Hilary Creek ill - moves for release

Holloway.

the defence committee: 'She continues to become fatal, refuse to eat Hilary's mother yesterday visited Holloway and Miss Creek, Miss Anna Mendelson, James GreenCourt judges. Two of Burgos Leyland's Spanish workers go Secret Hong Kong inquiry into 'missing' police superintendent HONG administration man secret disappearance superintendent nection with DEFENCE committee of friends relatives of the Stoke Newington Eight launched a campaign for the immedial lease of Hilary Creek who is seriously She is reported to have lost due to a nervous illness known A friend who visited her then had talks with the prison authorities. A meet. ing of the committee later laid plans for a special petition to the Home Office to seek her release. A spokesman told Workers Press: 'Hilary's condition is such that it cannot be treated behind bars. If she is to get better she must be released. Even the medical advisers make this point.' field and John Barker were jailed for ten years on charges of conspiracy to cause explosions. Last week their appeals were turned down by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery and two other High JOAQUIN GOROSTIDI sentenced to death in the 1970 and reprieved as a result now seriously ill in prison.

The two are both members of the ETA, the Basque underground army which has been a particular target of fascist repression. Though they were reprieved after weeks in the death cell, they are now serving 30 years' imprisonment.

They have been transferred to the Carthagena prison from Soria prison, where with 19 other political prisoners they have been on hunger strike for over three weeks.

Weakened by, hunger, they have been savagely beaten by the prison guards. Their condition is so serious that the governor of Carthagena jail has refused to take any responsibility for their physical condition.

When he arrived at Carthagena Gorostidi's leg was in plaster as a result of the beatings he had received in Soria prison.

Lawyers acting for the prisoners have named José Manuel Fuente as the prison officer chiefly responsible for thesavage illWORKERS at the Authi motor factory in Pamplona, Spain, which is part-owned by British-Leyland, go back to work today after being locked out by the manageAbout 1,700 of the 1,800 workers were locked out on Friday after about 100 had tried to cross picket lines outside the factory. There was fighting between the pickets and riot police brought in to break the strike.

With most of the other factories in Pamplona and in the surrounding area, Authi was on strike all last week in support of has set up a inquiry into of a police chief wanted in conalleged corru Alistair Blair-Kerr Blair Kerr And le reill in some 30 lb weight as anorexia nervosa. recently reported to looks terrible. If she the situation could 6 ill in jail WN CORRESPONDENT and Francisco Larena trial of the Burgos Six of international Larena (I.) and Gorostidi.

, who were in December protests, are treatment of these prisoners. He days the decision to impose to impose days the hunger-strikers.

The families of the prisoners have expressed serious concern about the fate of Gorostidi and Larena and have called for international protests. • In tomorrow's Workers Press we are featuring a letter from Soria Prison which details the savage regime of torture and repression in the jails of Spanish fascism.

back 200 workers sacked at the Iberica plant in the city.

The dispute has . not been settled and the General Strike has spread to other parts of the province of Navarre. There have been maior walk-outs in the towns of Tudela and Irun.

The strike in Navarre is the first big test to face the new Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrerro Blanco, who was appointed earlier this month by General Franco.

has begun hearings behind closed doors following his appointment by the Governor-in-Council. Chief Superintendent Godber was last reported staying in his country cottage in Rye, Sussex.

He disappeared from the island early this month after being served with a notice informing him of plans to prosecute him WANDSWORTH 3 DEMONSTRATORS picketed London headquarters of the tional Union of Teachers Satunday demanding the drawal of charges against 'Wandsworth Three'. Growth of repression against pickets PROTECTED by a large force of police, the French fascist organization Ordre Nouveau succeeded in holding a racialist, anti-immigration meeting in the centre of Paris last week.

There were violent clashes between the police and thousands of left-wing demonstrators. Official figures put the number of police injured at 63. Of these 16 were sent to hospital and two are said to be in a serious condition.

No figures were available for the large number of demonstrators injured. Most of them had taken the precaution of coming armed with staves and wearing helmets.

