Workers Press no. 42

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 42

AN APPEAL—To the labour and trade union movement

TEACHERS' PAY

Briefly What By the Political Committee of the S.L.L.

Students Slosed half the think

STOP WILSON'S

parcel Stalinists to join the worst hi prepare strikes I drivers in the

U.S. VISIT!

when they more

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talks STUDENTS are to back the teachers' pay fight by strike action in the areas selected for two- "substantial increase. beginning of December week stoppages betrayals by the National Union of Teachers.

Members of the National rangport and Corsins LiNe Tran Union Students will NOT SINCE the massacres perpetrated by the SS on from withdraw academe in the population of the USSR and East Minister Roy Mattersle communens m colleges l the civilian These areas lor the lull two discuss union's Europe has the world seen anything comparable weeks, was decided decided perm unions to cold-blooded, premeditated and methodical murder of 900 Vietnamese women and children in conchion officials say they have THE NUMBER of militant Tu Cung village. intent call the forces trade unionists wne are This was carried out, let us remember, not by the treannerous rogeof the beginning to and Coone paid assassins in the Green Berets, but by an ordinary Communist Party in Trident dustry is growing almost intantry combat unit of the US Army.

'blacked' daily. Neither the Japanese imperialists nor the French and sand the cane

AUTHORIMES,

in the whole course ol the dirty war were able to e operated to sto at emulate US imperialism in the magnitude and intensity the Reddin mard of sheer bloody repression.

two voices. Heathrow incened The levellers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are onc Bert Ramelsor

CLEANING

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airport vesterday This became f tinued their 24-hour Understandably, this latest atrocity has minimum population o 'black'

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world. But neither They paste, of horror and nausea throughout the doubt the demo. also l Trident scheduled for norror or nausea is gomg to stop wit war.

cratic agreements. Hamburg. The black' was imposed co one es in maller districes atter one of the cleaners.

who are operating a work- Outright atrocities, which bave 450 in Herts. to me caimed inat a mis Ford leaders are been going on in vietnam lol IMMIGRAN Talent Would st steward had been seen ac- many years, now break into Audude toward the en headmaste the US press and public eye.

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which one tour question

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washi th packed into

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have Callul Negotiations the Ford management on the meeting demand for a ziu all • no ches Rohan's r with solidarity "We unanimously electer

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round increase, open on ed Feather and there Friday.

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rank-and-nie o the Helsink oviet delegate West at public meetings ession of negotiations yester- Foot's German da Yinoficia are optimise test See the film of the first issue being prepared and

CHOOLS

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The 'Old Bar' policy. He mene that Student's Union, Leeds University meetings red erywhere despair and bo linter Force. The say in Salore betrayalti ting ready for

RAMSGATE

CLIFF SLAUGHTER (Central Committee member.

"The next stage in the Socialist Labour League) miners' struggle' JOHN NOLAN (loung socialists,

THIS WEEKEND

Tuesday, November 25 8 p.m.

CANTERBURY

owing Esta Young Socialists ewington

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Adamant Maximum 6C Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

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But daily meeti not chang The Cornwallis Building 'Fight Education Cuts'

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or sew knit paint? пооД Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Teachers' meeting Dul 'Fight the attacks on Can you Bazaar? Speakers at Newcastle, Liverpool and Canterbury will make something 10r education' give somethine towards our bazaar ?

1 America and Veil Thursday, November 27 be d Have you a tin or grocer. mumble! Help us make this the best bazaar ever held!

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1969

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

• NUMBER 42

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

AN APPEAL—To the labour and trade union movement

TEACHERS' PAY

Briefly What By the Political Committee of the S.L.L.

Students ше

DRIVERS

Slosed half th

STOP WILSON'S

think sing the ge to join Midlands being Stalinists than prepare strikes

U.S. VISIT!

more STUDENTS are to back the teachers' pay fight substantial by strike action in the areas selected for two- beginning of December week stoppages at the betrayals by the National Union of Teachers.

Members of the rationa

FORCES' UNION:

will Union tudents NOT SINCE the massacres perpetrated by the SS on withdraw from academic in the commitments in colleges of the USSR and East he civilian population as is tos the deld reeks, lurope has the world seen anything comparabk was union's unions cold-blooded, premeditated and yesterday. to murder of 900 Vietnamese women and children in THE NUMBER of militant Tu Cung village. it of cy hey have unionists who trade This was carried out, let us remember, not by the out *3,400 Leed others paid assassins in the Green Berets, but by an ordinary cabaerous Trident and NCOS. all infantry combat unit of the US Army.

austry is growing almost 'blacked' calv Neither the Japanese imperialists nor the French renole day want man l Deportant in the whole course of the "dirty war' were able to at emulate US imperialism in the magnitude and intensity wo voice. of sheer bloody repression.

Heathrow erybody knows that th then The levellers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are once of planning, transpor Bert Ramelson,

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staff at again the move. seeking gorge alaviste Heathrow Measured-Day Work agree- appettes on the dood or une viemamese peasauls- CounDistra ral Distric anyone else who might be in the way.

airport yesterday con- oini prom population e their 24-hour Understandably, this latest atrocity has evoked a wave 500000 Trident scheduled for 'black'

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of horror and nausea throughout the world. But neither horror or nausea is going to stop the war.

accept Hamburg. After V, tim 'black' was imposer he vietnamese people s the forces of US imperialism.

of the cleaner committees in smaller districts after one retreat- who which bare 450 in Herts. to rule, claimed that a been going on in Vietnam fox Ford leaders are steward had been seen headmaster, Pid 450 NUT

IMMIGRANTS

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Demarcations fastest the But they still condoned by the British Labour govern.

