SPAIN Three General Strikes
Socialist Press1976 1976-10-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Another general strike on September 27th brought the whole Euskadi (Basque) region of northern Spain to complete standstill.
Well over 500,000 workers stopped work for the day and joined demonstrations, demanding a complete amnesty for political prisoners and commemorating -the five political militants whom Franco as his last political act had shot just one year ago.
In many factories of Biscay province, the strike had in fact been continuous since the previous general strike in the region two weeks earlier.
This longer term • stoppage represents increasing discontent at the limited objectives which are being set by the leaders for these stoppages which each time show the complete unity and massive strength of the whole working class against the fascist government.
This is not confined to the Euskadi region. On the same day as the Euskadi strike, a general strike spread through the Canary Islands in protest against the killing of a demonstrator by the police.
And then on October: 1st a further general strike was called in Madrid, again to protest against the murder of a demonstrator this time probably by the fascist death squad, "Guerillas of Christ the King".
The Madrid strike was not as universal as the others but still brought most of the major factories to a halt.
The three-week postal workers' strike ended last week with an agreement by the government to negotiate on the strikers' demands.
This concession was reportedly made on the direct personal intervention of the king on behalf of those sections of the ruling class who feared the workers reactions to the use of blackleg workers by the post office management.
But the workers only agreed to return to work after unsuccessfully struggling against the Communist Party leaders who were reportedly the main advocates of calling off the action.
This is a further case, to add to the many previously reported in Socialist Press of the rapidly growing conflict between the increasingly militant ass movement and the class collaborationist Stalinist leaders of the Spanish Communist Party.
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