Willy Boepples (1911-1992)
wounding hundreds of demonstrators.
ON September 22, 1992 Willy Boepples died aged 81. Three days previously he
Israeli peace movement had taken part in a conference in Mannheim of the German supporters of the Four-
The cycle of resistance, popular solidarity and repression even succeeded, with
Willy joined the German Communist Party (KPD) in 1930. When Hitler came to a certain delay, in reawakening some elepower in 1933, as a KPD full-timer, he was arrested and sent to concentration ments in the Israeli peace movement who camp — he was released at the end of that year. He was called up for military serorganized solidarity demonstrations in vice in 1940; he deserted in 1945. After the war Willy became disillusioned with the last days of the hunger strike.
Stalinist policies in Eastern Europe and the party line of peaceful coexistence with
We can thus understand why many imperialism. In 1950 he joined the Fourth International.
Israeli commentators have begun to ask
In the darkest days of the Cold War, in the 1950s and 60s, he and Georg Jungthemselves whether they had not buried clas were the leaders of the Fl in Germany - at that time working inside the Gerthe intifada too soon, and some have man Social Democratic Party. He was prominent in campaigns in solidarity with the even suggested that the whole thing is
Algerian war of liberation and against militarism in West Germany as well as contrilooking like a repeat of the start of the buting to many West German leftwing publications.
intifada in December 1987.
In the late 1960s the German section changed from a worker to a student domi-
This is also apparently the fear of both nated organization. Organizational disputes and poor health led Willy to withdraw the Israeli government and the official
Palestinian leadership, who, owing to
Jewish feast days, were in the occupied territories rather than in Washington when the strike erupted. This is why after ten days of stating their firm resolution
26 not to negotiate with the strikers repre-
Papal celebrations and repression students and workers currently struggling in that country. - Ulises
November 9, 1992
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC anything to do with the celebrations, Pope or no Pope. So Balaguer and co. decided to shut them up
After months of threats and police harassment, the young lawyer Efraim Ortiz was murdered on September 20 in the capital while he was accompanying a