The Spanish Government is still reelreeling from the massive wave of working class struggle that erupted in the Basque country in the first week of this month.
All its 'reform' schemes have come apart at the seams under the impact of the working class upsurge. It is currently trying to patch things up a bit with a scheme to legalise the activities of the opposition parties which don't advocate violent subversion, the destruction of the legal order, or the installation of a totalitarian regime or by any means whatsoever attack the unity, sovereignty, independence or security' of Spain.
This "blank cheque would give the the dictatorship a free hand to repress whom it chose. It has already been made clear that under no circumstances will legalisation be extended to the Communist Party or the far left groups who are in the leadership of the current workers' struggles.
A clear sign of the dictatorship's intentions is that this reform' has been brought in at the same time as another...completely outlawing picketing.
At the same time the powerful right wing of the dictatorship, frightened by the recent displays of working class power, have started to rattle their sabres. right-wing politician Antonio Giron told a rally of fascist Civil War veterans that he and his supporters would never tolerate the disappearance of the authoritarian system inherited from Franco'. Giron is in a good position to keep this promise because he is a leading member of the Government Commission set up to prepare plans for political reform!
GA hundred Spanish militants in Londor attended a meeting last Saturday organised by the LCR-ETA VI (Spanish sympathising organisation of the Fourth International), on the topic of "Espana en marenas our on une mover. speakers from the LCR-ETA VI had discussed ine current pouricar situation u anal and ine tasks or revomnonaries Red Weekly 25 March 1976 Spain/Ireland 11