Czech regime purges the purgers

Wallace wins on racialist platform THE VICTORY of George Wallace, one of America's leading racialists, in the primary election for Governor of Alabama is' also a defeat for Nixon's strategy in the South.

Wallace, who failed to win a majority in the first round on May 6, fought the election on a clear segregationist programme.

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This referred to the present 10,000 votes and the ching reported to have failed to fight Fermanagh Unionists and disgueleted from prison Speakitate frosterda 3, 000e his seat is the and dingot. éstate He had never, he said, met is challenger but felt ar agriculturist would be a more suitable candidate than 'this géntleman, who is I believe a schoolmaster'.

He denied that he was the Programme Mean econ, however, I small farese to fight the Tories The latest problem encountered by the Husak regime is the unreliable composition of the bodies set up to carry out the purge-always referred to as the 'card exchange' campaign.

Prague Radio admitted earlier in the week that the Czech Communist Party now has 'an aktiv [i.e., reliable membership] numbering about 200,000 people'. But the official pre-purge membership stood at around 1,500,000l It is to this supposedly trustworthy 'healthy core' -comprising less than 15 per cent of its total membership - that the purge has been entrusted:

"These people are in the groups entrusted with the BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT register for a vote, continuing to be victims of racial intimidation.

Wallace kept the race issue out of his public statements in the first stage of the contest. Then at the second run, he pulled off the mask.

Analysing the ward returns from the May 6 vote, he showed that Brewer's support came from the Negro districts. 'White Alabama, are you going to let the niggers take over our state?' read a Wallace poster.

Although Wednesday's vote was to select the Democratic nominee, the Republicans had made it clear they would not stand a candidate against Brewer.

Wallace alleged that Republican money went to back the Brewer campaign.

The Negro voters were pawns in Nixon's long-term strategy. He is worried about Wallace coming forward as a third contender for the 1972 Presidential election. He has attempted to head this off by slowing down the desegregation of schools in the southern states.

Nixon move

Nixon will now move further to the right on the race issue, in order to counter Wallace's victory.

But liberation of the southern Negroes cannot .be achieved with allies like Brewer, Their only way forward is through the development of a Labour Party,. winning the support of the large industrial working class which has emerged in the South in recent years.

Tied to the election nachines of the two parties of JS capital, neither the whit nor the black workers can solve their problems. YOUNG SOCIALIST For Socialist policies! To keep the Tories out!

BIRMINGHAM Saturday June 13 Assemble 2.30 p.m.

Waterloo St, Victoria interviews. Every day they enand lish their It was conference of the control and auditinMay 13 that they commissions in should form the future cadre of Party officials..

REWARDED

So those who stand with Husak and his Kremlin protectors today will be rewarded with the privileges of office in the near future. But that is only the beginning. The broadcaster went on:

'Today the main burden of the interviews weighs on them. Tomorrow, work in awaits them. their Par They will not variety of functions flinch from tasks and will not retreat or remain 'This is one of the qualities which moulds them into that healthy core of the Party' But we learn from another broadcast—on WednesdayWithin this "healthy are':

"Experiences with the interviews so far have shown there are strong liberalistic tendencies in some districts of our Republic ... People with wavering opinions and even a right-wing [i.e., anti-Husak] background often themselves into , the interviewing groups ...

BEGUN AGAIN

So in the many areas where this has taken place, the purge has had to begin over again:

"The CPC District Committee in Semily settled by declaring null and void the interviews primary organizations. appointed groups who will select from these organizations comrades who will carry out new interviews.' problem still remains:

What if the selection committee choosing interviewers is also penetrated by 'right-wing elements'?

occurred roblem had indeed the broadcaster, for he goes on:

'Although this is a difficult job, it is necessary in such a interest having membérs strongly support policy of the new leadership ...

The claim of 200,000 active supporters of the Husak regime is therefore obviously grossly inflated. Even as it stands, it comprises less than 3 per cent of the country's adult population !

NO WITHDRAWAL This is why the Husak regime cannot contemplate the from Czechoslovakiakremlin withdrawal Soviet troops more than can the bureaucracy.

Thé only answer of the Czech Stalinists to the growing isolation of their regime more repression.

So all Husak's energies are devoted towards building up the forces of Stalinist 'law and order'.

In an interviéw this week with the journal "Tribuna' (no. 21) the Czech Stalinist leader Öldrich Doleisi stated:

'The principal tasks of the Prosecutor's office include consistent supervision of comoliance with laws and other legal regulations which are im.

LIVERPOOL

Saturday June 6 Assemble 1.30 p.m. ortant for the consolidation f the national economy, for nhancing, state, labour and ivic discipline.

The Husak regime is clearly racing itself for big conflicts rith the working class: Today we prepare for that onfrontation by building a reolutionary leadership for the ntire European working class. Only on such a scale can talinism be broken as a orce within the international rorkers' movement.