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Socialist Press no. 240, 25 March 1981 · scan p. 3 · about 326 words

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Box 3277, London WCIN ario now to atop Echidaal more senior officers were implicated in the plot than the four who have so far been arrested, and who are now held in luxurious conditions under a liberal regime in army barracks await ing trial by military judge.

Oliart also admitted something which was already widely suspected-that the government itself knew of the plans at least in outline for several months.

The widepsread speculation that Adolfo Suarez, resigned from the Premiership because of military pressure is thus demonstrated to be more or less correct. recorded it on tape.

Though the government was unable to resist the clamour inside and outside parliament to know what happened, the leaking of the report goes completely against their strategy of refraining from anything which might arouse military ire.

And even though the Socialist and Communist leaders are willingly going along with this craven surrender to the Francoist army, the publication of even the limited government report will make it much more difficult to continue with the kind of cover up of the plot which the armed police and seriously injuring an army colonel.

These remain circumstances in which the majority of people in Spain are counting the days to the next coup attempt.

The main workers' parties and unions continue to do nothing to prepare the political/ and physical resistance to such a seemingly inevitable event.

They have decided to leave it to the Francoist 'democrats' and the 'constitutional' generals and Franco's protege King Juan Carlos to preserve democracy in Spain. A recipe for disaster. Please send me more details about the Wor Name..

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