This immediate crisis proved too tempting to the conspirators to pass Other serious problems also convulse the Spanish state: the economic SCVCICi for who have the growth of fascist death squads; the continuing crisis over Bascontroversy over •pain's relations with NAO and th Common Market; and the campaign against the impending legalisation of Despite this background the coup was destined to fail. There was little for the coup from the •valsa o temanona sourceoise the leading bourgeois and lcwsbaoers.
Vanguardia and Diario 16, both commented: "This isn't a banana republic, The old landowners and bishops dominated Spain nave bedome more integrated into the international finance and power Even the military dictatorship, which so well represented those interests under Franco, was replaced by the caudillo himself with a dictatorThe following excerpts are statement issued by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
THIS was an extremely serious coup attempt to pressure the King. into forming military that •overamen would do away democratic rights and repress the workers movement and nation alist organisations.
The Spanish parliamentary regime was set up on condition the state apinherited valalus ITON Francoism especially the military command, the police and the judicial be compitely Sysicil. preserved.
The Spanish workers' parties the SP and CP accepted this blackmail and compelled the workers 1t They cvcl ended up voting for an terrorist law.
really quite serious for the • future ot the workers' movement and the nationalists is that the response to the coup from the trade union and majority workers parties was immediately give the King a blank chegue They explicitly called solely for calm and confidence in the King.
Only the Spanish section of the Fourth International, the LCR, systematically mobiliseu for a general strike, calling for workers' July. the dissolution of the represKing Juan Carlos sive bodies, a purge of the apparatus and for Gerensi democratic rights The effect of the coup attempt has been strengthen the ability of the repressive apparatus to exert political pressure The King's powers too Have veen surenguenca And there is a greater possibility thal Calvo Sotelo's new government wic avic lo mmoicicu its programme - but in a previously planned.
Whatever artificial and temporary atmosphere of 'national unity"
Ella prevail only • united mobilisation of all the workers' parties, unions, and revolutionary organis ding democratic rights and hiehting for the dismanti ing of the state apparatus inherited I from Franco.
This is the only way possible to confront and smasa une next - and pro bably more serious
campaign By Gerry Foley in Enniskillen THE campaign to elect hunger striker Bobby Sands to fill the Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat in Westminster began dramatically on Tuesday of last week.
Bobby Sands' sister Marcella, told a meeting ot vincing • a depressed and beaten-down people that something; NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION Unionist, but just another Catholic campaign would