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"does give a fairly accurate idea of factory life" . Considering most of the material seems to come direct from the collected works of Peter Sturges this is hardly surprising!

for the details of "factory life" - the director of the play in a discussion afterwards with the handful of people who had turned up to see it said that they had discussed with CP, IS and labour left shop stewards. In other words, it was based on a cross-section of those opposed to the fight for principled leadership in the factory.

The real record of the struggles at Cowley would make a compelling play. "Made in Britain" is not the real record, and a disastrous play.

The authors, revealed as a pair witch-hunters, describe their play not a documentary but "a tale" is a tale with a sting.

On May 9th on a mountain top in Navarra a rally of 5000 supporters of the Carlist party, advocates of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, was attacked, two of its members being killed and several wounded, by another group also claiming allegiance to the Carlist cause.

This bizarre event las grown into a major political crisis for the Spanish regime.

The Carlists, dislodged from the Spanish throne in the nineteenth entury, were leading supporters of Franco I the civi • war. They moved into opposition to Franco after the dictator's selection of Juan Carlos in surpad him ao han= The policies of the party are now hardly distinguishable from those of the Socialist Party with which the Carlists have been in alliance in the Democratic Platform.

The Carlists, like the socialists are now in the wider Democratic Coordination which included the Communist Party. The pretender, Prince. Carlos Hugo, who led the rally, says incongruously that:

"We are monarchists but we do not demand the throne and power. What we do demand is a socialist society"!

The attackers were led by Carlos Hugo's younger brother Sixto and included members of the ultra-right terrorist group Guerillas of Christ the King.

They were allowed to escapi population joined a silent protest march.

The town council has said it will resign unless the government moves against the attackers. Even the local judge has demanded the same.

In Pamplona a 10,000 strong protest was violently broken up by As is normal in cases of ultra-right violence the Francoist government had taken no action.

It is, however, left without its usual excuse that the culprits are unknown: several Madrid newspapers have published clear photographs of them actually in the act of shooting.

This episode and its aftermath come on top of growing public allegations made by lawyers all over Spain, but especially in Euskadi that political prisoners are being subjected to the most extreme and brutal forms of torture. All this has further undermined the facrist We readers. should Last August blacks and whites fought over the use of South Boston's Carson beach - a public facility which in practice has been closed to blacks.

The issues involved in the Boston riots are complex. By no means all of the US groupings calling themselves Trotskyist have come out in favour of busing, most of these groups have been especially critical of the call by the Socialist Workers Party for tederal troops to enforce desegregation.

In a • future article Socialist Press will attempt to throw some light on the background to the Boston events and the questions of revolutionary strategy posed by them.

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