Armed Ordre It illustrates very clearly the rising militancy of the Spanish working class, for in the past Navarre has not been a politically advanced region. Traditionally it has been the base for the reactionary Carlist movement.

Leyland, together with other British and American car manufacturers have invested heavily in Spain where they hoped to make use of cheap labour and tine fact that trade unions are illegal to step up their profits.

But for all the efforts of the Civil Guard and the Spanish fascists the working class of Spain is fighting back against under the Preve Ordinance.

A government refused to give witnesses have testify. But it deputy Police Christopher Da Director of A. J. Carter an DEFEND Naon ithPolice protect French thugs ition of Bribery spokesman has details of what been called to is known that Commissioner wson, assistant migration, Mr 1 a number of PICNETS GU 1 FOR TRIAI Fred Scott, Erle Porter and avid whiteley, all members of the union's andsworth Assoclation, are being disciplined by the executive for alleged disruption of a mass meeting on February 27.

Fred Scott pointed out fascists wearing helmets, dressed in black leather uniforms and carrying long clubs, were protected by several lines of police outside the meeting hall.

Anyone trying to enter the meeting was frisked by the Ordre Nouveau guards. Inside, the 1,000 or so fascists listened to a series of openly racialist speeches.

Secretariat member Alain Renault denounced the Pleven Law, similar to the Race Relations Act in Britain. 'This law bans all discrimination, that is to say all differentiation in favour of our own fellow-citizens. It is therefore a racialist law, an antiFrench law,' he said.

Amid anti-Semitic shouts of approval, the Ordre. Nouveau general secretary, Alain Robert, announced: 'The right is order, it is the state, above all when the existing , government fails in its mission.' ARRESTS After the meeting, still protected by the police, the fascist squads marched in formation across the river to their headquarters in the Halles district. The following day the headquarters of the Pabloite Ligue Communiste, one of the bodies which organized the counter-demonstration, was raided by The police claimed to have discovered two rifles on the premises. They arrested about 20 members of the Ligue who were on the premises at the time, among them political committee member Pierre Rousset.

The protection given to the fascists and racialists in Paris is in marked contrast with the treatment meted out to immigrant workers. On Wednesday, June 20, the day before the Paris meeting, strike pickets at the huge Solmer building site in airline staff have been before All brushed past the Press and refused to answer questions. Following Godber's disappearance, Hong Kong issued a warrant for his arrest and reportedly sought Interpol help in attempts to locate him.

Their attempts NEVOLENT FUME ON OF T HMICAL open-air meeting after the picket that the executive was acting as prosecutor, judge and jury in the case.

The witch-hunt against the Wandsworth Three Is being actively supported by the Communist Party.

Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseilles, were savagely attacked by police.

The pickets, most of them Algerians, were badly beaten by the police, who made repeated tear gas charges. Four workers were seriously injured in the fighting, which lasted, with interruptions, from early morning until midday.

Five hundred police of the Gardes Mobiles, armed with truncheons and carbines, carrying shields and wearing helmets. were involved in the attack. They let loose a continual stream of racialist abuse against the pickets and their union representatives.

Prior to the police attack there had been attempts to set hire to the local headquarters of the CGT, the Communist Party-led trade union. Scattered shots were fired at the building during the night.

Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin, said in Vannes on Thursday, he was often asked why the police who were mobilized in the streets during demonstrations could not be used to fight crime.

GENDARMES

He said: 'In the first place, as everyone well knows, the role of the Mobile Gendarmes, the CRS, the intervention companies, is to prevent demonstrations from degenerating into all sorts of 'In the second place, it is not the normal job of the CRS or the Gendarmes to hunt down criminals, burglars and people who commit hold-ups. This is a job for the judicial police.' The growth of special police squads devoted solely to repression of political and trade union demonstrations has been one of the most striking features of the Gaullist regime.

have been too serious. One of the questions the commission is examining is how Godber was able to leave the colony while he was under investigation. In London the Home Office says that as Godber has committed no offence in Britain, there is no question of any action being taken here.

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