ville Read, London N.1.
Of June 28th as a result of a counter-demonstration sponsored by the Ligue Com fascist Ordre Nouveau, не сгетагуgroup sponsors or call for a demonstration at which any violence is done - whether provoked or unprovoked, committed by agants provocateurs or unaffiliated demonstra tors, whether offensive or defensive in character - any leader of the sponsoring pement at the demonstration, let alone responsible for any violence.
proceed with similar moves against other sectors.
Thus the most diverse organisations and personalities - including the Communist and Socialint Parties, the CGT (General Confedaration of Labour) and CFT (Franc some cams, deep political differenoes with the Ligue Communiste.
the aneroachment on civil and democratic liberties taking plece on an international scale.
Governments, in Britain the anti-trade union and retrospectivo legislation on immigration, sed what lessons can be learnt.
Charty we in Britain need to respond to the appeal of the Ligue Communite and the rogime know that its arbitrary actions do not escape nctice internationally. The sponsors of this letter propose a conference possibly in Detober/November open to all those who wish to oppose this gross infringement of the most basic political right. that of forming political parties. We would like to see the confarance lead to the estabIshment of a broad based committee to defend the Ligue Communiste, To facilitate the broadest possible participation in the work of the conference we propose, (a) lo get organisations and individual to sponsor the conferance and committee, and (b) to astablish • preperatory ad hoe committen of all sponsors and sponsoring organisations to orgenise the conference and other necessary activities such as information distribution.
We would urge you to sponsor the conference and take part in the preparatory committee. Planse lat us know if you are prepered to do this.
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NAME. The following fetter is being circulated to potential sponsors of a broad-based conference in defence of the French Communist League. All correspondence to: Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the Communist League, c/o 182Penton muniste (French Section of the Fourth Intarnational) against a rally hald by the neothe French Council of Ministers outlawed the Ligue and warrants were issued for the arrest of its leaders including Alain Krivine, its general The 'anti wrecker" law undar which the action were taken gives the regime the right to anast lenders of organisations for "crimes" they are not even alleged to have committed. Tha law introduced the notion of collective guilt into the French legal system so that if a organisations can be sent to jail for up to five years, aven if that loder was not even This ban on the French Trotskyists is a blow againet the entire left and labour movement in Francs. By beginning with what appears to him to be an isolated secsor President Pompidou hopes to dampen the growing militancy of the entire workers and students movements, If he can get away with it in the cose of the Lique Communista he will Democratic Confederation of Labour), the Nationel Union of Secondary School Teachers, artistic and litarary figures - have issoed declarations denouncing the ben despite, in In a broader context the outlawing of the Ligue Communiste is another ominous stap in On the continent the hanning of Ernest Mandel by the French, Swiss and West German All the Governments of Europe will be carefully watching the actions of Pompiciou 1o French Labour Movement to protest on as wide a scale as possible to let the Pompidou
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