against the ERP: on the night of 7 June a Peronist group burned the ERP fleg in front of the parliement building, and a few hours later a bomb exploded on the grave of Victor Femnandez Palmeiro, an ERP guerrilla whp died earlier this year in the course of a reprisal for the Trelew massacre of August 1972 The Paronist losdership is obviously determined to carry through its campaign of repression dospite the release of military personnel being held by the ERP. It aims in thie way to divide the revolutionaries from the masses, who hailed Campora's inauguration as a victory and now hope to sen him grant all the demands which piled up under the military dictatorship. repression aga inst the ERP is the spearhead of the Peronists" efforts to decapitate this mass upsurge. The next few weeks will be decisive: international solidarity with the ERP is now an essential task for revolutionaries.
The NATO Council Meeting in Copenhagen last woek The recent wave af repression in Peru has included among its victims Sarge Barrios, accused of conspiring to violate state security. The 'crime' of Barrios and his comrades was to publish a left-wing paper. A lettar uiton by Barrios from Lurigancho Prison on 28 May gives some indications of what is happening in the Peruvian jaile: was arrested nearly 20 days ago.._ We were savagely tortured with methods reminiscent of the middle ages or the ingulsition by the Together with ue iere arrested and tortured a number of workers, unionists, students, school teachers, ete. As it i unualy dono with common criminals wo werc tortured until forced to sign "confessions" suited to the repressive sime of the military.
Tortures I underwent, after being kept standing and without sleep or food for 33 hours, consisted in being hanged from my arme, handeuffed in my beck, and beaten while having my head covered with a black mask so 1 could not recognise my corturars, This went on TOr InE nat Inu a core nant m- Commo!: caping from the worst thanks to the fact that he fainted from the severe blois he sutfared.' While many trade union and political leaders have been axiled, Berrios and countlon others are stal being held in the torture chambers of the revolutionary" military regime of Velasco Alvarado. A picket will be held outside the Peruvian Embassy in Slane bereot to comand tne reicase or an poncico! prisorcrs this Friday, 22 June, from 4.00 - 6.30 p.m. For more information contoct: Peruvian Defence, c/o Red Weekly use "trade union delegates" for negotiations