FREE COMRADES SANTEN AND RAPTIS!
Documents The International Secretariat of the Fourth International sends its warmest greetings and complete revolutionary solidarity to Comrades Sal anten and Michel Raptis, imprisoned in Europr or their valiant revolutionary labor in defenst of and aid to the Algerian revolution, and accused by the European police of counterfeiting identification papers and banknotes for the Algerian revolutionaries.
The International Secretariat rejects any slanderous accusations by the bourgeois press and authorities against both comrades, and protests the repression of the capitalist authorities against them.
Comrades Santen and Raptis are imprisoned as combatants world revolution and as fighters in aid of the Algerian revolution; and, as such, must receive the full support and solidarity of workers , revolutionary, and anti-imperialist organizations, and of all revolutionary militants.
The International Secretariat reveals to workers and anti-imperialist opinion throughout the world that, through newspaper articles, veiled threats have been made against the lives of the families of the imprisoned comrades - by the "Red Hand" — by which this criminal gang, organized and paid by French imperialism would have the prentention of punishing the struggle of Comrades Santen and Raptis in favor of the Algerian revolution.
The International Secretariat reiterates its absolute confidence in both comrades: that from their present combat post, prison, they represent the tradition of revolutionary honor of the Trotskyists and the Fourth International.
The International Secretariat calls on all revolutionary and anti-imperialist organizations and parties, on all revolutionary and anti-imperialist militants, on all forces and individuals who are fighting in one form or another for the triumph of the colonial revolution and for the triumph of the socialist revolution in the world, to denounce the bourgeois repression against Comrades Santen and Raptis, to send them their moral and material solidarity, and to back up the struggle of the Fourth International for the release of both comrades and against repression of revolutionary and anti-imperialist militants.
Free Comrades Santen and Raptis!
Down with repression against the Fourth International and all revolutionary and anti-imperialist workers' organizations!
Long live the Algerian revolution!
Long live the colonial and world revolution!
THE INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL 15 June 1960 II