For hundreds of thousands of people the season of 'goodwill and 'festivity" stops outside the prison walls. They are the political prisoners of the world, whose struggle to put an end to the misery and exploitation of capitalism has put them behind bars.
For the militant opponents of the bloody Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, Christmas will bring no respite to either their suffering or their determination to build a new society. Nor, we are sure, will the Price sisters, Noel Jenkinson, and the other Irish Republicans incarcerated in the jails of British imperialism feel any more goodwill to their jailers, or any less determined to fight for a united Ireland.
As the ruling class begin their hypocritical preparations for the festive season, and many workers settle down for a holiday break, it is right to remember all our comrades who have been jailed for fighting exploitation and oppression.
The Red Weekly therefore salutes imprisoned Shrewsbury picket Des Warren. We hail our black brothers and sisters locked away for fighting racialism in Africa and the United States, and we extend the hand of solidarity to the thousands of revolutionaries in Mrs Gandhi's prisons and to the militants crowding the Indonesian jails - now being joined by the freedom fighters from Timer. We send greetings to the imprisoned socialist revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia, the USSR and the rest of Eastern Europe, as well as to the jailed conscripts of the French Army and the revolutionary soldiers of Portugal.
In sending finally our communist greetings to the political prisoners in Spain, we are confident that the Spanish workers will soon unlock the doors that hold them, and that the revolutionaries educated in the university uf the political jail will be in the vanguard of the Iberian revolution.
The message of Red Weekly this Christmas is not one of peace and goodwill to all men. It is a message of revolutionary solidarity to all class-war militants and an affirmation on our part that we will do everything in our power to intensify the class war so that in time the prison gates will be opened for them.
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