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it will be easier for the regime to keep tactical control over the progress of the case.
Whether or not the CP actually invited the arrests, they have made it more difficult for other parties of the class-collaborationist opposition (the Socialists and Christian Democrats) to proceed with the planned negotiations with the fascist government over the heads of the CP.
The CP itself gives full support to the treacherous policy of negotiating. a pact with the Suarez regime: but it demands to be included in the pact and to have at least the same semi-legality as the Socialist Party.
The arrests have also diverted some attention from the failure of the CP to give any effective lead to the Spanish working class in last month's referendum.
The CP refused to mount any major campaign in support of its declared policy of abstention. The result was a high poll (75%) and an enormous "yes? vote for regime's fake 'democratisation' plans, which involve a general election within a few months.
It was a striking feature of the results that in Euskadi, the one area where the opposition parties gave a lead on the question of abstention, the level of abstentions was around 50% of the electorate:
The CP's conduct in the referendum is a guide to the whole opportunistic and unprincipled scheme of its leaders to build a coalition with the ruling class and so crush the growing forces of working class revolution.
While Carillo manoeuvres to conceal the lesson of the arrests; it will not be lost on the thousands of militants from all workers' parties who faced baton charges, smoke bombs and rubber bullets while demonstrating for the CP leader's release.