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tour done

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the measures against Par le de. TWO THOUSAND Ford workers packed into apitalist productivity concessions.

the Odeon cinema at Dagenham Heathway on Yet, enor at Austins and

ROHAN TRIAL:

The three dunday to near a succession or union omcials s heire

FULL-SCALE

verdiced and convenors speak about the parity claim.

member, praise the TUC

ARMS

areas Nerouallons African team portileges tater on pet Ford management on the journal

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Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

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The old Bar Student's Union, Leeds University meetings verywnere staine mes more betraytting ready for Thursday

RAMSGATE

CLIFF SLAUGHTER (Central Committee member, orkeroush support from the "The next stage in the Socialist Labour League) Scattered JOHN NOLAN (Young Socialists) miners' struggle'

THIS WEEKEND

the thetie Tuesday, November 25 8 р.m. thereafte gland, So and W. Midlands

CANTERBURY

Flowin Young Socialists parity was won che NLF bunkerst stand up to ewington Estat

GRAND XMAS

soldier prepared certain every Adamant Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

LEICESTER

The Cornwallis Building •Fight Education Cuts'

BAZAAR

University of Canterbury Wednesday, November 26 8 p.m Saturday, Nov. 29 have

LIVERPOOL

BIRMINGHAM

Cannibare Town Public Hall Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

noon Teachers' meeting Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Can you Fight the attacks on mako something for Speakers at Newcastle, Liverpool and Canterbury will give something towards our se bazar ever bed 1 be: Thursday, November 27 MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers" Press) Help us make this the best bazaar ever 1 SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the Help us raise the money for our daily paper- aimed not Corner and Bristol Road

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PAGE TWO

ON NOVEMBER 19,

1968 a search was made the r of my apartment trom in the morning to seven seven in the evening. I am leaving aside the fact langua that the man nominally in charge of this operation had no idea of procedural rules or even of the elementary norms of politeness; that lack comes from the habit he has of arbitrarily disposing of the 1 people who fall into his hands. I will leave this point to those who witnessed the be- haviour and actions of Justice pogro Councillor Berezovsky, investi- gator of extraordinary affairs for the Procurator's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

I could not endure his boor- ishness for long and as a pro- test against the illegal actions of those conducting the search I refused to take part in it after half an hour. Therefore I will only speak of those violations of the law which do not depend merely those conducting the on search. The search was carried out on a warrant issued by Justice Councillor Berezovsky, investi- gator of extraordinary affairs for the Procurator of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This warrant, endorsed by of the Malkov, Procurator City of Moscow, stated that it established during been the investigation of Bariev and his associates that documents containing slanderous fabrica- tions against the Soviet social order could be and political found in P. Grigorenko's apartment. I affirm-and I am ready to bear all the responsibility of this affirmation-that no evi- dence whatsoever of the pos- sible existence of such docu- ments in my apartment was presented Procurator to Malkov. because there doesn't First, exist any 'case of Bariev and associates' and second, because no document containing lies against the political and social order of the USSR exists or could exist, which is linked, even indirectly, to the name of Bariev and his comrades. WHAT then is involved here? It is in fact ordinary police provocation of people struggl- ing against the arbitrary acts of the authorities. You know very well that on April 21, 1968, in the Chirchik Park of Culture and Rest, the Uzbek police (who are still. called for reason) militia some attacked Crimean Tartars peacefully celebrating the anni- versary of the birth of the founder of the Soviet state and initiator of Crimean Tartar national autonomy, V. I. Lenin.

Hoses blasted powerful jets of cold water on the unsuspect- ing people who were peacefully amusing themselves; young were dancing, groups people were singing national and re- volutionary songs and amateur actors were performing. These jets of water knocked damaged their people over, and traumatically clothes shocked them. Then the police clubs went into action. It was thought indignant people that the would take some self-defence measures which could later be used to accuse them of resist- ing the authorities. But the people showed self-controi and astonishing the provocation. thwarted They staged a peaceful demon- stration as a protest against the humiliation to which they had been subjected. than 300 In answer more people were arrested. Twelve of them, most of whom had not participated in the cele- bration and were arrested in were later tried their homes, and convicted for 'disturbing public order'. Aider Bariev, a tractor driver, who managed to avoid arrest, flew to Moscow the same day and early on the morning of April 22 the Procurator's Office of the USSR received a telegram from him describing the Chirchik events in detail; events in which the human rights and the norms of human ethics were trampled underfoot with an unprecedented cynicism.

Naturally he did not express himself politely, but simply called a spade a spade in the language of workers. Bariev stayed on in Moscow as the authorized representa- tive of those who had sent him, knocking in vain at the doors of the administration head and other you state organizations and institutions.

Wanting to make use of all the possibilities available to him, he tried to obtain the punishment of the Chirchik hoodlums and an end to the illegal proceedings instituted the victims of the against pogrom. You did not react in any way to Bariev's telegrams and personal letters or to the col- lective appeals of the repre- sentatives the Crimean Tartar people in Moscow. You and assistants your received these never rep- resentatives and never even attempted to examine their complaints. Moreover, you have never answered any of their letters.

