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NOVEMBER 26 ASSEMBLE 2.30pm *POW Status for all Irish republican prisoners * Amnesty for all Irish republican prisoners PAC SPEAKERS CORNER MARBLE ARCH *British troops out of Ireland now!

The third anniversary of General Franco's death was marked by what seems to have been a serious attempt at a military coup by ultra-Francoist sections of the army and police.

The coup attempt was followed by a substantial show of strength by swastika-touting fascists in a demonstration through Madrid.

This very serious development shows the extreme danger which hangs over all the gains of the Spanish working class as long as the old Francoist repressive apparatus remains in existence.

Constitution

But the organisation of this police and army is to remain untouched by the terms of the "democratic" constitution which will be presented to a national referendum on December 6.

Last week's attempted coup is the third occasion since the death of Franco that a section of the army and police have tried to seize power.

This occasion seems to have been the most serious.

Reports suggest that at least 16 senior officers were involved and have been arrested.

Political and military leaders rushed to give assur-l ances that the only people concerned were a "small' group of "hotheads".

_Chile 1973 This remark is ominously reminiscent of the statement made by the Allende government and the military leaders (including Pinochet) in Chile when a preliminary coup went off at half cock in June 1973, just three months before the bloody regime of Pinochet seized power.

The response to this by workers must be to launch a counter-offensive against the Suarez government.

Build workers defence militias in Spain!

Dissolution of the Francoist state apparatus!

No' to the SuarezGonzales-Carrillo constitution!

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