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Red Weekly No. 88, 13 February 1975 · p. 9 of the scan · 303 words

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page 9 of the scan

Glasgow demonstration in support of the "Carabanchel Ten': the British workers' movement must take up their cause presently serving prison sentences ranging from 12 to 20 years.

The only crime of which they have been convicted is trade unionism. In Spain the only unions' which are permitted are phony state-run bodies designed to obstruct genuine working class strugglo. Any attempt at indep endent organisation s dealt with by the police, judges and jailers of the Despite this repressive regime, the struggles of Spanish workers have been mounting over the past few years, strike rates in the world — in a country where almost all strikes are illegal!

This resistance would not have been possible were it not for the workers commissions — permanen!

LAST FRIDAY more than 10,000 workers demonstrated in the Portug wese capital of Lisbon against rising unemployment and Portugal's involvement in the imperialist NATO allalice.

The demonstration took place at a time when NATO forces were engaged in joint manoeuvres with the Portugwese military, and the Government organisations created by the workers themselves to lead and coordinate until today Spain has one of the highest their struggles. The "Carabanchet Ten were accused of taking part in the proceedings of the General Coordinating Committee of the Workers"

Commissions.

They came up for trial in December 1973 in the wake of the assassination of Spain's Prime Minister, Carrero Blanco, which was followed by a big repressive drive by the dictatorship against the workers' movement. part of that attack.

But today the situation is very rajornal da greve (suspensa/ dos trabalhadores da Efacec/Inel Lisboa Participa activamente na discussão dos artigos do jornal ili IN the world workers' movement was drafted for the Communist League Congress of the same year, which never took place becausi of the outbreak of revolution across Eur-

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