Last Saturday one hunored militants marched through central Liverpool to protest against the banning of the French section of the Fourth International.
League, and the jailing of its leading members Alain Krivine and Pierre Rousset, This demonstration was the latest action in the IMG's national campaign in defence of the Represented on the demonstration were all Lancashire IMG branches, Blackburn Gay Liberation Front, Blackburn International Socialists, Southport Communist Party, the Liverpool branches of Workers" Fight and the Communist Federa tion of Britain, and Liverpool supporters of 'Militant," This unity was matred by the absence Liverpool International Socialists and Communist Party.
Other developments in the IMG's campaign to mobilise solidarity in this country with the Communist League include a motion of support from the Central London branch of TASS (the engineering white collar workers union). Latest signatones to the open letter to President Pompidou protesting the ban include world-renowned Cambridge economist Joan Robinson.
In Italy, the national conference of the major far-left group, /i Manifesto, voted solidarity with the former members of the Communist League in their fight against government In Spain, supporters of the Fourth International demonstrated their soLidarity with the Communist League by painting slogans on the wall of the French Embassy and bombarding it with molotov cocktaik. In France itself, Francois Mitterrand, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, and Edmond Maire, National SecreTary ONE second arrest trude union federation (the CFDT), have signed an appeal being circulated by former members of the League, which condemns the Government ban and calls for the creation of a national defence committee to fight * the repression.
Alain Krivine and Pierre Rousset -remain in prison, the former pending decision on the Government's appeal against a judge's ruling that he should be freed until his triaL. Messages and telegrams of solidarity Five years ago: Rousset and Krivine are released from jail after the May events are important to keep up their morale, and should be sent to: Squatters oceupying 11 ampty flats in Herne Hill, South London, have so far defated legal attempts to eviet them The landlords, Berger Properties, hav failed to discover the names of the fa milies Invoted, or atisfied the court That it hae made reasorable attempts to do so, and 'authorised" eviction has bean delayed by at least aix weeks. This i despite the recent Denning ruling offering landlords almost immediate possession of squatted property.
But behind the Herne Hill squat is the solidarity of the tenants on the estate, local trace unionists, and political groups, determined to provent Berger adding to ite empire. The action of the squatters has suing compulsory purchase orders on over 200 Barger flats. By carefully selecting their target, the squatters have shown that it is possible to develop a campaign capable of offering mass resistance to the plans of the property companies.