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7 MARCH: 8 1958

By Mick Gammon

The Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 43, 8 March 1958 · scan page 8

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conspirators and Gamarnik’s ; military “the syitiposiuin "of stories, “poems -and éssays called ‘Literary Moscow; IT, which catised so-fnuch “contioversy last year and “was “mentioned: once-or twice’in The Newsletter.

Soviet Studies costs 10s. 6d., but it is, or ought to be, in every large public library.

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD struggle. to save David Hyun’s life . Teached a- climax when. the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service revoked a stay of deportation to South Korea:

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The deportation order had previously been revoked on grounds. of probable. physical persecution.

* Hyun,.a South. Korean. architect living.in the USA, was arrested in 1950 as a ‘dangerous. alien’ and charged with being a member of the U.S. Communist Party: Denied bail, he was held on Terminal Island for six and a half months, released, rearrested in July 1953, held in custody for five months and freed on $2,000: bail.

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Return to Korea will mean life imprisonment or possible death for Hyun, who is a communist, a vocal critic of Syngman Rhee and the son of Rhee’s principal opponent.

' His only hope is to prove that physical persecution of _ political opponents still. continues under Syngman Rhee.

Any information on this should be sent in the form of personal affidavits, or articles from: periodicals ‘and newspapers with proper identification and photographs, to: Mary Hyun, P.O. Box 26026, Los Angeles 26, California, USA_ BACK UP LADS WHO BLACK ROCKET BASES As a building worker, I firmly believe that work on rocket. sites- should -be ‘blacked’, that the Trades Union Congress should give a lead on this, and that the unions concerned should make it clear that their members are not going to touch this kind of work.

We can achieve this—if the lads’ on the jobs and in the branches start developing this demand now, with the aim of co-ordinated. action by the unions, the TUC and the Labour Party.

Workers who refuse to build rocket bases will need every bit of help they can get: The TUC has an international solidarity fund—why not a solidarity fund to back up the ‘blacking’ of the rocket sites?

Such a fund would get a tremendous response, and would show. the workers directly involved that the whole working class is behind them. . London, S.W.2 Mick Gammon WATCH THE MENACE ON THE FAR RIGHT SOME attention should be given to the growth and development of neo-fascist and pro-fascist tendencies on the extreme Right of British politics, The Union Movement is undoubtedly finding in the frustration of sections of the middle class a fertile soil for its demagogy.

. — The Liberal vote at Rochdale was by no means an entirely ‘liberal’ vote. It was a vote of exasperation, a vote of protest: A vote which in a serious, deepening crisis could take on. fascist. overtones.

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But -perhaps more important than the old-line Mosleyites are the organizations like the League of Empire Loyalists and the People’s League for- the Defence of Freedom (which is now holding a referendum on-its next steps).

“The Labour- movement- cannot-afford to relax its vigilance towards these organizations. *The -ruling class will ‘have’ no hesitation. in using them: in-a-national crisis’

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Published by Peter Fryer, 180, Clapham High St., London, S.W.4. Printed by the Plough Press Ltd. (T.U.), r.o. 180 Clapham High St., London, SW4.

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