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political police preparations for biggest trial oppositionists take place at any moment.
well charges involving jail ten the Czechoslovak completed their wil beta of anti-Stalinist in Eastern Enrope since the 1950s. The trial could now The ten defendants, who are all members of the Committee to Defend Unjustly Prosecuted Persons (VONS)
JITO • tace sentences of years. Such savage for indictments indicate that the coming trial may be linked to an entire change of policy on the part of the Stalinist buraucracies towards opposition in Eastern Europe The one question not yet decided is the sentences that will be passed at the trial. These will be decided very soon by the Party Presidium. the trial can be staged.
It is thus urgent to redouble labour movement protests crackdown. The international appeal the the Chartists has already been signed by • more than 77 Labour MPs, including eleven members the NEC amongst them Tony Benn, party chairperson Frank Allaun, chairperson of the party's international committee, Joan Lestor, Eric Heffer. The Charter 77 Defence Committee is now aiming for further 77 signatures of Labour MIPs.
The Eastern Europe Campaign, which is participating the solidarity drive, has sent appeal to every single Constituency Labour Party in the country and is hoping for quick endorsements from 77 CLPs. The solidarity movement is cials. Cost £30 adu also hoping for signatures from trade union leaders and from 77 prominent socialists throughout the Communist Party leadership is being approached to support the appea officially.
Then Labour MPs Phillip and Reg Race establish a "Charter 77 Defence Fund' to gain material help for the families of jailed Chartists from the labour arrested movement. Donations to should be sent to Reg Fund's Hon.
House of Commons.
the Czechoslovakia has responded vigorMously to the crackdown. On 3 July 320 and people President Husak release of the jailed Chartists. VONS has already made up for the arrest of Solidarty the ten by in members.
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, 14 July, 1lam-5om | edited by Jiri Dienstbier, is going to continue to appear. Charter 77 has also gained two new spokespersons. Jiri Hajek and Ladislav Hejdanek who fill the gap left by the arrests of Dienstbier and Vaclay Benda.
and other actions demonstrate that even before the trial opens to crush VONS and decisively weaken Charter 77, has thwarted. Further massive repression will still be necessary for the Stalinist bureaucracy to defeat the This means that efforts must be West to build more permanent labour movement defence organisations out of the present protest movement, locally as well as nationally, on behalf of the civil rights movement in Czechoslovakia.
ready to help in these should write to: the Charter 77 Defence Committee, Court, Montpelier Road, W5. Protest telegrams he sent Czechoslovak Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8.
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