Tide of protest mounts against the Budapest murders
1958The Newsletter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Title, extent and credit checked against the scan (16 October 2026. The centre-page banner over the protests (pp. 4–5); this record opens with the end of Dora Scarlett's article on Gimes). The text is machine-read and not corrected: for anything you quote, read the scan.
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&% EXECUTIVE MEMBER RESIGNS FROM SCR:
= Brian Pearce has sent the following letter to Campbell travellers to do likewise.
Appreciation of the culture of the Russians and the other nations of the USSR, and desire to make this culture better known in this country, are sentiments in which I share now no less than before. Cultural progress in the USSR has taken place in spite of, not because of, the bureaucracy and its crimes.
The oppression of Hungary and the attack on Yugoslavia are being accompanied by an intensified drive against cultural freedom inside the Soviet Union.
It is contrary to the interests of the Soviet working class that their friends in the West should continue to give any kind of endorsement, however indirect, to. the claims of the bureaucracy to represent them.
True friendship with the Soviet peoples and true defence ; of the Soviet Union require that socialists, above all, should repudiate such organizations as the SCR together with the rest of the Stalinist system.
—LEEDS STUDENTS’ PROTEST