writing protests, he completed his Report from the Berit Reseriation, a devastating indictment of the KGB and the camp regime which was smuggled out and circulated WRITINGS CONFISCATED Moroz was released in 1969, but re-arrested in 1970, when all his more recent writings were confisc ated. At his trial, the Report fron the Berla Reservation and another work were brought as evidence ag ainst him, and he got six ycars in prison to be followed by three years in a labour camp and then five in exile, although witnesses at the trial refused to testify apainst him.
In prison ho has been brutally treated, and it is clear that the KGB are trying to get him to renounce his views publicly. Another former prisoner at Vladimir gives this descr in the striped unitorm reminds one surviving inmates of Auschwitz The prison uniform hung un the body of the tall man as if on a wire skeleton."
On July 1974. Moroz beran a hamper vilento is death, demanding to be transtered to a labour camp. In November, still on hunger strike, he announced that he would kill himself on 1 January if his demands were not met. After massive protest both from inside and outside the USSR, the authoritics gave in and he is no longer in solitary continement, although still at Vladimir. But continued action is needed in order to ensure that the torture is not re umed, and to save both his life and his sanity.
Supporting the day of action this Saturday will not just be a humanitarian gesture. The brutal response of the Kremlin bureaucrats to the just demands of people like Bukovsky and Moroz is an important weapon of propaganda in the hands of the ruling classes of the imperialist coun tries, The identification of the USSR with socialism plays a big role in confusing the working class in the west about the desirability of socialism in their own countries But taking up the question of the rep ression of dissidents in the USSR it will be possible to explain to the working class the real nature of SOUSE ARE THE SESaMARa ure of the Soviet bureaucracy and Its policies.
The curreat number of the revolutionary Mauritian magızine Morice Dibonte / is a special issue on Africa, contaiaing articles on current dev. elopments on that continent, including some important translations from the French language publication of the Fourch Internaticual, ALfriose en Lazte. Articles include Smash the Neo-colontal State", 'Imperialist Manocuvres and the Liberation Struggles in Southera Africa'. 'Clina's Foreign Policy, and Guinea-Bissau Revolution: how far along T For copies write to: Monice Diboute, 97 Caledonian Rd., London N1: enclosing 20p per copy. plus 8p p & p. of crushing defcats, the puppet reg demonstrating once again the unity of the indochinese revolution National Taberation Front have Libcrated completely the provinces of Quang Tri, Darlac, Pleiku, Kontum, and Phu Ben, as well as the city of lands region is now in the hands of the Provisional Revolutiunary Gova large part of the puppet army (ARVN) has been destroyed.
of the city of Ban Me Thunt on 17 March, after a fortnight of heavy fighting during waich almost the was used against the insurgents and then against the city. Once Ban Me Thoot had been captured, the rest of the region folded rapidly. The NLF are now concentrating on the districts nearer to the capital of Saigon, particulary the province of Tay Ninh.
DUAL POWER oped out of that following the Paris Accords of January 1973 ion of dual power existing in Vietzones and those controlled by the Thieu regime. The latter areas have suffered from a continuous social, economic and military crisis, and as Thieu's overall grip has steadily weakened, the liberation forces have gradually intensified their activily.
solidating their base areas, and then began a process of regaining territory that had been nibbled away by the AKYN. This was then extended to allacks on ARVN bases, liberation DE ARVN-controlled arens, and the geographical isolation of the main towns and cities controlled by the regime. The rapid fail of the Contral Highlands this month, following that of Phuoc Binh last month and whole districts in the Mekong Delta since last year, represents the suceessful culinination of this crudual ,tendency.
However, the change is not just in the amount of territory controlled but also in low the struggle has been developed, Most of the fighting is now being carried put by local insur ONLY WEEKS after the reactionaries in Cambodia began to suffer a series ime in Vietnam has received its greateit setback for many years -the timing of the events in the two countries In the wecks since 9 March, the Hac. Thes pote of the Contral Higherasent: Utousands of refugees have been freed from puppot control, and A key victory was the liberation whole weight of the puppet alforce revolution.
The present situation has develnam berween the revolutionary PRG They first concentrated on con REAL DEFEAT pent units, with the North Vietnamese divisions playing mainly a supportive role. More importantly, many of the areas have heen liberated by co-ordinated insurrections, particularly in the Mekong Delta. The fact that the lib cration of Ban Me Thunt was blamed by Thieu on the action of local hilltrbesmen who opened the pates testifies to the political bases retailt by the PRG, at least in certain areas.
David Johnson The key to wiefory in Vietnam now lies in the urban contrea. Howerer there is a luge gap between the level of revolutionary struggle in the cities and that in the countryside Although the urban opposition, partIcularly in Saigon, is making huge strides forward in developing clear class positions (important because of the close relationship between the class and national struggles in Indochina), there is still a long way to go —and it is above all the pace of development of the class struagic in the cities that dictates the speed of development of the Vietnamese This means that the process will of necessicy be a slow one, moving forward in steps and jumps. The present situation is one stare in this strutegy, and not at all a generalised offensive It is important to be cleat on tbis fact, because over the last few years the spectre of i generalI5C0 Conust bitensiver has beet raised several times, always coinciding with attempts to push tough massive increases in aid to tbe Thieu It is no accident thut it is being projected again now, just when Ford's attemot to lorce Comeress to step up aid to Indochina have been defeated. Indeed, it is not inconceivable that part of the reason for Thiet's decision to surrender the Central Highlands was a move to panic Congress, since their dec ision to cut off aid to Carbodia boded ill for Thieu (a fact noted by the l'KG in the timing of their push).
However, the loss of the Central Highlands was not just a manoeuvre by Thieu, but a real deleat - politic ally as well as militarily. Not only territory and resources have been Jost, Thousands of refugees who fled from Kontum and Pleike managed to escape their escorts and reach the liberated zones. Whole companies of troops have also dis appeared en route In Saigon, the vietories of the PRO have intensIted the efforts of the opposttion to renove the Thien clique, forcing Thieu to step up the repression and thus further eroding his limited soc la, base and losing him support internationally Although, paradoxically, Thicu's military situation is now probably Strengthened temporarily due to the regroupment of elite units af the army nearer to Saigon, the bal ance of forces is incrensingly shifting against the puppet retime and shortenine the time of its erentual overthrew and the victory of the Imit chinese revolation.
Black freedom fighter, Desmond Trotter, framed on a murder charge in the West Indian island of Dominica, has had his appeal against the death sentence rejected The only legal channel now open to him is an appeal to the Privy Council in Britain. It is urgent that the widest possible solidarity be mounted throughout the world, in order to prevent this brutal and ruthless sentence being carried out.
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