STALINIST SLANDERS AGAINST PABLO AND SANTEN
The International Secretariat of the Fourth International denounces the slanderous and provocative character of the "accusation" launched at a press conference of the S.S.D. of East-Berlin against our comrades Michel Raptis and Sal Santen, and reproduced later on by various CP papers as « Neues Deutschland » and « l'Humanité ». At the very moment when the 22nd Congress of the CPSU has admitted the provocatory character of the slanders against Trotskyism, when the Secretariat of the Italian C.P. admits that "the juridical rehabilitation of Trotsky" has already taken place, the Ulbricht clique dares to present two valiant revolutionary militants as instruments of the "Gehlen secret service", i.e. as "agents of imperialism".
Amsterdam trial, at which our comrades Raptis and Santen were condamned for aiding the Algerian revolution has attracted wide attention in the international labor and Talus and Santen movement. The protest campaign to free Raptis was supported thousands of people throughout the world, among which several Lab. our MPs in Britain, 4 socialist MPs in Belgium, 5 MPs in Indonesia (incl. members of the CP fraction in Parliament), Leaves witnese to the orest evelies of aract main camrades' struggle and life. The miserable attempt to bring back into life stalinist slanders of the worst kind against them can only discredit the slanderers. The international communist and labor movement must severely condemn thema.
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