Spanish Growing Pains

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Spain has been very much in the news in recent weeks. It is still a dictatorship based primarily on army support, but few are aware of the extent to which the liberalization has proceeded. The recent wave of strikes did not result in bloodshed; funds for the families of needy strikers raised by Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) are now being officially forwarded to their destination and the national unions are showing signs of independence. Originally they were state-ordered organizations almost as bad as the Russian profsoyuzi, .but Spaniards being what they are— independent-minded and individualistic—these organized bodies have emerged from their restrictive cocoons. While they have not fomented the strikes, they have sympathized with them.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Spain has been very much in the news in recent weeks. It is still a dictatorship based primarily on army support, but few are aware of the extent to which the liberalization has proceeded. The recent wave of strikes did not result in bloodshed; funds for the families of needy strikers raised by Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) are now being officially forwarded to their destination and the national unions are showing signs of independence. Originally they were state-ordered organizations almost as bad as the Russian profsoyuzi, .but Spaniards being what they are— independent-minded and individualistic—these organized bodies have emerged from their restrictive cocoons. While they have not fomented the strikes, they have sympathized with them.