workers parties in the Euzkodi Strike Committee - this
SPAIN fight is not simply a struggle to save the lives of these two revolutionary nationalist militants. Not only within the vanguard, but also on a mass scale, it has become obvious that the confrontation must be centrally directed against the dictatorship that wants to murder these comrades. This consciousness of the necessity of getting rid of Francoism once and for all is also at the center of the aspirations of the working class and all the oppressed people. *Second, in face of the test of strength imposed on the mass movement by Francoism's new turn of repressive insanity, the combativity that has been materially expressed in Euzkodi and the solidarity it can awaken throughout the rest of the state urgently and immediately place on the agenda the need for a general strike throughout the territory of the Spanish state, o strike that would be capable of halting the repressive attacks and launching a mass offensive for the overthrow of the dictatorship. The call of the Euzkadi Strike Committee for a new general strike on September 11 and 12 and the necessity of solidarity throughout the Spanish state on those days of strike (solidarity that can be transformed into the broadest possible united struggle, into a general strike wherever possible — and we must try to do this are only the most immediate manifestofions of the possibility and necessity of a coordinated general strike throughout the Spanish state. *Third, we must take note of the close relations among the various united organizations that have emerged and their direct influence on the mobilizations now going on. Regardless of the political differences, the workers parties and organizations, the workers commissions, the factory committees, the neighborhood bodies and the bodies of teachers, and the committees against repression have organized in a united manner into strike committees whose structures extend from the Euzkadi Strike Committee to the strike committees of each zone and village. There is a coordination and deepened relationship among them all. We think that it is now important to integrate all these committees of delegates directly elected by assemblies, as has begun to be done in some zones of Guipúzcoa. But above all we think it is important to note that the working class and people of Euzkadi have for the first time come together with a total and organic unity of the workers parties in order to press for united action; this fact was decisive in the breadth of the mobilization. It is urgent to make this example known in every corner of the country. And in particular, it is urgent to succeed in forging a united framework of this type throughout the entire state in order to promote solidarity with Euzkadi, to prepare and coordinate the general strike, and to direct the fight of the masses against the dictatorship. The struggle against repression does not stop with the battle to save the lives of Garmendia and Otaegui. The dictatorship intends to murder several militants of 10 the FRAP, as well as Pérez Beotegui, Eva Forest, and Antonio Duran. The "antiterrorist" law is a grave threat to all workers organizations - including those that are explicitly mentioned in the decree — and to the whole working class, all the oppressed people, and all those who are fighting to put on end to the Francoist dictatorship. The present hardening of the repressive laws indicates the regime's and its government's total renunciation of governing the country through any other method than open repression. That is why, in the present circumstances, the struggle against Francoist repression takes on a permanent character and becomes one of the major axes of the fight against the murderous dictatorship. We know that there are deep differences among the workers organizations about the means by which to get rid of Francoism, and, more concretely, about the role played by alliances with sectors of the bourgeoisie in this endeavor. These divisions affect even those organizations that have put such alliances into practice. We think that this is not a good road. We believe that the dictatorship will fall only under the blows of the direct action of the mass movement, blows like the ones now being dealt to the dictatorship by the working class and people of Euzkadi. We are absolutely convinced that these alliances can only impede this direct action of the masses and place the proletariat in the train of the bourgeoisie. That is why we fight for the breakup of all accords with the bourgeoisie, for the exit of the workers organizations from the Junta Democrática and the Convergencia Democrtica and from all other interclassist bodies, and for a line of class independence. We will continue to struggle for all these objectives. But in the present circumstances, we do not think that the breakup of these alliances is a precondition for arriving at united action among all the workers parties. In spite of all the political differences, we believe that united action among us is absolutely indispenable. We think that today the United Front of all the workers parties against the repression and the united action of the United Front through the workers commissions and the organizations of solidarity and the antirepression organizations can and must become a reality. We are in favor of supporting any form of resistance to the "antiterrorist" law and the death sentences. But to halt the current repressive offensive of Francoism and to bring Francoism down requires above all a united and coordinated mobilization throughout the whole state. Every area must follow the example that is being set by Euzkadi today, with the whole working class and the oppressed people. Without neglecting other forms of struggle, it is the united mass mobilization that is the essential way to halt the Francoist repression. The success of this type of mobilization requires the united action of all the workers parties, whatever their current political differences.
Thus, the struggle against repression must occupy first place in the united activity of the workers parties. But that is not all. The anarchy of the capitalist economy