INTERNATIONALISM — VITAL INGREDIENT GIVE GENEROUSLY NEXT time you are about to buy a Marxist book, beware. Next time you are invited to give a series of lectures in Paris (unlikely though that may be), refuse. For these are the most pieces of offered by the luhan stute ugainst Professer Antonio Negri and 32 others arrested in connection with the killing of Christian Democrat More hy Brigades.
RED Brigades defendants on trial in Milan when Moro was evidence we'd be verseers to political smear and personal slander as 'circumstantial'. The BEEN LEAPI hus leader nothing linking the accused to Moro's killers.
Sensing that the state is on weak ground, the press has made up for it with speculation. For example, it cinimed that Negri, who it alleges to be the Brigades" strategist, santom call to Moro's tamily made before the killingNegr telephone voice and Negri's inadvertently that the two were completel different.
Are all good fiction this c to have been planned fron Paris. QED. Negri planned the hether it might not be goin so far to use books as eviden criminal Impossible to separate theory and practice!
huve drawn comparison kaown case of Pietro Valpreda un anarchist held for years charged with a produced quite conscious intellectual freedom.
chief political timsi lions Immediately The but demonstrating the reasons Operaio members connercharges are made.
intent.
Communist bvio course in Paris the well bombing actually carried out by fascists But this time there are a an accomplice. number of new aspects. Most obviously the use of books as evidence is a far-reaching and aftuck The charges against the 33 reflect a similar disregand for democratie rights. Only nine of right the accused fuce charges of Christian Hive wensent in Armird sirie de' but all of them are allegedly involved in 'saversive ussocia- porters.
in other words, The organisations of the far left.
purticulur turget is former members of Petere Operaio, an organisation which dissolved in 1973 and of which Toni Negri was a leader. One of for the investigation was the presence there of three former Potere But perhaps most sinister is the fact that the prime mover in the prosecution has been the Communist Purly (PCH. The marty was supported porce ment "law and order' moses l he past und even proposed li the 175 amendment to the pen cole under which the present Bret thirtin the red ever more directly involved. public prosecutor, Calogero, i have • PCI member and the part paper, 'Unita, has joined in the sterical press campan There has been help fro Cabezas List Party the daily remarked that Negri's teaching without mentioning that the course was rganised by party memb comp ou Althusser who should | methods of finding out th presumably be slung in Jail as The Plis intentions the transparent. In the run-up to nest month's general election it make sure or t credentials as a defender of the status quo. At the same lime il will give the lie to those on the wing of the goverting Benocrat who describe the Red Brigades as "second-generation PCI suparrests have however, received total approval inside the party, Intelee- cure. tals in particular are disturbed at the round-up of virtunily the entire teaching staff at the Faculty of Political Science in Padua, where Negri 1s professor. Professor Cacciari. • PCI deputy in the outgoing has made especially strong denunciation of the arrests, pointing out the mpossibility, wilh his politici riews, of Negri beading = underground guerilla groop.
Creclari is right. Apart from Improbability Argentinian disappearance THE Argentinian anthorities reportedly detained member of the Commission al Relatives of the Disappeared. Telma Dorothy Jara was herself de appeared shortly after leaving the hospital where her husband Is being treated for lung cuncer.
A total of 15,000 Is estimated huve disappeared Argentina since the military of 1976. Conventional | "terrorist" leader advertising his politics on every bookstall in Negri's simply do not correspond to those of the Red Brigades Negri the theorist of auto nomy and mass action has lete in common with isolated urned groupies - something he has repeatedly pointed out in his remarks on the Moro kilaupping.
If the Italian thought polle une suddenly so interested in hi bonks they must know this Presumably they Just don't • The Haly 79 Committee. which is organiing salidarity contacted at Box 13s m with those Free Upper Stree London N1. Statements of sapport from individuals, stodent unions and acadenic institutions should be sent to that address. We think tha Communist Britain and individusl CP brasches would be particularly appropriale.
whereshouts of friends relatives have failed.
Instead there has been sileat demonstration outside the presidential palace every Thursday by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo'. Dorothy Jara de Caberas whose own mother is one of the disappeared, was one of that weekly group of demonsiru oThe authorities have denied detaining her.
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