Egyption comrades and the Arab Communist Organization and reports that five members of the latter organization had been hanged in Damascus.) SOLIDARITY AGAINST THE REPRESSION! The following statement was released on August 4, 1975. It was signed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command, the Arab Socialist Workers party, and the Revolutionary Communist Group. In early July the Egyptian regime arrested twenty leftist militants, accusing them of belonging to the "Revolutionary Communist Group." This is a new step revealing the real face of the bourgeois Egyption regime. This regime has adopted the slogan of an "opening"; but this is an opening to imperialist capital, its reactionary spokesmen, and its thoroughly exposed agents. Alongside this "open-
ing, " the Egyptian regime has intensified its attack on the progressive, patriotic, and revolutionary forces. It has accused the latest detainees of belonging to the Arab Communist Organization. This is a false accusation which can be relegated to the most despicable of police traditions: confusing organizations of a cerfain character with other organizations that adopt moss struggle methods. The truth is that the Sadat regime is sunk in a deep economic and political crisis. Its policy of opening up Egypt to imperialism hos failed on two grounds. While unemployment is increasing and the standard of living of the toiling masses is decreasing constantly, Sadat's capitulationist intentions are running up against the stubborn wall of entrenched Zionism. Confronted with this situation, the bourgeois regime in Egypt has no choice but to repress the living revolutionary forces, which are struggling alongside the patriotic masses of workers and students. However, such desperate measures cannot halt the rise of the mass movement and its mobilization against a regime of exploitation and betrayal. The solidarity of the patriotic revolutionary Arab movement with the Egyptian masses and their revolutionary militants, which is its duty, is an indication that the revolutionary Egyptian URUGUAY cont'd. from pg. 32 bassies in all countries, demanding that the rights of the prisoners be respected, that the torture be stopped, that humane conditions of detention be established, that the prisoners be allowed visiting rights and free correspondence, that they be granted medical care and daily exercise as well as the right to receive and read all the press that legally circulates in the country and the right to carry on any manual or intellectual activities that they desire. Democratic organizations throughout the world, the mass movement, all the committees set up to defend democratic rights and the rights of man, trade unions, intellectuals, movement will not be halted, no matter how much repression is unleashed against it, nor will it be isolated. On the contrary, it will always receive the complete solidarity of all revolutionaries in the Arab region and throughout the world. Also, we warn the Lebanese regime that it should not use the ongoing arrests in Egypt as an excuse to wage o similar campaign in Lebanon. The patriotic and progressive movement in Lebanon will zealously defend the democratic rights it has won through struggle. It will stand firm against any aftempt to extend the campaign of the Egyptian regime against the left into Lebanon, RELEASE ALL THE LEFTIST PRISONERS! HANDS OFF THE PATRIOTIC REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTI Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Popular Front-General Command Arab Socialist Workers party Revolutionary Communist Group August 4, 1975 and student organizations must exert pressure on the Uruguayan government for the defense of political prisoners. Footnotes: 1. The "Fuerzas Conjuntas" (FF.CC, - Joint Forces) is the name of the body that coordinates the three military branches and the police, 2. "The baths" are a form of torture that consists of plunging the prisoner into water or excrement, threatening suffocation.