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Ginzburg answers his accusers Nationality?'-Prisoner!'

Socialist Challenge No. 54, 20 July 1978 · p. 16 of the scan · 592 words

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him: "Nationality?' 'Prisoner!"

When of accused, Viktor Piatkus, carried out of the court. The nothing to learn from Stalin.

ADE THE YELLE DECLIN was guilty. Could there ever have been a shadow of a doubt?

LUDICROUS The whole affair had been so ludicrous to provoke denanciations from every side.

Not just the conventional cold warriors, but also the Freach, Italian and Spanish Communist Parties attacked the new Moscow trials.

The ostensible crime was espionage. Alongside the three well-known oppositionists, Shicharansky, Ginzburg anc Piarkus, they hamled! Anatoly Filatoy — a man who may well have been a real spy -just to give the procedings a gloss of reality.

It may be that the dissidents did, anwittingly, receive CIA moncy.

But that is just a sad reflection on the bureaucrats' style of "socialism' For their real crime was lo monitor the performance of the Hint in stickine In other words, it is a punishable offence to demand That the regime sticks to its own laws.

In any rcal democracy the CIA would not would be no such thing an Anyone would have the right political party.

That Challenge defends Ginzburg and colleagues regardiess of our chormous political difference with them, and regardless of have the fact that they have become a rallying point for all the most reactionary elements in the West.

The only way to undermine these reactionaries is to show we defend up them.

MODEL And hy making no discrimi nation in out defence up a model of socialism far superior to Scalinism. • Tura to page 12 lor detais on the Helsinki monitorine arouns and the campaigns lo release Bahro and rehabilitate Bukharin.

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Thanks also lo the comrades who hare brought in stencil. envelopes, and sufficient scrap paper for us to type on this side of the revolution.

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to the Helsinki Accords marched Alexander Ginzburg into the court and asked

"Am | to take it, then, that the HUmAN RIGHT to telI the TRUTH currently applies only to AmERichuS talking about RUSSIA? "

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