The main beneficiaries of this dem ocratic gesture are those convicted of drunken driving offences!
Juan Carlos's own idea. for letter a move planned by Franco himself last March, but postponed isations to protect them.
What is more, everyone in Spain knows that his manoeuvre is not even It is letter At the very moment when Juan responsibility. - and If it takes courage and bravery to fight agaust the spamsn dictatorsmip, then the struggles of the political prisoners can only be measured in terms of heroism. Thos who continue to fight within Franco's jails are faced with the immedlate presence of the most brutal repres sion without the immediate support of 60p) a workers movement or political organThe case of Eva Forest is typical. A psychiatric doctor, prominent in the women's movement and in the Vietnam solidarity campaign. she was arrested in September 1974 and accused of the Cafe Rolando bombing where 13 people died. As there was no evidence of Eva Forest's complicity in the bombing, she was then accused of taking part in the execution of Admiral Carrero Blanco in December 1973, for which the Basque nationalist organisation ETA(V) claimed As there is no evidence connecting Eva with this either, she has remained in prison without trial ever since. In jall she has been subjected to a whol series of tortures, from beatings and insults to mental torture and long periods of solitary confinement. For three months she was not allowed to wash and was kept in the same clothes In waich she had been arrested Under the new anti-terrorist law, Eva Forest can be brought to trial at 12 hours of the death sentence being passed. Her plight symbolises that of all the political prisoners. And her book - the personal statement of a revolution any in struggle - deserves the widest circulation for that reason alone * From A Spanish Jail (Penguin Special