Statement by International Secretariat on Spain and Portugal
The International Secretariat of the Fourth International salutes the heroie and great struggle undertaken by the workers, students, intellectuals and anti fascists of Spain and Portugal against the bloody dictatorships of Franco and Salazar. For the first time since the seizure of power in Spain by Franco, there is a struggle in process throughout he Iberian penisula against Fascisn
This combined struggle will join and support the strug gle of the Angolan and Mozambiquan people, oppressed and tortured by Portuguese imperialism. Everything must be done by the workers of Europe and the world, and by their political and trade union organisations to crush Spanish and Portuguese fascism so that the heroic Spanish and Portuguese fighters and their oppressed African brothers triumph over their tormentors.
The international Workers revolutionary movement must support with all its might the Iberian revolution whic his
The fall of Franco and Salazar, the liberation of the Angolan and Mozambiquan peoples will constitute an important advance of world revolution.
- these events will shake up the reactionary regimes throughout Europe and the relative stability of the Atlantic bourgeoisie;
- they will reinforce the struggle in France against Gaullism and the fascist menace; rence against the reacher daketish the struggle in Greece against the reactionary
- they will strike a hard blow at imperialism in its anti-Soviet preparations for war;
- they will bring about an intensification of the anti imperialist and socialist revolution in Africa, Latin America and in the whole world;
- they will be a decisive step towards the establishment in the whole of the Iberian penisula of a socialist regime in the interests of the workers.
The Fourth International expresses its unconditional so idarity with the Spanish and Portugese workers as it ha already done so towards the Angolan and Mozambiquan
It calls upon all the trade union and political organisations of the workers' movement of Europe and the world to demonstrate their solidarity with the gigantic struggle taken up against fascism in the Iberian peninsula:
10th May, 1962