tants and to support the struggle of struggle against the Spanish dictatorship-Friday 13 June, 7 pm-Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, Ctee Corner, march to Spanish Embassy.
The state of emergency was supposedly imposed because of a number of attacks trade unions). on police officials by the Basque nationChile after the coup, with the bull ring converted into a temporary detention centre packed with more than 1,000 detainees. Among those rounded up last week were ten representatives of the "workers' commissions' (underground VICIOUS So far at least 80 of those detained have been handed on to military trib unals, where they face frame-up trials and vicious jail sentances for the most The interrogations' are being carried out in the true traditions of this bloody regime. Torture is routine. One priest is in a critical condition in hospital after having been in police hands for several days, and another has emerged Not satisfied with this official campaign of repression an independent fascist group called the Guerillas of Christ the King' has been carrying on its own campaign of violence. Homes 2nd chone halonaina ta anandas has also carried out raids against Basque nationalist sympathisers acro the border in France. Many of the members of this group are off-duty policemen, and the authorities bot Spanish and French-often secretly cooperate with their activities. A car involved in a recent attack bore a registration number that has been traced to the Spanish Director General of Security, and a heavily armed thug recently picked up in France after having been indentified by a Basque nationalist militant turned out to be a Spanish police officer.
To top off this wave of repressio the regime is now preparing the offi murder of two Basque nationalist militants it has had 'on ice for nine months. Jose Antonio Garmendia ar Angel Otaegui Echevarria were arres in August 1974 for the murder of a police corporal. Last week their lawyers were suddenly called in by t authorities and given five days to prepare their case. This almost certainly means that the regime is plan ning a quick kangaroo trial before a military court, which will result in these militants being convicted and sentenced to death. Garmendia was shot in the head while being arrested and is said to be unfit to stand trial.
This brutal regime no longer has any support in Spain from anyone except its own hirelings and thugs. But before being swept away by the rising tide of mass struggle it is still capable of carrying out acts of murderous brutality. International solidarity is needed even more, now that tha bronan rammale antonin.