You have never reacted to their complaints concerning illegal police action undertaken by the Moscow police against the representatives the Crimean Tartar people. Supreme guardian of Soviet law, you have never been moved by the fact that men were pursued like savage animals through the streets of capital and sent like your of cattle to hateful places administrative exile. You who are a jurist and a magistrate have never even been swayed by the fact that it is no longer simply a question of individ- uals, but of representatives of a people; citizens who did not have the right to leave Moscow without the agreement of those who had sent them. You passed over this just as you passed over the tragic events which followed from it.

In order to be worthy of the confidence placed in them, the representatives of the Crimean Tartars resorted to desperate measures such as jumping out of moving trains to escape their police escorts and con- fulfilling the mandate tinue given them by their people.

As soon as he was replaced in Moscow, Bariev returned to Chirchik where was arrested Justification for this arrest was based on individual and collective letters sent by rep- resentatives of the Crimean Tartar people to various Soviet including institutions, the Procurator's Office of the USSR, social organizations and representatives various Soviet opinion. It was also based on com- munications sent from Moscow by the people's representatives.

According to individuals like Berezovsky these documents contained slanderous lies direc- ted against the Soviet state and social order. I shall not attempt here to explain how a document con- taining a true description of an actual event can somehow be transformed into something slanderous. I shall confine myself to asking you several questions directly related to the setting up of 'cases' of this kind.

I WOULD like to ask you as supreme guardian of Soviet law whether it is conceivable that a person be prosecuted for addressing a complaint to you when you have not found the time to examine that complaint? Would you also tell me if it is possible, even by making the most incredible fantasy into proof, to describe the Chirchik massacre as a viola- tion of public order? Wasn't it rather brutal police provocation of the Crimean Tartars in order to create a pretext for severe reprisals against this people justly struggling for national re-birth? After obtaining a correct answer to the questions posed above, it would no longer be worth the trouble to ask whether all that followed the Chirchik events was also the result of police provocation.

And if that is so, would the Uzbek 'guarantors of the law' present to Procurator Malkov proof of the existence of the in the documents described search warrant (that is, assum- ing that Malkov himself is not in a in on this provocation perfectly conscious way!). So much for the legal justi- for searching fication my apartment. I could stop here, but I want to tell you that I do not under- stand your role in both the Chirchik affair itself and the court trials of Crimean Tar- tars that took place following the September 5, 1967 ordin- ance of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, as well as your role in the trials that are now being prepared. The illegal and often flag- rantly provocative nature of these trials is so obvious that it is astonishing that a jurist international of reputation who is at pains to teach the entire world how to combat crimes against humanity can- not see this! HAVING established the utter lack of connection be- tween myself and the Uzbek matters, let us attempt to determine the real reason for this search, and who deemed it necessary. An exhaustive answer is provided by the composition of the 'investigating' group and the official-departmental- agency affiliation of the person actually directed who the search. In addition to Berezovsky, KGB functionaries and seven 'witnesses' - also state three security agents-were present at the search. And so for one official of the Uzbekistan procurator's office-take note of this-ten Muscovites were needed, not counting those who barred entry to the house from the street. And all of them were from the KGB. The search was directed by certain Vragov, Aleksei Dmitrievich. That's all I could learn about him from Berezov- sky. Vragov himself refused to reveal his position and his of work-the Moscow place Administration or Centre-as well as the terms of the law of which he was obliged to inform me. This is how this petty official, not well-known to me, conducted the search. It was he who told Berezovsky what to do. It was incumbent upon him delicate prob- to settle lems; to confiscate or leave such and such a document. In practice he directed every move the other KGB agents thing made. The only nominally responsible Berezov- sky did was to dictate the list of documents assembled by the KGB agents to the man res- ponsible for drawing up the official report. The search was carried out by the KGB which used the 'Bariev case' as a pretext, as

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did the investigator in charge of the case. It marked the end of another stage in my relations with the KGB. The first stage ended with my release from the most terrible prison in the USSR— he so-called special psychiat ic hospital-where the KG] 'housed' me in an attempt to get out of the impasse they found themselves in because of the unlawful nature of my arrest The next stage started two or three months later when, without any plausible pretext, the KGB again took an interest in me. Since_ then, that is for three years, I have been sub- jected . to constant surveillance: myself, members of my family and visitors are systematically followed. My apartment is watched by visual and other special means; my telephone is tapped, my correspondence is examined and certain letters confiscated.

Twice in the last three years has apartment been my secretly searched. I have set this all out in a letter to I. Andropov, chief of the KGB, but as is usually the case in our country, the letter is still mater unanswered. The only result was that the surveillance be- came more discreet. The search was general a inspection of my 'archives', a desire to examine what has not been seen up to now. It is however probable that new provocations are being planned for me. I have no intention of waiting for them passively.

I AM a communist and as such I hate with all my soul organs of oppression and despotism based on caste.

The organization created by Stalin, and today called the KGB on the advice of ministers of the USSR, is such an organization. I do not conceal my hatred this organization, which I of consider hostile to the people, from anyone and I will fight by all possible means for its early liquidation. That is why I refuse to have any contact whatsoever with it and I do not recognise its right to interfere in my private life or my public activity. This parasitic organization which devours enormous sums of money and does inestimable wrong, must disappear from our society. The sooner the › bitrar better. I have known for a long time that in practice the courts and the organs of the procur- acy are subordinate to the KGB. If proof of this is still needed, the search just made is of my apartment very characteristic. On this occasion the repre- sentatives of the procuracy were just errand boys. They can continue to play this role, but not in relation to what concerns me. By my life, by my participa- tion in the defence of my country, by the blood I have spilt for it, and by my com- munist convictions I have won the right to consider myself a co-master of my country and an equal member in the family of Soviet peoples. I have the right to move without surveillance and un- hindered on my native soil, freely to defend my convic- tions and to enjoy all the rights given me as a citizen of the USSR by the Soviet Con- and stitution the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

No one, and least of all an organization the KGB, like may deprive me of these rights.

