IT'S not just in Italy and the USA that the ruling class plots to hang on to power eliminate position. The past weeks have starkly revealed how far the Spanish state apparatus is riddled with right wing sympathisers of the old Francoist Following the unsuccessful attemp.co Millary coup in rebruary. Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero, the far right -ave multiplied their The recent Barcelona bank siege :as now been confirmed by the Spanish Prime Minister as masterminded by exreme right organisations.
Each member of the bank gang was promised 5m pesos and a one-way ticket :o that haven of democracy, The gang's job was to demand the release of Tejero, and the publication of a communiqué in two major newspapers.
More worrying was the attempted government cover-up of the whole affair. While hostages released from the bank have claimed that the assailants were well armed and spoke in military jargon, reinforcing the idea that they were members the intamous Civil Minister Socialist Challenge 4 June 1981 socialist led by provocative acasserted that Arecita.
Guard, the Was found originally they went 'delinquent elements with obscure motives.
The government has also denied that there were as many attackers as originally claimed, supporting the thesis that the police may have 'failed to capture certain members of the siege gang: the Civil Guard members, perhaps?
Just as the government was trying to put the lid on this right wing scandal came a new revelation. A large tunnel • the road. where a military procession was to have taken place last weekend, none other than King Carlos himself. It is clear that the tunnel wasn't there to make sure that someone got a good view of the march past. these outrages drawn by Prime Minister Calvo Sotelo is the anti-terrorist laws. These will be aimed against OV... Guard, the very forces who lie behind the latest intrigues and plots:
presided over by Needless to say, the conclusion from need for stronger 'extremists', and implemented . the army, the police and the Civil CP has repeatedly watered down politics, the economic and ponucal icaact. of Italy obviously feel in need of a 'guarantee' in the event of interests being threatened by the "democratic process' The links that P-2 appear to have with Latin American right wing circles suggests that essenually ine organisation is ir the business of implementing a Chile solution Italy, when the bankers and generals feel such a step is necessary.
Licio Gelli What has been exposed Italy harmless Masonic lodge whose members indulge in the peculia rites associated such what has been revealed classical capitalist conspiracy.
Several leading capitalists have already been rested for their membership of this secret sociely.
The Milan magistrates who exposed P-2 declared: 'Gelli's strateg has been to bring under his control a large number of powersons and thus down the separation between political, ad ministrative. , and military and economic spheres Gelli constructed a very real state within a state.
Gelli himself is wanted of spying for on charge. the right wing junta Argentina, while his seized documents suggest that P-2 also has links with the Saudi Arabian regime and right wing Yaou organisations in Italy and throughout the world.
In this context Gelli, in message to the Italian Prime Minister Arnoldo Forlani, warned that P.2 list members was made public there would be serous l ternational consequences'in ine event. , Forlani only agreed to the publication of the list wnen the mag istrates who discovered threatened to publish with or without the Prime Minister's permission.
Forlani also resisted offering the resignation of his government, although three of his ministers were among the plotters, until forced to do so when. the Italian Socialist Party, who partners Forlani's Christian Democrat-led coalition, withdrew their support.
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