(The following statement, translated by Intercontinental Press, was issued by the Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Communist League of Spain, a sympathizing organization of the Fourth International, formerly known as the En Marcha Tendency. It should not be confused with the Communist League of Spain, another sympathizing organization of the Fourth International, formerly known as the Encrucijada Tendency.]
Comrades,
Through the press we have learned of the French government decree ordering your dissolution, and of the arrest of Alain Krivine and other comrades. No false symmetry with the rades No false summetry with the fascist goons — who are being deprived of all possibility of becoming a real force by your courageous and systematic intervention - can hide the fact that what is involved is not only a blow against the development of the Trotskyist organization in France and its increasing intervention and growing influence in the workers struggles and youth mobilizations, as demonstrated by the national meeting of "Mole groups" and last spring's high-school movement, but also an attack against the European revolutionists as a whole, against the spectacular growth of the sections of the Fourth International in Europe to which you have contributed so much by your activity. It is as militants of the socialist revolution, as members of the Fourth International, that we who ever since our group was formed have experienced the harsh conditions of struggling in total clandestinity feel ourselves equally struck by the blow. So we want to send you this message of support, of solidarity, in the name of the Trotskyists, revolutionists, workers, and students who are fighting the Franco dictatorship.
At this difficult time we can only remember the support you have always given to the revolutionary struggle in Spain; the magnificentcampaign you waged against the 1970 Burgos 950
courts martial; the defense of our comrades of the ETA (VI) [Euzkadi ta Azkatasuna — Basque Nation and Freedom] against the combined repression of Franco and the Pompidou government; the struggle against the Fontanet memorandum and in defense of the immigrant workers; and your constant help to the Spanish Trotskyists' activities in building the LCR. We know very well that in the developing worldwide struggle against capitalism, imperialism, and Stalinist bureaucracy our guiding principle is to spare no effort to reach our common goal: the world republic of workers councils.
But this is not the time for grand declarations; we must fulfill our internationalist duty by opening up a resolute struggle in our country against this arbitrary action by the French government. You can be sure that in this struggle the French and Spanish workers will stand shoulder to shoulder, united in the same trench.
Hasta la victoria, siempre!
Long live the Ligue Communiste!
Long live the Fourth International!