As for the organs of the they should help procuracy, struggling for their citizens legal rights and not organize to take them away. After all I have just gone through, the only thing left is for us to determine the aim of the visit of the representa- disreputable tives of this organization, what they were looking for in my apartment, what they are fighting now and, it seems, prepared to fight in the future. Let us try to find the answer by looking at what they confis- cated 6.00-6.45 Scotland: p.m. Keportins Scotland. 10.00-10.25 Ouizburgh. 11.5% Scottish News Headlines. Northern Ireland: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Scene 10.00-10.30 Speak thur Mindo Around Weather, Nationwide. 11.57 Northern Ireland News Headlines, Weather. 6.00- Wales: 5.25-5.50 p.m. Telewele. Heddiw. 6.45 Wales Today. 6.45-7.05 8.25- 8.00-8.25 One Of The Family.

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IN FACT, they confiscated (Artsi Leont material that had nothing to harov do with the 'slanderous fabri- expre cations'. They took nothing trend Stalin that was described in the A search warrant. chil savag They took all my typed documents and manuscripts as (Yaki Ovsey well as my personal letters Bukh and notes. and There was nothing slander- their ous and certainly nothing anti- Stalin Soviet in any of them. Among forge them were anti-Stalinist docu- by St ments and open statements of Th protest against violations of decisi Soviet law by the authorities, Cong against judicial tyranny, and in m against continuing acts of dis- Stalin crimination and genocide Tra directed at the Crimean Tar- Czech tars, the Volga Germans, and "Two certain other small national Smrk groups. Czeci This is what was confis- cated: Individual and collective let- ters sent to me by Crimean Tartars embodying the cri de coeur of a martyred people, as well as documents pertaining to the popular movement of the Volga Germans struggling for the re-establishment of their national equality. Copies of my letters to the Politburo of the Central Com- mittee denouncing both the ar- bitrary acts committed against me (illegal expulsion from the Party, demotion from general to private, loss of my pension), and the judicial tyranny and falsification of history to the benefit of renascent Stalinism.

A manuscript of the bro- chure by Academician Sak- harov and my thoughts about it. The complete works of the against Stalin- tireless fighter ism, the writer-Bolshevik, par- ticipant in the revolutionary movement since 1912 and member of the Bolshevik Party since 1916, who spent three years in Tsarist prisons and 17 years in Stalinist torture cham- bers and Kolyma death camps: Alexis Kosterin. assembling manuscript and analysing a list of all the facts that had come to my knowledge proving that the October 1964 plenum of the Central Committee took the decision discreetly but firmly A implement a rebirth of to l Stalinism. repre Notes of public trials (crim- vario inal in form, political in sub- again stance) of Crimean Tartars and who participated in the move- right ment for national equality, and curac of free-thinking people in Mos- cow (the trials of Daniel, Siny- Univ Khaustov, Bukovsky, avsky, Hum Galanskov, Ginzburg and the others). and i Biographical notes on persons jurist convicted for their participa- tion in a Red Square demon- stration against the intervention (unp Pacts of the Soviet armies in Czecho- slovakia and against the blood years spilled by Soviet soldiers and semb Czechoslovak citizens. the l A manuscript of a work by omic Academician Varga entitled Polit Th "The Russian Road to Social- ism'. spee A copy of a letter by a of w group of Soviet intellectuals Ar All ind 9.10 Hollywood In The Sixties: ITV ex/ "The Ugly American' starr- ing Marlon Brando.

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icy to nitted This list gives a fairly clear idea of the principle on which len. s the the confiscations were based. I Party hardly need add that every- thing I had written was also iment confiscated, scraps of ns of even paper on which I'd written a es in single word. Thus I was de- prived of all my scientific the ds' work, my private correspon- dence, drafts of various docu- over ments, including those already jected disseminated, as well as those trative which had never left my desk.

signed It is clear that if I had not testing passed on the night before et law Korolenko's 'Letters to A. Lunacharsky, Gorky's 'Un- numan timely Thoughts,' and the e pro- verses of Osip Mandelshtam, these would have been confis- of the cated too. of ced in I had a copy of a manu- mbers script of a book dealing with ns for the first months of the Second World War-'Notes Of An In- telligence Agent', the mem- of the ories of V. A. Novobrantsev—

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with personal inscription d two a from the author. al As- ations: When the KGB agents de- cided to confiscate this work I Econ- vigorously protested that act on it could in no way be classified of the as falling in the category of uneral materials authorised for confis- cation. works Then Justice Councillor .ondon

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4.00 News p.m. Headlines. 4.02 Houseparty. 4.15 Your Star Showcase. 4.40 Diane's Magic Haven. Theatre, 00 Star Western 6, Star Western Movie: 6.35 Cross- wtime. "Ten roads. 6.10 Wanted Men' starring Randolph Scott, roads. Richard Boone. 11.20 Play With A neral'. Purpose, Weather Forecast.

mmen- giques, YORKSHIRE: 4.11 p.m. News Head- lines. 4.13 The Tingha and Tucker 4.25 Katie Stewart Cooks. 6.00 Club. Glory: 6.30 Castle Haven.

