AT THE TIME of writing, six condemr waiting in the freezing cells of Burgos jail

face Franco's fascist firing squads.

If™ their sentences are not commuted overnight, they may vell die at dawn today.

A wave of hatred and anger is moving millions of workers in de and outside outside Spain to protest the terrible verdict these working-class Their sentence, after mockery of a trial before a military court, is ample evidence, if more were needed, of the Franco regime's monstrous barbarism.

But humanitarian protest by itself against the fate of Izko and his comrades will not weaken Franco or make the slightest dent on Spanish fascism.

The Burgos trial is not just the concern of Spanish workers. It is part and parcel of the system of imperialism, the system of monopoly and exploitation which is the fountainhead of barbarism in Spain, Vietnam and all over the world.

Imperialism swinging sharply to the right.

US president Nixon tinues devastate Vietnam and Cambodia and turns his police and troops loose on the students of Kent State university and the Black Panthers of Chicago and New York. press in Spain and recently opened a tourist office in Madrid.

Stalinism bears a colossal responsibility, not only for the coming to power of fascism during the civil war, but for its continuation The Stalinist bureaucracy's mortal fear of workers' revolution in Europe gives it no option but to line up against the working class with the most reactionary and discredited regimes.

Moscow's protests against the Burgos trial are a worthless fraud.

They have made not the slightest effort to rupture their new ties with Franco, despite the protests of the Spanish Communist Party itself.

The same goes for the British Communist Party and its leaders, who have yet to OECD warns on wages A REPORT released yesterday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development warns against the dangers of further wage increases in the New Year.

Countries highlighted were Britain, W Germany and Japan, where the trend towards higher wages was if anything increasing in tempo.

GREEK security authorities have almost completed mass interrogations of detainées arrested on suspicion of activities aimed at overthrowing the military regime, usually reliable sources said yesterday.

About 100 people have been arrested since November 26 following a • bomb blast in Athens' centre and the discovery of two unexploded home-made bombs near the radio station.

The latest arrests were made over the Christmas holiday period in Athens and Salonica, the sources said.

The presence of the Chinese Prime Minister at the airport, together with the news that "comrades Chou En-lai, Yao Wen-yuan, Chiu Hui-tso and Chi TengThe reactions of Birch's Maoist rivals in Britain should prove both interest'ing and amusing. make the slightest condemnation of the barefaced treachery of the Kremlin and and its E European subordinates.

Franco is not an archaic survivor of a past epoch, but a terrible warning to the world working class of the fate in store if imperialand bureaucracy are not defeated.

The British labour and trade union leaders are in a similar position.

Not a single union chief has ing-class raised she contin so york.

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Boycott

French and Italian dockers have boycotted Spanish shipping.

Transport and General Workers' Union chief Jack Jones fought in Spain during the civil war. But he has yet to call on his dockér members to emulate the dockers of France and Italy leaders hope Labour Party for an official government protest to Franco.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey petitioned I his Tory counter-part Sir Alec Douglas-Home yesterday in the hope that he would intercede.

But the Tory government is entirely in sympathy with Franco.

It was the Tories of Britain under Chamberlain who helped Hitler and Mussolini strangle the Spanish working class and install Franco in his Madrid palace.

The Tory government supports Franco.

They know that the only alternative to fascism in Spain is workers' revolution.

The best assistance British workers can render the workers of Spain is to fight to force this Tory government to resign.

Protests to Home are worse than useless.

Toryism is already striding along the road to the enslavement of the British working class. Its class sympathies are with the gallant Christian gentlemen' of fascist Spain.

International working-class solidarity with the victims of fascist terror means: • Union chiefs must call for relations with Franco fascism. • Fight to force Franco's friends in Britain, the Tory government, to resign.

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