A lew weeks ago we published an appeal by Ubl to the Western revolutionary leit, urging them to support Charter 77. later which we print oo pege 10 is a reply to the bureuncracy's attempts to smear oppositionists as "Tratskyists" or "Zionists".
The fight to rehabilitate the victiha of the show-trials of the formed one of the major political battles that prepared the way for tbe Prague spring in 1968 regime of Antonin Novotay every obstacie in the way of to set the the nightmare of cions of the sbos trials, It was onl in 1968 itself with the overthrow of cartiel out, ohls to be suppresed again aller the Soviet invasion In the aftermath of that javasio. and now again in cantoning the chailenge of the Charter 77 ment, the Husak regibe bas sorted to the type of slanders and isuendoes used in the berw een the regimie that songed the anderlsibg monster trials" and toar in power in Prague today.
Fbi Ebe themes rumnin; through the Stalinisc response to chalcoees 1o urs power Is Roi Latest nows from Prague indicates that Czechoslovak revolutionary Petr Uhi has been put under house arrest, along with Venek Silhan and Milan Huebl, also supporters of the Charter 77 human rights manifesto.
the show triais of the Crochoslovakia, tbe majority The furiher Led of.
*50% real Otto Katz)
defendant at tbis trial Franco Ln SpRin in oppositionsts of the Slansky trial effectively Soviet-Czechoslovak SCCEILETHE 150s in Kosygin defendants were Jews, and links doins here?". with internatea coms Pore neong the crimes ibey were accusIn the indictiments for the trial, the old Nazi metbed of putting tbe "original" Jewish name after be mante of the defendant was used — thui Slansky (alias Salz Simone (alia the work of agents -was used, thus implying that the defendants were in some way sinister outside infil trators of Crechoslovak society Artur London, mentoned hy Uhi in the letter printed below was a Now the anci-semitic note has been struck again. In particular, Francisek Kriegel, a former menher of the Party Policburo under Dubeck, has boen singled out for treatmeal. He has been described as a Zionist and an internationa adventurer — the latter accusation presumably referriog to his participation in the struggie againso Mebers of the Intenational Bri- NAME gade were also prominent ambongst the defendants in the Slacsky trial Krieget has been the abject or pELCaaT vencn on lbe Dort o Husak and his Soviet backers since he refused to sign the Moscow protocois in August 1968 which surrendered Kriegel had confronted the dirty prejudices of the Soviet ieadership even before the invasion al a summit when said to Kriegel's tace *whar is chat Jew from Galicia regione.
Offical anti semitisa, ad its persistent re appearanoe shows, somerhing derply rooted in the hureaucratic regimes of basrern Europe and the Soviet Union. The hureaucrats themseives cover over their own acute fecting of insecur ity with comforting tarasies abou!
•Zionises and Troiskyists — wnile of course ine use of the age old popular preju dise ol anti-semitism is a way bl Winte te REDWEEKLY Illnbutionl Si Criecom an Mowd Longpnk attempting to rally supporr arnand the isolaced and deeply unpogular regime of Gustay Husak.
The strugale to get rid of anti seritsm is inectricably linked to the strugale to get rid of thal MARK JACKSON SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: O pur reo E3 SC tor six montr FOREIGN: CH per: year surfoce na E12 ser vasr a mai
----- pull-quotes -----
Subscribe Red Weekly
Second Letter Petr Uhi