IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Day of action for Soviet dissidents

Red Weekly No. 94, 27 March 1975 · p. 10 of the scan · 431 words

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page 10 of the scan

"Special Psychiartric Hospitals', and he has played a major role in getting the facts about these hospitals out to the west.

TREATMENT There were about 1,000 men in the asyium, political prisoners and insance murderers', wrote Bukovsky about his first spell of psychiatric care. "The sick raved, the healthy suffered. He also described some of the methods used to treat the patJents, including the injcetion of a drug (sulfazine) that produces stomach cramps, fever, Intense pain, and temperature of 104, and the tying up of patients in swathes of wet canvas bandage that shonk as they dry out.

He was released in 1965, but almost immediately re-arrested for taking port in a demonstration in defence of the writer Singavsky and Daniel, In 1966, he washit out again, but then arrested for third time the following yoar for organising a demonstration in support of another group of dissidents. After his third release in 1970, however, he enjoyed 15 months of freedoms, during which time he compiled and sent to the west material about the psychiatric prisons.

In 1971, he was re-arrested on account of this activity. After serving two years in prison, he was transferred to a labour camp. However he was soon returned to Vladimir prison as a reprisal for his participation in a hunger strike at the camp.

Bukovsky is known to be extrem ely ill. He has at the age of 36, rheu matism, chronic tonsilitis, a bad heart, and a liver ailment, but he is getting no proper treatment. According to a letter written by his mother to Mrs. Mary Wilson, wife of the prime minister: He is not even given the special diet, which he is entitled to receive by law. Lam certain that he will not live to the end of his sentence. NATIONAL OPPRESSION Valentyn Moroz, on the other Hand, has been persecuted for his part in the strugele against national oppression in the Ukraine. According to Sovlel law. The Ukraine, like MÔRICE DIBOUTE!

(Struggle fora socialist. Mauritius)

No. 3 SPECIAL ISSUE AFRICA 20p Groupement Revolutionnaire de l'ile Maurice (GRIM)

Her Wantin 09 Mark are ago equal status of the sovereign Ukraine he declared that he was no bourg cols nationalist... (but) wanted the said rights for the Ukraine as her socialisis sisters. But the "socialist" court was not impressed, and Moroz was sentenced to four years in a labout camp While in the camp prison for Cambodian pu STARS HOLD OR M TO-DAY is anything without first consulting the stars-but the toree STARS HOLD FOR ME TO-DAY!

can't be too good now

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