Demand the release of
Daniel Libreros and other arrested
Colombian militants! DANIEL LIBREROS, member of the National Executive Committee of A schools.
Debate focussed on April elections
The 93 delegates who took part in the
NAR congress come from all over Greece.
Many points were taken up (the East European countries, theoretical and programmatic questions). But the debate was focussed above all on the elections coming up in April. After having decided by a large majority to take part, the NAR discussed whether or not to block with the anticapitalist alternative group (EAS), in which the Greek section of the Fourth
International is involved, and a left faction coming from the former "Interior" [Eurocommunist] Communist Party.
The great majority decided against electoral accords at the leadership level. The
NAR will invite all left activists who are interested to take part in the initiative committees already set up.
Their slate will not go under the name of the NAR. The axes of their campaign will be class independence and unity in the struggles, through a broad and powerful regroupment against the conservatives, austerity and class collaboration, as well as against capitalist Europe and the US bases in Greece. * them, Elizabeth Suarez, raped as well.
The Third Brigade, responsible for these arrests, is notorious in Colombia for its treatment of prisoners. However, up to the time of going to press, Daniel Libreros, who has been visited by his family, has not suffered ill-treatment.
International Viewpoint and its international collaborators has immediately launched a campaign to put pressure release Libreros and the other imprisand young workers).
At the same time, members of the KKE
Central Committee resigned, without the ros, who is a lawyer and university pro- organizations to defend a colleague party leadership being able to conduct a campaign to discredit them in the eyes of the ranks. Some of those who resigned were too popular for the leadership to be able to afford that sort of counterattack.
One such was Kappos, who resigned from the Political Bureau (See box.)
Moreover, the poor election results obtained by the Synaspismos marked the failure of the new course — unbridled class collaboration following splendid sectarian isolation.
The current that left the KKE included
28 well as working class and young and not party intellectuals such as Kotzias, as
International Viewpoint #182 • April 9, 1990
Luchar in Colombia was arrested at the airport of Cali on March 27. Librefessor, was in Cali to visit imprisoned militants of A Luchar as their defence
This arrest comes in the context of a campaign of harassment of A Luchar led by the newspaper El Tiempo, and involving a wave of arrests of A Luchar
Some 80 militants of A Luchar in Cali have been arrested in the last month, nine of whom are still in prison, including a number of trade-union leaders. The reports received are that these nine have all been torand the only woman among oned militants.
Support has come from lawyers' who was exercizing his professional responsibilities at the time of his arrest, human rights organizations and other associations and personalities.
It is urgent to send messages of
Presidente Virgilio Barco
Palacio de Nariño
Bogotá - Colombia
General José Manuel Bonnet
Tercera Brigada
Avenida 4 Norte - Calles 18-19
Cali - Colombia