6.00 Calendar, Weather. 6.55 •Gun starring Stewart g Jeff Fleming. Granger and Rhonda 9.00 fartine 11.15 Omri's Burning. 12.15 Hadleigh. uthern a.m. Late Weather. Cooks. The GRANADA: 4.25 p.m. The Short Story.

6.00 Beverly Hillbillies. 6.25 Newsview and Newsview followed by Special. Magic Put It In Writing. 7.05 The Name Of Head- Game. 11.15 Letters From The The he Gus Dead. Diary. Movie: TYNE TEES: 4.09 p.m. North East Glenn Newsroom. 4.11 News 4.13 Headlines. About 4.25 Mad Movies. 4.53 North Paulus. 11.56 East Newsroom. 6.00 Today 6.35 Castle Six. 6.30 Where The Jobs Aue Haven. 7.00 Tuesday Film: 4.35 'Convoy' starring Clive Brook and 6.00 s. 11.32 The Trinlty!5 Late News Extra.

7.00 Trinity. star- Smith. Early. 11.50 SCOTTISH: 4.20 p.m. Scotland 5.09 She Name Of The Ame.

6.30 Raw Deal? 7.05 The Name 11.20 Late Call. 11.25 Letters From The Dead: ne For 'The First To Go'. 1. 6.36 7.55

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4.17 Sean the 11.50 p.m. Leprechaun. 4.30 Skippy. 6.00 Grampian 294.55 News and Farming News. 6.15 Out Town. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Of Castle Film Stars: 'On The Double' staring Sylw. Danny Kaye. 11.20 Play With ather. Purpose. Tuesday, November 25, 1969 Berezovsky, who had just received Vragov's order to 'confiscate!', decided to dem- onstrate the book's slander of the Soviet social and political order by reading the following from the author's sentence foreword: 'Stalin is dead, but the poisonous seeds sown by him continue to germinate'.

After that I refused to re- main at the search any longer.

But they didn't need me anyway. Without even taking the trouble to make a note of half of what they were taking, they then threw the unrecorded items into a sack with the seal KGB 14 on it and took it all away. Judge for yourself the degree to which the integrity of the sack's contents is guaranteed!

All the more so as the open- ing of the sack, in which I refused to take part because it would have been absurd, was performed in the presence of 'witnesses'-who are all agents of the organization conducting the search. None of the true witnesses I insisted upon were invited.

THIS is how the guaran- tees of legality were observed in this case. But this is not the only case that interests me. What I would like clarified is the relationship between the organs of the Soviet procuracy and Soviet law. My personal experience in- dicates that these organs are interested in only one thing in questions: collecting political articles of the legal code which can give the appearance of legality to the savage despot- ism of the authorities. But I naively assumed that even for this it was necessary to know the law. Apparently, it is not. Obviously 'specialists' on the collect the appropriate law articles. But the practical en- forcers are in no way inter- in the laws. They do ested what they are ordered to do without asking whether or not it is legal. Berezovsky appeared with- out a copy of the Criminal Code or the Code of Criminal Procedure. With the help of friends present at my apartment I often showed him how he was violating the laws, but he only changed his behaviour with the greatest reluctance. The following incident shows how heavily the law weighed on him. As the search was drawing to a close my wife said, "That is illegal'. Berezovsky couldn't contain himself any longer. He let all the irritation of a long das has a whole shelf of juridical litera- ture!'

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Tuesday, November 25, 1969 Unh Dear comrades, ing on My closest friend, Alexis for hi: Yevgrafovich Kosterin, who, all sur as you know, is confined to porary hospital with thrombosis, en- his vo trusted to Vera Ivanovna his loud a wife, and myself the job of Cries representing him at this even- health ing's affair. friend It is a great honour for me.

HoT I am especially moved by the spirit fact that he charged me with What expressing our mutual views a who on the struggle of the Crimean is not Tartars for national autonomy.

Ale Alexis Kosterin, who was Bolshe born and raised in the multi- the no northern Caucasus, national Thi: able to see, from his was has g childhood, the cruel oppres- the d sion of smaller nations, the and I national hatred discord and for na stirred up by the oppressors friend and odious imperialist chauvin- Thi: ism. origin Suffering cruelly from seeing the b his own people playing the of Ri role of oppressor, Kosterin, as life h a Russian patriot, decided to possib dedicate his life to the struggle his tal for national equality and is not among different friendship know, peoples. the cr In his entire life he has Thi never betrayed this youthful father pledge. examp three years he spent in The his d Tsarist prisons could not break his revolutionary You spirit - on the contrary, they hardened it.

Nina Liberated the February millio revolution, he immersed him- almos self in the task of organizing Anne teaching the and the northern agains Caucasus peoples. the c He never abandoned these peoples, even when the Whites tween the d occupied the territory. He then detachments of ideas organized • partisans in the mountains and Suc participated in the partisan man movement until the Whites are Ci chased out of the All were Koste Caucasus. ing t your It After the Civil War the problem of national equality а сег continued to occupy a central were home: place in his Party and literary activities. ances Only once the voice of reserv dition writer Kosterin was not heard.

This was when the Volga Ger- disapi mans, the Kalmyks, and the Crime smaller nations of the northern inevit Caucasus - like your people, But worki the Crimean Tartars — were trials brutally banished from their native lands. the a If he was silent, it was Aft their because he could not speak.

He was behind the barbed wire starte of Beria's and Stalin's camps.

recov fight But 17 years of concentra- huma tion camp nightmare did not Thi break him. As soon as he was free he raised his voice with some courage and firmness for the exiles the C 'weak and forgotten'. I will not speak of his cur- politi rent struggle. You know of.

