List repression and provocation of revoluy militants does not end once they have ed the prison gates or the concentration (our comrades learnt this difficult experiinder the Nazi occupation). the gaols of the Greek dictatorship today, itionary Marxists are the victims of this repression -the worst type of repression, se it's practised within the working class nent itself. spite of the disagreements and conflicts ave taken place between the degenerated ers' states of Central and Eastern Europe ze "internal" fraction of the GCP, the GCP listen to them through lack of political experiuses the same methods as the Bulgarian ence. rities against the Trotskyists. They dared id back our comrade Paradellis, who had ed, to the Junta's torturers. publish below a letter from Trotskyist nts, who have been imprisoned for "life ars", which has been sent to organisations fight for revolutionary Marxism. lenounce to workers' organisations of e and the world, to vanguard militants, ernationalist Communists, to the World of the Fourth International as well as to ose who support militant internationalism er the world, the inhuman conditions of risons of Kerydalos and Egine where we rving long sentences inflicted on us by the mals of the Greek military capitalist dicta•p.
"Side by side with this is Stalinist bureaucracy, whose decay and degeneration are obvious. It uses the most dishonest methods to hide its own decomposition, and to crush revolutionary ideas and their propagators.
"Its capitulationist role was again decisive during the defeat of the workers movement in Greece in 1967.
"From the beginning of our time in prison the 'small' Stalinist 'chiefs' who were in prison tried to slander us by every possible method, to mutilate and block any thought or opinion in them inds of other prisoners who continue to "These 'chiefs" don't hesitate in using lies and slanders to discredit Trotskyist prisoners and deform Marxist ideas. To achieve this, they don't hesitate to use Christian and petty bourgeois ideology, to make fun of the traditional workers' celebrations, to use cowardly, low means to isolate prisoners from us and to spread their reformist arguments among them.
"They aim to stop all criticism of the Stalinist bureaucracy, to stop all demands within the prison and to drown all revolutionary Marxist thought.
"When our comrade Panayotis Doumas was transferred at the end of November 1970 to Eptapyrgon Prison in Thessalonika, the Stalinists of the CP's internal" fraction, accused him of being a security agent and saying that he had obtained a saw to escape.
"The Stalinists have played a suspicious role in the transfer.
"We emphasise that our comrade Panayotis Doumas is condemned to prison for life plus 8 years. When he arrived here his leg had been broken through the tortures he had undergone in the offices of the Athens secret service.
*We point out that the conditions in Eptapyrigon prison are very unhealthy (damp, rats, no daylight, etc.)
"Its personnel consists of ex-common law convicts, former collaborators, former members of the German security forces, the spoilt children of the present regime.
*We have had no news at all of our comrade since his transfer.
"A few days later on 10th December 1970, a group of Stalinists (from the 'internal' fraction) aksed the officers of the Karydallos prison (still in the context of 'agreements' and "collaboration) for our comrade S.P. to be transferred.
"Their argument was that this would isolate the other inmates from "contamination' by his revolutionary ideas.
"We heard with our own ears the Stalinist delegation explain to the prison lackeys who took them to the warden ... if he stays here, he will hurt us and you."
"At the same time they spread the story that our comrade was a Secret Service Agent.
"The reaction that followed from all the inmates delayed the transfer for several days. Our comrade S.P. (condemned to life plus four Corfu prison. We condemn the internal' GC clique, and in particular the delegation' of t Stalinists, Th.G., Th.P., and G.S., who took initiative of making such bargains with our gaolors.
"We must point out that the Koliyamist ('external') Stalinist inmates have not partic pated in the campaign against Trotskyist prisoners. But their neutrality is condemnab just as their refusal to take a position when with these events that are quite clear.and concrete within the walls of the prison.
"Their methods are known to us and thei methods are no better than those of the Stalinists of the Partsadidist fraction.
"The fact that all rank and file militants i prison have directly or indirectly reacted aga the anti-Trotskyist campaign allows us to be that the decay of these leaderships' is begin to be felt by their own militants.
"The anti-communism of the 'chiefs' is m and more flagrant. The rank and file militan the CP are beginning to become conscious the leadership's" games.
"Workers of the world, vanguard militant we submit this denunciation to your militan feelings, to your judgement. You are the onl ones who can support us, the only ones who can contribute to the defence of our ideolog integrity.
"We accuse the Stalinist bureaucrats of us reactionary and criminal measures against us These measures go hand in hand with the bei
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