Psaradellis, Greek revolutionary and militant of the Fourth International, known internationally for his political declaration before the colonels' military tribunal, has escaped to Paris. In the 1960s he worked as a mechanic in the textiles industry, and participated in the workers struggles of the period before the 1967 coup. He was first arrested and tortured in August 1967, but was released for lack of evidence, and returned to clandestine struggle.
When comrade Psaradellis was again arrested in May 1969, there was proof, and the long struggle to escape began. After days of torture, he was taken to a local police station from which he escaped. He rowed for 18 hours in a stolen boat to reach Turkey, where he was granted political exile in a remote area of the provinces, and put urder constant surveillance. At the second attempt he escaped to Bulgaria, where he asked for a passage to Western Europe. The bureaucracy put him on a train: but they put Greek police on it too. Comrade Paradellis jumped from the train and ran and walked for 25 miles in freezing rain, until rheumatism and agents of the Greek regime caught up with him. Only after another dose of the hospitality of the regime has he finally now escaped. In an interview with Rouge, paper of the Ligue Communiste, comrade Paradellis says of the present situation in Greece: "The political crisis goes on inexorably: the dictatorship cannot win a base among the people. It cannot satisfy the lowest economic and political demands of the workers, or grant the masses political liberties.
IRISH REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY from ANVIL BOOKS THE McGARRITY PAPERS, Revelations of the Irish revolutionary movement in Ireland and America 1900-1940. 70p. BRIAN FAULKNER and the crisis of Ulster Unionism 40p. THE RISE OF IRISH TRADE UNIONS 17291970. 50p. From Agitprop, 248 Bethnal Green Road, London E.2., or all progressive bookshops. Comrade Psaradellis "Recently, in April and May, there were mobilisations in the universities. They are only the first stirrings after a long period in which the masses have been politically inert, and they will not be the last. "Faced with the disintegration of the Greek Communist Party, more and more young. newly radicalised militants are coming to revolutionary Marxism. Our comrades are exploiting the growing radicalisation of Greek youth and preparing the coming struggles, working for the building of the Greek section of the IVth International."
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Address: Another who may receive the death penalty is Jose Beristain, who since being savagely tortured has suffered constantly from claustrophobia and hallucinations, but has received no medical attention. 6. A third, a young journalist called Andres Alsina, denies that he is a member of the ERP or that he took part in the kidnapping of Sallustro. He is known throughbut Latin America for his investigation, over the past four years, of the torture, kidnapping and murders committed by the Argentinian police and army. He wrote for the workers' paper, CGT, until it was closed down by the military government. 7. The names of the remaining accused: Giomar de Klachko (possible death penalty), Carlos Ponce de Leon, Angel Averame, Elena da Silva, Jose Luis da Silva, Mirta Mitidier de da Silva, Liliana Montenaro, Marta Brego, Silvia Urdampilleta, Mirta de Menajovsky, Eduardo Menajovsky, Lucrecia Cuesta de Beristain. 8. The military government which is judging these people for the kidnapping and killing of Sallustro, is guilty of the kidnapping and murder of the following people since 1969: Alejandro Baldu, Nestor Martins, Nildo Zenteno, the Verd couple, Juan Pablo Maestre, Mirta Misetich, Luis Pujals, Eduardo Monti, and Juan Lanchowsky; and they are guilty of the murders of over 50 workers and revolutionaries, including the 16 shot at Trelew on 22 August.
(From a press release of the Paris Committee for the Defence of Argentinian Political Prisoners.)
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