[The following article appeared in the February 15 issue of the French Trotskyist daily Rouge. The translation is by Intercontinental Press.]
All working-class political parties in Spain have asked for legal recognition, or are about to do so.
Following the PSOE* and the Communist party, Professor Tierno Galván's People's Socialist party filed for recognition on Monday afternoon [February 14].
Yesterday afternoon, a delegation from the organizing committee set up to obtain recognition for the LCR [Liga Comunista Revolucionaria-Revolutionary Communist League], a sympathizing organization of the Fourth International, went to the General Security Administration headquarters at Puerta del Sol square, to file the statutes and political statements of the LCR, in order to obtain recognition.
*Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers party, the main Social Democratic formation).
The organizing committee, which has sixteen members, is representative of the different nationalities and social layers among which the LCR works.
Alongside public figures such as Mendiluce and José María Galante, in this committee are Julio Rodriguez Aramberri, a university instructor; Antxon Carreira, one of the defendants convicted in the Burgos trial; José Reus, a working-class leader from Barcelona; a representative from the Feminist Coordinating Committee; Alberto Lahidalga, a leader of the March 1976 strike in Vitoria and a member of the Workers Commissions' National Secretariat for the Chemical Industry; as well as Montraveta, one of the leaders of the Catalan Metal Workers Federation of the UGT [Unión General de Trabajadores-General Workers Union.]
In the next few days, other far-left organizations, such as the Maoist Partido de Trabajo [Workers party], will doubtless also seek recognition.
The government has ten days to make a decision on these requests. After that time, or in case the request is denied, the Supreme Tribunal has to settle the matter.