Spanish Groups Call for General Strike

Spanish groups call for General Strike We reprint be ow the text of a leatle published jointly by the Liga Comunist.

of Spein a group which claims ather ence 10 the USFI, but which refused te engage in a fusion with the official section the LCR - and the Proletarian Faction a group which split from the PORE, a see tarian Vargaite grouping based in Barcel ona. While the leafiet omits the important demand for the opening of the books of the employers as part of its call for nation- nevertheless provides alisation, generally correct political line for the struggles against the collaboration st Man- cloa Pac May the ad Thursday union federation (UGT and the Workers Commissions) are calling out the workers in engineering, construc tion, textiles and hotels on a 24-hour strike to put pressure on the employers to negotiate their rious agreements. The employers, strong mobilisation on May 9, after the in construction, aft general strike in tex continue with their igent position in workers demands. The bosses are on the agreements signed u Pact by the Comr On Thursday 18 May the trade spite of the in engineering. partial stoppages er the state wide tiles on April 12, hard and int relation to ans- the rely nder nunis BuI 282 the PSO wn ships of he and the UGT the support giving in governmer with the continuist What is they give ich cor Worke • They which t Ictice nd to particit tes. on pr. ir Cor mr in itr hese to the satio the leader emmissions relying on parties are he Suarez monarchy. in the they know that the agreements catatonia, ex remely important because of he number of workers affected, it is going to be very difficult for them to impose rotten cements in the rest of the state.

Even more when their intentions fa from conceding anything are to draw up plans for restructuring and crisis measures in engineering and textiles while construction and the hotels and restaurants are sectors deeply alfected by the crisis.

All of this implies an inc unemployment. The employ to continue their profitab tiations at the xpense workers Agair st th una imous of the bosses, the workers ment has to be equally unani A general strike of all w must be organised against the and their state! It is not enough rikes at the same rough to have work stoppages without any prepa A united and sation of all secti sed. :rease in ers want le nego- the to im mobi int ration. centralis ors must have c. It lisatic he ed be titude move. mous. arkers bosses many is not nS actory mobil- organ- The May 18 strike should be the age

beginning of this necessary mobilis.

ation. is necessary for wits eater, constructio and the hotels: To organise massive jo at the level of each zone : paralyse all the factories shops. *To sectors. It the engin- n, textil pickets area to work- and go to the (chemica fa ctor the rike s of other banks) to as was done propose ine united st in Polinya on 9 April. *To call demonstrations in the raman and anana of all there at-itner zones and areas of all the strikers.

To organise there joint mass ings to decide how to carry the forward. To elect delegates every sector in struggle, recalla any time by the mass mer which would coordinate themselves and with the trade confederations the setting up central strik committee Catalonia. *To put forward a meet- strike from ble at tings. mong union of united at rorm or demanus, common i al sectors. Forging unity is not nly concerned with common action and organisation, but with common objectives which can be actively fought for in the b fac ies, among the unemployer nd all other sectors. -Withdrawal and redundancies. -Minimum wage for a of 33,000 pesetas a mon (E226). No discriminat women and youth. -Across the board 8,500 pesetas for all wor ig the unemployed, and in all other 101 in Il indust th after aga ries tax inst Inc kers rease (E58) —No to u Division one thaca of 2021 ployment. A the hours o lahle to work -No i actories. n crisis u Full -All pending. -Dow Resignati from the o the crisis measures in 1 Nationalisation of factor nder workers control. trade union rights. the demands which he ies the the Mondloa Pact! of workers deputies Cortes! To the General shere mummmons Strikel A CP-PSOE government.

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committee coor ions necessary ward for striker of struggle achil has and act mass meeungs. measures must be the incorporation those sectors st chemical wood The those sectors still not in struggle: the banks, printing. The central strike committee must take on the tasks of negotiating the agreements, submitting themselves to the decisions of the mass meetings.

This organisation of us all has nothing to do with the so-called "delegates assemblies" which exist in the engineering industry.

The leadership of the Workers Commissions in accordance with their trade union of a new type and with the 'tacit" support of the UGT, which has said nothing on the question, use these assemblies, which only meet at times when selected delegates can attend, to put forward the view that they are not decision- making meetings but informative ones hus the members of these assem- bles are made to play the role of the old workers' representatives in the Francoist 'unions' of holding back the right of workers to make decisions in their own mass meetings.

We Trotskyists believe that if the bosses are to be forced to concede then the strikers-through their own mass meetings-must take the management of affairs into their own hands. Their delegates must to any decree from abov spokesmen of the mas the nly decision making not submit e. They are s meetings, 5 meet he rade tions have to he head of this mobilisation- -It is necessary for the federal committees of the various sectors on strike to act in coordination with each other since their struggle is the same. The same applies to trade union sections at the level of each zone and district. The remaining committees and sections of the other sectors must organise mass meetings and strikes in their sectors in order to join up with the struggle. It is the only form for acting as authentic fighting organisatiens. However the latest agreements and struggles show that the leaders of these unions, linked to the Moncloa Pact, are more disposed to make agreements with the bosses on our backs (as in printing) than to push forward the struggle to gain the demands. It is as with rd int strike ment for ter ref " ES part of this line of agree.

the bosses that they put ermittent stoppages, short s inside the factories etc organise mass meetings Pag, he members must take control and demand of the leaderships that they act in accordance with the decisions of the membership as a whole and not on their own account.

That, along with the other union fed- erations, they take forward the effec- tive organisation of the General Strike not only in Catalonia but at the level of the whole state, forming a state-wide Workers Alliance Com- mittee, and one in every nation, region, etc., putting an end to the Moncloa Pact, to this Cortes, to the Suarez government, finishing with this regime and setting up a workers' government capable of taking the appropriate measures (expropriation, nationalisation, etc) which will permit the needs of the working class and the oppressed people to be met.

This government must be formed by the CP and PSOE as majority parties, based on the trade unions and elected workers delegates, supported by mass mobilisations. For this it is necessary that the workers' leaders withdraw their signatures from the Moncloa Pact and that the workers' leaders resign from the Cortes, supporting instead the Workers Alliance. Barcelona, May 16, 1978 National Committee of the Communist League Fourth International. ng Communist League. Proletarian Faction in Defence of the Fourth International.

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