APPEAL FOR THE JUNE11
The manifesto below was drafted by the Euzkadi Coordinating Committee of Workers Conmissions. This coordinating body was set up on April 20 on the bosis of the already existing provincial coordinating bodies of the workers commissions in Navarra and Guipuzco. The formation of the Euzkadi Coordinating Committee is the result of a long process in which the call for the general strike of December 11, 1974, was a decisive turning point.
The Stalinists tried to obstruct this unification and coordination of the workers commissions;
for example, the CP-led Comision Obrera Nacional de Euskadi (CONE - National Workers
Nevertheless, the Euzkadi Coordinating Commiftee of Workers Commissions is waging a correct poltrical batrle to unify all the workers commissions with no exclusion in order to assure that this body of centralization will function democratically. This process of centralization, of coordination of the bodies of self-organization, is of the highest importance in unifying
SPAIN
Commission of Euzkadi) did not help in the process of unification. These are serious days for the workers and people's novement. The fascist talons are sunk deep into our people. The provinces of Guipüzcoa and Vizcaya are living under detested fascist barbarism. No methods have been spared in savagely repressing antifascist militants: more than 2,500 of them have been taken to police stations and many are still being held; they have been subjected to all forms of harassment, bad treatinent, and torture. Some have had to be taken to the hospital in serious condition, for example Father Tasio Erquiza, whose life is in donger. The repression extends to all the people. The streets have been invaded by armed foscist goons who, protected by official police vehicles, are imposing a reign of terror, firing machine guns and planting bombs in many places. The police and the Civil Guard are absolute masters in the two provinces: They control all the traffic arteries; patrols of special brigades march through the streets; entire neighborhoods have been surrounded and searched, house by house; the cafés are checked systematically; passersby are brutally searched and asked to produce their identity papers in a similar manner; those who have no papers on them are arrested (and since the police stations and prisons are overflowing, they are put in sports stadiums, as in Bilbao). The murders, like those of Marquiegui, the Gernika couple, and Luis Arriola in Ondarroa, prove that all possible means are being used to spread terror throughout the population. In addition, in Navarra there are more and more cases of the most combative comrades being fired, of the imprisonment and torture of workers in the police stations, and of fines. Lockouts are taking
4 on alarming dimensions; they have already occurred at Authi, Mas, and many auxiliary companies; they are threatened at Matesa, Modrego, Grafinasa, and Nadeco, thus creating anxiety and uncertainty in thousands of working-class households. Such are the main lines of the tragic situation that has been created in our provinces. This reality, with which we live every day, makes clear what are the dims of the policy of terror. The fascists hope with this brutal aggression to stamp out one of the major centers of resistance and, if possible, to create a testing ground for methods that can later be extended to other provinces and even throughout the countryThey think that the example set on December 11, 1974, by the working class and people of Euzkadi will not spread throughout the working class and people of all Spain. They think they can exterminate all forms of working-class and popular organization - and parties - and terrorize the population. With the state of exception they think they can quickly clean things up, sow terror, and thus ward off a united and combative, firm and determined response by all the people to the farce trial and murder that is being planned for Garmendia, Otaegui, Arruabarrena, Genoveva Forest, and Durdn. Since they are trying to conceal all this through all possible means, declaring any sort of information "top secret, "since so many fake democratic
GENERAL STRIKE all the present battles and directing them toward the fundamental aim of overthrowing the
Our comrades of the LCR/ETA-VI (Liga Comunista Revoluc ionaria/Euzkadi ta Askatasung-VI -
Revolutionary Communist League/Basque Nation and Freedom-VI) have widely distributed this
*The LCR/ETA-VI is reproducing and distributing the manifesto of the Euzkadi Coordinating
Committee of Workers Commissions os a supplementary contribution to the preparation of the
June 11 campoign of struggle and calls upon the workers commissions, all political organizators, ond all mass structures to rally in Catalonia to wage o struggle in solidarity with Euzkadi.
"Down with the state of exception Catalonia and Euzkadi, some fight against the murderous dictatorship. manifesto, especially in Catalonia, explaining: dictatorship!" spokesmen are standing silent before this bestiality, and since the combination of political "opening" and stepped up repression is clearly being utilized, it is more than ever necessary to denounce this situation, to denounce the swine that are murdering our comrades af the urging of big capital. In these difficult times, the real defenders of the interests and democratic aspirations of the people are coming forward for all the people to see. It is for this reason that there must be no delay in our denunciations in assemblies, our actions in street demonstrations, and all our other forms of protest. The working class and the people of Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, like those of Navarra, Alava, and the rest of Spain will not permit it. The hatred that the people feel today for all the police who have been loosed like maniacs with the sole aim of crushing the popular organizations by murdering at will must be transformed into a broad response of all the workers. We must offer this response in order to show the regime and is government that they connot play with us, that they cannot shut our mouths so easily, that the workers and people of Euzkadi refuse to live even one more day under the state of exception. The workers commissions and the other popular organizations of Guipúzcoa, as well as the political parties, have chosen June 11 as the day for all the workers and all the people to rise up with a single fist against the state of exception. Comrades, the Euzkadi Coordinating Committee of Workers Commissions issues this call to the whole working class of Euzkadi to forge by our mobilizafion and action the unity in struggle of all the peoFOR THE IMMEDIATE LIFTING OF THE STATE OF EXCEPTION! AGAINST THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER GARMENDIA AND OTAEGUI! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE RIGHT TO WORK! AGAINST LOCKOUTS! Let us begin now to hold assemblies in our factories to prepare the responses that we must offer in order to make that day the culmination of this fight. DOWN WITH THE STATE OF EXCEPTION! AGAINST THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, WAGE FREEZES, LAYOFFS, AND LOCKOUTS! DISSOLUTION OF THE CIVIL GUARD, THE ARMED POLICE, THE POLITICAL-SOCIAL POLICE BRIGADE, AND OTHER FASCIST GANGS! PUNISH THE ASSASSINS AND HANGMEN OF THE PEOPLE! FREE THE POLITICAL PRISONERS| RETURN OF THE EXILES I AMNESTY! NO DEATH PENALTY AGAINST GARMENDIA AND OTAEGUI! JUNE 11: ALL UNITED AGAINST THE STATE OF
EXCEPTION! ALL UNITED AGAINST FASCIST TERRORISMI ALL UNITED FOR FREEDOMI