Servile Husak (leftl with mentor Brechnev and late president Svoboda In the last four months, the 1968 Sovier occupation has continued to make uself felt throughout Czechastorak society and, above all, in the actions of the servile regime of Gustav Husak.
It is through the selective repressson and slander of its most couragcous socialist opponents that the regime succeeds for the moment in keeping up the appearance of stabthly. Left to rot in Husak's jails. the health of many of these pris oners i steadily worsening student leader, Jiri Mueller, for example, as now in danger of compl etely losing his sight is a result of his conditions of detention.
We have already mentioned in Red Weekly the sysiematic attempt by the authorities to crush Ivan Dejmal, a former member of tha Red Wenicy 20 February 1075 Page 4 Revolutionary Socialist Party, who has recently been re arrested after completing a previous sentence.
But this is by no means the only way in which Husak serves the world interests of the Kremlin burеашстасу. As is well known, an allsance with the reactionary Iragi Ba alists is an important goal in the Kremlin's Middio-East strategy, and it has been particularly active in sh partisans fighting for their natforiner Sonal rights.
Baglidad's campaign to force the submission of the Kurds stretches into the capitals of Eastern Europe where Kurdish students are stodying Front anw on, their access to Croch higher education depends on their taking an oath of allegiance in the Ba'athist regime The price from university bur immediate deportation. In at least three cases in recent months Kurdish students have been put on a plane to Baghdad to face certain death on the gallows.
ittee and the Kurdish Activist Group have announced the organisation of a Joint demonstration and burger strike on the sixth anniversary of the self-burning of Prague seudent, lan Zajic. This action by Czech and Kurdish socialist militants is in sup port of demands for the release of Czechoslovak political prisoners and for an cod to Czech complicity in the Ba'schist war against the Kunds Both the Jan Palach Memorial Comatittee and the Kurdish Activist supporting the war against the Kund Group can be contacted c/o Box 68. 197 King's Cross Road. London N.I orted by the IMG, starts at the entrance to Millionaire's Row, Notting Hill Gate, at 2.00pm on Saturday, 22 February. The hunger strike will continue until 25 February. The lan Palach Memorial CommThe demonstration, which is supp of Porto, where the company had its warehouses, to expropriate and guard the company's stocks of raw Next a delcpation from the workers went to visit the factory which sappies their raw materials. The workers at this factory agreed to tell their management that they would Immediately strike if there was any allempr to cut off supplies to their comrades at NEFIL, The day-to-day running of the factory is in the hands of a democra Dcally elected 17-member workers THE SECOND ISSUE of South Asia Marxist Review is now out, and contains an iraportant article by Brian Davey on the debate currently tak.
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more years. uced on appeal to periods varying from 2 to 6 years, Instead of 12 to 20 years. This means that four are cligible for immediate release, but the other six must remaio in the dictatorship's prisons —the worst off, Marcelino Camacho, for four bad to move into the Firestone tyre factory to evict 300 workers who were sitting in management later announced they were sucking all those involved), and in the northern city of Oviedo 5000 miners were locked out for ten days for striking.
The unrest aiso hit the universities, with police invading all the major campuses to break up student