self, will be able to hold back the struggle of the Spanish masses. As the Financial Times put it: If his hand falters on the valve, the resulting explosion would sweep away him, the monarchy, and much else besides."
The European ruling class are thus prepared to throw all their weight behind Juan Carlos dictatorship, and will try to bring it into the Common Market and NATO military alliance. The deep hatred of the European working class for fascism and its offspring prevented this from being done while Franco was alive. So now the ruling class must sow the illusion that everything is different with Juan Carlos: that "democracy' will eventually be introduced by the King, even though it may "take time" and be 'very difficult", etc. of the Spanish dictatorship. The Times obituary of Franco was entitled 'General Franco -who gave Spain a period of law and order' (needless to say, no mention was made of the tens of thousands be murdered to make this "law and order possible).
cidence the Sunday Times and the Observer carried almost identical headlines on their stories of the swearing in of Juan Carlos: 'Spain's Portugal is once more on a knife of working class militants who had to revolution.
In what was far more than a coinConspiracies Labour Party and their colleagues in other European countries faithfully uphold the needs of capitalism at home, so they do abroad. This is why they have been in the forefront of conspiracies against the Portuguese Spain will get the same treatment. Schmidt, in his telegram to Spanish Prime Minister Arias Navarro, expressed his confidence in the fact that Spain is on a road which will more and more bring it closer to the community of other European countries. to allow the right wing to consolidate its