by his veteran supporters.
free elections to a Constituent the mass of the working class. ine total cor Demonstration of the Workers' Commissions in the Basque country.
But the Spanish working class will have little faith in institutions created by Francoism and stated They will back demands for immediate Assembly with full powers to determine the future political set-up of the country, and for the immediate formation of a workers government based on those organisations which hold the allegiance of National self-determination: One of the major factors in the recent crisis of Francoism has been the high level of struggle in the militant Basque country, born of the fusing of the aspirations of the Basque people for their national rights with the class consciousness of the working class in the Basque country Juan Carlos and his supporters are staunch defenders of the 'unity of the Spanish state' and will not give anything but the most miserable sop to the Basque people. But the crisis of the dictatorship will stimulate the Basque struggle for national self-determination, and this will spread to the other regions of Spain where the people feel themselves to be nationally oppressed Galicia in the north-west, and the key industrial area of Catalonia.
In short, the road ahead is not one of quiet "democratisation' of the Spanish dictatorship, but of even bigger and more neroic strug gles by the Spanish working class than we have yet seen to ensure that the death of Franco is also the death of Francoism. The need for international solidarity with the Spanish struggle is in no way lessened - on the contrary, it is today more urgent than ever.
red weekly 30 october 1975 spain 3