Krivine arrested in Madrid

The scan: rw-no172-oct-28-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: corrected against the scan of page 6 (20 Oct 2026, for a redmole.org post). A boxed report; the machine reading had welded it into the Basilio Montes interview beside it. The scan is cropped at the foot of the page, so the last line ('...the benefit of the Govern-') is all that survives.

page 6 of the scan

ALAIN KRIVINE and Patrick Jouvet, leading members of the LCR, the French section of the Fourth International, were arrested in Madrid last week.

After addressing a meeting at Madrid University, the comrades were taken away by the BPS, the Spanish secret police, and held for 36 hours. After this time they were deported to France. At no time were any charges made against the comrades.

They were held in unlit cells, without food or water, a common practice in Spanish jails. Four Spanish comrades, arrested with Krivine and Jouvet, are still held in these conditions without charges being brought. Alongside them are about 250 militants, mainly from the revolutionary left, who did not get the benefit of the Govern- [the scan breaks off here, at the foot of the page]