According to the authoritative French newspaper, Le Monde, the trial of Czech revolutionists will start on February 8, 1971. According to latest reports the trial will be held in camera and no observers will be permitted. The 26 comrades who are being tried are all members of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Czechoslovakia and have been attacked by the Czech party organ, Rude Pravo, as "trotskyists."" who seek to overthrow socialism. Thus all the vile slanders of the 30s and the 40s are once again being regurgitated and used against our Czech comrades. However the international balance of forces is, today, somewhat different and all the propaganda from the Stalinist arsenal cannot deceive the new revolutionary layers and currents that exist today in most parts of the world and which demonstrated, at the time of the Soviet invasion, their The comrades of the Revolutionary Socialist Party are being accused of plotting to overthrow socialism. What a bizarre aleggation. What a disgusting farce. It only serves to demonstrate the contempt which the Stalinist bureaucracy has, not only for the masses under its direct subjugation, but even for, the hundreds of thousands of socialists elsewhere in the world. To imagine that anyone will take the charges against our comrades seriously is to live in a completely isolated bureaucratic dream world. What our comrades want is not to destroy socialism but to create it. What they want is to destroy the power of the bureaucracy and replace it with proletarian democracy based on workers" councils. And the fact that it is revolutionary marxists who are on trial and NOT members of right-wing groups which surfaced during the Prague Spring, indicates clearly who the bureaucracy is really frightened of and whose ideas really worry them. The growing revolt against the bureaucratic structures in Eastern Europe, the most recent manifestation of which was the workers uprisings in Poland this year, is a clear sign that political revolutions are on the agenda in the near future.
We therefore appeal to all revolutionaries to support the comrades on trial by carrying out solidarity actions with them. In particular we appeal to the militants inside the C.P. and the Y.C.L. to protest to their "fraternal" party against the repression it is carrying out. The Spartacus League organised a large picket outside the Czech Embassy on Sunday 7th Feb. which was boycotted by every daily newspaper. We say to the cold war anti-Communists: our comrades do not need your support or that of your friends, because they are even more opposed to the capitalist system and its different manifestations. They are in solidarity with the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people against American imperialism. So don't try to use their trial for SOLIDARITY WITH PETR UHL AND THE OTHER IMPRISONED COMRADES! 4 New Pence. solidarity with the anti-bureaucratic struggle of the Czech masses. your professional anti-communist activities.
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