Julia Rajk

WIOSE who murdered Nagy could murder Julia Rajk without compunction. There seems no reason to doubt the reports from Belgrade that she and five other Hungarian communists have been executed. If protesting at the defamation and murder of your husband is revisionism, then Mis Rajk was a revisionist. If calling for the removal of those who framed and hanged him, and ihe cleansing of Hungarian political life, is a crime, then she was a criminal. By this token the whole of the Hungarian working ciass are revisionists and criminals, for they shared her hatred of the régime of lies and blood and terror and they rose to a man to replace it with socialist democracy and workers’ councils.

new and monstrous act of revenge is intended as a -warn. ing to them that no Marxist alternative to Stalinism will be permitted.

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Though these new executions add but one more drop to an ocean of blood, our hearts are heavy beyond words.

As many readers know, I attended the trial of Rajk in 1949, and—like every other Communist Party member in the world—helped to kill him by my acquiescence.

J know something of what his widow went through.

Hardest of all to bear is the knowledge that she died in solitude, without her friends and comrades. being given the chance of pleading for clemency. In Cyprus and Hungary alike the murderers seem victorious. But one day the tyrannies will be overthrown and the victims avenged.

of the joint liaison committee, Jim Coughlan, a docker in the West India group. * ;

‘This is a deliberate and provocative challenge to the union by the employers,’ he said.

‘We must meet that challenge with the whole strength of the union. i.

‘We want no fence-sitting by the Trades Union Congress. JTts leaders should state publicly that they support our wage (Continued overleaf)

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claim, and that they will bring other sections out in support it the Government uses troops.’