New repression Pompidou govt.

dockers yesterday. THE FRENCH government, reply. ing to appeals by the left-wing organizations banned in 1968, has retused to lift the ban on four of them.

In relation to another three, those associated with the International Committee of the Fourth International, the decree dissolving them has been annulled.

The organizations which remain under the ban are the Revolutionary Communist Youth (JCR), led July £1000 Fund Internationalist CommunList Party (PCI) of Pierre rises to Frank, Voix Ouvrière and the Marxist-Leninist Com£467 17s 2d munist Party.

The Council of State, announcing its decision, says EIGHT days to go and that these organizations have £532 2s 10d to get. It can called students and workers and must be raised. to 'armed demonstration and Yesterday our readers to struggle against the forces sent us £65 13s 3d. If we of order'. could slightly raise this sum Pompidou's decision to keep as a daily average we would the ban on these organizations be home and dry in good must be fought as a further time. move towards right-wing dicAre we going to do it? tatorship in France, and an We say yes, if we all pull attack on the workers' movetogether over the next few ment throughout Europe. days. It must be answered by Post all donations to: united action by every séction of the movement. 18ua Clapham High Street, London, SW4. REPRESSION The new decision is made against a background of intensified repression in France.

We recall the law, passed through the French parliament in May, with only token Communist Party opposition, establishing collective liability for those taking part in illegal demonstrations'.

On Tuesday, police at Menton arrested Gilbert Castro, 21-year-old alleged leader of the Proletarian Left, whose paper was banned recently.

Police repression against French students has been stepped up continuously this