Spain's Fascist Pay Laws Broken
Socialist Press1976 1976-01-28Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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attempted to stop a mass demon stration called jointly by the and the Socialist Party dominated platform of Democratic Converg ence.
The regime claimed event as a success. But althougt the whole demonstration wai unable to assemble as planne outside the main gorcrambuilding: tens of thousands of workers joined the demonstrator and virtually the whole of centra Madrid and all its working clas suburbs were scenes of militan resistance to police attacks wit batons, smoke and tear-gas bomb and water cannons.
CP Secretary Carillo The regime has also resorted ti wholesale arrests. On Januar 12th 23 trade unionists (claime to be members of the CP) wer arrested, some of whom wer released several days later. On th 16th 120 Catholic trade unionist of Workers Fraternity for Catholi Action were arrested and accuse of organising a general strike, a on the 19th were 55 labou lawyers.
APOLOGY
The latter arrests duced such strong protests fror other lawyers that the regim releasel the 55 with an apologs These events illustrate how th regime is haunted by the spectr of a political general strike But the same spectre also ter orises the leaders of the mai working class parties. Both th Junta and the Platform have trie in published statements to min mise the political dimensio which increasingly characterise the strike movement and empha ise that they are exclusively abou the question of wages.
Equally, in restricting th demands of demonstrations to th cont'd on back page col. 5
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ge 2 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday January 28th 1976, SERANPAROAL EUIS I that the CIA itself may have decided that a pawn would have to be sacrificed for the sake of the greater game. Such suggestions, needless to say, are rejected as 'scurrilous' by souices Washington.
Be that as it may, the mounting to British and American interests. They are presently credited with planning British government support for the Sultan of Oman against liberation forces there.
Earlier, they backed the 1954 coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power, and in the late 1940s