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for the funeral of German KOUTTEE Ou whole of Pamplona had.come TOa Mann OCHA LCDHC armed police who still hovered around the scene of their crime, always threatening to attack BARRICADES The barricades which had been thrown up throughout the town after the killing had been taken down. But they were soon to spread throughout the Basgee Tovmcca, ioag witn Workers bocked the min Irun-Madrid week they went on the rampage through the Basque country. First they attacked a Basque nationalist protest during the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, killing German Rodriguez, a young Trotskyist.
When the Basque workers movement responded in anger police went on the rampage again, shooting their way through San Sebastian, and killing another.
Here we pay tribute to German Rodriguez and print an eyewitness account of his murder. And we look at how the protest movement has spread since German's MORE than 30,000 turned out| the course of last week the San Sebastian industrial belt to the West hank of the Nervion in the industrial heartland of Vizcaya.
The scenes in Pamplona were next day when police shot 19 VUH-URANO BAIR GRENTT factories closed TELU weHE IOU the town.
E'monstrators only to face anotber violent polloc cha Te directions, two Cought inch by inch through the city's old quarter.
Laler mn the evenng th armed police drove through the lown fring al any house which several points. All the major , displayed the Basque Mag or a other tisce | black flag of mourning.
The press would like to give which Pamplona provincial capital, i Spain's "Uster' factions which or anti-Basque, But the W'RE CIENTIY week. As well as the genera SILAC, LUCIe Was LIC TeaCEOn DI the organisers of the festival of This festival, popularised by Hemingway, is onc of Spain's biggest Inwend ot beine contined to sh arena the bulls ron down the SULLI Like so many times in recent ycars the festival was chosen as the occasion for apainst government refusal to recognise Basque mination and is continued and detention of Basque political prisoners. asembled, FESTIVAL This time sides organisers called off the festival in response munder. They said that the Testval would only resume with sacking governor, the removal of the police forces from the town, ant the tetase oe Lemon.
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self-deterafter German statement the festival All but the ponce bf the civil barricades as rather Important, Garcia, can arrested during the expected the storm he caused.
Frightened hy the popular reaction to this brutality, the government was forced to give way to the first demand. The bead of the Pamplona police chief, Avila, a known fascist, thrown in tor good But one of the demands of the Basque workers movement not eel been meln the sacking of the Interior Minister. KOUDU SELEER LIE WAS not for want of militancy by the COU LACHUS DE EnC failore of their leaders to lake Martin Villa put a motion to the Cortes (parlancoEr Eue day Rodriguez's fumeral. This rather pompous the moral rectitude of the police was seen as a vote of confidenice in He Martin Villa and the right-wing one deputy, Socialist, voted for. The far left deputies were not in the Corles, since they saw being on the MIANE The one dissident. Jello hardly have | fire from Celmes la Spanish fired like this for several minutes, at demonstraGerman was more that 100 when a bullet hit him in thi forchead. He Immediately lost Westopped a car to take him ETA(VE, то пории то son E orei "Garin* mayement. he Head of the funeral procession for German Rodriguez pointed he was simpls following his theit solidarity with Garcia party's line, formulated after (hough a bit lare to make any one of their own deputies had - difference). heen bearen up by police.
Sensing which way the wind was biowing, orber Socialist the government GERMAN Rodriguez Sainz Lnosa tn his comrades as "Carin - was a member of the Revolutionary League, the Spanich section of the Fourth International.
He had been in the puriy und its predecessurs since 1971. He played u prominent part ln the fusion between the LCR and the revolutionary wing of the Basque nationalist German was un ache that deputies rushed to proclaim No such doubs amicted the Communist Pary which remained solidly behind of the Workers kaown asa cenisal leader of ibe Pumplomu general strike in 1973. He spent twe and s half Pears in jail for his part in thus recenily he - the German's desth was not just a political blow, but a grave loss for all those who knew him.
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