Jails crammed

movement ETA-are (top row, 1 to r) Javier Izco, Joaquin Gorostidi and Eduardo Uriarte.

Jose Dorronsoro, Mario Onaindia and Francisco Larena (bottom row, l to r) were handed down both single death sentences and 50-year prison terms.

All six defied the military court with statements that they were struggling to establish an independent socialist Basque state in N Spain.

Five of them said they were Marxist-Lenihists.

Izco is a 29-year-old printworker; Gorostidi, 26, mechanic, who once held office In Greece the colonels' junta is entering its fourth year of rule, its jails crammed with trade unionists and political prisoners.

At home, Heath and the Tories plan stringent laws to do away trade union All over the world, imperialism is striking back at workers, whose determination and advance rights and gains threatens the basis capitalist private Capitalist democracy in Britain as in the United States, Canada, Italy and France, is more and more a facade for the preparation of civil war against the workers.

That is the real significance of the Burgos verdicts.

They are intimately tied the fate trade unionist in Britain and every worker internationally.

The Labour leaders and the Stalinists try hard to maintain the lying fiction that Spanish fascism has 'liberalized'.

Many of them take their holidays in Spain and establish diplomatic and commercial relations with the bloodstained Caudillo and his functionaries. These people have rendered Franco enormous services.

Broke strike Less than a year before they turned their tanks on the screen, the Polish Stalinind workers Gdansk sent coal to Spain and helped break the Asturian miners' strike. The Relish Bulgament, ind the Bulgarian Cian Stalinist regimes, Rumanian has diplomatic relations with Franco.

The Kremlin has exchanged journalists with the fascist