Palestinians tortured by Zionists-report

PALESTINIAN prisoners held in Israel are being tortured by the Zionists, says a report out today.

Jetalls are given of allegations of torture, collective punishment, destruction of Arab homes, Jewish political prisoners and discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Election stunt served its purpose Logic of 'peace' fraud THE PARIS "peace' talks on Indo-China have been recessed on orders from President Nixon amid a barrage of self-righteous statements from American officials.

Amazingly the United States is now trying to pose as the aggrieved party, accusing North Vietnan of turning the Paris talks into a *charade'.

This is a pack of lies, for United States has never had The report, "Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Israel', published by the Union of Liberal Students, is made up of evidence from several authoritative sources.

Since the 1967 Six-Day war, 4,000 Palestinians have been conSPENCER Seven weeks ago the American side at the talks had agreed to sign a nine-point draft agreement which was accepted by both sides. Dr Henry Kissinger announced 'peace is at hand' on October 26.

Since this was less than a fortnight before the presidential election, it undoubtedly helped to ensure Nixon's re-election. But it proved to be a vote-catching lie. The US refused to sign the nine-point draft, claiming at first that 'minor' items needed to be settled-later that the North Vietnamese must agree to withdraw the bulk of their forces from the south.

At the same time, war materials from the US, and from such US client states as Iran, Pakistan and elsewhere, were rushed to South Vietnam together with hundreds of plainclothes US advisers.

President Thieu was actively encouraged and prompted to deAmnesty barred from seeing tortured Turks THE TURKISH government has denied an Amnesty International mission access to prisoners who had previously made statements condemning the use of brutal torture in Turkey's prisons.

The Amnesty delegation, led by Mr Muir Hunter QC, was only able to interview a 26year-old medical student, Mrs Ilkay Demir, although Minister Justice Fehmi Alpaslan had promised they issue. Nobody in their right senses believes that Wilson has changed his spots; he will try to pursue the class collaboration policies which he followed during 1964-1970.

It is no accident that Wilson and his right-wing leadership have no policies today to meet the economic crisis. They don't want office in this period, hence their failure to lead any real opposition to Heath on a whole number of issues from the Common Market, to the Industrial Relations Act, to the Housing Finance Act.

But those who don't fight for the bringing down of the Tories and the re-election of Labour ignore the all-important experience of the masses. The building of a revolutionary leadership to take the power is determined by the movement of the working class.

the Tories out itself be a massive stride demned to prison, 10,000 held in administrative detention without trial, 16,000 Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israelis, 800 Palestinians arbitrarily deported and 71,000 displaced or evicted from their homes.

report AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL would in the would see soners.

Mrs Demir said that the mission had been able to see her because she was the only one who had not suffered from torture.

She confirmed that she had personally tended the wounds of her husband, Necmi, and a number of women who had been subjected to the 'falanga'-beating on the soles of the feet with sticks and iron bars.

the treatment for pris oners includes being stripped naked and left for long periods, beaten, suspended by hands for long periods, soaked and left in cold water during the night, being burned by cigarette stubs and electric shocks.

nounce the prospects of a political settlement and tighten his dictatorship in the south.

The Stalinists were also encouraging illusions in the prospects of peace calling for a campaign to 'force Nixon to sign' the nine-point deal.

Since Nixon never had any intention of signing anything except the unconditional surrender of the North Vietnamese this campaign simply gave more credence to the threadbare 'peace' fraud being generated by Kissinger and Kissinger now claims agreement is 99 per cent complete the rest is up to Hanoi, he says.

Yet considering the man's record over the past two months it is impossible to believe a word he More reliable is the statement of the North Vietnamese who have said that they will not withdraw their troops from the south, which is part of Vietnam and where they have every right to Other prisoners were given electrical shock treatment or beaten up in prison-cells. The floor of the 'tortureroom' was covered with blood fiom the feet of prisoners given the 'falanga treatMuir Hunter attempted to locate three other women prisoners, said of Prisons, to be under military jurisdiction.

