The following is the text of a leafler distributed in Barcelona by our comrades of the COMMUNISM group during the recent mass mobilisations. Apart from participating activeiy in these actions, the COMMUNISMO militants thernseives organised several large demonstrations in various other towns in Spain.
WORKERS! STUDENTS! COMRADES!
We, the militants of Communismo, call for an acceleration of the struggle against the judicial farce of Burgos and against capitalist repression.
DOWN WITH THE SIX DEATH SENTENCES! FREEDOM FOR IZICO AND HIS COMRADESI DOWN WITH THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IMPOSED BY THE REGIME OF ASSASSINS!
Already we are beginning to see quite clearly the nature of the "new" and "progressive" government, formed nearly a year ago-a government of Opus Dei, technocrats and bankers and of tarted up Falangists. Like its predecessors this government is a dictatorship of assassins in the pay of the bourgeoisie and of imperialism.
This is the democracy that the capitalists want for Spain. It was already on display at Erandio and Granada. It can be seen today in the tortures, the special tribunals and other "legsl methods. The proclamation of the State and astemblies in the factories, rallies and of Emergency constitutes the last recourse to dictatorship, and to facilitate the systematic persecution of the most ardent defenders of working class interests and the opprassed layers of the Basque people.
Once again the response which we are oppression through our struggles unmasks the manoeuvres of the bourgeoisie. Our struggle has obliged the Spanish capitalists to bring forward their sly political solution- THE STATE OF EMERGENCY against the workers and oppressed masses.
No one stands outside the class struggle, no one is "innocent", The German consul had chosen his place in this struggle just as much a Meliton Manzanas.
All methods of struggle are legitimate agninst capital and its government, which condemns to misery and continually represses the vast majority of the population. But communists can only support those actions which drive forward the mass movement and extend its scope, oombativity and organisation in face of capitalist power. The seizure of a hostage from imperialism, even if it shows courage in the struggle against bourgeois oppression, leads the masses to have more confidence in external forces than in their own capacity for struggle.
ONLY MASS STRUGGLE OF THE EXPLOITED AGAINST BOURGEOIS REPRESSION. -ONLY INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH OUR STRUGGLES, WILL FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO LIFT THE STATE OF EMERGENCY AND FREE THE BASQUE COMRADES THREATENED TODAY WITH DEATH AS A BLOODY WARNING TO THE WHOLE WORKERS' MOVEMENT Consequently, we renew the call of Corru nismo to extend the mass struggles (stoppages massive actions in the University, mobilisations try and damp down the mass struggle against the and struggles in the street?, in the most orga nised and prepared manner, with fighting squad: in order to reply to the repression of the police with the violence of the masses.
-Issued by militants of "Communismo" in Barcelona, 10th December 1970.