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donations received for our Monthly Development Fund The total amount received for the Monthly Fund stands at £312.20. With thirteen days left to the end of the month a big effort is needed to complete the fund Pledges and donations continue to arrive for the I would like to take out a subscription to Socialist £1,000 Special Fund. Less than a hundred pounds remains unpledged and the total amount received so far Press. I would like..... issues, I enclose £ ..... of the "United" Secretariat of the Fourth International).

The regime has - even • put on. trial , (for holding unauthorised meetings) a leading member of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia) the Catalonian section of the Spanish Communist Party).

There are now certamiy more political prisoners in Spain than there were before the much publicised "amnesty"

The Death List In the year of "reforms" over 40 workers and political militants have been killed by the police and the licenced fascist death squads. They include the following: • February 1976. Teofilo del Valle Perez (20 years old) killed in a demonstration in Biba (Alicante).

March 1976. Romualdo Barroso Chaparro (19), Francisco Ocio, shot Azuat (17) by, police in the and Pedro Maria massacre at Vitoria.

Jose Castillo and Bienvenido Pereda Moral died a few days later from wounds inflicted in the same massacre.

Juan Gabriel Rodrigo, construction worker, killed while fleeing from a police charge in a demonstration in Tarragona protesting against the Vitoria massacre.

shot by civil toard in eras uri (Bilbao) in a protest demonstration against the Vitoria massacre.

April 1976. Oriol Sole Sugranves, Catalonian anarchist escaped from jail, shot by Civil Guard near the French border.

Felipe Suarez Delgado, shot by Civil Guard at a road block.

Imanol Garmendia, member of and our £1,000 Special Fund.

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now stands at £621.40. ETA, shot in Vera de Bidasoa, on his way to the Basque national festival. •J. Bernardo Bidaola Achega, disappeared after being shot by Civil Guard in a demonstration.

May 1976. Aniano Gimenez Santos, and Ricardo Pellejero (20) shot in Montejurra by right-wing supporters of a Carlist pretender to the throne.

June 1976. Begana Menchaca, housewife, shot during a demonstration in Santurce (Bilbao).

Carlos Hernandez Exposito, shot by Civil Guard near Madrid when he did not respond to a call to halt.

Eduardo Moreno, militant of ETA, kidnapped in France, presumed dead.

August 1976. Francisco Javier Verdejo Lucas, student member of the Young Red Guard shot by police while painting a slogan on a wall in Almeria.

September 1976. Josu Sabula, militant of the Workers' Commissions, shot in a demonstration in Fuenterrabia.

October 1976. Carlos Gonzalez student, shot in a demonstration.

These are only some of the militant workers, students and housewives nodered ent Snain biggest year of slaughter since the Civil War.

The "Reforms"

On November 16 Spain's fake parliament, the Cortes, votes on the Government's new "demopassed, is dust be alone a cratic" referendum in the middle of December and general elections for a new parliament before next June.

TWO FUNDS Donations to either fund should be sent to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HR resi Even if the Suarez government overcomes Franconst tun opposition othe , its "reform" forsees "free" elections under conditions where hundreds of militants of workers' and nationalist parties remain in prison, and the main workers' parties remain illegal.

The class collaborationist Platform of Democratic Organisations (in which the Democratic CoordFORCE HEALEY-CALLAGI leading from today's conditions capitalist crisis to the struggle end capitalism and establish planned socialist economy.

The 'lefts" have no such programme or perspective. While they whine empty phrases about cuts and unemployment, their only alternative is the nationalist policy of import controls - which serves only to line them up with 'British' employers against 'foreign' workers.

And a serious fight for a socialist programme means a break from all the 'lefts' opportunist relationship with the right wing within the Labour Party and the TUC, taking a stand principle, and being prepared to lead rather than politely follow behind the struggles of the working class.

Not one Tribunite appears Willing to take on such a fight. And therefore not one Tribunite is able to demand the resignation of the Callaghan-Healey clique, even while they witness the hammer blows the right wing are striking at the Labour Party. ination is linked with numerous other political organisations of the opposition) has so far, under the pressure of the working class, maintained its stand that, unless all political prisoners are-released and all political parties legalised, it will call for a boycott of the referendum and the elections.

But there is a strong possibility of opportunist breaks with this ine y bourgeois and even relormist workers parties.

TO RESIGN..... from Page 1 This political paralysis of the traditional "left" wing means that the fight in the unions and the Labour Party for a new political leadership based on a clear programme of demands is essential.

A central part of this fight will take the form of forcing the 'lefts" to declare openly their position by demanding they fight for the removal of Callaghan-Healey from the Labour leadership.

*End the Social Contract! Reject the 44% limit!

*For substantial increases, with a sliding scale of wages to ensure automatic rises in pace with inflation.

*Reverse all cuts! Protect the social services against. inflation through a sliding scale of state spending.

*No to all sackings! Where redundancy is threatened, demand work sharing on full pay! Occupy and demand the employers books be opened to trade union committees to prove the case for nationalisation without compensation.

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