2 comrades in Spain arrested

THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PEOPLES OF SPAIN DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE, WITHOUT ANY CHARGES, OF THE MILITANTS ARRESTED IN ASTURIAS

IVAN JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ, MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, AND VANESA RODRIGUEZ GARCIA WERE ARRESTED THIS AFTERNOON BY THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BRIGADE IN THE PARTY OFFICE IN THE TOWN OF CANDÁS

On the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14, several plainclothes police officers went to the new offices of the PCPE in Candás, and, without explanation, they have arrested the comrades Vanesa García Rodríguez and José Ivan Fernandez, the latter a member of the Central Committee of PCPE.

With the same style as the political-social brigade of the previous dictatorship, a large group of secret police officers arrived in two vehicles, which have required two members of the party and brought them prisoners, without any explanation and even without telling anything to the other person who was in the room at that time.

This police action is one more expression of the line of harassment that the police forces are carrying out against the political activity of the PCPE and its militants. This action responds to a political intention of trying to prevent the political activity of the Party, which directly confronts the interests of the dictatorship of capital, the oligarchy and the state apparatus that protect them. This action also takes place at a time when the government of the social-democracy promotes the new labour reform that aims to liquidate the collective bargaining rights and wants to put the working class at the feet of the businessmen.

No harassment, however violent it may be, will prevent the continuation of the political activity of the PCPE side by side with the working class in struggle for socialism and communism. In this situation, any attack serves only to increase the fighting morale of the Party and its determination to confront these actions with the support of the people and the class.

The PCPE demands the immediate release of its two members with no charges of any kind.

The PCPE denounces the action of the police forces of the dictatorship of capital, an action that demonstrates once again the class character of the state and its apparatus of repression.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF IVÁN AND VANESA!

STOP THE REPRESSION OF COMMUNISM!