Spain: Towards Revolution (1976)

  

SPAIN - THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

This article, analysing the potential for revolutionary change in Spain after the death of Franco, was published in the Militant International Review (Issue No.10), March 1976

"The programme the Marxists will develop must be those which have been taken up by popular acclaim:

• An amnesty and the unconditional release of political prisoners.
• Free trade unions with the right to organise.
• Universal adult suffrage from the age of 18.
• No botched-up constitutions from those guilty of the crime of Fascism and repression. Let the people decide!
• Self-determination and national autonomy, for the Basques, Catalans and, if they wish, the Galicians.
• For a 40 hour week! For a sliding scale of wages and hours to relieve unemployment! For a national living minimum wage!
• Down with Francoism without Franco! 
• Down with the Fascist monarchy! 
• For the expropriation of the banks, trusts, and monopolies responsible for the hireling dictator Franco and his servants Arias, Fraga and the other new "Democrats".
• For a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly!
• For a Workers' Democracy!
• For workers' committees to inquire into the corruption of the regime—the salting away and export of millions by the Franco family, and his millionaire backers. Let the bank employees and trade unionists examine the books and reveal how tens and hundreds of millions have been deposited in Bonn, London, New York and Geneva"