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SPAIN Eva Forest The comrades of the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria - Euzkadi ta Askatasuna-VI (Revolutionary Communist League - Basque Nation and FreedomVI) have issued the following urgent appeal on behalf of Eva Forest and Antonio Durán, two militants facing death at the hands of the Francoist dictatorship on frame-up charges of having been responsible for the execution of Carrero Blanco. Eva Forest and Antonio Durán will soon be brought to trial by the War Council that is to deal with the "Carrero affair. " This will be the culminating point in one of the most sinister political farces staged by the dictatorship in its whole history: The first act of the farce was the police propaganda campaign around the Correo Street attack (see INPRECOR, No. 9, October 3). The BPS (Political Social Brigade, the political police), with the extensive collaboration of the bourgeois news media and the silent complicity of numerous workers organizations, presented Eva and Antonio as being responsible for these acts. Today we know that this was nothing but lies, the crudest slanders launched against a handful of milTtants and against the Spanish Communist party and the ETA-V The Correo Street attack does not even figure in the pretrial hearings opened against Eva Forest and Antonio Durán. In their statements to the police neither they nor any of their comrades have acknow ledged the slightest participation in these acts or in the assassination of Carrero.
and Antonio Duran It was only through the pressure of terrible physical and moral torture, which gravely affected the health of these comrades and especially Durán's health, that the BPS was able to establish the existence of "hiding places, " that is, perfectly legitimate instruments for protecting revolutionary action from the repression of a bloody and tyrannical dictatorship. But what is the use of evidence when it is the Francoist army that is in charge of "justice", the Francoist army— this potential instrument of civil war, this active instrument of the colonial war in Spanish Sahara, this apparatus for beating into line, humiliating, and repressing Spanish youth. What good is evidence when the laws, judges, and courts are just auxiliaries in the repression of revolutionaries, when the news media is controlled and manipulated with impunity? UNDER THE FRANCOIST DICTATORSHIP, EVIDENCE MATTERS LITTLE WHEN IT HOLDS BACK THE POLITICAL ACTION OF THE DICTATORSHIP! And the merger of the case of Eva Forest and Antonio Durán into the investigation of the "Carrero affair" is a political action. It must be judged and combated as such! But if this political action was possible, if the most reactionary sectors of the army, police, Francoist apparatus, and fascist gangs have made this absurd indictment, it is because the campaign around the Correo Street attack had a second act whose consequences were much more serious than those of the first act. Few, very few voices, ours among them, were raised against this farce in defense of all its victims. We say all and we stress the word all.