EUZKADI GENERAL STRIKE CALL
The following is the text of the call for the September 11-12 general strike issued by the Euzkodi Strike Committee, which is composed of the organizations listed below.
OPEN LETTER TO ALL
WORKERS PARTIES
Following is the text of the Open Letter sent by the LCR-ETA-VI to all the workers
2. The political parties and mass organizations of Euzkadi: Workers Commissions of Euzkadi, Union General de Trabajodores, Socialist Central Committee of Euzkadi (PSOE), National Committee of Euzkadi (ORT), Young Socialists, Liga Comunista, LCR/ETA-VI, Movimiento Comunista de España (MCE - Communist Movement of Spain), Carlist party, Communist party of Euzkodi, Organization of the Communist Left of Spain-Unificoción Comunista (Communist Unification), came together today and, after examining the present political situation, arrived at the following conclusions: Garmendia and Otaegui have been condemned to death. The formidable response of the people of Euzkadi, and especially of the people of Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, a response that was raised despite the difficult conditions of the Francoist terror, must grow still larger and spread still further in order to succeed in saving them from execution. Given the convoking of the next Military Council of Ministers (the very body that promulgated the so-called antiterrorist decree), which will decide to murder our two comrades and which has unleashed a brutal repression against the struggle of the Basque people, going so far as to murder Comrade Jesus Garcia Ripalda, and which intends to press on with a long series of trials in which the death penalty has been requested, the assembled organizations considered it opportune and necessary to launch, on September 11 and 12, a general strike throughout Euzkadi that will block the 3.
parties. To the leaderships of all workers parties, Comrades, The current political situation, the attack capital is preparing against the living standards and right to strike of the working class, the brutal hardening of the Francoist repression (the "decree-law against terrorism, " the many death penalties demanded) and, above all, the events. that have been unfolding in Euzkodi during the past week all require urgent and concerted action by all the workers parties throughout the state.
Francoist government's intention to crush the combativity of our people. To call on all the political organizations, mass organizations, unitary and democratic organizations, the working class and the people of the rest of the Spanish state to extend their active support, especially on September 11 and 12, so that we may win victory in this difficult battle to which we are committed. For their part, the assembled organizations pledge themselves to redouble their efforts, to strengthen their unity on the basis of the aspirations for liberty and justice that are so dear to the Basque people, to successfully wage this difficult struggle against the challenge that has been thrown down by the government of murTo call on the workers, students, peasants, fishermen, the liberal professions to the general strike on September 11 and 12. EVERYONE IN STRUGGLE! EUZKADI UNITED, ON OUR FEET! ORGANIZE THE BIGGEST AND MOST EXEMPLARY GENERAL STRIKE IN EUZKADI! EUZKADI, STAND UP FOR GARMENDIA AND OTAEGUI! September 5, 1975 For seven days the whole working class and people of Euzkadi - especially in Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya -have thrown themselves into an open struggle to save the lives of Garmendia and Otaegui from the Francoist grip. The consequences that this new general strike - the broadest and most radical in the history of the workers movement under Francoism - can have on the development of the class struggle throughout the Spanish state are very clear: *First - and this has been expressed by nearly all the