IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Tell it to the marines!

Red Weekly No. 119, 2 October 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 505 words

The scan: rw-no119-oct-2-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

regime has denied this.

carriers and four thousand marines.

out the presence of marines in Rota is still in prison. approximately seven days, the "alarm' the population.

call in une on the paper.

£200 of his redundancy money.

calling here too!

Subscribe NAME.... Last week Franco's sister Pilar announced to the Spanish press that her brother would step down on 16 October, which is the Spanish Fiesta of Nuestra Senora de Pilar. The So guess what? On 6 November half of the American Mediterranean Fleet will be arriving in Barcelona. The fleet will consist of some ten boats including helicopter During the abortive Spinola coup in Portugal, 7,000 American marines were standing by in the submarine base at Rota. An editor of a local newspaper who pointed -Durine teir stav in barcelond marines will be wearing civilian clothes so as not to Unlike the Franco dictatorship and other reactionary forces, Red Weekly can't marines when we're in trouble. The internationalism we believe in is the solidarity of the international working class against capitalism. In order to fight tor that we need £500 a month in our Fund Drive to cover the day to day running losses Last week we had a windfall. A hospital worker who's just been sacked gave us But we still only just reached the £500 target. So help get the October fund drive off to a really good start. Rush donations to 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. - and perhaps we can help to stop the marines from SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: E6 per year £3 for six months FOREIGN: £9 per year surface mail £12 per year airmail Write to RED WEEKLY (distribution), 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1 Monday morning to help organise protests against the Government's action -have miso maken an exceneur siep Bi pIU moting international solidarity with the Portuguese revolution. in touch with striking French printworkers at Caron-Ozanne in Caen, who have been occupying their plant since the beginning of June, and arranged for them to produce a special issue of Republica in French. This is now being distributed through the channels of the workers' movement in France as part of the campaign againt the bosses inter national boycott.

radio and TV stations is just part of an attempted clampdown to silence the means of workers, propaganda - which have been a key weapon in building these actions and in carrying on the campaign against the capitalists and against the mist attempt at censorsmp, tne press law against reporting events in the army, had collapsed.

As we go to press the outcome of the struggle against the Government's new censorship moves is not clear. The was used to broadcast calls for a general strike. The soldiers occupying Radic Renascenca issued an ultimatum to the Copcon chiefs to justify their action or mander whose units carried out the ing with the co-ordinatine committee of the Lisbon workers' commissions in order to attempt to justify his action. The Revolutionary United Front which

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