On May 1 a policeman was killed in Madrid in an an a laft-wing demonstration, Well over 100 immediately seized and are still chile maction his come to a head ind any. There have been mass • of police and fascists in the inajor cities, directed against the Minister of the Interior and the Opus Dei organisation, and calling for the restricted use of firearms against the 'reds. Already overmment had so retrieve its position, to supply the forces of "law and order" ans they require for the defence of cence to kill is restored.
The May Day avents followed a new upturn in the casa struggle during the previous month after a worker had been assassinated by police in Barcalona during a strike organised by the FECSA Worker' Commission, The response was a strice movement Mudrid: fascists Link arms with piainclorhes poilce GUARDS BEAT UP WOMEN IN LONG KESH Two women detainees in Armagh Jail in the north of Ireland were budly beaten up by. guards on 25 April during a bearing at Long Kesh internment camp.
The incident started when Margarer Shannon. who is 18, appeared before the commissioners and was told that an Informer had claimed that she was a member of the Provisional IRA. The alleged informer started to speak from behind a screen and she recognised the voice of a Lieutenant Ball of the Royal Green Jackets, a man notoriods in the Andersonstown area of Belfast. She then attempted to pull down the screen and confront her accuser.
A letter sent to Red Weekly by one of the other women prisoners in Armagh Juil takes up the story: immediately a male prison warder palled her to the ground then dragged ber out of the room down a long corridor. The warder bad her in a stranglehold and she was unable to breathe. Ann Walsh heard the comthroughout the country and especially in the Barcelona area, where workers demonstrated in a massive display of solidarity, defended by the use of strong pickets, This kind of self-defence is more than aver necessary in the face of the new wave of repression now being prepared by the regime, and in particular by the police and army.
The prospect of 'social peace' held out by the Opus Dei organisation, which requires capitalist "stabilisation" and strengthened links with Europe to safeguard the future of capital in Spain, grows increasingly remote for the Spanish regime in the face of workers' struggles to which it cannot afford to make concessions. And the perspective of a 'Pact for Freedom' with sections of the bourgeoisie and armed forces, offered by the CP, is more and mora clearly revealed is treacherous illusion for tha demonstration urging regime to step up repression, motion and she ran out to aid Mias Shannon. More prison wardens rushed onto the scene and Miss Walsh was Clung against the wall aod one of the wardens banged her head against it a number of times. At this time Miss Shannon was lying on the ground unconscious. "When both of the girls arrived back at the prison they were not allowed to enter the wing 'in case they upset the rest of the girls*, Eventually when they did get up the rest of the women prisoners found them in a stute cof severe shock. Medical attention did not arrive until a few hours after.
The letter concludes: This is not the first time anything of this nature bas taken place. Our women have suffered constant harassment each time they have been taken to Courts. This was one of the most recent and terrifying examples of British tyranny in the north of