Last week the Trades Union Congress overwhelmingly carried a motion proposed by Mick MeGahey (President of the Scottish Miners) calling for 'support for those in Spain fighting for an end to FasGahey (Scottish NUM), Jack Collins (Kent NUM), Bob Wright (AUEW), and Jimmy Reid (AUEW) 'Heard before a military tribunal, no substantial evidence against the defendants, and one of them, as deficient because of a brain injury sustained during his arrest, their trial was a total travesty of justice. Their execution would be a purely political act - an attempt by the iards fighting for a free and democweek to give a further boost to the campaign.
ning to build up to stop the hand of Franco's executioners. Apart from protest telegrams sent by a ist and Communist parties in Western Europe, there have also been cism and the establishment of democracy. And hundreds of trade union delegates planned execution of Basque militants Jose Antonio Garmendia and Angel Otaegui.
As the petition pointed out:
lasting a little over five hours, with strike. the prosecution admitted, mentally regime to intimidate all those Spanratic order'. The petition will form the basis for a press conference next support as possible trade International action is also beginnumber of governments and Social— notably in Paris, which has so far seen two large demonstraone.
Shot dead Meanwhile the repression in Spain - Jesus Garcia Ripaldo, aged NAME 1,000 workers demonstrated through the streets; and there are still 15,000 workers in Vizcaya province and 30,000 in Guipuzcoa province on Such courageous actions demand an international movement of solidarity on the scale of that mobilised during the Burgos trials in 1970. In London, demonstrations have been held and there has been a continuous picket of the Spanish Embassy for the last two weeks. The picket is continuing and still needs as much - particularly union banners etc.
In York a picket was organised last Saturday of the surgery of local Labour MP Alex Lyon, who agreed to raise the matter with the Foreign Office. A large number of passersby also signed the petition - including Jack Many British trade unionists have pledged their solidarity with the struggle in Spain against the dictatorship - what is needed are more practical ways of showing the dictatorship what is meant by that solidarity. This means more than passing resolutions and signing petitions, valuable though these are. It means fighting for an embargo on Spanish goods. It means organising demonstrations and meetings in factories and trade unions to build a massive solidarity campaign for our brothers and sisters in Spain.
Every blow struck against the fascist order in Spain and its imperialist backers hastens the socialist revolution not only in the Iberian peninsula but also in the rest of Europe.
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BASQUE Jones (Gen. Sec. TGWU), Alan Fisher (Gen Sec. NUPE), Joe Gormley (President NUM), Mick Mc- - signed a petition calling on the Spanish Government to grant immediate clemency and halt the