Gomez fell dead.
Rafael Gomez had dared to call for the release of all political Like hundreds thousands of other workers who struck that day he had dared to say that there could not be democracy while his comrades were still held.
Rafael was only the first to die. Prietworker Jose Luis Cano fell victim to a rubber bullet, thai *non-lethal weapon developed by the British Army in Ireland.
78-year-old Lais Santamaria was standing at his window in a Pamplona street when he too died from a rubber bullet.
Manuel Fuentes Mesa, a member of the unitary current of the Workers Commissions restaurant after dinner with some TTICEA.HEWILSAO COWN LI COIL AMNESTY And another worker, whose name has toe been released, died when police charged a barricade Sebastian. Five dead in four days.
CAN BUCCOULE GUS BEYO seen anything like the last week.
THIS DOT TO THIS was also • massive show Basque working class. The day Kafae Gomer was murdered 8l the major factories had come out Euskalduna, Naval, General Electric. Altos Hornes and the rest.
By the following day, as news of The angry crowd assembled outside the Civil Guard post in the industrial town of Renteria. A voice came from inside the wiLs - IL of the murders spread, so did the SERENCE Bylast Monday everything in the -Besoue country had come to a halt: not just the factories but shops, bars, transport, the post office, thefisbing industry and the offices. More than half a million people refused to work.
The oily chiogs which did not stop were the desermined marches of the workers, barricades around their factories and their neighbourhoods - and the rampages of the Civil Guard.
They ambled chrough Renteria like gunslingers, shooting through windows, shooting at any living thing that's coming to you'.
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The situation demanded throwing ap Nervien and in BasauriSpanish police Implement democracy Suarez-style thing which came into their pach. An officer shouted through a megaphone: "You deserve everyThey passed the spot where five bullets had passed clean through Rafael Gomez' body and lodged themselves in the wall behind.
In the fishing town of Ondarres and. they arrested young workers and demandedto now if 1.KI milntant Andoni Arrizabalaga was or mising the striker "If we get ou hands on him we'll put a bullet in urgent response. In Vizcaya the three great democratic assemblies of last autumo were reconvened.
- the very heart of Spain's heavy industry meetings in factories and working WEEKLY resentatives to the assemblies matters of organisation and poliEach assembly passed a unan imous resolution calling for the sibashing of the repressive appar arus of the dictatorship. It did bot marter that their traditional partles - the Communists, Socialists and Basque Nationalists — are implacably opposed to that demThe workers of Bilbao had an need for their old leaders. aroughoutine masque country the story was the same strike. ise the basic needs of the markers they represented. Above all they temporarily elected defense pickets to protect against the police and fascist gangs. There were no more murders.
At the week end the Government five of the six militants con1970 — the first victory for the strike. The far left and radical nationalist parties and the KI, Basque supporters of the Fourth Internacional, have called a gener al strike for Monday 23 May. As we go to press me do not knuw anythingabout the progress of this But another wook of struggle faces the Basque country. KICHARD CARVER
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