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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

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Red Weekly No. 118, 25 September 1975 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 220 words

The scan: rw-no118-sep-25-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 3 of the scan

However this does not mean that the CP opposes all strikes. Firstly, there exists in Spain a vanguard which is outside its influence. Secondly, its own base - under the influence of this vanguard - reacts against its leadership's right-wing policies. For example, the CP was forced to call for a general strike in the Basque country on 28-29 August, against the trials of Garmendia and Otaegui, because it learnt the lessons of the last general strikes, when the base ignored the leadership's strikebreaking call. If the CP wants to control the Because of the Socialist Party's absence from the workers' movement since the civil war, it can be considered as a 'ghost' party. But in the last two years it has begun to wake up, and has understood that it must obtain The SP does not want to join the Dem### TOWARDS THE IBERIAN SOCIALIST REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP PAMPHLET PRICE 20p Available from RED BOOKS, 97 Caledonian Rd., London N.1. price 20p + 8p p&p

page 4 of the scan

red weekly 25 september 1975 most political struggles: neighbour hood mobilisations around living conditions in the barrios, textile strikes (the majority of the workforce is female), even fights for nurseries, as for example in Madrid.

Besides the legal difficulties, the problems of clandestinity for any women's movement are enorm

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