Thi taken it as well as I. The Leninist- Bolshevik Alexis Kosterin has that dedicated all his strength to effect the fight for the re-establish- mass ment of the Leninist policy of were tars h nationalities. GENOCIDE is the film of th systematic annihilation transt of a race or people by televi: Buffal another power. vision German capitalism under It it on the Hitler practised with Jews; the black lieutenants betra capita of white capitalism in dealin federal Nigeria have been In accused of the same thing in India signed Biafra. In South America the Treat tribes of the interior fall In every day now. up it: Stalin perpetrated, and the timbe Stalinist bureaucracy still per- treaty petrates similar crimes on the . them smaller nationalities inside the rights Soviet Union. long British, French, Spanish and the g American have capitalism a the fi long history in it too. One of their most spectacu- their lar and appalling cultu successes was exercised on the North mater American Indians during the No 300-year dog-fight for that them continent and last week stead (November 18) Ross Devenish's ning •

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risky on n I think that this explosion activi characterizes the attitude to No of the 'guarantors of the law well 1 the law' better than all their never confusing writings designed to of an convince uninformed people.

Ac one h IN CONCLUSION I would contr like to try, with your help, same to answer the question: why by de and was all this done? Th Was it a simple attempt at firme intimidation? That is doubtful.

The KGB and I know each confi (offic other too well to count on offici: that. Well, perhaps it was moti- Th vated by the hope of finding write something that could be used tions to build a 'case' and put me Juc away in some remote corner samp from which I could not make requi my voice heard? Furtl It is entirely possible, but typer stupid. To stage a trial based Why trumped-up charges confi IS on rest- leavy are tem- when nd— ause. good our true erin? give n? It inist- *y in vord. who h to oples uggle 1 for ples. and es on tions adly, the oping work • you lence riter. not learn that this sale was plary pure invention. as an But most serious of all is on as edict which terin. that the very ordered the political rehabilita- that tion of the Crimean Tartars s had the simultaneously legalized ed in liquidation of that nation ...

, like According to it, the Crimean erved Tartars no longer exist; there uggle are only the "Tartars who at orms, one time lived in the Crimea'.

• be- This fact alone demonstrates ise of conclusively that not only has anist your struggle not attained its in a certain sense goal, but 1, the taken a few steps back. has y we It was as Crimean Tartars that you were formerly per- w of secuted, but since the political gard- rehabilitation' nation this Is of doesn't exist. The nation has disappeared but the discrimina- er of tion remains. eople You did not commit the their crimes for which you were their exiled from the Crimea, but in a you do not have the right to con- return there. : the entire emed What basis is there for plac- ing your people in a position hard- of such inequality? ed all Article 123 of the constitu- ch to tion of the USSR reads: 'Any nt of direct or indirect restriction of the rights ... of citizens ›eople on account of their race or , to nationality is punishable by and and law' Therefore the law is on your side. (Lengthy applause.)

d in But your rights are trampled te of underfoot. Why? d and We believe that the main : been reason for this lies in the fact that you underestimate your • was enemy. You think ations you are d the dealing only with honest people. This is not so. What great happened to your people was • who not the work of Stalin alone.

Tar- And his accomplices are not could L spare-time animal trade of esent for pleasure called skid-1 • was killers "sportsmen'. ercial The The dollar must expand; the Tele- grab is never over. As Old Man Frank said: . . . it's big money for them. Indian is nued, nothing to white man. He's lies, nothing. ... If we want to ss of eat fish we'll have to buy fish their off the white man. The state, on behalf of its qually masters, persecutes the State Indians, drags them to court Creek for allegedly "illegal' fishing and uses armed game wardens giving to put down a handful ained adults and a few children.

this nteed Dignity ishing Nowhere in the state Fishery or 'as n and Laws is there even a mention of the Indians or their rights.

The Indians determinedly from ghout and with desperate dignity go on fighting for their lives; but whole their hopes are bleak and their • this future dark. The state capital of Seattle pping g in- waits to absorb them as wage- earners and as one man in the • can- said, there are already ourist film At best, to deprive me of count iminal using them. At worst-I will explain it to you in case you do not yet know-to prepare le too , have falsifications compromising the owner of the typewriter. pidity In response to my protests that I hadn't checked the s only documents they had confis- ted to cated Berezovsky asked me: at the 'Are you suspicious by any work chance?'. aterial I fear that you too may ask the same question. And I will ; con- answer you in the way 1 an- : they swered Berezovsky. vriters I am not suspicious. I am th no merely indicating the possibili- ties resulting from procedural type- violations. And the future will condi- show what will actually develop otism. out of these possibilities'.

