WEEKLY judge first major act was to fly to the Spanish Sahara and review the in famous foreign legion' - the miners during the 1930s.
regime seem to doubt that Juan and public figures have already corpse lingering on in the Pardo Palace continues to place his stamp firmly on them.
As if to stress this, Juan Carlos's force Franco commanded in the brutal suppression of both the Moroccan nationalists and the Asturian THREATS However, some elements of the tion.
Carlos, whatever his intentions, can be as reliable as the old General -and so are planning their own moves against the regime's critics. A number of prominent liberal. businessmen received letters warning that they will be murdered within 24 hours of Franco's death unless they leave front. policemen ('Guerillas of Christ the King') in the Basque country have GRAVE DANGER Threats of a similar nature have been received by the leaders of the workers' commissions in Madrid's of all political prisoners are in grave The two main class-collaborationist opposition bodies in Spain - the Democratic Junta, led by the Communist Party, and the Democratic Convergence, led by the Socialist ment calling for the 'peaceful' estabThis declaration leaves out certain the scrapping of the regime - such as the dismantling of the main repressive police forces and the purging of the regime's hirelings from public More seriously, since these bodies contain within them openly cap- or Socialist Parties Any lingering illusions that the replacement of General Franco by Prince Juan Carlos as head of the Spanish state would produce any serious change in the Spanish regime were thoroughly dispelled this week when the Prince agreed to take over 'temporarily" from the dying dictator. Juan Carlos has thus taken on full responsibility for the policies of the Spanish regime while the semiitalist political groups (including monarchists and Christian Democrats) they blur the fact that the struggle for the destruction of the Franco regime can only be led by the working class, and lay the basis for the mass movement being led into the blind alley of trying to replace Juan Carlos with a capitalist coalition government. They are also unable to agree on anything more than the vaguest calls for acWORKERS' FRONT As the Spanish Trotskyists of the LCR-ETA (VI) are arguing instead of building their separate The current situation in Spain makes the building of the forthcom ing London demonstration in solidarity with the struggle against Francoism a major responsibility throughout the workers' movement. Latest sponsors of the demonstration include Emlyn Williams, President of the South Wales Miners; Ernie Roberts, Assistant General Secretary of the AUEW; the Hull dockers' shop stewards committee, who will be sending a delegation to the demonstration under their banner; and Birmingham Selly Oak Constituency Labour Party, which calls on 'all trade unionists and Labour Party members to back this demonstration