This contradicted statements made by prison authorities, the Public Prosecutor, | Atesoglu, experiences of the masses. |It must immediately coincide with a ruthless fight to force the Labourites to adopt socialist policies.

The labour and trade union movement must demand that Labour introduces a socialist alternative to the anarchic disintegration of capitalism.

Such a programme would meet with the bitterest opposition from Wilson and his friends. But in the process of fighting thereformists, the masses would gain yet another experience-the inability of the social democrats to deal with unemployment, soaring prices, inflation, poverty and Slum housing.

The opportunity would then open for workers to fight to build a revolutionary leadership as the only means of putting an end to the barbarism of capitalism.

This is the task of the hour. It is a task which must be commenced now.

This leadership cudgels against the deceivers and fakers in the labour and trade union movement; by exposing and drawing out the right-wing traitors.

It is in the crucible of the rapidly-deteriorating economic crisis and the growing militancy of the working class that the Socialist Labour League has launched its campaign for the transformation of the League into a revolutionary party.

Trade unionists and all those employed in the professions should read the document passed unanimously at the national conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance in Birmingham on October 22. They should then sign it-thus agreeing to give practical assistance to the building of the • Copies of the can be obtained 186a Clapham High London SW4 7UG EEC illusions play into Franco's hands REPRESENTATIVES of the Workers' Commissions of Spain and the main trade union federations in Italy the CGIL, the CIL and Ull-have just finished talks on the fight against repression in Spain. High on the agenda was the Publi sentences of 162 years for Commissions.

The Spanish workers were arrested on June 24 and have been in the Madrid prison of Carabanchel ever since awaiting trial.

The Public Prosecutor has accused the Commissions of *extending a national organization for subversive activity in order to produce a general strike to bring about the violent overthrow of the Spanish regime".

He then outlined the case histories of the arrested workers, men like Marcelino Camacho who have spent most of the past ten years in Franco's jails for their struggle to build working-class organizations independent of the corporatist state-controlled unions.

This struggle has been stabbed in the back at every stage by the policies of the Spanish Communist Party which believes that fascist Spain can be democratized peacefully.

Its secretary Santiago Carrillo opened up the way to Carabanchel with his theory that it was necessary to 'come out in the open and bring democracy through our practical example.

The latest development of this "theory' is that Spain's entry into and the Martial Law Command themselves.

At one stage in the investigations, the Amnesty mission was told they were interested in 'anarchists and terro rists, the people responsible for the present state of the country'.

The final report of the mission refutes the statements on Thursday at the Council of Europe by Turkish Foreign Minister Haluk Bayulken that there was no torture of political prisoners in Turkey.

ATUA statement by writing to: c Prosecutors' demand for r ten leaders of the illegal the Common Market will bring democracy with it.

Yet the Common Market is precisely a conspiracy of the monopolies against the democratic rights of workers to organize in trade unions and their own parties throughout Europe.

That is why the Pompidou government and the French employers now bring anti-riot charges against workers who organize meetings and demonstrations to back wage claims. That is why the Tory government and its National Industrial Relations Court is attacking British trade unionists.

Any fomenting of illusions in the Common Market aids the monopolists' plans and can in no way help defend the ten workers locked in Carabanchel.] The claim by the CP leadership of the Commissions that the Italian trade union federationsalso dominated by Marketeering Stalinists-'have got definite agreement from the European Economic Commission that they will intervene in the case' means that Camacho and the rest are to be abandoned.

This monopolists Commission spends its time producing blueprints for the rationalization of industry throughout Europe, and tully recognizes the opportunities for 'rational' investment in Spain.

As Francois Xavier Ortoli said when visiting Spain in February as Pompidou's Minister of Industrial Development:/ *We must work more and better with Spanish industry and government.' Ortoli becomes a leading member of the Commission from January 1.

There can be no defence of the Spanish working classor any section in Europe-which does not start with a rejection of any compromise whatsoever with the institutions in Brussels.