100 at Spain Meeting
Socialist Press1976 1976-08-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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the second of the Workers Socialist League's series of London meetings on the international revolution.
The growing appreciation of the central importance of Spain to the world revolutionary movement was reflected in large attendance and positive discussion.
We were able to welcome to this meeting not only British trade union militants and members of left wing groups but also militants from several groups of the Spanish workers'" movement and Spanish workers in Britain.
The WSL member- who introduced the discussion emphasised the contrast between the revolutionary. content of the present working class and the perilous class collaboration practiced by the leadership of the main ' workers' parties, the Communist and Socialist parties.
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The situation not only demanded but also gave a historic opportunity for the creation of a new revolutionary leadership which could be built only by struggling for a programme of transitional demands inside the mass movement.
The development of concrete solidarity with the Spanish struggle was discussed and two priorities were agreed.
First, demanding through trade unions and other workers' organisations that the Labour governother ties between Britair and Spain, in particular that all arms exports should be banned.
Second, fighting to bring Spanish workers in Britain into the trade unions and through the unions to combat the bureaucratic restrictions and threats of deportation imposed on immigrant workers imposed by the British This would simultaneously strengthen the struggle of both Spanish and British workers against fascism, capitalism and the class collaboration of workers' leaders.
Ine WL welcomes cooperation from all section of the Labour movement in implementing these demands and all the other forms of solidarity with the courageous Spanish working class: which go beyond the mere words of the trade
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"The Struggle for Socialism in Spain" was the subject of