SPAIN LCR-ETA(VI DENIES POLICE REPORT The following communiqué has been issued by the comrades of the LCR-ETA(VI) (Liga Comunista Revolucionaria-Euzkadi ta Askatasuna VI - Revolutionary Communist League-Basque Nation and Freedom, Sixth Congress), a sympathizing organization of the Fourth International in Spain. Recently, certain European newspapers, picking up reports from the Spanish press that were obtained directly from the Social-Political Brigade (the political police), have published reports referring to the alleged arrest of members of our leadership and of seizure of printing material for our newspaper, Combate. Both these reports are totally false. They have nothing to do with reality. The clearest proof of this is that our organization is continuing to carry on its political activity normally and to put out its publications regularly. At the very moment that these reports appeared in the newspapers, we published a special broadside on the struggle of the political prisoners; it was published simultaneously in France by the comrades of the Front Communiste Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Front. See INPRECOR, No.11, October 31 for the text of part of the broadside). This distortion of news is part of a campaign of persecution and discredit directed at our organization, a campaign that has been intensified since the time of the fusion of the LCR and the ETA(VI).
sive. With the crisis deepening, it is vital that our support be thrown into popularizing the recent struggles in Hungary: the mobilizations for Haraszty and the mobilizations against the implementation of an anti-abortion bill. E This campaign against the LCR-ETA(VI) is being carried out by trying to attribute to us actions with which we have absolutely nothing to do and by trying to link us to organizations like the ETA(V), MIL, FRAP, etc.,* from which we are separated by profound differences of all sorts, although we defend these organizations unconditionally against the Francoist repression. Most scandalous is the attempt by the political police itself to attribute to us preparation of a plan to break ten political prisoners out of the Segovia prison. We salute, approve, and support any initiative to save militants held in Francoist jails. While that is certainly our political position, it is neverthe less equally certain that there was no concrete plan in regard to the Segovia prison. But this campaign is not accidental. It is undoubtedly preparation for an intensification of the repression against our organization and against other political groups as well. We must respond to this by redoubling our efforts to oppose the Francoist dictatorship, both within the Spanish state and internationally. ALL UNITED AGAINST REPRESSION! *ETA(V): Euzkadi ta Askatasuna V - Basque Nation and Freedom, Fifth Congress. MIL: Movimiento Iberico de Liberación - Iberian Liberation Movement. FRAP: Frente Revolucionario Armado del Pueblo - Revolutionary Armed Force of the People.
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