Free Blanco now!
1966The Newsletter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Title, extent and credit checked against the scan (16 October 2026. Title read on the scan, p. 1). The text is machine-read and not corrected: for anything you quote, read the scan.
THE PERUVIAN peasant leader Hugo Blanco is again facing the death sentence. He was originally sentenced by a military tribunal at Tacna on September 8 to 25 years' jail.
The defence appealed against the original sentence, and now the prosecution is calling for the death sentence on Blanco, claiming that he is guilty of premeditated murder. The appeal is now before the Supreme Council of Military Justice.
The British labour movement must continue to press for the immediate release of this heroic peasant leader, and • the others who were jailed in the first trial, by sending letters and telegrams of protest to the Peruvian Ambassador, Peruvian Embassy, 52 Sloane Street, London, S.W.1.
The union 'policy' is for 'unity of everybody'-meanwhile, accept closures.
Doesn't the "whole labour movement' include Wilson, Callaghan and Brown-and aren't they the ones whose policy is closures and unemployment?
Pit closures can only be stopped by a political fight against the right wing of the Labour Party and the TUC— didn't their actions in the seamen's strike show that?
Paynter is right on two points.
Pit closures are political acts.
Opposition to pit closures does involve a fight against the Labour government.
But Paynter and the Communist Party will not lead such a fight.
Instead they support the right wing against men like the Monckton miners when they put forward an absolutely correct demand, such as the demand for an inquiry into the finances of the Monckton collieries.
As the Labour government's attacks on the working class intensifies, the need for a new leadership becomes more and more apparent.
Gerry HEALY THE NEWSL Novemb er 26, 1966