MAGAZINE DENOUNCES ALGERIAN COUP D'ETAT .
The editorial board of the Arab Revolution has issued an English translation of its stand on the coup d'état in Algeria June 19, The magazine condemns the seizure of power and offers its "“unconditional Support to the popular resistance against the military dictatorship,”
It also recalls "the criticism from the Left to Ben Bella and his revolutionary brothers for not taking a bold and ruthless stand against reaction and its henchmen in the government and the army." History has shown that there is no middle road. There is either’ "a permanent revolution or a counterrevolution," mo
The statement lists seven demands.which the editors feel should be pressed by the Algerian masses:
"(1) The immediate release of President Ben Bella and all his brothers who were arrested by the military dictatorship.
"(2) Calling for an emergency Congress of the F.L.N. party, in which all tendencies must be represented and given full hearing, to investigate and severely punish the instigators of the coup.
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"(4) The return of the legal democratic institutions, the central committee and politieal bureau of the party, and the National Assembly.
"(5) Freedom for press and all mass organisations which were suppressed by the military regime. ;
(6) Purging of the civil service of all bureaucratic and right wing elements.
"(7) Merging the organisations of the 'political Commissariats' of the army with the party at all levels."
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