle: through mass micetings and elected committees, wheet can play a very insporlant role in extending the strugse (as happened during the Pampiona strike earlier this year); to on-ordinate these committoes at a district, area and regional level: and to call publi demonstrations with organised self-defence for the aponing of the tral..
The actions which must be inhared now in every factory, committee and locality should culminate in a massive day of mobilisation and striggle when the trial is announced. The possibility that the trial will once again be postponed should in no way hinder us; on the contrary, the orginisation of a day of struggle can be the means of contralising the initial actions and increasing the ability of the mass movement to respond to the threat posed by the murderous