Last April the Russell Foundation joined forces with Jiri Pelikan, the editor of the Journal List and Pavel Litving and And Chris Farley and Audray Wise MP.
rei Sakharov of the Soviet Initiative Group for Human Rights, in issuing an appeal on for some time has been undorsed by Sartre behalf af political prisoners in Eastern Eur: Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Dan ope, especially in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. In particular we named three Days of Protest, on which we appeal large number of other writers, artists and ad for meetings and petitions on behalf of named prisoners. The first of these days ing Sabata-Muller Day is scheduled for Am marked by demonstrations in a number of countries. Subsequently we ware very happy to learn of the release of ex-MajorGeneral Grigoranko, The second of the designated days was named after Jaroslav Sabata and Jini Muller, as roprasantatives of the large number of political detainees currenty being neto in cooch prisons In support of these prisoners the Four dation has called a public meeting in Lon don on Friday, 29 November. It will be The National Union of Students will be judged not only hy its well publicised commitment to the anti-imperialist struggle, but by its readinces to mobilise students against the anti-socialist crimes of the Brechnev and Husak regimes in Eastern Europe. To cover over these crimes, to side with the CSUV against the jailed students leader such actions can only serve to identify socalism with bureaucratic dictatorship, and thus provide ammunition for the arsenals of imperialist Far from playing into their hands. the fight against burcaucratic represton rots the capitalists of one of their ideological weapons aguinst the of wagis held in the Conway Hall at 7.30 pm the speakers will include Eduard Golt ucker, Marion sing, E rEnompson;
A petition which his been circulating iel Elisberg, Erich Fromm, Mary MeCarthy Howard Fast, Christopher Hill and a very academies. A programme of meetings mark-erican and European universities and the case of these prisoners is also being pressed by Amnesty International.
Can I appeal to readers of your journal to write in if they wish to have details of those campaigns or if they are willing to help in any way?
The next world-wide Day of Protest is called in support of Vladimir Bukovsky and will take place on 29 March, 1975.- KEN COATES, Nottingham.
workers movement. An independeut campaign to tree Jiri Mueller is in the best interests of the world struggle for socialism It is by such forceful, independent activity that the socialist pesoners will be freed from Husak'• jails, not by words of advice whispered intu a burcaucrat's car at a cocktail party in Prague or Moscow. The Western Communist Parties have a particularly heavy responsibility to openly dem and their release in the students' and trade unions - indeed, wherever their members are. It will soon bo clear whether the NUS executive measures up to this sponsibility.
Joe Greenwoed RED WEEKLY