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this new name, ATICE N DIO TeDCO TISON O3 Te1D of Francoist repression, is no longer simplongs to all the revolutionaries, to all die WECIs TH UR WHAC SHEN CCE1E We are ail Salvador Puig Antich! And this name is altesdy more than a name: It 38 clear and definitive evidence of che criminal nature of the dictarorship; it is a new teason to struggle unceasingly for its CHORELUR It is a fighting weapon for the revointicwary gemeral atrike wben, without doubt, the millions of men and cunen. who will then bring Francoism tumbling down in ruine will carry engraved in their memories, Cheir hearls and their banners the thuee words: Salvador Puiz Amrichas a war cay agaidst his caecutioners.
Could we have saved the life of Red Weekly 15 March 1974 Page 6 On Saturday 2 March, the Spanish athorities garrotted Salvador Puig Antich, a member of the anarchist Iberian Liberation Movement found guilty of killThis was the first political execution by the Spanish regime since that of Julian Grimau (Communist Party member) in 1963, It is the most horrible inSalacor Puig,. For as long as the dietetorship exists, fo sve she life ofe revolurionary meane bresking with she wasy of doing rhinge lakd idomw by the hourgeoiue, ond snashing up swir Our experience has shown us that there is only one way to achieve the objoclive: mass action, the mobrisation of rãe uhole isorement so defend the threatened convade, If Hurgos ]whien reprieve for Basque militants suntenced to death in 1970) was a positive exampic or pais Cruin, Ench the Hsufoct cE Salvador Puig has just proved it перине -On this occasion, offi-ial and unpiticial appeals for clemeney, tekgrams addressed to the dictator and his closest Jackes, and De goog pracs de wei known acmocratic figures and forcign lecking was the strugele in the streets Of Enow sinas oru tens ol 19005a008 oy ir num, lo save Selvnder Puir...
mass moremunt ronains intacL. Since 20 Documber [when Premier Carmene T SUSIS SREG USCE SAKa a ovet by estromely tadical strugeles of uros, usat, anu peasanes the poesibility of combised strugeles a new mobiltation of the Burgei typs.
The significance of this action was explained in a statement issued on 4 of the Fourth International in Spain. Extracts from this follow below gowernments were not lacking, What wan workers and students, lening on inter LLU CIT TEL CHU DHR BETH srious defeal.
Blanco was executed by Basque mälitants] The widesprrad adoption of mecthode Duu umi 1as icu a HM CINES DE HH ED SEBEC-HPAIR Lons, beit stelkes capable of developing al the levet of the State and of provoking BoCh the trial of the Carabanchel 10 and the murder of Sahador Puie hane inar ked partial victorics for the bourgenisic, enCHLA-HS RIHNAI SESNEIR EA SE HERS003 represson. Uness we respond with the necessary speed and vigour, a series of such partial victuries could produce serious demoralisation in the ranks of the masses, and would thas indicate the danger of' a The revolurionary counter-offenbee mast be opened up intredisteb And to do this it is necessary. today more than ever, to create a united frovr of all the organisations of the worken' and popular movemeni egainsr repression. This must go beyond existing strabagie and tactical differences-the only common basis necessury is rejection of the night of the bourenisie or any of inr potirical sportesmen to intervene in the tfe of the snopement. Such a hasis can achieve a united nesponse by the whole maes morement to cach act of repression. But these possibilities have been systemutically mained through the weakness, the vacillations and the sociarianism of the erolutionary organisations Kank or thaw stuenks Hor clan ef the prale bartar. But cach one thes r victory: the willingnes to simagnle tons, this scctarianism in the ranka of the vanguand-preventing the worken of Standard, Astilleros, Hunosa and IDOocasa Crom acming vIctor', a00 most impurtantly, lading to the failure which could have paved Sabrodor Puig SUS Be MEs Dun ClauDe ToH CUT bands becaus wu were not capable ol mulcune sullcat strenelh to hald on to it. The tragic and Ditter lesson glven Jo ut by The elet Sirueed on ?Hurc 1974 muzs sever be foreosen Today, more fan ever, we must go forward through mess direct action, throng) ahe self organisurion ane selfelefence of the novement in the singele for demands at work, for demoralie freedom, for she freeing of all political primers, for the dissolution of the represive bodies and the special tribunals as the only say to for pe the political and organisational weapons neoded for the repolrriomary gescral atike
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dication yet of the increase in repression under the Arias Navarro government, shown that what te lacking te not that in which hundreds of militants have already been rounded up and incaroerated, cleneet indispersahie to ary remodation March by the Political Burenn of the LCR-ETA(VD), sympathising organisation demonstrated this weakness, these vacit