IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

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Red Weekly No. 130, 18 December 1975 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 287 words

The scan: rw-no130-dec-18-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

A on the basis of individual contacts.

They are sold or given directly to a large number of comrades with whom usually on an individual basis - have Often these sympathisers or reg- owes Britain, ular readers of our press will become The regularity with which we have A large proportion of British trade with nected with armaments. Of the £130 million almost half is for arman involved with the arms trade include: Babco boilers for two US-built cruisers; Anthony cing arms sales to Chile and providing the ( with finance to build and refit a number British shipyards; Hawkers, up to 39 Hav aircraft, of which the last seven or eight h livered, or have been planned to be deliver

page 9 of the scan

December 1975 a Basque nationalist bomb.

Chile/Spain King Juan Carlos has just finished putting together his new Government, and there are few surprises in it for anyone. Without exception every member of the Government is part of the same Francoist clique that has been ruling the country in a brutal manner for the past forty years. At the head of the Government stands Prime Minister Arias Navarro, the man whom Franco chose to run things after his favourite son, Admiral Carrero Blanco, was suddenly elevated by But this apparent stability of the dictatorship papers over a bitter factional struggle. Arias Navarro does not remain as Prime Minister because of his popularity - on the contrary. his connection with Franco and his involvement in the brutal murder of five anti-fascist militants earlier this year make him something of an embarassment to the King and his supporters, who are trying to give a phony image of "democratisation' to their policies. Arias Navarro clings to

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