king a In any case I don't intend print to wait passively for the out- come. Therefore I have decided nutes. of the to demand the annulment of all the violations of law com- esent. vriters mitted against me. Accordingly I demand: only still alive, they hold res- ponsible positions. They fear that if you are given back what was unlaw- fully taken away from you, they must sooner or later answer for their participation in such arbitrary acts. (Loud applause.) That is why they are doing everything they can to prevent you from succeeding in your struggle. If things stay as they are, it gives the impression that there were no broken laws in the past. You have chosen a tactic that helps them preserve this You address state of affairs. humble supplications to the Party leadership which pass into the hands of those hostile to your struggle for national equality. And since your pleas con- cern matters for which there are no indisputable, hard and fast rules, they are presented to persons who are bound to as doubtful, rule them on debatable issues, and thus case becomes enmeshed your judgements and opinions in which have nothing to do with the basic problem. For instance: 'There is no room in the Crimea for settling the Tartars' If the Tartars move, there will be no one left in Central Asia to do the work.' "The Crimean Tartars already feel at home where they are. Besides, they do not represent independent an nation. Those who wish to live in a Tartar republic can go to the Tartar Autonomous Republic' (ASSR). 'The migra- tion would require consider- able sums of money, etc. All these claims, as well as an infinity of others, put for- ward by the enemies of your national rebirth, are not worth Indians 'by the thousand' on skid-row up there. Traditionally the philosophy their own part in it. They describe themselves as 'cannibal'. All their life they must eat their brothers and sisters — the deer, corn and fish. But when they die they give back all they have taken; their body feeds the worms that feed the birds; the worms also aerate the soil for the roots of the trees and the grass; the deer eat the grass, the corn grows. put it this Engels way : .. at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a con- queror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature — but that we,. with flesh, blood and brain, belong and exist in its to nature, midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over The immediate restitution of all the confiscated docu- ments and my two typewriters.

• That all illegal actions with respect to me and my family be discontinued: surveillance, observation of my apartment by visual and other means, the tapping of my telephone, and the reading and confiscation of correspondence. I assume that your authority and prerogatives (from strictly legal point of view of course) are sufficient to com- pel the appropriate persons to satisfy my demands. It is in this spirit that I await your response. I hope that you appreciate that for 14 days I have held back from making my com- plaint, therefore leaving the 'investigators' time to examine their plunder. Hoping that you will take this into account, I will expect your answer in not longer than 15 days, the time fixed by the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. December 4, 1968

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you. Demand the re-establish- ment of a Crimean Autonom- ous Soviet Socialist Republic!

(Wild applause.) Do not limit yourselves to the petitions. writing Strengthen your demands by all the means that are available to you under the constitution —make good use of the free- of the dom of speech and press, of meetings, street pro- cessions and demonstrations. A newspaper is put out for Tashkent. But you editors do not support your movement. Kick them out and choose vour own editorial staff.

boy- i you are preventer ott the newspaper and star another one, your own. movement develop cannot normally without its own press. In your struggle, do not lock yourself in a narrow national- Establish contacts ist shell. with people progressive in in the Soviet other nations Union-first of all with those nationalities among whom you live, the Russians and Ukrain- and ians who have been continue to be persecuted like But a pin. as long as you your people. and Do not look at your case as request, against your requests these 'weighty' objec- an internal affair. Seek the tions are raised, the case does of world support public not go forward but even goes and international opinion organizations. There is backwards. In order to end this abnor- specific name for what was mal situation you must under- people in 1944. done to your stand once and for all that It is genocide, the one of what is prescribed by law worst crimes against humanity'.

not requested but demanded!

(Complete Soviet Encyclopedia, volume 10, p. 441.) (Enthusiastic applause. Cries of 'that's right!'.) The adopted by convention the UN General Start to demand! And do Assembly on not just demand fragments— December 9, 1948, included demand that the of everything was category genocide unlawfully taken away from acts committed with in-

THE CAMPAIGN

of suicide We bear the full weight of Czechoslovakia, responsibility for his death, by fire in 1969 and the deaths of other started on January 16, for by Prague student Jan Palach Czechoslovak brothers who against the have committed suicide. as a protest un- interference in the warranted By approving, by justifying internal affairs of the Socialist the military intervention, or Republic of Czechoslovakia, is simply by remaining silent, we not over. allow living torches to more burn in the squares of Prague On February 21 new and other cities. 'living torch'-but living only The Czechs and Slovaks - burned for moment have always considered us Wenceslas Square. their brothers. Are we going This which takes protest, to let the word 'Soviet' be- such a horrible form, is first with the come synonymous of all directed at us, the Soviet word 'enemy' for them? It the unsolicited people. is and completely unjustified pre- Citizens of great our sence of that is country! our troops provoking such anger and such The greatness of our despair the Czecho- does not lie in the might among try slovak people. of its armies brought down Not in vain has Jan Palach's small freedom-loving on death aroused all the Czecho- people, but in its moral force.

slovak workers. Are we going to continue to to own slaves, they published a newspaper as early as 1828 and published Bibles even with codifying along their laws. Decimated But the same fate awaited of being all other creatures them. Gold in their mountains able to learn its laws and apply led to President Jackson's them correctly! ('Dialectics Of Removal all Indian Act and Nature'.) Indians east of the Mississippi killed or forced were hunted, Mythology into thousand-mile exiles. They And what is happening with travelled the 'Trail of Tears' and lost most of their people this small group one Indians is characteristic of the on the way. Since A few years later it was the whole Indian experience. Geronimo and Sitting Bull of the Plains Indians. turn reduced from proud Also with a rich and complex were 'attractions culture, this time based on the leaders to at buffalo, these. peoples, like the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show' 1870s, the whole capi- Sioux, were first decimated by in the like small- talist mythology about its own imported diseases disgusting history has been pox and cholera. Then, 400 Indian under way. as the films and tele- Pulp-books, treaties were successively broken, they saw vision still consistently present their useable and the the bad, treacherous, murder- lands stolen once abundant buffalo wiped out.

rapacious figure in the ous, West as Indian- Military knew the drive to the men and buffalo the key the projection national were global scale destruction of the Indians; the Sioux, the knew that hides In fact, Chicsaw, Cherokee, the the fetched big money in the east; Choctaw, the Cree, all railroad owners needed cheap were food indentured slaughtered and hounded, for the Chinese labour laying the lines.

