as Ernest Mandel's article on these pages shows, is an international one Just as the crisis is international, so must the workers response be international. This is the case both as far as tactics go, and for international cooperation between the workers involved. This is all the more impor tant give the international tactics of the employers Many of our readers will remember the 1971 Ford strike in Britain when management Ersed to break the strike by threatening to move production to Germany. Similar sorts of manoeuvres are bound to be tried in the battles to coine.
Already workers in the Flat com pany in Spain-called Seat -are in dispute. And it's no coincidence that one of the problems they arp facing is the attempt by management...to cut back production.
In Spain, of course, workers must struggle under laws which deny the right to strike and the right to free assembly. And these laws are backed up by the vicious repression of the Spanish police, Despite all these problems the workers are fighting back, and it is workers in the car industry who are in the toretront of the struple. Ten thousand Seat workers have laken industral action to back up their demands for a wage increase of C27 a month and a reduction in the working week to 40 hours, But the workers are also calling for the right to strike and the right to free assembly. Now they face the same sort of attacks as those made on their fellow-workers in Italy, with management demands for short-time working The importance of the demand for the right to free assembly was shown when they met to discuss these latest moves. Police disrupted the niceting and arrested 45 of the Workers SACKED At the Renault plant in Vailadolid, management sacked 145 of the 14,000 workers on strike over work conditions The rest of the strikes demonstrated in protest against the sackings, and the police opened fire on the demonstrator wounding eight, Now the Renault workers al the Seville plant have struck in solidarity ponents factory, in Madrid, workers took lightning strike action to hack 800 strikers the workers occupied ly broke up the occupation.
action with the Spanish workers is going to be vital, especially when the proposed one-day general strike against the dictatorship comes off tre of world imperialism, the United States, workers at the American Motor Corporation took strike action for parity with the bigger car firms General Motors, Chrysler and Fords Management agreed to their denands.
DOWN GO THE PROFITS fit decreases of:
98% Chryster 85% 68% Fords million.