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Spanish Underground in Search of Leadership

The Internationalist No. 2, 13 February 1963 · pp 8-9 · 223 words

Spain

SPANISH UNDERGRO -

PARIS, Feb, 5 = An increasing number of militants in the underground UG? (Union General de Trabajo, the reformist-led illegal trade union in Spain) refuse to recognize the old leadership located oa Toulouse, Trance. . These staid mice bosses, closely linked to Guy Mollet, have lost all contact with the real underground struggle in fascist. Spain, They are more interested in "anti-Communism" than in militant action aimed at toprling the decrepit Franco regime, which could scarcely resist a well-organized assault.

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‘The aotivist wing ‘has eétebltehed: its own ‘ee samen in France, keeps in ‘close:contact with the underground, and has © reached a‘united-front’ agreement with anarchists. in: Catalonia who likewise refuse to follow’ directives of the emigre CNT leadership.

These important developments are a direct consequence of the big strike wave in:1962. A new generation of working-class militants, tempered in last year's. strike struggles, have grown impatient and profoundly dissatisfied with the Scaneieiey, the opportunism, and the lack of perspective which has marked the veadi tional me taeaarensie of the a.

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