driven off their lands "like The system needed ground for wolves'. Some, farmers like the Cherokee, its and minerals tried desperately to save some- its factories. So the Reservations on arid thing of their own culture by assimilating practices of. the lands were set up. Revolts They de- were ruthlessly suppressed. The marauding invaders. people who had once possessed vised an alphabet, they learned On location for 'Now That The Buffalo's Gone', a Thames documentary about tent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such' by any of various methods, and specifically, 'by deliberately inflicting on the group con- ditions of life calculated to bring about its physical de- struction in whole or in part ..? Such • acts of genocide are from the viewpoint of inter- national law, crimes con- demned by the civilized world, for which the chief culprits and their accomplices are liable to punishment under law. So you see, international law is also on your side. (Wild applause.) cannot obtain a If you solution of the problem within the country, you have a right to appeal to the UN and the international tribunal. * Stop begging! Take back what was unlawfully taken from you! (Wild applause.

Members of the audience jump from their seats and start chanting in unison, "Crimean

ASSR'.)

And remember, in this just who are in the foremost ranks of your movement. There have already been a series of trials in Central Asia in which fighters for equal rights for the Crimean Tartars have been sentenced unlaw- fully and on false grounds.

Right now in Tashkent, such a trial is being prepared for Mamed Enver, Yuri and Savri Osmanov, and others. Do not allow judicial re- prisals to be carried out against look on in silence as our intere brothers perish? It is now clear to all that the presence of our troops on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia is not in the interest of the de- fence of our country or in the Jan Palach all America now had no future they could call their own.

Mass exterminations, like the one at Wounded Knee where the 7th Cavalry shot down hundreds of Sioux from the Pine Ridge Reservation, were officially commended and marked with Congressional Medals of Honour. Wiping out whole villages in Vietnam is nothing new to capitalism. And so today a tired, de- feated, proud, desperate half- million Indians live 'in the wastelands we call Reserva- tions'. The housing conditions are amongst the worst in any capitalist nation—no running water, no indoor lavatories, no electricity for the winter be- cause there's no money to pay the bills. Three adults and 11 child- in a one-room shack is ren nothing exceptional. Infant mortality for the Indian is twice that of all Americans; the average Indian wage is 30 dollars a week com- pared to 130 dollars for other Americans. Most American children get 11 years at school, however poor that schooling may be; the Indian gets five. Amongst the youth there is a crazed despair; drunkenness born of empty forlorn hope- lessness is only surpassed by the suicide rate. And most of between 14 the suicides are and 20 years old. umentary about Red Indians shown on November 1

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these people. Demand a public trial and come in a body to this trial. Do not allow the court to be filled with a specially selected public ..

And finally, Alexis Kosterin has asked me to tell you that he has received many letters and congratulatory telegrams from Crimean Tartars. He cannot answer them at the present time and therefore wishes me to convey his deepest and most sincere thanks to all who sent him greetings and their best wishes for his recovery. He affirms that in the future he will devote all his efforts to the struggle for full and equal rights for all nations, for sincere friendship between all peoples of the world I raise my glass in honour of all brave and unyielding fighters for national equality. I raise my glass in honour of the most eminent one front, fighters on this the writer and Bolshevik inter- nationalist, Alexis Yevgrafo- Kosterin, and to vich the health of the Crimean Tartar peoples. I wish full success to your people in their struggle.

To our future meeting Crimea, dear friends, on the territory of a re-established and reborn Crimean Autonom- ous Soviet Socialist Republic!

(Wild applause. Toasts are drunk to A. Kosterin, the friendship of all peoples, a future meeting in Crimea, and to the Russian and Ukrainian peoples represented by com- rades A. Kosterin and P. G Grigorenko. Singing of the songs 'Port Arthur' "Shompol' and others.) March 17, 1968 s our interest of the countries of the socialist community. Will we not have enough courage to admit that a tragic error has been committed and do all we can to rectify it?

It is our right and our duty! We call on all Soviet citizens to use every legal means at our disposal, while avoiding hasty and ill-considered action, to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czecho- slovakia and the renunciation of interference in the internal affairs of this country. Only in this way can friend- ship between our two peoples be re-established. Long live the heroic Czecho- slovak people! Long live Soviet-Czecho- slovak friendship! February 28, 1969 We saw people of immense courage still trying to keep their history and language and culture alive. They spoke poignantly of the past and present and saw little in the future. No one showed any awareness of their only hope. With excellent photography by Mike Fash and splendid use of historical stills by Tony Bulley, with Marlon Brando lethally understating the com- 'Now That The mentary, Buffalo's Gone' was a tactically cool, concerned, evocative and 'committed' study of some of the horrors in this chapter of the history of North American capitalism. It followed the Indians in blaming the 'white man' and dared come close never to describing precisely which white men it meant. Even if its maker knows, to name them as a class would of course ensure no transmission on its television. It was a humane and human- ist programme and did harshly reveal much of the brutal past and criminal present. My hope is that by persist- Mr ing in such studies Devenish and those few seri- ous documentary film-makers left in television may come to realize that their revelations must carry them to the only hope for the Indians, the Viet- namese, the Congolese, for all mankind; must carry them to the revolutionary conclusion.

on November 18.

WORKERS' PRESS

Tuasday, November 25, 1969

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E. Germans Vauxhall Motors in London trade talks

THE FIGHT

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BY DAVID MAUDE

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BY ROBERT BLACK

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